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Posted May 27, 2016
Up to 75% off two vaults full of gaming treasures: RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, Act of War: Gold Edition, Master of Magic, and more!



Do you know what happens when <span class="bold">ATARI meets Codemasters</span>? An explosion of cool discounts happens! We had our best people plant the explosives on two massive vaults bearing two massive names on them. And wouldn't you know it, our plan worked! So come and enjoy the spoils with us. There are treasures both ancient and shiny found within, and you can claim as many as you like, for up to 75% off!

Rich, engaging 4X mechanics in a fantasy setting. RPG elements, exploration, and a complex magic and summoning system. These are some of the reasons why Master of Magic is still considered an unsurpassed classic by millions of strategy fans.

You should have never have agreed to serve a dark god without reading the fine print first. Now there will be Blood: One Unit Whole Blood. And it must come from all sorts of hellish creatures that have no right to walk the earth but are more than welcome to bleed all over it, as you blast them in the face.

Want to know what war will look like in the near future? Sparked by this Act of War: Gold Edition, it will feature intense, balanced, and gripping urban combat across the globe, full of tactical RTS elements and engrossing storytelling.



The vaults are open and finally <span class="bold">ATARI meets Codemasters</span>. The complete list of their treasures is still being filled out but early looters report finding Prisoner of Ice, Cannon Fodder 1+2, Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail, Race Driver: GRID, and many more valuables hidden inside, going for up to 75% off. The promo will last until May 31, 3:59 AM UTC.
Posted May 28, 2016
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Fairfox: Never played the RollerCoaster Tycoon series despite people raaaving about them (I likes Theme Park). I'd rather buy all that series than one, but Imma saving my monies for Speedball II on GOGie, so I guess pass.
These games were widely distributed long time ago.
Even in our tiny country we have them, stores like Bart Smit , Toys R Us and more dutch shops (which dont exist anymore) like: Free Record Shop , V&D ( and i bet many more old stores in our country will be disappearing soon)
Most if not all games were often at sale at 10 euros or 19.99 guilders back then and they'd give you 3 to 6 games now thats a steal :D
If you were lucky you could buy them retail at 1 euro :D .... so much for the Roller Coaster Tycoon games...

Anyway, there are stores making big bucks while the games used to coste little to very little when the were on retail (cd/dvd) sale in the 90's and 2000.
The thing is , all welknown games will arrive sooner or later in our dutch stores, its the good less welknown games that won't arrive , and these are the games i am looking for :D.
Post edited May 28, 2016 by gamesfreak64
Posted May 28, 2016
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IAmSinistar: Some good deals. Once again I have all I want from it, but folks are recommended to pick up the Blood and Call of Cthulhu games if they don't have them yet.
Both the cthulhu ones?
I got shadow of the comet recently, but refrained from prisoner of ice because... meh.
Unrelated, but I expect Overlord (one of my recs) to be worth a few laughs at least.
Post edited May 28, 2016 by j0ekerr
Posted May 28, 2016
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P1na: Sounds interesting, let me check: "Games you don't own: Sensible soccer, another sensible soccer". Yeah, I guess I'll pass this weekend too. I feel like it's been ages since I last bought anything.
I have almost similar feeling, it was a good thing Kathy Rain was released i like games like that ( i have all wadjet eye games and any game that looks like it( i love more of the same games where the game is click and point)
On every 40 games released this years i have 3 or maybe 4 games, thats far less then i was able to buy last year, 2015 was a very good year of old and new games released, it was a quite expensive year, my wallet was almost 80% empty every month, the past 6 months it tends to become ' overweighted' , and may etar apart if it doesnt get a small diet soon :D

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IAmSinistar: Some good deals. Once again I have all I want from it, but folks are recommended to pick up the Blood and Call of Cthulhu games if they don't have them yet.
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j0ekerr: Both?
I got shadow of the comet recently, but refrained from prisoner of ice because... meh.
I expect Overlord's to be worth a few laughs at least.
I have all games with th exception of 3d/fpp or platform/racing so i have all of the games i like and can play.
Post edited May 28, 2016 by gamesfreak64
Posted May 28, 2016
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Mazix7: But does anyone remember the last time that we had a Ubisoft sale? I really want to buy Anno 1404.
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eiii: The last time Anno 1404 has been on sale was 7 weeks ago.
Hmmm, I think I missed it somehow :/ Thanks anyway.
Posted May 28, 2016
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Posted May 28, 2016
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blotunga: I know the feeling. From the last weekend promo(s) I had them all, from this one I miss the Cannon Fodder games and Overlord I already have on steam... Wallet is safe.
We both know we have way too many games anyway. It's probably a good thing.
Posted May 28, 2016
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HunchBluntley: Snippity
Hey, thanks HB.....Probably just go ahead and pick it up at that price and give it a go then. The C&C games are "okay", at least the ones I have played, it's just I generally prefer a "tactical Pause" button like in the earlier DOW games, and the like. I like the ability to pause the action and give orders/change strategy while I assess the battlefield. It's not a game killer for me to not have one, I just prefer it :D.
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Zoltan999: Gottcha thanks....do you recall if it had a "pause" function? I don't mind hard in RTS's if there is at least a pause function XD
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Grilledfish: You can pause the game with the "pause/break" key on the keyboard. You can still give orders and look around while the game is paused. It's not really a "feature" of the game, so to speak, but I used that a lot because I suck at RTSes.
Thanks bud.....that's close enough! On the other hand, NVM, would have been nice though, lol ;-)
Post edited May 28, 2016 by Zoltan999
Posted May 28, 2016
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ReynardFox: Yet another promo from publishers who put almost no effort into supporting this place...
So Atari does own the rights to most of the Legend Entertainment adventure games. I was reading about it in HG101 Guide to Adventure Games and in an interview with Bob Bates he says.

Is there a chance any Legend games could be released on a classic digital distribution
service like Good Old Games?
There’s a chance, but it’s complicated. The rights to most of the games went to
GT/Infogrames, and are now owned by Atari. But all of the licensed games were published
under agreements with the authors that specified a time period during which they could be
published, and of course all of those time periods have now expired. There’s a chance I could
buy back the rights to the original games from Atari, but to date we haven’t been able to reach
an agreement about that.
Posted May 28, 2016
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blotunga: I know the feeling. From the last weekend promo(s) I had them all, from this one I miss the Cannon Fodder games and Overlord I already have on steam... Wallet is safe.
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P1na: We both know we have way too many games anyway. It's probably a good thing.
Last year I've bought more games here than ever. But with the flood of releases lately the wishlist still keeps growing.
Posted May 28, 2016
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ReynardFox: Yet another promo from publishers who put almost no effort into supporting this place...
Why release anything here that doesn't need fixing up? :-D Atari could release Ghostbusters 2009 here, but why bother when it doesn't need to be "fixed" for modern systems and you can easily buy it on the Steam store. And it's not like GOG "patches" games themselves, they just tweak a few .ini lines; it's stuff you could easily do on their own. Ffs, why are we supporting abandonware anyways? GOG just took games that were free, slapped them into DOSBox, and put a price tag on them. GOG will soon be dead anyway, thanks to more and more games becoming outdated and devs and pubs not wanting to support GOG versions and nobody wanting to buy inferior versions. GOG will never be able to compete with Steam anyway so why bother? yay Gaben yay suicide

(and, for Grargar, we all cry ourselves to sleep at night)

I love to occasionally post absolute pessimism. ;)
Posted May 29, 2016
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Grilledfish: You can pause the game with the "pause/break" key on the keyboard. You can still give orders and look around while the game is paused. It's not really a "feature" of the game, so to speak, but I used that a lot because I suck at RTSes.
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Zoltan999: Thanks bud.....that's close enough! On the other hand, NVM, would have been nice though, lol ;-)
Umm....
Posted May 29, 2016
Hurm!

I've overlooked Master of Magic all this time for being "too old", not having any nostalgia value for me (I never played it), and "too complex".

Have I sinned?
Posted May 29, 2016
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tfishell: Why release anything here that doesn't need fixing up? :-D Atari could release Ghostbusters 2009 here, but why bother when it doesn't need to be "fixed" for modern systems and you can easily buy it on the Steam store. And it's not like GOG "patches" games themselves, they just tweak a few .ini lines; it's stuff you could easily do on their own. Ffs, why are we supporting abandonware anyways? GOG just took games that were free, slapped them into DOSBox, and put a price tag on them. GOG will soon be dead anyway, thanks to more and more games becoming outdated and devs and pubs not wanting to support GOG versions and nobody wanting to buy inferior versions. GOG will never be able to compete with Steam anyway so why bother? yay Gaben yay suicide

(and, for Grargar, we all cry ourselves to sleep at night)

I love to occasionally post absolute pessimism. ;)
Aside Ghostbusters (for which they might lose their rights to sell soon, as the new Ghostbusters game is being published by Activision), 911: First Responders and their Vault, I'm not sure what else worthwhile could Atari release. Maybe Alone in the Dark (2008)? The most positive words I have heard about the game are that it's so bad it's good.

But Codemasters could at least release Overlord II and Toybox Turbos, if they deem that Dirt 3 and GRiD 2 are too expensive for GOG's crowd.
Posted May 29, 2016
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tfishell: Why release anything here that doesn't need fixing up? :-D Atari could release Ghostbusters 2009 here, but why bother when it doesn't need to be "fixed" for modern systems and you can easily buy it on the Steam store. And it's not like GOG "patches" games themselves, they just tweak a few .ini lines; it's stuff you could easily do on their own. Ffs, why are we supporting abandonware anyways? GOG just took games that were free, slapped them into DOSBox, and put a price tag on them. GOG will soon be dead anyway, thanks to more and more games becoming outdated and devs and pubs not wanting to support GOG versions and nobody wanting to buy inferior versions. GOG will never be able to compete with Steam anyway so why bother? yay Gaben yay suicide

(and, for Grargar, we all cry ourselves to sleep at night)

I love to occasionally post absolute pessimism. ;)
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Grargar: Aside Ghostbusters (for which they might lose their rights to sell soon, as the new Ghostbusters game is being published by Activision), 911: First Responders and their Vault, I'm not sure what else worthwhile could Atari release. Maybe Alone in the Dark (2008)? The most positive words I have heard about the game are that it's so bad it's good.

But Codemasters could at least release Overlord II and Toybox Turbos, if they deem that Dirt 3 and GRiD 2 are too expensive for GOG's crowd.
ATARI could release the following (newer) games:
- Area 51 and Blacksite: Area 51
- Crashday
- Dungeons & Dragons Daggerdale
- Enter the Matrix*
- The Matrix: Path of Neo*
- Kao the Kangaroo series
- Chris Sawyer's Locomotion (rereleased on Steam last year)
- Driver 1-3 (we already got Parallel Lines -> yeah, I know, that Ubisoft is published here)
- Shadow Ops: Red Mercury
- Boiling Point: Road to Hell
- Test Drive Unlimited series*
- Venetica
- Star Raiders
- Haunted House remake
- Dark Sector
- Scorpion: Disfigured

... and many more, that where published by them


however I think that, because of licensing issues, this won't happen
Posted May 29, 2016
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radigram: - Chris Sawyer's Locomotion (rereleased on Steam last year)
I'll get back to you about the rest of your list, but this one is already here and it's even part of the promo.
Post edited May 29, 2016 by Grargar
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