My intention is to use this site to catalog all the games of my youth and write down how to make them work on Linux. My hope is to keep these old games alive.

The old games were better.

You owned them, could install them on as many computers as you liked, and you didn’t need anyone’s permission to play them.

I resent the trend of newer games being dependent on company servers which can be taken away from the player over time.

• Xbox Live on 360 just shut down a couple months ago, all those multiplayer games are GONE.

• GOG just announced they are taking down dozens of games from their service. Good luck finding non-DRM versions of those.

• Archive.org announced last week that they are being forced to take down hundreds of thousands of books due to a publishing lawsuit.

• I just tried to install AOE2 HD (2013) the other day only to find out you can’t use it w/out Steam.

The history of our world is being erased and replaced with garbage.

We’re being herded like cattle into a world were we own nothing, all the media we consume is leased to us and can be taken away – or changed – at any moment.

It’s going to be the autistic archivists and game pirates who preserve the good stuff for the future.

If your game doesn’t have TCP/IP, then I don’t want to play it.