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SoloCommand
Title: Games Manager
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Date Posted:
7/12 3:54am
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Good Old Games - The Geriatric Steam
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Good Old Games
I just found this today, it's a new on-demand games service for really old games. Just a look at the games on offer on the teaser page are enough to stir loins, Fallout, Sacrifice, Giants, MDK.
All available and tweaked to run on modern operating systems, bundled along with a load of extra goodies, soundtracks, editors, etc, and all of them are dirt cheap.
The service is only in closed beta at the moment, but I'd be excited to see the range of titles it offers and how well tweaked they are for modern platforms, if they offer the fallout series with a high-res 1280x mode and enhanced graphics, or like, HDR for Giants, I'd be on it more than Sesfan over EVE.
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Boba_Fett_2001
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7/12 4:46am
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Sweeeet!
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Mike480
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Date Posted:
7/12 1:04pm
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I have my fingers crossed for this site to release every Lucasarts game from Maniac Mansion to Escape From Monkey Island. Just wishful thinking.
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Jedi knight Pozzi
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7/13 4:51am
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Mike480 posted:
I have my fingers crossed for this site to release every Lucasarts game from Maniac Mansion to Escape From Monkey Island. Just wishful thinking.
Those were my exact thoughts. I had been hoping just two days ago, that the Lucasarts site would have done something similar.
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Katana_Geldar
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7/13 5:22am
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How *old* do they mean though? There were some GREAT games out in the '80's that you can't find now.
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Boba_Fett_2001
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7/13 8:23am
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Jedi knight Pozzi posted:
Mike480 posted:
I have my fingers crossed for this site to release every Lucasarts game from Maniac Mansion to Escape From Monkey Island. Just wishful thinking.
Those were my exact thoughts. I had been hoping just two days ago, that the Lucasarts site would have done something similar.
I hope they get all the Epic and Apogee classics. 
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AlrikFassbauer
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7/19 11:15am
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You can still buy several Apogee classics at 3DRealms. Some are even Freeware nowadays.
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Vengance1003
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7/19 11:51am
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I hope Unreal 1 is up there. I really want to play that again.
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Jedi knight Pozzi
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Any more recent news?
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SoloCommand
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9/1 11:33am
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The website suggests that the service will go live this month, but I don't think there's an exact date.
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Trimaj
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ok, this is awesome. there's five games on the front picture that i'd buy.
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Vengance1003
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I know someone who signed up for the closed beta. I'll ask him about it.
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Boba_Fett_2001
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Early Access Beta is Coming! Beware.
On Monday, September 8, anyone who signed up for the GOG.com beta will start receiving access keys to the site.
We're saying goodbye to the press beta and gearing up for the next phase: Early Access Beta. Everyone who signs up at www.gog.com before Sunday September 7 at midnight (EDT), during the next week will receive an access key, which will allow them to dive into the GOG.com site. If you don't receive your access key on Monday, don't worry as we're sending them out in stages.
The Early Access Beta will offer all the main features of the site, including buying DRM-free games, joining the community and writing reviews. Apart from just getting access, everyone buys a game from GOG.com during the Early Access Beta will receive a bonus code to get one game from GOG.com’s Interplay catalogue for free! So what are you waiting for? If you haven’t signed up yet, be sure to enter your email address and get in on the action.
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MarcusP2
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Signed up.
Though I already have every good Interplay game.
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9/3 2:27pm
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Mojo article from several months back...
http://www.mixnmojo.com/php/news/showfile.php?id=3002&category=advnews
Mojo posted:
Good Old Games is a new type of web-site that will have Good Old GamesTM available for download, either 6 or 10 bucks (either way it's cheap cheap cheap).
This already sounds good to me, someone who's main gaming love is for titles released in the mid 90s -- but there is the possibility that the service could be extended to the LucasArts library as well, making GOG.com sound even more appealing. In a recent interview, a (Mr) Manager of GOG said that: "Some of our holy grails are probably going to be TIE Fighter or X-Wing, some of the other LucasArts adventure games. Stuff like that would be awesome. I'm sure EA has a lot of stuff sitting in their catalog, Wing Commander and things like that." He then went on to wax lyrically about the X-wing series in particular, and the possibility of providing real boxes and manuals with the games that people buy from the site.
The games will also all be XP and Vista compatible, since GOG.com will have access to the source code of the games. Another interesting detail is that there will be no copyright protection on the games, meaning that downloading it onto different computers will be as easy as farting.
Obviously it's all still in the planning phrase as far as LucasArts titles go, but it does at least look like GOG.com is a web-site to keep an eye on.
The site will launch in September, with games like MDK, Giants, Sacrifice, Kingpin and Fallout already confirmed for release.
Shacknews posted:
The site will initially carry titles from publishers Interplay and Codemasters, including the previously-mentioned Fallout series, MDK 1 and 2, Giants: Citizen Kabuto, Freespace 1 and 2, Sacrifice, Descent 1-3 and Kingpin: Life of Crime.
While a full list of the store's launch offerings has yet to be finalized, other games slated to appear by September include Shattered Steel, Jagged Alliance 2, Redneck Rampage, Operation: Flashpoint, Colin McRae, and TOCA Race Driver 3.
Ohle revealed that LucasArts' beloved catalog of PC games represents one of the "holy grails" CD Projekt hopes to offer one day. That lineup includes adventure games such as the Monkey Island series, Sam & Max: Freelance Police and Grim Fandango, along with Totally Games' space combat simulators X-Wing and TIE Fighter.
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Holy crap.
*faints*
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