Home of the Underdogs (abbr. HotU) was founded by Sarinee Achavanuntakul in September 1998, and has grown to be one of the largest abandonware sites on the Internet. As of 2004, it offered reviews for over 5000 games, as well as providing downloads for many games that are no longer available for purchase. Most games available on the site are for the IBM PC compatible (DOS and Microsoft Windows), but it also contains a section with games for other platforms. HOTU tends to focus on underdog games, that is, games that were not a huge commercial success for whatever reason. Some games are classified with one of three distinctions: *''Top Dog'' refers to the real gems that somehow failed, for instance because of poor marketing. *''Hall of Belated Fame'' refers to a very small number of games that should have been receiving awards and high ratings everywhere *''Real Dog'' refers to those games that failed for a good reason, usually poor gameplay, but that were requested to be included on the site by some fans, or fans of related games. The site claims to be more of a museum than a download site, offering what is now argued to be "great" games that never received due attention upon their initial releases (the "underdogs" referred to in the name). Also, the site attempts to comply with copyright regulations; in that if a game available for download becomes once more available for purchase, or if a game's copyright holder so requests, they remove the downloadable files, and replace them with a link to the site selling the game. The site has a member community with which it communicates through an Internet forum and an Internet Relay Chat channel. ==External links== * [http://www.the-underdogs.org/ Official Site] * [http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,62975,00.html?tw=wn_story_related Wired News article on HotU] Computer and video games Websites
I'm not sure if and how Wikipedia:Copyrights#Linking_to_copyrighted_works applies here. Please enlight me!
-- User:Anym 18:21, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC) ---- I fear this might be a bit POV, and could be considered site advertisement. If anyone wants to reword the information, I think the stub could benefit. --User:Teeks 15:30, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC) ---- It reads like a site advertisement, and as much as I like the site, many downloads it offers infringe copyright. I removed the link. User:Evktalo 19:29, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC) ---- Someone else replaced the link to the HotU site, but I agree with them that it can probably stay. Direct links to individual game pages where the download is available is very, ''very'' questionable. I have already removed several from Shogun (novel) and will continue to do so in other locations unless consensus says otherwise. User:JubalHarshaw 05:52, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC) ---- Maybe this entry should be kept, if it is the biggest of abandonware sites. If it is the largest one, then it deserves to be in here for the purposes of reference. Are there any other major sites that have links to download abandonware and other old games? User:Teh Bomb Sophist 15:28, 14 March 2005 (UTC) :There are 4-5 other sites within the same size range, albeit HotU is undeniably the largest one. As for removing the page, there's nothing in the WP deletion policies that say it can't stay, ergo, it stays. --User:TVPR 12:24, 15 May 2005 (UTC) --- :Er, can you list the other major sites... for reference? -- User:Teh Bomb Sophist 21:12, 2 June 2005 (UTC)
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Home of the Underdogs (abbr. HotU) was founded by Sarinee Achavanuntakul in September 1998, and has grown to be one of the largest abandonware sites on the Internet. As of 2004, it offered reviews for over 5000 games, as well as providing downloads for many games that are no longer available for purchase. Most games available on the site are for the IBM PC compatible (DOS and Microsoft Windows), but it also contains a section with games for other platforms. HOTU tends to focus on underdog games, that is, games that were not a huge commercial success for whatever reason. Some games are classified with one of three distinctions: *''Top Dog'' refers to the real gems that somehow failed, for instance because of poor marketing. *''Hall of Belated Fame'' refers to a very small number of games that should have been receiving awards and high ratings everywhere *''Real Dog'' refers to those games that failed for a good reason, usually poor gameplay, but that were requested to be included on the site by some fans, or fans of related games. The site claims to be more of a museum than a download site, offering what is now argued to be "great" games that never received due attention upon their initial releases (the "underdogs" referred to in the name). Also, the site attempts to comply with copyright regulations; in that if a game available for download becomes once more available for purchase, or if a game's copyright holder so requests, they remove the downloadable files, and replace them with a link to the site selling the game. The site has a member community with which it communicates through an Internet forum and an Internet Relay Chat channel. ==External links== * [http://www.the-underdogs.org/ Official Site] * [http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,62975,00.html?tw=wn_story_related Wired News article on HotU] Computer and video games Websites
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I'm not sure if and how Wikipedia:Copyrights#Linking_to_copyrighted_works applies here. Please enlight me!
-- User:Anym 18:21, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC) ---- I fear this might be a bit POV, and could be considered site advertisement. If anyone wants to reword the information, I think the stub could benefit. --User:Teeks 15:30, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC) ---- It reads like a site advertisement, and as much as I like the site, many downloads it offers infringe copyright. I removed the link. User:Evktalo 19:29, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC) ---- Someone else replaced the link to the HotU site, but I agree with them that it can probably stay. Direct links to individual game pages where the download is available is very, ''very'' questionable. I have already removed several from Shogun (novel) and will continue to do so in other locations unless consensus says otherwise. User:JubalHarshaw 05:52, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC) ---- Maybe this entry should be kept, if it is the biggest of abandonware sites. If it is the largest one, then it deserves to be in here for the purposes of reference. Are there any other major sites that have links to download abandonware and other old games? User:Teh Bomb Sophist 15:28, 14 March 2005 (UTC) :There are 4-5 other sites within the same size range, albeit HotU is undeniably the largest one. As for removing the page, there's nothing in the WP deletion policies that say it can't stay, ergo, it stays. --User:TVPR 12:24, 15 May 2005 (UTC) --- :Er, can you list the other major sites... for reference? -- User:Teh Bomb Sophist 21:12, 2 June 2005 (UTC)
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