Platform: PC (Microsoft Windows)
FIFA Soccer 97
Fruit Ninja
Ecco the Dolphin
LEGO Racers
Serious Sam II
Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Halo 4
The Sims 3
Murdered: Soul Suspect
Cabin Fever
Dead to Rights II
South Park
Wargame: European Escalation
Chessmaster 9000
Chip's Challenge 2
Legends of Callasia
Ultra Street Fighter IV
Advent Rising
Team Sonic Racing
Super Smash Flash 2
Bulletstorm
Back 4 Blood
Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie
NBA Live 2003
Van Buren
Wizard101
Far Cry 3
Call of Duty: Black Ops III
Cars Mater-National Championship
In the Groove
Bendy and the Ink Machine
Sonic Generations
White Day: A Labyrinth Named School
Street Fighter 6
Gears of War
Killer Is Dead
Five Nights at Candy's 2
Thirsty Suitors
Rising Storm 2: Vietnam
Guacamelee!
Quake
Jurassic World
Taz: Wanted
Uninvited
The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
60 Seconds!
Eternal Champions
Tiger Woods 99 PGA Tour Golf
Team Fortress Classic
subdirectory_arrow_right Tekken 3 (Game), Gran Turismo 2 (Game), Metal Gear Solid (Game), One (Game), PlayStation (Platform), Xbox (Platform), Dreamcast (Platform), Sony Interactive Entertainment (Company)
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Sony would sue Bleem! twice over alleged copyright infringement, and despite all odds, Sony lost due to Bleem!'s use of screenshots in promo material and the PS1 BIOS being protected by fair use. However, a mix of legal fees and Sony threatening retailers stocking Bleem! products with subpoenas would force Bleem! off of shelves anyway, and its website would be replaced with an image of Sonic the Hedgehog mourning at a grave with the Bleem! logo carved on it. Bleem! would countersue Sony for anti-competitive activity.
The popularity of Bleem! would lead both Sega and Microsoft to attempt to work with Bleem! officially to make PS1 games run on Dreamcast and Xbox, though these plans fell through due to Sega being afraid of Sony's litigation, while the developers of Bleem! simply felt Microsoft wasn't paying high enough for the license for Bleem! (something they had come to regret in the years since).
Video on Bleem! history:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGHul1PrXCE
Source of Bleem! collection photo:
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting/comments/dvf1ow/bleem_the_playstation_emulator_for_pcs_and/
Bleem! article:
https://www.eurogamer.net/the-history-of-bleem
Archived Bleem! page for One:
https://web.archive.org/web/20001109112400if_/http://bleem.com:80/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGHul1PrXCE
Source of Bleem! collection photo:
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting/comments/dvf1ow/bleem_the_playstation_emulator_for_pcs_and/
Bleem! article:
https://www.eurogamer.net/the-history-of-bleem
Archived Bleem! page for One:
https://web.archive.org/web/20001109112400if_/http://bleem.com:80/
subdirectory_arrow_right Windows Solitaire (Game)
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Solitaire was included on Windows hardware to soothe users unfamiliar with computers by using something familiar that could also introduce them to the functions of a mouse.
subdirectory_arrow_right Cheese Terminator (Game)
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subdirectory_arrow_right Reversi (Game)
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subdirectory_arrow_right 3D Pinball: Space Cadet (Game)
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At an unknown point after 3D Pinball: Space Cadet's removal from Windows hardware starting with Vista, there was an attempt within Microsoft Garage (Microsoft's program for experimental, non-profitable employee projects) to revive the game with compatibility for current Windows operating systems. While the port was finished, it could not be publicly released due to the 1994 contract with Cinematronics (now merged into THQ Nordic) stipulating that the game could not be released as an independent entity, only bundled with Windows hardware.
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The "Glorious PC Master Race" is a term coined by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw of The Escapist in a review of The Witcher, used frequently in the 2010s by fans of PC gaming. Despite being used as a term of endearment by PC gamers, its origins were ironic and intended at the expense of the common gatekeeping against casual gamers in the PC gaming community at the time. Croshaw explained in a 2013 Extra Punctuation article:
"It was intended to be ironic, to illustrate what I perceived at the time to be an elitist attitude among a certain kind of PC gamer. People who invest in expensive gaming PCs and continually spend money to make sure the tech in their brightly-lit tower cases is up to date. Who actually prefer games that are temperamental to get running and that have complicated keyboard interfaces, just because it discourages new or 'casual' players who will in some way taint the entire community with their presence. I meant it as a dig."
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KFConsole reveal article:
https://collider.com/kfconsole-real-specs-price-release-date-details/
Mark Walton tweet:
https://twitter.com/markalexwalton/status/1341430877356765185
https://collider.com/kfconsole-real-specs-price-release-date-details/
Mark Walton tweet:
https://twitter.com/markalexwalton/status/1341430877356765185
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