GOG.com turns one
Retro site celebrates milestone
Retro game dumping ground GOG.com (Good Old Games) is celebrating its one-year anniversary this week, and is offering users a buy-one-get-one-free opportunity on their entire Interplay catalogue. The eagle eyed will notice this is a return of the same promotion GOG ran this time last year. What a coincidence!
GOGs PR supremo Lukasz Kukawski thinks retro gaming is an important part of a discerning gamer's lifestyle, and told us vintage titles are "focused more on storyline, characters, quests and gameplay than on flashy graphics. That's why the deep and complex stories, time tested gameplay and simple yet somehow beautiful graphics of the good old games are still missed by many gamers."
The Interplay catalogue sells on GOG for 5.99 USD a game, which means users will be able to bag combinations like Descent 1 to 3, the two MDK games and Fallout 1 and 2 - and you can read our recent retrospective on these two classics right now - for roughly 3.70 GBP each. You could even buy Earthworm Jim 3D, if you were mad. The promotion runs until September 7th.
When GOG launched last September they were only supported by Codemasters and Interplay, but these days theyve got over 140 games in their catalogue and are backed by Ubisoft, Rebellion and Apogee. Lukasz says this is because of the team's impeccable dress sense, and also because GOG "not only offers gamers all-time PC classics, but we also optimize them to run on Windows XP and Vista." Handy, that.
If youre old enough to remember why the nineties were amazing, take a trip to the GOG.com website and see what all the fuss is about.
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