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Dark Orbit
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kayot Back in the day, PC's came with a bunch of Demo's. One of these was Dark Orbit by WildTangent. They've discontinued this game, and serials no longer work due to needing to authenticate with a no longer existent server.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WildTangent_games
Please grab this nostalgic gem.
Stratmaster4 Do you still have the program files you need to send them to someone to "unlock" them
leadwarrior16 Yup, phenomenal game that needs to be released into the wild again!
spacenooch WildTangent released the Fate series on GOG, wondering what's going on with that publisher and if they can release Dark Orbit here, too.
natedog242 *,but I was ecstatic when Dad spent the small fortune
natedog242 It's almost like they knew they were going to hurt so many people....Diabolical. If there was any game I could bring back, it would be Dark Orbit 2001. Such a fantastic and unnerving game. I was 9 when my parents bought our Windows XP. So many awesome games were played on it, I ecstatic when spent the small fortune $20 to unlock Dark Orbit. 8)
WolfmanMODS WildTangent KILLED my Favorite Classic Game!
In 2001 WildTangent Game Studios released what was easily one of my all-time favorite video games. The game was called Dark Orbit and it was a top down perspective game where you play as a mining pod pilot who is trying find a way off an alien planet swarming with hostel bug like aliens who are constantly trying to destroy your pod as you scavenge for supplies need to fight your way off the planet.
I’m not sure when, but at some point WildTangent made a deal with HP computers to put a free demo of Dark Orbit, along with several other games, on most new HP computers running windows XP back in the late 2000s, and as luck would have it I ended up with one of those computers. Quickly hooked playing the demo I forked over the $20 necessary to buy the full version of the game, which at the time was a rather substantial sum of money for me. Though proving to be well worth every penny, Dark Orbit was a game I played often and always found enjoyable, that is until about 10 years ago when I started attending college, and I stopped playing it all together.
Now I’d like to be able to claim that the reason I no longer played Dark Orbit when I started college was because I was such an astute student that I simply didn’t have time for video games or other such nonacademic distractions, but that would be a total lie. The truth of the matter was that I simply couldn’t play Dark Orbit, because when trying to install Dark Orbit on my new campus issued laptop, I found that WildTangent’s WebDriver Digital Rights Management, or DRM for short, it used to prevent unauthorized access, had been blocked by the campus security software which had flagged WebDriver DRM as malware, correctly so I should note. I therefore was not able to install and play a game I legally owned, due to the parasitic DRM it came with.
Though having found a few new games to occupy my interest, that didn’t have issues running on my campus laptop, I was content to wait until I got myself another computer to play Dark Orbit once again. However, that was not to be, for I found to my shocked dismay several years later, when trying to install Dark Orbit on my newest computer, that WildTangent had discontinued all its games that used the WebDriver DRM, as its aforementioned parasitic nature had made it too controversial to maintain. Thus there was simply no way to get my legally owned copy of Dark Orbit to initialize as WildTangent had simply shutoff the services needed for the DRM to active the game. And to make matters worse I found that WildTangent had come out with another game named Dark Orbit, which rather than an update to the classic, was actually a completely different game than the one I had come to love, but due to the duplicate name any attempt to search for workaround posts regarding the old game were extremely hard to find as the vast majority of search results pointed to the newer game of the same name.
Thus despite "owning" a copy of Dark Orbit I have not played it in over a decade.
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