Hi

I want to know that how big a review should be?

For instance, is this CD-Man 2 review acceptible?

If yes, then I have over 300 reviews ready for you. :Brain:

Everybody has his own way of reviewing games.If you think that by that paragraph you exhausted the game, then the job is finished :ok:

Well, in that case, go ahead and post that review on the site as all these reviews I have were solely written by yours truly a long time back for my very own website known as "DOS Graveyard," which I closed down due to IDSA.

You'r talking to the wrong person, i am not an admin.You should contact Kosta to give you ftp access

Well, yes, you should contact Kosta or Tom Henrik.

Now, I have idea. Well, personally I don't like very long reviews, but I hate even more short review that don;t tell you anything about game really, or just tell you a little so you can see taht reviewer didn't even bothered with playing. Then again, you don't need to write bigger review since game is just a clone.

So my idea is this: when reviewing the clone, so you doon't need to say all over again, just say what are new stuff, and WHOMEVER is supposed to put the game on the site can add link to original game.

In this example one can type: "If you never played Pacman, review about that game can be fouund HERE" and HERE is a link to Pacman review on our site.

I saw something like this on HOTU, very good idea. So, it's up to you adimns...

Oh yeah Marko_river, thats a great idea..

They can add a link to another review of the same game like we have a lot of reviews at MobyGames.

My reviews are short and to the point and give a quick picture of the game.

Editing the Post:

A link to add another review for the same game will also be nice. This is for the sake of having a second opinion or you may say a critic's opinion. :bleh:

If you're worried about the length of reviews, read some of Kosta's. His reviews are some of the shortest on the site.

The review length is unimportant but the amount of information that is given is. I would not allow the review you gave on the site. It has too little information about the game. Try to explain to people what is going on. Comparing a game to another (well known) game is a fine way of writing a review but the go into detail why you are comparing them (what is that makes them similar and why is one better then the other).

Incidently, his reviews must be the first few reviews added to the site ever, so I guess we could excuse him for the fact he probably reviewed a lot of games at the same time, and that he might just not possess all the experience he have right now at the time. ;)

Actually, the fact is that we are dealing with old-skool games - games we've already played when they first came around. :whistle:

As far as I know only two kind of groups download these games. The first is the Players group, who already played these games in their hay days and just want to rejoice the fun. The other one is the collectors group that download each and every game just to increase their collection count. :angel:

Now, the first group already knows what the game is and the second group doesn't bother to know about it. :tomato:

And then there is the third group, which downloads games just for the sake of reviewing them.

Then there is yet the other group of which I belong who wish to experience all the great classic gems of each genres to know what he is talking about. ;)

Well, hit me for this but I was talking about major groups not a handful of individuals. :evil:

There are those who missed out on Dos gaming completely first time round but have finally got the chance to experience it. They probably download games based on the review, i know I do.

I only missed out on Dos Gaming because my parents wouldn't buy a computer. When I finally got a computer in 1998 it was pretty much too late! Now I'm finally able to play all the games I would have played years ago. To me, most of these games might as well be brand new because I've never heard of a huge proportion of them! How am I to know what to play without a good and thorough review.

And I think you'd find that group to be more 'major' than you expect. There are a good few members in their early teens who, no offence, are hardly old enough to remember Dos. There are probably also a lot of people like myself who didn't have computers then.

Also, I think the quality of reviews is what makes this site better than every other abandonware site and I think short, half-hearted reviews generally look s***!

Sorry about the :ranting: , I just needed to get that out of my system. :D :D

Speak for yourself.

You can always "update" your reviews with few more sentences! :ok:
(something about graphics, sounds, gameplay....and you're in!)

Which games did IDSA contact you about, and how exactly did they close you down?

I don't remember if it was due to some particular game or games because they just sent a similar warning email to all the abandonware sites operative then. A lot of sites just removed the games published by IDSA members, but I completely closed it down.

In fact, IDSA was not the only REASON that made me shutdown the site, there were few other reasons, which I'm afraid I can't discuss in public forums. :sick: :sick: :sick:

Btw, one of those reasons is quite active in this very forum especially in "Requests." I hope you understand my point. **WINK**

Yepp, I got it ;) We try to moderate those as much as we can, but... :)