Hays Games has Returned (again)

allynfolksjr · Post by **allynfolksjr** » Tue 05 Jul, 2005 6:42 pm

We thought that they were gone for good, but it appears that is not so. Their geocities site is back up, and a pretty good read for some amusement. I'm still unsure on if we should do the petition thing, I don't expect getting 100 is a major problem. http://geocities.com/haysgames/

Spengo · Post by **Spengo** » Tue 05 Jul, 2005 7:06 pm

Ahh! burned eyes! #_# People need to work on making websites eye-friendly.

EDIT: are their games any good?

EDIT EDIT: Hrm, I don't seem to understand. Are they retarded and annoying people or something? o_O Why do people not like them and what did they do? *goes to use the search button on these forums*

CoBB · Post by **CoBB** » Tue 05 Jul, 2005 7:20 pm

Hays is a strange phenomenon, just that. I'd consider them history now, they were active many-many years ago. I don't think you'll find many references to them on these new forums.

Spengo · Post by **Spengo** » Tue 05 Jul, 2005 7:23 pm

You're right, this is the only topic that comes up when I search for "hays". I dled some of their games, and it looks like they didn't make any of their own engines, they just modified already made games and put their own gfx in. What is doorways, and what is this phenomenon you speak of?

CoBB · Post by **CoBB** » Tue 05 Jul, 2005 7:39 pm

They shouldn't be taken seriously. A 'joke' group who also stole some games (i. e. replaced the credits), caused the annual 'Hays Flame War' on the A83 list (nowadays also unused), inspired the Crappy Coders Guild, a parody of their activities. Doorways is just a crappy 'Basic shell' or 'OS' as they put it. Good old times.

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Tue 05 Jul, 2005 8:57 pm

Fryedsoft and TIfreak8x over Omnimaga and KermMartian know a lot about them, I think fryedsoft posted a rant on his website about them at http://fryedsoft.calc.org

Andy_J · Post by **Andy_J** » Tue 05 Jul, 2005 9:19 pm

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/nohays

Spengo · Post by **Spengo** » Tue 05 Jul, 2005 10:37 pm

Well, hokay, I signed the thingy. How come they still have stuff at ticalc.org then? Does ticalc still have the stuff they replaced the credits on?

DigiTan · Post by **DigiTan** » Tue 05 Jul, 2005 10:51 pm

From the sound of it, these are just a bunch of no-talent hacks that are trying to weaken the community. Spengo's on to something here, we should also petition ticalc to have their stolen wares removed.

Andy_J · Post by **Andy_J** » Tue 05 Jul, 2005 11:06 pm

http://www.ticalc.org/community/newslet ... tml#lttrto
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/art ... 14191.html

Not sure why the files are still there.

KermMartian · Post by **KermMartian** » Tue 05 Jul, 2005 11:29 pm

Yeah, they really should remove the ticalc.org profile...

http://www.cemetech.net/news.shtml?151

VahnRPG · Post by **VahnRPG** » Tue 05 Jul, 2005 11:33 pm

oh god, not again...

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Tue 05 Jul, 2005 11:52 pm

That "Next week, last month" thing is pretty familliar to me, altough the sub title they has a few months ago before they went down was "The games that bill nagel stole from us" or somethign like that

Post by **Dwedit** » Wed 06 Jul, 2005 6:00 am

I highly support the existance of Hays. Just because he's a troll doesn't mean his threats to Nuke China on the A83 List aren't hillarious as all hell.
He is the most valuable and important part of the history of the calc scene. Still one of the oldest calc programming groups who still pokes their head out once in a while. They've been at it since before I even picked up a TI83! (And I've been into calcs while SOS was new!)

Just like you can't have newgrounds.com without Strawberry Clock, PC gaming without Stellar Stone, NES gaming without THQ, or Filmmaking without Hal Warren, you cannot have a TI-Scene without Hays Games.

What a great guy.

CoBB · Post by **CoBB** » Wed 06 Jul, 2005 6:48 am

Yes, but they don't produce anything new. It's the same old story all over again, and it gets boring quickly after the initial magic wears off.