For more in-depth information on this issue, We recommend the following articles and websites: Abandonware in a Nutshell: Why Nobody Ever Wins Flashbacks for Free: The Skinny on Abandonware Warez, Abandonware, and the SIIA Anti-Piracy Information at the IDSA The World Intellectual Property Organization Despite the illegal status of abandonware, we believe that we are offering a valuable service to the gaming community: classic game collectors have a chance to retrieve games that have otherwise been lost or rendered defective with the passage of time. Despite the fact that publishers no longer derive revenues from these games since they have stopped selling them (and any revenues from retailers that still sell them were gained a long time ago, at the time of sales), it is illegal to distribute them so long as copyright holders have not released them into the public domain, and 95 years after the games' release have not elapsed. We strongly encourage you to buy them- their developers need all the income they can get to make future classics for our benefit - View image here: - But isn't abandonware illegal? Unfortunately, yes. Most of these recent games are still sold by their publishers. A quick way to find a list of most underdogs that are still sold by their publishers is to select "1997" or later years from the "By Year" drop-down menu on the left navigation bar. In such cases, you will always find a link to either the official order page, or a large, reputable on-line store, in the "Get the game" box on the game's info sheet. However, our goal is to pay tribute to underrated PC games of all ages, so you will also find reviews of recent underdogs that have not been abandoned by their publishers.
They are therefore abandonware by definition. Many underdogs on this site have been discontinued by their publishers due to disappointing sales. Quote: Is Home of the Underdogs an "abandonware" site? Yes and no.
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