GOG, Good Old Games

[Nikolai]

Found an article on a computer news site about an interesting concept: GOG, Good Old Games. It's a new games portal a la Steam and GamersGate, only with older games, not new ones. And the great part is, all games are DRM-free! So there's no limits on the number of downloads, installs or similar things. All games are rewritten to work in XP and Vista. The prices are $5.99 and $9.99. Also, there's extras like guides and walkthroughs, mp3 soundtracks and wallpapers. I don't know about you, but I'm drooling away already.

Games confirmed at launch:

$9.99:
1NSANE

$5.99:
Conquest of the New World
Descent + Descent 2
Descent 3 + Expansion
Die by the Sword + Expansion
Earthworm Jim 3D
Evolva
F/A-18E Super Hornet
Fallout
Fallout 2
Fallout Tactics
Freespace + Expansion
Freespace 2
Giants : Citizen Kabuto
Invictus In the Shadow of Olympus
Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Business
Kingpin: Life of Crime
Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader
M.A.X. + M.A.X. 2
MDK
MDK 2
Messiah
Original War
Sacrifice
Shattered Steel
Shogo: Mobile Armor Division

...and games that'll come soon:

Perimeter
Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising
Colin McRae Rally 2005
Operation Flashpoint GOTY
Redneck Rampage Collection
Soldiers: Heroes of World War II
Stonekeep
TOCA Race Driver 3

[El_Cid]

Great idea making them DRM free and XP/Vista compatible, I think that is key for this kind of thing.
Some good games listed, but there are loads more they hopefuly will look to add - past games hold some of the best gaming experiences you can have today

[DrSpike]

Great idea, though some of those games aren't really that good.

[lord of the mark]

i signed up for the beta, and finally got my password a couple of weeks ago, and if I wasn't deep into Civ4 would get something. On that list mainly interested in the Fallouts, maybe Freespace and JA?

[Alinestra Covelia]

Should add Lemmings, Beneath a Steel Sky, Flashback, and Prince of Persia to the list.

[snoopy369]

Descent

[Alinestra Covelia]

If they can go back far enough, they should add Archon, Captain Goodnight, Zaxxon, and TIE Fighter as well.

[snoopy369]

You can play XWing Alliance already, but yes, I'd love to play Tie Fighter... tempted to go grab my CD and see if I can coerce it to install on Vista, honestly ...

Also, Zaxxon

[Alinestra Covelia]

Moebius as well.

[DrSpike]

If you want to play really old games they are easy to find on emulators.

[Alinestra Covelia]

I have some of them for DOSBox. But it's a hassle to get them running sometimes.

[Lazerus]

I thought this was going to be a nostalgic discussion about things like secret of mana on the SNES lol

I'd be tempted to give evolva and jagged alliance 2 a shot, played most of the others.

[Alinestra Covelia]

My brother played Secret of Mana a lot and said it was one of the best JRPGs ever made. I've been meaning to play it sometime.

[DrSpike]

As above, easy to play on a SNES emulator if you so wish.

[El_Cid]

Out of that list so far, i think only JA2 would interest me. Either, as Dr.Spike pointed out, the others are not that great or I've got them all ready(M.A.X games are good games by the way, graphics and interfaces aside).

Second vote for X-Wing/Tie-Fighter as XP/Vista friendly.

Also if we can suggest dream possibles:

1. Daggerfall 1.5 - XP Stable, finished factions and all the bells and whistles that the original design team wanted to achieve(might need to find Julian LeFay to get it done proper).

2. Hammar of the Gods - just had a huge problem getting this to run properly on XP, even on my other 98se pc's.

3. System Shock(I+II) - never got around to playing these, and have heard a lot of good things.I suspect they still would offer a lot that most console fps games today fail to deliver.

4. SMAC - many people seem to have issues with this on XP(maybe other systems like Steam have already picked this up?), although I play my copy on one of my w98 rigs.

I guess, weirdly enough i'm probably not the target audience for this scheme.
I love old games, I have 3 era's of PC to play games on, and have played many all ready so.......but for the newly dissolusioned this is a great way to get to play some great old games with no problem on modern machines.