A great website but with room for Improvement.
This website has over 17000 games to play for FREE! They have games from 1978 to early 2000's, originally released on early home computers such as Spectrum, Amstrad, Commodore and Amiga, consoles like Sega and Nintendo, Atari Consoles & Computers, PC Dos and Windows and so on. Many games can be played online immediately whilst some can also be downloaded to keep and enjoy again and again. Almost all of the games are public domain (no longer subject to copyright). Unfortunately, a fairly high proportion of the online games contain errors of one sort or another - some won't play at all - and for some strange reason, the sound & music files for the majority of games are terrible, with tinny sound and out-of-tune music so bad that they grate on the nerves and spoil your enjoyment of the game. (I find It's best to play with low volume or no sound at all; or listen to your own music)!
That said, there are so many games from which to choose that you will always find something to enjoy that works well. But do be prepared, on occasion, for several disappointments before finding a fully working game; I've rediscovered one of my old favourites now-and-again, only to find that It crashes, has appalling or non-existent sound, or simply will not work!
The format and workability of the website really could do with a thorough overhaul - It's a real shame that niggling little bugs and problems occur all too often throughout the site and haven't yet been addressed. A website so large and popular deserves to be made fully workable; as things are, It's as though MyAbandonware Is In a permanent state of beta testing! Let's hope the sites owners will put their heads together and get those minor but annoying problems sorted out.....MyAbandonware Is good, but could so easily be fantastic with a little collective brainstorming! After all, It only needs doing once.
In summary, MyAbandonware Is a very much appreciated website with enough playable content to keep us 'Grandpa Gamers' reminiscing for years, as well as Introducing our younger generations to thousands of classic games of all kinds (let's see how good you are In OUR games domain, you young whippersnappers) Lol! There's room for Improvement and has been from the start. My criticism may seem unfairly harsh, but make no mistake - I consider It to be a truly marvellous and, for once, genuinely free gaming website but which Is failing both Itself and It's users by leaving the project In this unfinished, 'limbo' state. A little work Is all that's needed.
3 de julho de 2021
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