RIP Underground Gamer

Sad day. Maybe not the end, who knows. I've read that is related to Electronic Farts.

I think i saw that UG was safe in some information about BG, i guess no.

 

Makes perfect sense now

 

Just when I started giving back to the community, it up and leaves! :sorrow:
I hope they have some success in getting back online.

 

wow so sad such an awesome place

 

Soo start a new private piracy club?

 

Fixed that one up for you! :friendly_wink:

 

That's not good. I really liked the place for rom hacks and other obscure game related stuff.

 

Man that's some shitty news to wake up too

 

UG wasn't about preservation, it was about coming up with the absolutely longest fucking description for each torrent.

If you just tried actually sharing rare stuff, you got laughed out.

 

Wow this sucks hairy yeti balls.
Will they be back?

 

Hahaha, won't argue with you on that one. Golden torrents seemed to cover the prettiest overall presentation.
Still, it was the easiest place to track down full sets!
Rare stuff belongs here on the Assembler Games tracker...

 

Wrong again - rare stuff belongs to as many people interested, in order to preserve them. When I found out that practically all my DVD backups are dead, the only stuff I didn't lose was what I have already shared online.

 

I built up my weird-gaming-related-videos archive solely from UG. Sad to see them go.

Edit: Top contender was http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rtiQqI192Co
The vhs was ripped by a UG member and when it was first uploaded I could not find a single word about it online. Now it's posted on youtube and hopefully on a lot of peoples hard drives.

 

All your DVD backups died? That's not good at all! Dud discs?
So what you are saying is, sharing is caring and it's party time all the time?
Or am I reading it wrong a third time? :concern:

Wait, do we have a tracker of sorts? :suspicion:

 

That's BS! It was a great place for the older stuff, and they hosted nothing from the current generation (just like here), so i gotta wonder what it actually was that got them shut down.

 

UG was a good place for preservation enthusiasts, but also a harbor for pirates. I mean sharing prototypes, hacks/mods like DUB editions and out of print of released games can be considered preserving, but for example the sharing of GOG.com releases is just a big NO NO and clearly piracy...

 

Yeah, that "10 year old rule" they had didn't really work once GOG started to actually sell those games again. I don't imagine EA bought that "rule" either.
But I still think the preservation factor should be taken into account when bashing UG.

 

FUCK! I was just about to close a business transaction there too that I really wanted!

 

For a second I thought this was about a user here.

Phew. After Polygon Jim passed away at Sonic Retro it would have sucked to have lost someone else.