Some of you may still remember the massive Abandonware site known as the Home of the Underdogs. A few of you may even recall it had a section devoted to the low-tech predecessors of interactive fiction games: the gamebooks.

After HotU disappeared from the net in 2009, some of its' fans attempted to recreate the site with its' reviews and downloads - and they did a good job, seeing how HOTUD.org and its sister sites turned out. However, the gamebook collection wasn't high priority for any of those projects and ended up missing from all of them.

Since sites that preserve classic gamebooks are few and far between, we have taken steps to make a copy of HOTU's collection available here on Abandonia, as well as fill in some of the missing volumes. The collection has been mostly online for last two years, but now it's officially complete and going public.

Thanks are due to: Sarinee (aka Underdogs) for creating this collection and scanning the books, Smiling Spectre for tracking down the scans after HOTU's end, and Arete together with TotalAnarchy for putting together the page on Abandonia.