Internet Archive hosts copies of two of the video games that have most made history, Unrealthe title that introduced the first truly complex graphics engine in 1998, and Unreal Tournamentwhich inaugurated the epic of online competitive multiplayer games. All with the blessing of Epic Games.
An Epic spokesperson, in fact, confirmed that it had given the green light to hosting games on the Internet Archive, telling a PC Gamer: “We can confirm that Unreal 1 and Unreal Tournament are available on archive.org and people are free to independently connect and play these versions”.
Over the years, it’s ironic that Epic’s efforts to bring back the Unreal Tournament series have failed so dramatically. A new game was announced with great fanfare in 2014, but despite initial promises the overwhelming success of Fortnite convinced Epic to pull the plug. As for Unreal, it is still a point of reference for computer graphics today Unreal Engineand with Tim Sweeneyits creator, who is still at the helm of Epic Games.
I Unrestricted download link for Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament they are located at this address on the ResetEra forum. Of course, these are very old games with several aspects that are obsolete from the perspective of today’s users. They turn to the resolution of 640×480 pixelwhile to move you have to use the directional arrows and not the WASD buttons.
But they work, they are free and they do a great service to the cause of preservation of old games. With producers – unlike in this case – often hindering this cause, combined with the younger generations’ disinterest in certain titles from the past, some pearls risk quickly being forgotten.
On the other hand, it is not the first time that the Internet Archive has been talked about in conjunction with the preservation of old games from the past. Very many MS-DOS titles from the 1980s and 1990sin fact, they can be found via the Internet Archive, as we have already seen in a item.
Source: gaming.hwupgrade.it
