Does anyone else remember the big freeware/shareware/abandonware communities from the early-mid 00's? I was going through old bookmarks and found some easily from 2004-2006, just dead links to old freeware game sites that basically predate platforms like http://itch.io
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People just fucking made random games in GameMaker 04 and uploaded them onto random sites. Tons of platformers, top down RPGs, sidescrolling shooters, weird RTS fusions, the birth of tower defence. It was just free online and nobody gave a shit
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You could just go download Laxius Power 1-3 off some freeware website and you had a 100+ hour heavily written JRPGMaker game with hand drawn+scanned anime boob cutscenes, Soldat was huge, lots of ultra-crude Counter Strike clones. Some person just wanted to make a game for nobody
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but themselves and whoever was passing by and thought the screenshots were interesting enough to download it for at least an hour or more (internet was still damn slow for everyone compared to now, a 250mb+ game would take hours depending on the site)
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Cave Story came out in 2004 and was just uploaded to the guy's website, then it slowly spread across tons of other websites, forums would be talking and recommending freeware games. Your game lived or died based on how popular it was with the community
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Replying to @SheebPosting
I remember reading about it on a ZZT forum. Speaking of which
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I think about this often: the ZZT guy owns Fortnite now.
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