The games areĭesigned to make gameplay a satisfying experience. The pricing is low, encouraging buying and discouraging piracy (whichĭoesn't hurt as much for low-priced mass-produced games anyway). They go back to the old linear concept: play game, solve game, buy Of retro games shows that the consumer appreciates simplicity. The hardware that the latest super-duper game requires. Won't buy new games since they're still enjoying the old ones, or can't afford Get any attention they preferably have to be open-ended to keep that attention Īnd they end up pirated or bitten on the butt by their success because people Game market, games have to be very impressive in both graphics and gameplay to Oberon uses a very simple, successful formula. So, if the games are so unoriginal and recycled, why am I hooked? Because Have incorrect object descriptions, while spoken/written text is stilted. The Dutch outlet range from poor to awful: the hidden object games sometimes The similar format means "play one, played 'em all", and the translations for And you get what you payįor: the games are never original but always a variation on some existing game, Games": non-open-ended Flash-like games that are played out in a matter of days,Īfter which new games can be bought cheaply online. GameZone, and the two sites mentioned above. Large number of very similar games from a variety of gamemakers and selling themįrom its own game site and through outlets like like Sandlot Games, Acer Surfing, I figured it out: Oberon Media is the umbrella company collecting a Website, while the actual games were made by yet other companies. Links) and the now defunct "Break for Games" The games I bought installed more one-hour demos and referred me to the Soon, my computer was taken over by cute little icons. Supermarket bargain rack, which had a little "Oberon" logo on the box. Management games and hidden object games. As they were pre-installedĪnyway, I thought I'd try before trashing. One-hour game demos linked with the name Oberon: Cake Mania 2, Cookingĭash, Dream Day Honeymoon to name a few. Software that is always deleted in short order included "Acer GameZone" and some Two decades later, when Iīought a shiny new Acer laptop with Windows Vista 64-bit, the glittery junk Since they were demos, which I associate with "half-playable games thatĪre a pain to uninstall", I didn't try them out. The transition to Windows 3, a regular item on these CD-ROMs was "Oberon games"ĭemos. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.When the Dutch computer magazine PC-Active switched fromĭiskettes to CD-ROMs for its monthly shareware picks, and most people had made Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
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