Point And Click Adventures Were The Shit

[Mike McC]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

Actually, abandonware is perfectly legal. The reason I use that site is because they know and strictly follow the laws. As much as business likes to skew and confuse the issue, there are real provisions to which a game can become abandoned.

Actually, the statement that 'abandonware' is a bullshit term is completely accurate. It's not rigorously defined, and some 'abandonware' still has copyrights in effect, making it piracy as well.

The stuff that is safe to release is stuff that has been released into the public domain, either by the copyright lapsing or the creators releasing it into the public domain. So check to make sure that is the case before linking, even if your site claims to 'follow the laws'. Remember, even is a company no longer exists, that doesn't mean that the copyright didn't default to the authors of the game.

In short: Don't trust the label abandonware. There are far better labels that are not ambiguous.

Anyhow, an Adventure game I still enjoy and occasionally return to today is Shivers, and it's sequel. Very puzzle centric with slight touches of horror, it was very well done.