What about older games that are newer than the really old games, but are really older games that are actually new?

alot of bad old games out there can be forgotten but so many good ones, and ones that i still come back more than alot of newer games

-GOG.com has been great to get alot of microprose games but still some real key ones are missing

M1 Tank Platoon
M1 Tank Platoon 2
Fields of Glory
Ancient Art of War in the Skies
Gunship
Gunship 2000

This, I guess it's being in early 20s here so I can't relate to people in their 30s or older that have memories of DOS games.

So for me bring on those late 90s/early 2000s games. I never owned a console in the dreamcast/OG xbox/ps2/gamecube era, I tried some dreamcast games on steam and would love to see some of those era games on GOG. They also run smooth on any PC made after 2010 with a basic GPU, hell laptops even.

Unfortunately some games I'd want out of that era won't make it to PC...

Sega being sega won't tell us about a Jetset radio future port to PC
And no ones thinking of bringing backyard baseball to PC!!! How is an oldschool PC collection complete without some backyard sports games???

But battlefront 2 is on GOG so thats a plus

Personally, I would like to see more games from the 1980's and earlier. I want games that are even older than Akalabeth (which I believe is the earliest game in gog.com's catalog)!

I would love more older games, such as The Sims Complete Collection. That game is way old by today's standards. I know there is a wish list for this already (which I voted), but so far no word after all these years.

There are a ton of older point / click games from the 90s.... like Sierra's Light House, Amber Journeys Beyond to name a couple. :)

GOG should be Grotto of Games.

Also, I really want Freelancer to be here someday.
I'd love to have Sims here too. :) Also Sims 2.

Personally I consider 5 year old games as "old" so I'm really happy with most of GOG's recent releases. I just wish the games would come faster :D

GOG probably has all the games stored away in their basement, but due to demands like "We need more old games!", they hesitate to release them so soon and prefer to let them mature a few more years until they can be certain that every customer will perceive them as old enough. :P

I know. I found it funny and was trying to play off of it. Haha. It really is subjective.

Though it doesn't meet the OPs pre-2000 criteria, I'd be jazzed to see the Company of Heroes games make their way here. Don't suppose Nordic picked up that portion of THQ... that would give me at least SOME hope.

Anyway, I'm just about completely content with the older games that are here. I didn't have time to play all of those I wanted back in the day, and certainly don't have the time now.

Games older than Akalabeth(1979) only run on a few platforms.
Mainframe computer, Arcade, Apple ][, TRS-80, Atari 2600, and some minor consoles.
I do not think any Apple ][, TRS-80, Atari 2600 games older than Akalabeth are fun.

I love many Apple ][ games, but I think all of them were released after Akalabeth.

At first I thought it's just another of those threads... But he's talking in plural, and uses multiple exclamation marks. I hope the GOG authorities are prepared for such special cases.

No you've had enough.

We don't have more good old games here because of either legal or technical reasons or both.

Remember to vote! https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games#order=votes_total

We need Mass Effect, Tomb Raider Legend, Max Payne, OBLIVION!1!, etc.

As others have said, "GOG should stop selling as many new games and focus predominantly on pre 2K games" is a false equivalence as the "pool" of available to license old games is fixed regardless of how many / few newer games get added. Likewise "old" is a moving target as each year ticks by and 2007 games like Bioshock or Oblivion will be as old next year as 1998 games like Baldur's Gate 1 or Grim Fandango were when GOG was born.

I love the feel of pre-2K games too but there is no single year hard cutoff that defines "old school". To me The Great Dumbing Down (tm) was a gradual decade long process that coincided with moving from PC-exclusive to cross-platform rather than a single year cutoff. Some 2003-2004 era games like Thief 3 and Deus Ex 2 were very dumbed down in level size vs the originals in order to fit the original XBox's 64MB memory limit, and yet some 2007-2011 games like Bioshock 1 or Portal 1-2 still had "old school" quick-saves, no 2-weapon limits, no "controller first, keyb & mouse tacked on as an afterthought" thing typical of modern AAA games.

I'd love to see missing NOLF 1&2, Age of Mythology, Rise of Nations, Freelancer, etc, here that were just as good as missing 90's games like Heretic, Hexen, Diablo 1-2, Age of Empires 1-2, etc, but thanks to rights issues it isn't happening and like many who really, really want to play them, I've long given up waiting, have acquired the retail discs off Ebay and backed them up (along with the newest patches / widescreen fixes and safe, working "NoCD's"). Likewise, for very old MS-DOS era games (eg, Dune, Elite Plus, Lemmings, etc), a lot of this stuff is virtually Abadonware or officially given away for nothing (Elder Scrolls 1-2, Downfall, Beneath A Steel Sky, etc). Likewise, lots of retro gamers aren't exactly spending $10-$20 per cassette on rebuilding a collection of hundreds of Commodore 64 / ZX Spectrum tapes to bring back that childhood nostalgia. All that may be a "grey" legal area, but the pragmatic truth is people who really want to play +25-35 year old games that GOG can't seem to get pretty much already are, and it's incredibly difficult to find a profit in competing with "free" outside of the Top 100-200 Most Remembered DOS Games that are likely to sell well enough to cover the costs of acquiring and ongoing tech support of them.

Personally I hope that GOG expands courting Indie devs for new DRM-free games as it may well be those new games that generate the profit that allow GOG to add more otherwise unprofitable but popular older games as "sweeteners". Threads like this over 80's / 90's games keep cropping up, but the truth is GOG cannot survive alone on selling $1-2 1989-1999 games as there will be a point where everyone who grew up in that era already own all the classics they want. Meanwhile, it's the DRM-free versions of newer games that gives those people a reason to keep coming back to the site (and a lot of people have long got past the "old = must be good, new = must be rubbish" thing when it's often down to the developer and personal taste).