"I was playing my game and it crashed :("
"I was happy with my 1996 Korean mother board, when memory dumps wernt invented"
"Why does this thing only crash when i decide to play it"
"FUCK THAT WANGER! he caused 2 rows of computers to turn off because of his psu"
"Hey you should take your side off your case if it keeps crashing.. oh it allraedy is"
n. software that is no longer sold or supported by the original publisher / developer, often found as free downloads on the internet because it cannot be obtained elsewhere. Not legal, but often seen as morally acceptable because the company that made it is no longer selling the title, nor releasing it as freeware, therefore abandonware is "keeping the gamealive", so to speak.
Doom II is not abandonware because idstill sells it, while The Incredible Machine is not sold, therefore is abandonware.