Had Megatraveller on the Amiga, what a game! Will be an instabuy if it ever releases here.

If this dreams ever come true on GOG?

Ascendency
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascendancy_(video_game]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascendancy_(video_game[/url])

Black & White
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_%26_White_(video_game]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_%26_White_(video_game[/url])

Companions of Xanth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companions_of_Xanth

Darkseed
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Seed_(video_game]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Seed_(video_game[/url])

Dune (1992) & series
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(video_game]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(video_game[/url])

Versailles 1685
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versailles_1685

just a few titles on first thought...

Yeah. I mean, when we're talking 10 to 12 year old games, we talk about games that got released for Win 7 and Win 8(.1).
By now, both of these OSs aren't officially supported anymore.
There have been times, when 10 to 12 years meant buying two to three new graphics cards, to keep pace with the "update race".

Speak for yourself.

But most games that are 10 years old run at least in compatibility mode.

Also, it's not only about age, it's also about technological changes.
How much did technology change from, let's say, 1985 to 1995?
How much has it changed in the last 10 years?

The games released 10 years ago are just like games released today, possibly with fewer particle effects and what have you, but the actual game design hasn't changed much, if at all.

But if you go further back, there were massive changes in technology.
8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, 2D, 3D, DOS, Windows, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs, keyboard games, mouse-driven games, contoller games, FMV, etc. etc.

The further back in time you go, the more different the games will be.
And that's part of the exciting journey into the gaming history.

Games from 10 years ago can be good games, but not at all exciting.
They are based on same technonogy that is being used today, just a bit earlier versions of it. Even the change from one Windows version to another is almost invisible to the user, as opposed to what happened with the move from Windows 3.11 to Windows 95.

So games from 10 years ago are very new.
Maybe if you take some comparison point in VR games, there can be big differences, but normal traditional gaming, not much.

By your personal definition.
Not by general definition.
I think, I'll leave it at that, because a discussion over personal preferences/beliefs and/or definitions, is a discussion, that's not worth to have.

I'd like Dwarf Fortress. It's an old game from August 8, 2006; 16 years ago!

It's also a new game, having had a major graphical overhaul only 45 days ago!

To put things into perspective, back when GOG was Good Old Games (a period which ended almost 11 years ago), their definition of "old" was at least three years old.
And JMich's list defined "old" as at least 10 years old. Though it did have a separate "classic" designation, for pre-2000 games.

Either way, to me GOG seemed to have had an excellent year in 2022 in terms of releases. That came at the usual cost of throwing even what remained of its values down the crapper, and that was, as usual, for the sake of the newer games, and I fully agree that they started down that slippery slope just then, back in 2012, when they broke away from their focus on the niche. But still, there were quite a number of really old games released in the past year too. And if those didn't include a number of particular titles that some have in mind when they repeat this question, I doubt it's for lack of trying.

So, yeah, I wish GOG would still be Good Old Games and focused on games that have ended development, so definitely not just "classics" but at least a few years old and as complete and patched as they're going to get, to also get rid of the missing updates problem. And I most definitely wish that they'd still be holding on to their values at all costs and pushing against the trend of the industry instead of following it for more releases and growth. But you can't say that they haven't been also releasing old games. And, sadly, you also can't say that most GOG users are still, in the present day, here for them. If they would be, GOG wouldn't be bending over every chance they get for new releases.

The problem with Amiga games is still, that one still needs to buy the Kickstart software, which would have to be shipped with every sold game.
The best solution would be for GOG to make a contract with Cloanto who owns the rights now as far as I know.

But the Amiga alone would justify it's own shop. There are thousands of games with hundreds of classics.
Someone even ported the VGA version of Turrican 2 back to Amiga AGA recently.

Indeed going further with this seems to be pointless, but I am going to say this:
the things I listed are not subjective opinions, they are technological facts.

If you can't play an old game on a new computer, let's say a C64 game on an Amiga, the line between old and new is very clear, as well as the differences in colour palette and so on.

But most games made in 2013 can be played on most computers built in 2023, and there won't be too many differences in the basic game design either.

You can count time passing with a stopwatch if you want, but there is very little actual development in the past decade that would make 10 year old games old in any other sense than calendar dates.


Actually there are Amiga games that you can bring back without any ROMs, such as games which have been reimplemented in ScummVM.

Also, there are already Amiga games on GOG, such as some Cinemaware titles, so it can be done.
Who pays what to whom in those cases I don't know, but certainly there seems to be ways to make it happen.

Anyway, if someone wants to build a checkpoint system that ensures everyone has paid for the Amiga Kickstarter package, the solution is simple:
make all Amiga games DLCs to the base product which probably would be some modified version of Amiga Forever.

F.E.A.R. 3 is the same age as Baldur's Gate 2 was when it released here, and at the time, the site was still Good Old Games. Just for your reference.

We got a big batch around the Christmas sale didn't we? Including 40 Winks and Lollypop?

You are absolutely right. I already assumed, I had missed some...(this should be all?):

Austerlitz (1989)
Final Frontier (1989)
Firezone (1987)
Power Struggle (1988)
Sorcerer Lord (1987)
Waterloo (1989)
Conflict: Europe (1989)
Dragonview (1994)
Airborne Ranger (1988)
Impossamole (1990)
40 Winks (1999)
Gourmet Warriors (1995)
Zany Golf (1988)
Radical Rex (1994)
Motor Mash (1997)
Lollypop (1994)

Edit: that makes 28 (good) old games (including the ones listed in my first post), that have been released here in just three months (since Nov.1st).
That's ~9 games/month on average.
Not too shabby.

When I started buying from GOG, I had no choice but to limit myself to games that were at least 10 years old because that was all my PC at the time could handle. Nowadays, I stick to GOG because it doesn't require to installing a client, unlike its bigger competitors.