[game_preservation] Old PC Game Sales for XP/Vista

Devin Monnens dmonnens at gmail.com
Sat Jul 25 14:15:36 EDT 2009


I haven't seen Full Throttle yet.
-Devin

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>wrote:


> Yeah, sadly I'm tempted by LucasArts stuff being up on there. Ho hum :(

> (luckily I already have DoTT and Sam and Max :D ).

>

> Andrew

>

>

> Rachel Donahue wrote:

>

>> True, I wouldn't consider it preservation. But speaking purely as a gamer,

>> it's still a decent place for a king's quest fix!

>>

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>>

>> On Jul 25, 2009, at 5:46 AM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>

>> wrote:

>>

>> Man, no, not Steam, not for us preservationists! might as well suggest

>>> EA's download service, hoho...

>>>

>>> I've got to seriously suggest we do a paper or some research on the use

>>> of online DRM and DRM in general and how it basically makes our jobs

>>> impossible. :D I was going to do a basic post/wiki page on it, but finding

>>> actual concrete information on what DRM is applied, company policy and so

>>> forth is nearly impossible - all the news is bloody vague, a nightmare for

>>> research on a topic no company wants to literally come out with "WE OWN THE

>>> RIGHT TO STOP YOU USING OUR STUFF IMMEDIATELY". I perhaps will suggest this

>>> as a project to investigate - and go out journalistic-ly with this SIG's

>>> backing to get some information on all the DRM currently used. :)

>>>

>>> Good Old Games I featured on our news feed when it opened last year, by

>>> the way :) I've not had the chance to buy anything from it (I have tons of

>>> games left to play), but they are DRM free, which is awesome! I agree prices

>>> can be a bit heavy sometimes, but it looks like it'll be a good resource if

>>> it hangs around (and if it doesn't, anything you have downloaded won't

>>> magically go poof :) ).

>>>

>>> BTW, if no one knows about it (and I'm trying to contact them, but man is

>>> it slow), Liberated Games still has a catalogue of free games:

>>> http://liberatedgames.org/

>>>

>>> Andrew

>>>

>>> Rachel "Sheepy" Donahue wrote:

>>>

>>>> There's also Steam :)

>>>> http://store.steampowered.com/

>>>>

>>>> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:35:00 -0400, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com>

>>>> wrote:

>>>>

>>>> My friend just sent me this website that sells classic PC games for low

>>>>> prices. I'm not sure how this relates to preservation, but it's great

>>>>> to see

>>>>> a lot of the old titles still available. (Personally, I think some of

>>>>> the

>>>>> prices should be lower though...)

>>>>> http://www.gog.com/en/frontpage/

>>>>>

>>>>>

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