Your Cart

Your cart is empty.

Search

Session not detected.

TAR News Archive

A collection of our news articles and updates, spanning over 20 years!


๐Ÿ•น๏ธ Welcome back, veterans. Welcome home, newcomers. The Abandonware Ring is officially back online โ€” rebuilt, reimagined, and reborn for a new generation.

Formed in 1997, The Abandonware Ring (tAR) coined the very term โ€œabandonwareโ€, giving a name to software and games that the industry left behind โ€” but that we, the community, chose to preserve. In 2025, weโ€™ve rebuilt the entire platform from scratch to honor that legacy and propel it into the future.

๐ŸŽฎ What Is tAR in 2025?

No longer just a static...

Pre-Launch Testing

Welcome. If you're seeing this message then you are viewing the Pre-Launch version of tAR.

We have invited a few of you to check it out and provide us with feedback. Please have a good sniff about and see if you come across any bugs, or if something just doesn't feel right - let us know.

You can get in touch with us via our tAR Messaging System. Search for Diskboy, visit his profile, and hit him up... Or maybe don't, he never replies to anyone.

Also, make sure that while you're here you check out...