Home of the Underdogs

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The Home of the Underdogs, aka HotU, is an archive of many PC games, including interactive fiction. The site also contains reviews, community forums, and other resources. Good games might be labeled as a "Top Dog"; not so good games might be labeled as a "Real Dog". The site maintainer is Sarinee Achavanuntakul.

HotU is free to use, but there are banner ads and other advertising on the site to help offset the heavy server costs. Also, users are warned not to download more than one file at a time or use download optimizing programs.

HotU is not an abandonware site, per se, but supports abandonware in principle, that is, it wants to preserve and promote games that would otherwise be lost to the public. Most old games no longer have an official venue where players can get the game from. However, HotU also supports official distribution of old games, and if a game's owner requests it, HotU is quite willing to remove a game from its archive, and link to the official distribution site instead.

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