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[MrDeadly]

This is a small, funny coffee-break game for windows from 1994. The author still sells it through his webpage. When you considering the age of the game and all the coffee-break titles (with much better graphics) that you can play/download everywhere for free now a days, I think it's bold to expect people to pay 15 $ for this one. That's a bad strategy. A games-pack including most of the authors games can also be bought from his page, but Rats! is not included in this collection. It's not even a very profiled game on the page, just take a look around, it's barely mentioned. It came clear to me why. In the site-forum the author says "I've taken Rats out of the full (game) package as it was the least popular game". Least popular, then why sell it for such a steep price? If the author had released such a loony title as freeware (or at least lowered the price considerably, to a couple of bucks tops), I think it would have given him more notice, meaning his other games would have been checked out and sold more. I don't see the harm in doing that since Rats! sell poorly anyway (which isn't really that weird considering the asking price). I've been thinking about contacting the author about this but I doubt one man's opinion counts, so I'm thinking maybe a signed petition/a lot of emails from different people might convince him to reconsider. What do you think?