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Shovelware is a type of
video game or
software bundle known more for the
quantity of what is
included than for its
quality or usefulness. The metaphor...
- gaming, multimedia, or
other demanding tasks.
Homebuilt computers avoid shovelware,
trial software and
other commission-driven
additions that are usually...
- well-received, are
often referred to as "bargain bin" titles. The term
shovelware has also been used to
describe games that are
quickly made
without great...
- Software, a
version of OpenOffice.org In 2001,
Cosmi began publishing shovelware,
which was sold at Best Buy and
Office Depot.
Examples from this era include:...
- An ****et flip is a type of
shovelware in
which a
video game
developer purchases pre-made ****ets and uses them to
create numerous permutations of generic...
-
helped set a
standard for game
quality that
protected consumers from
shovelware. In NTSC regions, this seal is an
elliptical starburst named the "Official...
- interface".
Reception Both
versions of the game have
appeared on
various shovelware CD-ROMs,
especially during the nineties. In 1994,
Ancients 1 was included...
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Contributing factors include its
reduction of the
market price by
releasing shovelware discs of
freeware and shareware,
hostile takeovers of
major edutainment...
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submissions to the
service and weed out poor
quality games that are
treated as
shovelware,
improving the
discovery pipeline to Steam's customers.
Smaller developers...
- developers, a
remnant from the
WiiWare program that
allowed a
great deal of
shovelware to be
pushed onto it.
These anonymous developers found that
Nintendo was...
