Join the Cartridge Club

The Cartridge Club is simply a community for gamers. The central part of the club is like a book club or gamers; a game is selected once a month to play through together. This is why the Cartridge Bros created the Cartridge Club and it has brought us all together into a group of real friends.

To get started: Create an account on the Cartridge Club Forums: http://cartridgeclub.bbforum.co/ucp.php?mode=register

Then introduce yourself in the 'Member Intros' area: http://cartridgeclub.bbforum.co/forum15.html

Check out the page and future games of the month: http://cartridgeclub.bbforum.co/forum26.html

After each month, a group of people that played the game that month get together and break it down in a podcast. Check out the podcasts here (or iTunes or Sticher): http://cartridgeclub.podbean.com/

Day to day, most Cartridge Club talk in the forums and on Twitter. Start with the Cartridge Bros on Twitter @CartridgeBros and @CartridgeBrosP2 https://twitter.com/CartridgeBros https://twitter.com/CartridgeBrosP2

See what everyone in the Cartridge Club is doing on the web site for the club: http://www.cartridgeclub.org/

The Cartridge Club is the best community I have ever been a part of. It is the only online community that I have been a part of which is free of toxic people that spread negativity. Members of the club all understand and respect each other. Knowledge sharing and helping each other is commonplace. It is a great place to spend some time and talk about gaming and collecting.

Online gaming services for old games

You go to the store to buy a game. Say the one you wanted isn't there, or you don't know exactly what you want. For whatever reason, you buy a game for $30 or less. Graphics on the box look okay, but you figure it is cheap, maybe low budget, but the gameplay seems interesting.

You get home, install the game. Looks like a cheesy installer, but whater. Fire up the game. Maybe you paly it alone for a bit, whater. Then you figure you will try online.

Now most PC games have some kind of online backed run by a publisher, developer or other company. Back of the box usually says what it is (MSN Zone, Battlenet, Heat.net, Steam, EA Online).

So anyway, you fir this thing up and start to make an account. No go, the game throws an error, or times out. Maybe you start to check your connection and network setting. Maybe you strait to google. But what do you do when the online service no longer exists????

Personally, I think this is bunk. If it is still in stores, and still says "Online play" on the box, then they have to continue to offer the online services. How can they stop the service unless maybe there was NO ONE using them.

I actually purchased Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 3 this year. Only to discover that Microsoft had "retired player matchmaking services" for it. It also had graphics issues, but I could likely get it working fine in a Virtual PC.

There is such a long list of services that I don't really see the nned to have removed. A few examples I can think of:
Heat.net
Westwood online
Jane's
Mplayer.com
TEN.net

Here is a list of a few more, including some I have never heard of.
http://www.geocities.com/irwinav/game.htm?200824#3