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Congratulations! GOG has now issued the selected games to the TS members above.
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Last year we covered the launch of Good Old Games, a digital distribution service for PC games that specializes in classic titles that are at least a few years old – some of them dating back to the early 90s. The team behind GOG.com has built an interesting catalog of games that includes such classics like the original Fallout, MDK, Duke Nukem 3D, Earthworm Jim, Descent, and many others. Best of all, they are completely DRM free and available for direct download from the site.
The company recently signed a deal with Ubisoft to publish some of its best back-catalog titles and today they announced they have reached the 100 title milestone with the free point-and-click adventure game Teenagent. With other games ranging from $5.99 to $9.99 apiece, this service is definitely worth a look if not for the nostalgia factor alone.
And well, the kind folks at GOG.com have offered us a handful of titles for our readers. So what does it take to win? All you have to do is leave a comment saying you want to participate and we'll select five random winners by the end of the week. Each will receive two free games: one of the three Ubisoft titles that were recently added to the catalog (Beyond Good and Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946) along with their choice from this week’s highest rated and best selling games.
Although you only need to comment to enter the drawing, to make the conversation a bit more interesting you could probably mention a title or two of the oldies that are most memorable to you. This top-rated list is probably a good start, I'd personally pick the original MDK.
Last year we covered the launch of Good Old Games, a digital distribution service for PC games that specializes in classic titles that are at least a few years old – some of them dating back to the early 90s. The team behind GOG.com has built an interesting catalog of games that includes such classics like the original Fallout, MDK, Duke Nukem 3D, Earthworm Jim, Descent, and many others. Best of all, they are completely DRM free and available for direct download from the site.
The company recently signed a deal with Ubisoft to publish some of its best back-catalog titles and today they announced they have reached the 100 title milestone with the free point-and-click adventure game Teenagent. With other games ranging from $5.99 to $9.99 apiece, this service is definitely worth a look if not for the nostalgia factor alone.
And well, the kind folks at GOG.com have offered us a handful of titles for our readers. So what does it take to win? All you have to do is leave a comment saying you want to participate and we'll select five random winners by the end of the week. Each will receive two free games: one of the three Ubisoft titles that were recently added to the catalog (Beyond Good and Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946) along with their choice from this week’s highest rated and best selling games.
Although you only need to comment to enter the drawing, to make the conversation a bit more interesting you could probably mention a title or two of the oldies that are most memorable to you. This top-rated list is probably a good start, I'd personally pick the original MDK.
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I'd love to enter! Sacrifice was one of the best games back in the day.
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I'm in for participation!I've never played the old Fallouts but I've been itching to since I got into Fallout 3. The old Duke Nukems were awesome too!
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Very very good idea..MDK..sigh..that brings back some good memories..I would love to participate..
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Count me in - I'm feeling nostalgic today. Descent, Duke Nukem, and UT kept me sane through college - lol! I would love to try out racing games Toca or McRae. Sturmovik and Soldiers still looks interesting.[Edited by stbecker on 2009-04-01 09:52:28]
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I want to participate too!
the most memorable huh.. that would be Sacred, i like the game but i wasn't able to buy it. I only borrowed it from a friend, I'd love to have my own copy though oh btw,PainKiller, anyone? -
Definitely want to join in on this. I'm an avid video gamer since the days of the original Pong that you hooked to the back of your TV (which I still have). My most memorable very old classic PC games include the Zork triology, all of the Ultima games, Bard's Tale, Archon, Impossible Mission (Amiga) and Doom.The more recent (but still old school) PC games I've really enjoyed are all of the Unreal games, the MechWarrior series, HalfLife 2: Episode One, Diablo, Age of Empires I through III, Max Payne and Dungeon Keeper 2
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1nsane was the first racing game that added real physics and damagable parts, in my perspective. I liked it a lot at the time it was released.
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Count me in!I really missed my old games.
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I'd like to participate! =]Great list of games... Prince of Persia, Beyond Good and Evil, Sacrifice and Giants: Citizen Kabuto were all awesome! Addictive, entertaining, challenging... and the way games should be.If I could add games to that list, they'd be oldschool Lucasarts adventure games, like Indiana Jones, Day of the Tentacle, (the Mansion one... can't remember the name), Full Throttle, Grim Fandango and the like... also, I'd add some Blizzard goodness of Warcraft 2, Warcraft 3 and Diablo II. Oh... Sam & Max, too. ;]How I miss the old ones. =/
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I'd like to be in as well!and Unreal Tournament GOTY is definitely the best in there but some memorable ones in there as well Fallout and such, but Unreal traces back to one of the best PC games I played
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Long-time lurker, first time poster. Figured I'd throw my hat into this contest. I really got into PC gaming only a couple years ago, so this would be a great opportunity to play some of the oldies I've missed.-TyShoe
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I'd like to be in! I never played any of those games back in the day, but I'd love to give 'em a go.
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Well I would very much like to win although I've never won anything and don't expect to win anything now. I would like to simply say thanks to all those offering games in this contest and to TechSpot for sponsoring it.My most memorable game was from UbiSoft and it was "POD". It was one of the first MMX games back in 1997 and it still is one of my all time favorites though I no longer have it and don't think it can run on Vista 64 anyway. Thanks to UbiSoft for that game as it game me a lot of enjoyment. If you can make it run on Vista 64 by all means re-issue it!
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Duke Nukem was one of the best old games ever made... Also Unreal Tournament was really good, but required a lot of system resources compared to other games.
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Count me in! My favs include Civ (especially Civ II), Age of Empires, Doom 1 & 2, Descent.
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I enter
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I'd like to participateI do love the old games still play them to this date (al thought that might have something to do with my computer not being handleanything 'moden' lol)Games like unreal Tournament, speel force, the heros of might and magic serreshomeworld etc
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The fallout series... and MDKCount me in!!!!
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i wanna win. btw - giants: ciitzen kabuto & sacrifice = best games evar!
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Mee too
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I would like to participate. I spent a lot of time on Duke Nukem and Doom, brings but good memories.
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This has got to be the most commented on story on TS ever right?I probably should play the original Fallout, or Beyond Good & Evil they are meant to be classics. Appart from them I'd love to get my hands of a copy of Simon the Sorceror that was an awesome game.
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i am in!!!my best games ever probably starcraft but fallout not a bad choice too
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I'm in; my older favorites include doom games, sim cities, and definitely the older delta force games. Sadly, I don't go too far back.
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Cool site, lots of memories. The game I was most hoping to see was Star Control 2. What a great game.The one I am super tempted to get is Castles + Castles 2. Fighting the urge as I know I will spend countless hours on those games.Edit: Since writing this I have tracked down a Freeware version of SC2!! I have this article to thank for it. Thanks Jose![Edited by ilikefreestuff on 2009-04-01 22:35:02]
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