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If you've made new art assets that can be used in RoN games, then yes.  Just send me a pm with the link and I'll get the relevant asset packs updated.

A side question... In the RON resources, I can't find a boombox sprite that I'd used in Spoons III. I've figured out a workaround, but curious to know if something got left out of the current assets. Not having the boombox led to an additional quest in my game, so it's not all that bad. 

I rechecked the Spoons 3 asset pack you'd sent and there's no boombox sprite, so that's why it didn't get added to the inv & object pack as I had no indication you'd wanted it included.  I'll see if I can't find it in-game and screengrab it.

The Murder of Adrian Elkwood, Before the Legacy, and The Sorceror's Appraisal are set before Lunchtime.

Reality-on-the-Norm turns 20 today!  Happy birthday RotN!

Yep.  The first RotN game "Lunchtime Of The Damned" was released Feb 17, 2001.

Today marks 18 years of Reality-on-the-Norm!

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This activity will always remain open so anyone can join in at a future date, so don't worry if you can't think of an idea at the moment.

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Have fun.  That's what this is all about.

On the games pages you can sort the games by timeline.  Just be aware that this will sort everything which includes side games (like the quizzes).  If you're concerned about playing in some sort of chronological order, you might want to refer to the timeline ( found here ).  Otherwise I'd say just play them in release order, use the timeline as a reference if you wish, and just have fun.

As for OS, what you're running should be fine.  You'll most likely need DosBox for the earliest games if they refuse to run in windows.

One of the things we used to do is have various art-related activities and I thought it might be fun to do one again.  This would be based around a front page news article of The Realiser paper.  There should be enough backgrounds & character sprites to come up with some interesting articles.

Below is a template with the fonts and font size used for the article headline & text and an example I cooked up.

Template (with fonts used):
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An Example:
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There's no set limit to the size of picture to text (much like real papers, these change day to day), or how they're placed.

Today marks RotN's 17th Anniversary!  Which is a perfect reason to have some cake today.

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Nice job, team!

Here's a couple of 404's:

Page: http://www.realityonthenorm.info/about.php
Section: Below the Question 'There seems to be a lot of characters, just how many are there?',
link 'Cast Line-up of RON'
issue: leads to a 404 Not Found

Fixed!

Page: http://www.realityonthenorm.info/character.php?id=70
link: 'Download character files'
issue: leads to a 404 Not Found

Fixed!

Page: http://www.realityonthenorm.info/game.php?id=101
link: 'The original version can be downloaded HERE.'
issue: leads to a 404 Not Found

Fixed!

Page: http://www.realityonthenorm.info/news.php?month=5&year=2004
Section: 'Demos, news and happiness'
link 'Check HERE for a demo of "Retaliation" by EGAMEACE.'
issue: leads to a 404 Not Found

That news entry was from 2004 and the demo became the final release & is downloadable from the games section (page 6).

Page: http://www.realityonthenorm.info/resources.php
Section: Banner/Header text
Link: 'If you ever need anything else for your game head over to the forums where there are people who can lend a hand.'
issue: leads to a 404 Not Found

edit: fixed

The RoN site is back up.  If there are any errors or dead links, please let me know.

As it seems it works I've put the dosbox version of Nightwatch up on the site.  Not sure why it's crashing on me but if it works for others that fine.

If you can contact an original game author then it never hurts to get in touch with them, although given the amount of time that's passed it's not always possible to establish contact.  Also, there's no guarantee that the game files have been kept for a recompile.

As for Scorpiorus' fix for Nightwatch- I've checked it out and the game keeps crashing back to dosbox every time I try to go south from the hospital exterior screen with an error message.  If someone else could check this out and see if the game crashes in the same place that would be helpful to know.

The links to Game 39 (ROTN Quiz 2) & Game 54 (Retaliation) have been fixed.

Thanks for taking the time to go through & make this list.

RoN turns 16 today!  Which means it's celebration time and that the series can go for it's drivers license in some countries.

Well, we now know what the art style of Retro Wolf's next game is going to be.

These sprites look great and I really like the character (and background) variations in these interpretations.  Looking forward to the seeing more whenever they show up.

Most of the games on the first two pages should be DOS games, with perhaps a few found on page three.  The original versions of The Repossessor, The Postman Only Dies Once, Paranormal Investigation, Monty on the Norm can be downloaded from their respective pages (view game details).  Blastoff & I Spy comes with dos & windows versions in the download.

While you can use Mobygames as a resource, I wouldn't take the info there as 100% accurate.  AGS 2.31 was the final version to have a dos-based editor, so earlier games stand a better chance of being dos only.  Such as:

Lunchtime Of The Damned (AGS 2.14)
Vengeance of the Chicken (AGS 2.14)
RON 2 and 1/2: Fowl Play (AGS 2.15)
Nihilism (AGS 2.15)
Return of Die Vie Ess (AGS 2.20)
Davy Jones C'est Mort (AGS 2.15)
The Lost Treasure of RON (AGS 2.21)
I Spy 2 (AGS 2.56)
Hooky McPegleg, Pirate Postman (AGS 2.21)
Davy Jones is Back (AGS 2.30)
The Chef (AGS 2.31)