Cloanto, the company that owns the rights to the Commodore Amiga line, have a legal emulator that they sell called Amiga Forever. It’s about half the price of one modern AAA game, and when you download it, it comes with about fifty games of varying notability, and there’s many times more you can just install and play. And it’s all legal.

I would love this to be the industry norm, imagine being able to download a NES! It’s annoying that if we want future generations to be able to experience games of the past (whether to learn from them, or just for pleasure) we need to teach our children about piracy.

If you are treating your paying customers worse than someone you perceive as stealing from you, you are doing something seriously wrong.

No experience with it, but…

• Founded in 2018
• Copyright date says 2020
• Still says “Join as a Founder!” in 2023
• Appears to be tied up in crypto nonsense

Signs point to untrustworthy.

• Perfect is the enemy of good.
• Good is the enemy of done.
• Done is the enemy of job security.

If you’re dead set on getting a PS3, check eBay. You’ll probably get change from $100 at current prices.

Oh no, not again.

Yeah, the 1s and 0s are stored on archive.org, but there doesn’t appear to be a way to play them.

Someone please please correct me if I’m wrong. I’d put a bounty on this and pay… *checks pockets* …an empty chewing gum wrapper and a used bus ticket?

Yeah! Skyrim is like watching a movie. Morrowind is like reading a book. They’re amazingly different experiences. :)

I do. I had two games on there that I haven’t been able to find since.

• A silly game called Office DisOrders which was basically an early visual novel about busywork
• A jigsaw game which I seem to recall is called Square Jigsaw (or something?) that had a really cool feature I haven’t seen before or since - fractal jigsaws. You could do really huge jigsaws quite easily with that, it’d break larger puzzles down into smaller jigsaw-piece-shaped puzzles, then after you’d completed each of those puzzles, you’d assemble them into the final image.

Ancient Domains of Mystery is really really good if you can get into it. It’s available on Steam, but you can get the free version which is identical except for the UI from https://adom.de/

Oh wow, I vaguely remember a misspent childhood on MUDs and MUCKs. I wonder if any of them are still going…

Overcooked and Moving Out are my go-to couch games. Bomb Squad from one of the Jackbox Party Packs (I forget which one) is really fun too!

I just tested it and it turns out notes do sync.

Not so sure about the UI overhaul, but I do like the notes feature. I can see it being a very handy way for me to remember what I’m doing, especially if it syncs between my desktop and my Steam Deck.

I’ve recently started working my way through the Telltale Games and Don’t Nod back catalogues. Strong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive People is great fun, and Life Is Strange Before The Storm plays really well too. :)