Just wondering if there's an end-date on the GOG manifesto? Just playing a demo of Chaos League: Sudden Death - as the publisher has gone out of business, there's no legal way to get a copy of it any more other than hideously overpriced second hand copies (36.99???). Although it's not really old (2005?), this kind of thing is the perfect thing I'd like to see on GOG alongside the old classics - games that are just flatout hard to get , like this and Age of Wonders.
So does GOG have an arbitrary cutoff point? Do we need a GNG as well?!

There's no real limit, the main problem is getting in touch with whoever owns the rights now. As the company went bankrupt, the rights were probably auctioned to somebody. The question is: who?

There's nothing too old or too recent for the GOG guys :)
If you look in the games catalogue you'll see both games from the early 90's and games from less than 5 years ago.
I think they're more committed to bring "Good" games back from oblivion for us to enjoy, it doesn't matter if they can be considered properly "old" or not :)

Your mom is never too old.
*swish*

The older a game is, the harder it is to track down who owns the rights. Some companies have been merged or bought out several times over, and in some cases some of the rights have reverted to the designers (e.g. the code) while others have remained with the company (e.g. the trademark), making it even harder to get all parties to agree to revive such games. Additionally, some publishers just won't budge on the DRM issue and/or don't care about reviving their older titles.

Another one of these topics? Look, "old" is a very flexible word. Old could mean it came out last year, even!

I really like that explanation, I might have to add it to the FAQ. Its kind of like the old Open Source explanation "its not free as in beer, its free as in speech".

Are there as many of them as the 'we need wishlist rules as people keep recommending new games' threads?
That's what I read just before posting this thread. So apologies if this has been done to death ;) I too like the loose definition of 'old' ... as long as you keep a strict definition of 'good'!

Just throwing this out there.
When I think of an old video game I dont think of video games that are from the 80's and early 90's. I just think of a video game that is hard to come by.

Maybe they should make the O a variable, that way it can change for each individual game.
Could be Good Old Games, Good Original Games, Good Obscure Games, Good Origin Games (please, oh please!)...

Good Orgasm Games. :D

I've played a few of those but they were all in japanese
and involved tentacles...

Please, do tell me more.

Google "+japanese + orgasm +tentacle", I'm sure you'll find something...
As for the actual question, I seem to recall reading a statement that GOG were trying to get everything so assuming they're not talking about world domination, I'd say they'll sell anything they think is good enough to sell.