Home of the Underdogs
Home of The Underdogs as of 14 May 2006 | |
Type of site | Abandonware video games |
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| Owner | Sarinee Achavanuntakul |
| URL | http://www.the-underdogs.org (archived) Defunct; multiple revivals exist (see below) |
| Registration | Not required |
| Launched | September 1998/April 2009 |
| Current status | Original website defunct; succeeded by multiple third-party mirrors/revivals |
Content license | CC BY-NC-SA |
Home of the Underdogs (often called HotU) is an abandonware archive founded by Sarinee Achavanuntakul, in October 1998.
Before shutting down the original version in 2009, the site provided reviews for over 5,300 games and offered downloads of software and manuals for a number of games that were no longer commercially available. This allowed it to be a valuable resource to players who lost the original discs or manuals. While a majority of games available on the site were for DOS or Microsoft Windows, the site also contained a section with games for other platforms. Where downloads for these games were provided, they were usually present in formats compatible with emulators. The site also had scans of several gamebook series, many of them complete. In addition to commercial titles, the site contained hundreds of freeware titles.