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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I know this response is a bit late, but I just wanted to
point that by the time that you wrote this email, where you wrote “if
only because this thing's going to get pulled from the market within a couple
weeks”, the game had already been pulled from every retail outlet. I
actually could have gotten my hands on a copy but I messed up. Whatever copies
are still out there are being hoarded and/or sold at outrageously high prices. I
would have bought the game in any case as I collect all adventure games, but
there are people out there who clearly bought it just because they thought it
would be a future collectible. Time will tell I suppose.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Stuart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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game_preservation-bounces@igda.org [mailto:game_preservation-bounces@igda.org] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Captain Commando<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 24, 2008 9:31 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> IGDA Game Preservation SIG; David Thomas; Rafael Fajardo; Judd
Ruggill<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [game_preservation] Limbo of the Lost<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi all,<br>
<br>
I figured I'd bring this one out to see if anyone has been following up on it
recently. It's a horrible game that has plagiarized practically everything
called 'Limbo of the Lost':<br>
<br>
<a href="http://kotaku.com/5019034/limbo-of-the-lost-devs-protest-innocence"
target="_blank">http://kotaku.com/5019034/limbo-of-the-lost-devs-protest-innocence</a><br
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<br>
Apparently, they ripped entire levels and models out of Oblivion and stuck them
all into the game.<br>
<br>
Now the reason why this is interesting is because you can see a cult developing
around this as we speak: there is already a wiki chronicling all of the things
this game ripped off:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbo_of_the_Lost#Controversy"
target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbo_of_the_Lost#Controversy</a><br>
<br>
<span class=postbody><a href="http://lotl.wikia.com/wiki/Limbo_of_the_Lost_Wiki"
target="_blank">http://lotl.wikia.com/wiki/Limbo_of_the_Lost_Wiki</a></span><br>
<br>
I think there's definitely something interesting culturally about this game,
how it's a commercial release which has cobbled together the plagiarized bits
of so many other games. I figured I would bring it up for discussion as I think
there's a connection here with preservation (if only because this thing's going
to get pulled from the market within a couple weeks :P).<br>
<br>
-DM<br>
<br>
-- <br>
The sleep of Reason produces monsters.<br>
<br>
"Until next time..."<br>
Captain Commando <o:p></o:p></p>
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