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The site tends to focus on "underdog" games; that is, games that were not a huge commercial success for whatever reason. Some games are classified with one or more of three distinctions:
  • ''Top Dog'' refers to the real gems that somehow failed, for instance because of poor marketing.

  • ''Hall of Belated Fame'' (HOBF) refers to a very small number of games that should have received a large number of awards and high ratings in the opinion of the site's staff. All HOBF members are also considered Top Dogs by definition.

  • ''Real Dog'' refers to those games that failed for a good reason, usually poor gameplay, but that were requested to be included on the site by some fans, or fans of related games.


The site claims to be more of a Museum than a download site, offering what are now argued to be "great" games that never received due attention upon their initial releases (the "underdogs" referred to in the name). Also, the site attempts to be reasonable about Copyright issues; if a game available for download becomes once more available for purchase, or if a game's copyright holder so requests, they remove the downloadable files, replacing them with a link to the site selling the game if applicable.

The site has a member community with which it communicates through an Internet Forum and an IRC channel. The site also hosts the Reality On The Norm website.

In the future this website will be based on a Wiki engine; Sarinee is currently looking for help with modifying Wiki codebases.


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The site has had a variety of domain names over the years {Link without Title} , including www.theunderdogs.org, which was lost to a Cybersquatter in March 2002.

On , 2006 . Negotiations over the .org domain are still underway.


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