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August, 24th, 2010

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This update marks the definite end of the classic series. 300 is a round lot and worthy of it. Next issue, I'm about to cancel the Gamevideoarchive as planned originally. Honestly, I've reached a point where I'm testing my limits between what I want and what I can do. I've reached a level where frustration outweighs fun. My basic idea was to include all relevant C64 games to have a representative overview of their part of computer games history. The problem is that I'm missing lots of games be it simulations, RPGs or strategy games none of which I get nor like. At some point I just can't be bothered to deal with this crap anymore.

The fact remains, there's too few contributors to reach this goal. If only a fourth of the people that assured me of their support had made good on their promises this project would be in a much better shape than today. Actually I've been waiting for three people to submit Elite since day one of the Gamevideoarchive. Now we're stuck in the year 1985 because Elite is still missing and I don't think I'll live to see the day. I'm also sick and tired of begging and chasing after someone. It gets ridiculous after a while. I've now realized I've been far too optimistic and went out on a limb. Some things only last so long and the C64-Longplay/Gamevideoarchive-Project is passed it's due date.

I've spent the last days pondering whether to release the last submitted longplays and to move all my own unreleased stuff to /dev/null, just to save me the effort. But I've done too much work over the last year and I don't want it to be a total waste. Thus our current break will last until June. Anything up to this point will be added to the archive and then this project will be shut down for good. It's about time to draw a line.

Annoyed,

Reinhard