About the Software Preservation Society (SPS)
We talk about the Software Preservation Society, who are dedicated to the digital preservation of magnetic media based games and software for various systems.
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Glen McNamee: Obscure Internet
By the geniuses at Sensible software it’s a game I still play it regularly today, because the game play is fantastic, there is still is absolute no other game like it. It’s weirdest games ever, a stroke of mad genius, featuring screaming cats, hostile geometric shapes, and drops of paint firing bullets at you, flith raids, and a brilliant and original soundtrack.
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Burger Time
Personally I always found it strange that other food would want to take you out for wanting to make burgers. I figured they would be happy you are cooking burgers and not them. Perhaps you cooked their family members earlier and they are coming back for revenge. Speaking of which does anyone else find it creepy that in the shredded mini-wheat’s commercial the dad wants his son to grow up strong so he can be eaten by humans? Oh, well back to BurgerTime.
Read MoreThe Obsolete Gamers – Vol 1
The Obsolete Gamers covers the various events experience by Ignacio/honorabili and J.A. Laraque. In Vol one J.A. Laraque and Mark test out the FC Twin which plays NES and NES games.
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Power Pyramid Supreme
If you’re a serious gamer or plain old technophile, you might very well own a PlayStation3 and an Xbox 360. Konnet offers a controller charger solution for both systems in one device.
Read MoreHeroes of Newerth – Open Beta
HON is a RTS made by S2 Games, if it has the look and feel of Warcraft III it is because it was based on one of Warcrafts most famous scenario’s Defense of the Ancients.
Read MoreState of the LAN Party III
In our LAN group there was actually a divide between those who played EQ and those who did not. The pure gamers, as they called themselves, hated the fact that we talked so much about EQ and one said our LAN party officially died the day we connected a DSL line and played EQ at the LAN.
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Picture of the Day – Obsolete Gamer Shirt
Our #2 Picture of the day is the prototype Obsolete Gamer T-shirt. Now this design is just based off our current logo and what we are all about. We would like to thank On The Spot Tee’s for makes these for us.
Read Moregog.com sale: 2010 Spring Promo, huge sale!
To celebrate the coming of Spring, Good Old Games is having a huge sale on all their top selling games.
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Gamer Profile: Chris Taylor
Well, my measurement is based on how many hours I spent playing… because the game was original, and tapped into that deep, chewy, inner part of my soul…
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Final Fantasy 7 Remix for 360 and PS3
After years of fans asking for a revamp of FF7 and the anger fans felt over getting only a small changed to the game in the PSP version Square Enix announced today the Final Fantasy 7 Remix.
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Free Stuff – Zombo.com, where you can do anything
My favorite website where you can do ANYTHING!
Read MoreThe Death of Customer Service – The Better Business Bureau III
Many larger companies create templates to respond to BBB complaints, but this is not just to save time. There are certain words or phrases that if sent to the BBB will be accepted as being responsive even if the overall issue was not solved.
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The Commodore 64
Who can forget the awesome and sometimes just plain strange commercials of the 80’s and 90’s for computer and console products? Obsolete Gamer is searching the globe to find some of the classics from the Sears version of the Atari 2600 to the Commodore 64.
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