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Interview with Good Old Games + Giveaway

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On October 6, 2009, 4:16 AM

Winners announcement (10/11): Congratulations to our GoG giveaway winners! The usernames of the 15 winners are as follows: skitzo_zac, lynxon, jdaniel, pomonasi, Colonel Lance, TorturedChaos, TomSEA, Relic, Technochicken, vestin, Balthier, JamesGecko, MrTikki, onlytrung, DarKSeeD. Members will be notified via email shortly. And please remember this is only the first of a series of giveaways, so stay tuned!

Giveaway update (10/10): The giveaway winners will be announced Monday afternoon in this space and contacted via email, in the meantime you have a few more hours to participate and enter our contest. This is the first of many giveaways we have prepared for our readers for the remainder of the year. Thank you for your support.

Original story is below:
Good Old Games is just about that, reviving PC gaming classics. Having started with just two publishers and 40 titles backing them up, one year later GoG.com has expanded to include nearly 30 publishers and over 130 games, among which are such classics like the original Fallout, MDK, Duke Nukem 3D and many more -- priced reasonably between $5.99 and $9.99 for a DRM-free copy.

Good Old Games is just reaching its first anniversary, so we thought it would be a good idea to check back on them to see how things were going (and get more freebies for our readers, of course). We talk with the service's PR manager, Lukasz Kukawski as he comments on some of the challenges the service has faced, their DRM-free model, and a few other tidbits on the GoG operation.

Also... Don't miss our GoG giveaway!
Just comment here what game you would like to receive for free (check GoG's full catalog) and double your chances by mentioning any other PC gaming classic you loved back in the day, for nostalgia's sake [more info].
- We will randomly select 15 participating users and announce a winner on Sunday night (October 11).
- Double your chances by following on the conversation on what are your all-time PC game favorites.
- Winners will be notified via email. Only TechSpot community members can participate as we will use your account's email for notification. As always, you can register on TechSpot, free of charge.
- Don't forget to mention both the game you want to win, and any other old favorites.

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  1. Game I would like to win: Fallout 2

    Game I would like to play again: Populous

  2. Game id love to win: warcraft 2

    Game id love to play again: Heroes of might and magic 1, and all the old lucas arts point n click games.

  3. Game I'd like to win: Disciples 2 Gold

    Games I'd like to play again: Ultima Underworld (1&2), Ultima7, System Shock

  4. Game I'd like to win: Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold

    Games I'd like to play again: Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold, Ultima 8, Syndicate, Duke Nukem 2

  5. Game I'd Like to win: Empire Earth: Gold

    Games I'd Like to Play Again: Any of the old Origin Systems Games, Wing Commander (esp. 3 & 4), Crusader, Ultimas, etc.

  6. I would love to win a copy of Duke Nukem 3D

    Also, The Lost Vikings was an awesome game back in the day, would love to play that again.

  7. Game I'd like to win: Fallout 1 or Fallout 2

    Games I'd like to play again: Under A Killing Moon, Doom, Freespace, Earthworm Jim, MDK, System Shock, Loom, etc.

  8. Game I'd like: Under a Killing Moon

    Game I'd like to play again: Sam and Max Hit the Road

  9. I'd like to win Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee.

    And I would love to see Disc World Noir. I bought it years ago but never got it to work on XP/Vista!

  10. I'd like to win Duke Nukem 3D.

    I'd love to play Earl Weaver Baseball - but last time I tried on my PC, it was too fast for the game to handle. Using the arrow keys, the cursor jumped from one side of the screen to the other. I couldn't get it to the selection screen to switch the controls to the mouse. Bummer.

  11. I'd like to win MDK.

    I would like to see also Commandos 2 - it will probably follow, the first one I see it's already there.

  12. Game I'd like to win: Fallout 2, the great classic.

    I'd like to replay UT: GOTY, Disciples 2

    Thanks in advance!

  13. Game I'd LOVE to win: Tex Murphy: Overseer

    Games I'd like to play again: Under a Killing Moon, The Pandora Directive, Oddworld: Abes Odyssey and many many more awesome adventure games. Bring back the adventure genre

  14. I'd like to win: The Longest Journey

    Other games I like: Duke Nukem *, Unreal Tournament *, Stronghold *.

  15. Game I would like to win: Duke Nukem 3D.

    Game I would like to play again: Age of empires

  16. Game I would like to win: Any of the Fallout Series.

    Game I would like to play again: Any of the Oddworld Series.

    Thanks!

  17. Game I'd like to win: Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon

    Games I'd like to play again: The Longest Journey, Septerra Core, Sacred Gold, UT GOTY.

  18. Like2Win: Postal 2 Complete

    Like to play again: A good horse racing game, forget one I liked about 12+ years ago.

  19. game id like to win: MDK

    game id like to play again: Ultima Underworld (1&2)

  20. game I'd like to win: MESSIAH

    game that brings back memories: Solar Wind (which I don't think in the gog's list yet.)

    This site is great; There are lots of games that just do not work on new hardware and OS. It is cool that we have someone helping to keep there IPs working and available.

  21. What I'd like to win: Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project

    Games I used to play (and loved): The Thief series, Metal Fatigue, the Fallouts, Spellforce, Sacred, Diablo2, Warcraft2

  22. Game I'd like to win: Evil Genius

    Game(s) I'd like to play again: X-Wing, Tie Fighter, X-Wing vs Tie Fighter (best space sim ever!), Grim Fandango (loved that adv. game), Full Throttle (another awesome one), and Star Trek: Elite Forces 1 & 2 (great fps w/out a lot of hype)

  23. The game that I would like to get is Beyond Good and Evil

    A few of the (good) old games that I played and loved are both Earthworm Jim's (I can still hear the SQUAK from the birds in the first level), both Abe games (So many memories playing that with my dad when I was younger.... That game is so much harder than I remember!), and the first Rayman game (I can only remember how vivid the sprites were)

  24. The game I'd like to win is Descent & Descent 2. First time I played those games I almost hurled from the vertigo of being able to move around 360 degrees in a 3D environment. Was trippy!

    Wow...that's quite the catalog they have there! Hadn't checked it in a while. Great interview too.... Be nice if they added the MechWarrior series as well as the Age of Empire series.

    Good article - thanks!

  25. Game I'd like to win: Duke Nukem 3D

    Game I love from the old days: Any of the Stars Wars Xwing/Tie Fighter series. Awesome!

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