Love it or hate it, HotU was one of the (if not THE) most well-known Abandonware websites on the net. If you were looking for abandonware - HOTU had it. If you were looking for a massive archive with literally thousands of games to download and reviews to go with them - HotU had it. If you were looking for a rare or obscure title not found anywhere else on the internet... chances were HotU had it.
But over last three years HotU was dying a slow death, with no updates and the once-active community dwindling down until all that was left of it was the core of most die-hard supporters. In September last year the site went offline, only to return far diminished soon after, with none of the downloads or screenshots working anymore - reducing the once glorious abandonware archive to but a shadow of its former self.
A week ago, it went down again - and seems this time it's for good: according to a message posted by the site's owner on Twitter, it's webhost closed down due to bankrupcy, thus leaving HotU with no place to call home.
It's sad to see such an end for what was the best Abandonware site of - quite literally - the last decade. -Abandonia
After a brief stint of being offline during the month of September 2008, HOTU seemingly returned late in the month, however, the games once offered are no longer available and attempts to download a game return an error message: "I'm sorry, but the file doesn't exist." -Wikipedia
On February 13th, 2009 Home of the Underdogs went offline. According to a message posted on Twitter by the site's owner[1]
, this was because of the webhost's bankruptcy. -Wikipedia
http://twitter.com/Fringer/statuses/1194153273 -Twitter message by owner
Home of the Underdogs (often called HotU) was an abandonware archive[1] founded by Sarinee Achavanuntakul in September 1998, and grew to be one of the most significant abandonware websites on the Internet.
-Webmaster
