"Good Old Games"

Vesper · 2011-06-02T12:52:52.000Z

Awesome!

Razgon · 2011-06-02T12:52:59.000Z

Royal Fool:

While I’m personally really happy to see EA come to GOG (since they have such a huge catalog of games that are hard to run on modern systems), there’s gonna be a whole lot of people pissed about them teasing LucasArts and not delivering.

I wonder why Lucasarts are holding out like this with the Tiefigther and Xwing games? I mean, when they were getting on Steam I thought for sure it would come there, but after the initial rush of Lucasarts games, nothing happened.

Could they be having something of their own in mind?

TimJames · 2011-06-02T12:54:01.000Z

Oh crap, no one told me Privateer is from 1993. I need a bigger desk to put my CRT back on there.

Jorn_Weines · 2011-06-02T12:55:30.000Z

From gog.com: http://www.gog.com/en/news/gog_com_s_catalog_gets_huge_with_addition_of_classic_ea_titles

GOG.com’s Catalog Gets Huge with Addition of Classic EA Titles

The biggest announcement in GOG.com’s history is a fact! Electronic Arts grants access to its deep back catalogue of classic franchises via yours truly GOG.com!

In a ground-breaking, earthshaking, and jaw-dropping deal we’ve managed to sign with EA and will be releasing more than 25 legendary classics from the globally renowned publisher. With today’s announcement three widely known and much awaited brands get the revival treatment from GOG.com: Wing Commander: Privateer, Dungeon Keeper and Ultima Underworld 1+2.

We will be adding more than 25 titles from EA over the next few months, so the games will be unveiled gradually, but we can already reveal that the next upcoming titles from this huge deal are: Crusader: No remorse, Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri and Magic Carpet.

While the agreement between Electronic Arts and GOG.com brings back many acclaimed and well known franchises, it doesn’t include the much anticipated System Shock or Syndicate series at this time. After releasing the first six Electronic Arts classics, we will take a break from the concentrated awesome until later in the summer.

scharmers · 2011-06-02T12:56:25.000Z

Tim James:

Oh crap, no one told me Privateer is from 1993. I need a bigger desk to put my CRT back on there.

I remember paying through the teeth to get the 4MB of RAM this thing wanted.

Scotch_Lufkin · 2011-06-02T12:56:26.000Z

Man, I really loved the Crusader No Remorse and No Regret games, I’d definately give those another whirl. Spider-bombs!!

Paul_cze · 2011-06-02T12:57:49.000Z

Crusader huh?

Well I am sold!

flyinj · 2011-06-02T12:59:54.000Z

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

peacedog · 2011-06-02T13:03:44.000Z

So this is what it feels like when the Iron Giant is your best friend? Man.

Jag · 2011-06-02T13:04:57.000Z

Razgon:

I wonder why Lucasarts are holding out like this with the Tiefigther and Xwing games? I mean, when they were getting on Steam I thought for sure it would come there, but after the initial rush of Lucasarts games, nothing happened.

Could they be having something of their own in mind?

Good Old Games - The Remastered Edition.

I would kill for a reboot of Tie Fighter with modern graphics.

Wendelius · 2011-06-02T13:13:07.000Z

I guess the GoG.com EA games announcement is a popular one:

Haven’t managed to go see for myself what’s available yet. But good move from GoG! I’m ready to party like it’s 1993 again!

Wendelius

JetLagger · 2011-06-02T13:15:40.000Z

I really hope they open up the EA \ Westwood vault, besides Blade Runner, the Legends of Lore series would be sweet.

-Tim

intruder · 2011-06-02T13:17:38.000Z

Wendelius:

I guess the GoG.com EA games announcement is a popular one:

Haven’t managed to go see for myself what’s available yet. But good move from GoG! I’m ready to party like it’s 1993 again!

Wendelius

All 3 EA games for $5.99 each.
I managed to buy them but I can’t download due to demand crashing their servers.

Ah well those 4 classic games for a mere 13 EUR is cool and I can wait with the download. :)

Wendelius · 2011-06-02T13:23:57.000Z

intruder:

All 3 EA games for $5.99 each.
I managed to buy them but I can’t download due to demand crashing their servers.

Ah well those 4 classic games for a mere 13 EUR is cool and I can wait with the download. :)

Thanks. Good deal indeed. I’ll spend my money as soon as the rest of the world is off the site. :)

Wendelius

BrianRubin · 2011-06-02T13:28:33.000Z

scharmers:

OK, got in. Congratulations, GoG, you have seriously surprised the crap out of me. I have a lot of this stuff on CD already, but hey no DRM and stuff.

Seconded. I’m reading this from my car to catch up and audibly gasped when I read EA.

Lorini · 2011-06-02T13:28:59.000Z

Alpha Centauri!!!
Magic Carpet!!!

Sweet!!!

Wendelius · 2011-06-02T13:35:32.000Z

Direct links:

The Ultima Underworld pack (UW1 + UW2) - $5.99: http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/ultima_underworld_1_2
Dungeon Keeper - $5.99: http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/dungeon_keeper
Privateer - $5.99: http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/wing_commander_privateer

Wendelius

Fugitive · 2011-06-02T13:36:13.000Z

I hope legal entanglements don’t also keep the Worlds of Ultima games out of the deal; if I remember correctly, they were left off the Ultima Collection discs because of some kind of legal issue and they’re the two that I still don’t own yet.

OrfBC · 2011-06-02T13:44:56.000Z

Fugitive:

I hope legal entanglements don’t also keep the Worlds of Ultima games out of the deal; if I remember correctly, they were left off the Ultima Collection discs because of some kind of legal issue and they’re the two that I still don’t own yet.

Ultima Underworld 2 and both Worlds of Ultima are the only Ultima games I’ve ever finished. Would love to play the Martian one again.

malkav11 · 2011-06-02T13:54:30.000Z

…I literally just bought the cheap disc collection of SMAC someone linked a few days ago. Oh well. (I had it for Mac, but I don’t run Mac anymore.)