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Posted May 19, 2014
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Once upon a time, there was a gentleman who was in the midst of a great deal of change. He toiled daily at both his profession and at an academic work that would allow him to graduate from the local university. Fortune favored him by letting him find a nice new apartment, but then promptly rubbed her fingers together and demanded her due and took his money to finance the move. Then she took his computers, laying them low with a broken hard drive and a corrupt motherboard. Then she (or perhaps the mounting stress from the thesis, work, moving, and trying to fix his computer and dealing with financial troubles) took his health from him.

And so, he lay in bed, a piteous wretch, watching the world drift by outside his window, with only a single, creaking old laptop to keep him company. This laptop was so old, and so creaky, that running chrome would cap out its CPU. Its fan would gasp and whir as it strained even to render the most basic music from youtube. Yet this gentleman, delirious with fever, knew that if he did not find some kind of entertainment soon, he would surely perish of boredom and misery. First, he turned to steam, with its mighty bandwidth and shiny collection of games, but the games there proved too much for his laptop. Then, the gentleman remembered his collection of games at GOG.com, and pulled them up: Disciples 2, Arcanum, Master of Orion, Quest for Glory, and more. They were, of course, even older than his laptop. One by one, he booted them up, and one by one, the laptop accepted them, purring quietly as it did so. And so, the gentlemen discovered truly Great Old Games, and as his smile spread and his heart swelled, his cheeks flushed with life and his health returned.

And now, I must sweep away the curtain and remove my mask to reveal that, yes, that man was me! Unexpected, I'm sure. But when I needed GOG.com the most, GOG.com was there for me.

Thanks, gog.com
Posted May 19, 2014
And the gentleman lived happily ever after? :)
Posted May 19, 2014
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Elinnea: And the gentleman lived happily ever after? :)
The adventure continues... ;)
Posted May 19, 2014
I think the Op is "The Phantom of the Paradise".

Is Andy Williams here?
Posted May 19, 2014
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GhostwriterDoF: The adventure continues... ;)
In greener pastures for sure! ;-)


Lovely how GOG can save our day!
Posted May 19, 2014
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Mailanka: Once upon a time, there was a gentleman who was in the midst of a great deal of change. He toiled daily at both his profession and at an academic work that would allow him to graduate from the local university. Fortune favored him by letting him find a nice new apartment, but then promptly rubbed her fingers together and demanded her due and took his money to finance the move. Then she took his computers, laying them low with a broken hard drive and a corrupt motherboard. Then she (or perhaps the mounting stress from the thesis, work, moving, and trying to fix his computer and dealing with financial troubles) took his health from him.

And so, he lay in bed, a piteous wretch, watching the world drift by outside his window, with only a single, creaking old laptop to keep him company. This laptop was so old, and so creaky, that running chrome would cap out its CPU. Its fan would gasp and whir as it strained even to render the most basic music from youtube. Yet this gentleman, delirious with fever, knew that if he did not find some kind of entertainment soon, he would surely perish of boredom and misery. First, he turned to steam, with its mighty bandwidth and shiny collection of games, but the games there proved too much for his laptop. Then, the gentleman remembered his collection of games at GOG.com, and pulled them up: Disciples 2, Arcanum, Master of Orion, Quest for Glory, and more. They were, of course, even older than his laptop. One by one, he booted them up, and one by one, the laptop accepted them, purring quietly as it did so. And so, the gentlemen discovered truly Great Old Games, and as his smile spread and his heart swelled, his cheeks flushed with life and his health returned.

And now, I must sweep away the curtain and remove my mask to reveal that, yes, that man was me! Unexpected, I'm sure. But when I needed GOG.com the most, GOG.com was there for me.

Thanks, gog.com
Good story. =) Hopefully the powers that be will start enjoying GOG as well so they can spend less time kicking people in the head as they try to get through life.
Posted May 19, 2014
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Mailanka: *snip*
A riveting tale, to be sure :-)

The classics are certainly worth spending time on, excess CPU cycles or not. The fact that GOG.com ensures compatibility with modern systems is truly a boon to us older gamers. Through GOG, some younger gamers have also discovered the joys of the classic games we "oldies" played in our youth.
Posted May 19, 2014
I demand a princess in that story. Gotta have a princess.

Good to hear in any case that you are well again!
Posted May 19, 2014
Stories like these are good to remind GOG that not everyone can necessary play the latest games, even low-budget indies, so good old games only requiring DOSBox's system requirements (512 megs of RAM and such) are still welcome. I just recently got rid of an XP machine that I had essentially for 9 years, and GOG gave me entertainment for several years when the vast majority of Steam games I'd never be able to play. When back home from school, I didn't have internet access over the summer at my house, so I'd download classics at work and take them home to play - Unreal Gold, Postal 2, and Serious Sam Second Encounter.

Being forced into these situations really makes one savor what entertainment they can find.
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Mailanka: Disciples 2, Arcanum, Master of Orion, Quest for Glory, and more.
Out of curiosity, what other games did you play?
Post edited May 19, 2014 by tfishell
Posted May 21, 2014
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Mailanka: [snip]
Thanks, gog.com
Just found this thread and had to bump it. Nicely written!
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Wishbone: The classics are certainly worth spending time on, excess CPU cycles or not. The fact that GOG.com ensures compatibility with modern systems is truly a boon to us older gamers. Through GOG, some younger gamers have also discovered the joys of the classic games we "oldies" played in our youth.
And this too. I can await my kids getting a little older so we can play these classics together.
Post edited May 21, 2014 by toxicTom
Posted May 21, 2014
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Wishbone: The classics are certainly worth spending time on, excess CPU cycles or not. The fact that GOG.com ensures compatibility with modern systems is truly a boon to us older gamers. Through GOG, some younger gamers have also discovered the joys of the classic games we "oldies" played in our youth.
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toxicTom: And this too. I can await my kids getting a little older so we can play these classics together.
Ah yes. I'm playing Day of the Tentacle with my son at the moment. He's just turned 13. We play every once in a while (when we have the time, and remember to do so). I think the next old game I'll introduce him to will be Star Control 2.
Posted May 21, 2014
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toxicTom: And this too. I can await my kids getting a little older so we can play these classics together.
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Wishbone: Ah yes. I'm playing Day of the Tentacle with my son at the moment. He's just turned 13. We play every once in a while (when we have the time, and remember to do so). I think the next old game I'll introduce him to will be Star Control 2.
My eldest is 6 and most of my games are in English. And Edna is not really a kid's game... I tried to convince her to give Giana Sisters a go, but she's still too shy to try and it is a pretty hard game. She loves Botanicula (not a classic in that sense) though: just clicking and see what happens and no language barrier.

PS: DotT has some pretty hairraising time puzzles (pure genius, but hard to grasp). My regards if your son gets those. I probably wouldn't at that age - but I had noone to "teach" me either.
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Posted May 21, 2014
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toxicTom: PS: DotT has some pretty hairraising time puzzles (pure genius, but hard to grasp). My regards if your son gets those. I probably wouldn't at that age - but I had noone to "teach" me either.
Well, he's clever and his English is very good, but the real problem with DoTT is that it revolves so much around American history, which he knows next to nothing about. So basically my job is to explain to him who the characters are, and give him the background info he needs in order to figure out the puzzles. And of course to drop a hint every once in a while ;-)
Posted May 21, 2014
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Elinnea: And the gentleman lived happily ever after? :)
It is heavily implied that is is a Hans Christian Andersen story. His last laptop burned out, and he froze to death. Worry not, through the brightest light of the CPU, he saw the shining logo of the Looking glass studios, and it took him under arm to places far kinder than this world.
Posted May 21, 2014
I hate the way life is but luckly the GOG.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTw2YvutJRA
Post edited May 21, 2014 by fr33kSh0w2012
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