I'm sure this has been brought up before, but it seems like GOG has lost all interest in reviving classic DOS games. Its a shame, because we need these classics to be preserved and not lost to time. I hoped GOG would be a force for that. Either they've decided to compete with Steam, releasing modern and indie games, or maybe they just can't secure any more rights to vintage titles?

If anyone has been following GOG more than I have, please let me know if there will be any more classics on the way, or if I can just ignore the site until Banner Saga 3.

Also, does anyone know if there are any other companies or platforms that might pick up where GOG left off, or are they the only one? I know Steam has brought out some old titles, but it wasn't their main focus like it used to be GOG's.

A few times. XD

Nooooo, really? So, all you're interested in are old games, which is why you're going to ignore the site... untill the release of a brand new game.

Ok.

There are plenty of old games missing out of gog catalogue yet, so probably they can't get the rights yet. Just expect a really slow release of those over the years. Also the good thing is probably in the future modern games will be old games and be accesible here lol

It's interesting how they list on their Jobs page someone for "Reverse Engineering" complete with free Polish lessons:

https://www.gog.com/work/product-reverse-engineer

I have to wonder if maybe they have a few games ready for release but are holding off due to rights issues.

Wasn't Revenant held up for a couple of years because of technical issues? I think a lot of games from that late 90s/Windows 95 era are a massive pain to get running on modern systems.

I said this in one of the many other threads on this topic a few weeks ago. Every game has been torn apart by someone and there's a good change someone has come up with a fix to at least get it running. May not be perfect but at least someone else has taken a shot at it.

The fix may not be good enough to a "professional" release though.

"That's it! We're out of cake!"

Nope, that's it. That's all the old DOS games there were. Didn't you know there only a handful of games for DOS ever made?

... maybe if people bought more of them ....

First of all, not all old games, DOS or otherwise, are classic (there was worthless garbage in the DOS era, too), and not all "retro" games are old (and GOG releases plenty of the new ones). ;) Second, there are reasons why they don't choke us with a never-ending stream of new old releases.

But that's not to say they don't still release plenty of old games. There follows a (hopefully up-to-date) list of the pre-2010 games released (or re-released) here since the beginning of this year. Just for you, I also bolded all the games I know of that had DOS releases -- though other titles in the list were originally from that era, too (like the Neo-Geo games and the Wonder Boy remake), so they should kinda count, even if they never saw a DOS (or even home computer) release.
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Pizza Tycoon
Pizza Tycoon 2
Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships
Ignition
Tachyon: The Fringe
Ceville (re-added to the catalogue after having been removed)
Lost Eden
Imperium Galactica II: Alliances (port of a mobile version?)
SWAT 4: Gold Edition
Constructor (since renamed Constructor Classic 1997) (re-added to the catalogue after having been removed)
Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom
Caesar
Caesar II
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition (remaster) (borderline case, as the original mod was from ca. 2008, while the first standalone commercial version released in 2012)
The Colonel's Bequest
The Dagger of Amon Ra
Hidden & Dangerous Action Pack
Hidden & Dangerous 2: Courage Under Fire
The Adventures of Willy Beamish
Turok 2: Seeds of Evil (remaster)
Army Men RTS
Delta Force
Delta Force 2
Delta Force: Land Warrior
Delta Force: Task Force Dagger
Delta Force: Black Hawk Down Platinum Pack
Delta Force Xtreme
Pray for Death
Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition (remaster) (borderline case, as it replaced [but still includes a separate copy of] the "classic" Planescape: Torment)
Codename: ICEMAN
SpellForce 2 - Anniversary Edition (remaster) (borderline case, as it replaced the games whose content it contains [Spellforce 2: Shadow Wars & Spellforce 2: Dragon Storm])
Full Throttle Remastered (remaster)
de Blob (remaster?)
Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail
Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood
Empires: Dawn of the Modern World
Throne of Darkness
Metal Slug
Metal Slug 2
Metal Slug 3
Metal Slug X
Fatal Fury Special
Samurai Shodown 2
Samurai Shodown V Special
The King of Fighters 2000
The King of Fighters 2002
The Last Blade
Blazing Star
Baseball Stars 2
Shock Troopers
Twinkle Star Sprites
King of the Monsters
Lock's Quest (remaster)
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition Deluxe
Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap (remaster/remake) (borderline case, as it's probably closer to a full-on remake than to a remaster, but it CAN be played with the original's graphics & sound, so I counted it)
Homeworld: Emergence
Tender Loving Care
Mob Rule Classic (re-added to the catalogue after having been removed [as Mob Rule])
The Humans Bundle
Sudden Strike Gold
Sudden Strike 2 Gold
Sudden Strike 3
Alien Rampage
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Finally, bear in mind that just because they haven't released old games that interest YOU doesn't mean they don't release old games. :)

Having to jump through hoops to buy those games doesn't help. Took me 5 years of trying to get money in my account here.

Have they ever reached out to Paypal to see if anything could be done? All my searching here and I've never seen a mention of them doing so.

PC port of a previously console-only game, which itself was an enhanced edition of a 2006 freeware PC game.

Right, but I wasn't sure if they updated or changed anything for the port. A game being ported to a new platform that long after the original (commercial) version's release is often a sign that some improvements and/or revisions have been made in the process. (Whether the changes are actual improvements is another matter.)