I have been here for a really long time but I am still basically a lurker in the community so I thought why not do something special for my 999th day and give a little back to the site that has treated my so well for these 999 days it is not much but it is a story ^-^ Funny part is I just saw the date on my account page by chance.

999 days ago or almost 3 years I was still a lover of games but I had only 5 or six places that I could go for getting my old game fix. I was a 90's kid so I loved my 90's games like, The Manhole, Duke Nukem 3D, and Myst.

I would stay up wayyyyy to late on weekends trying to find abandonware sites to fill my need to find all the games that had been lost to the sands of time, Some games I loved were lost in moves, some garage sales, others a victim of poorly coded backwards compatibility and new operating systems, that did not like to play nice with the older games. So each weekend I would find a few treasures after sifting through a mountain of old games and I would work into the early hours of the morning trying to get them to work either in dos box or D-fend.

But then one day all my prayers for a DRM free, paradise of video gaming nostalgia were answered, on one of my favorite abandonware sites was a link to a new upstart called GOG.com at first I was hesitant to buy but it only took a few hours to cave. I already owned about 4 copies of duke nukem 3D but my cd's had gone missing and I was having issues running it well and I just wanted to get the Hi res pack which was not out on xboxlive and never will be. and for 5-10$ what the hell why not ,so I took the dive into the ocean of gog games when it was first starting and I never looked back.

Here is to a New year of old and new games coming up and to all the good hours of gameplay that they have helped a lot of us in the community to get back, and many more to come.

Feel free to share your story about how you ended up at GOG, or some game that you were dying to play and GOG had it ^-^

i am a passionate gamer, games and movies are my two big hobbies, i had an atari 2600, a gameboy, and became the game ri am now when i got my super nintendo
many years later i still love gaming, but i feel like there is no good will anywhere in the gaming industry, all kinds of bad experiences, like games that dont run because they dont like hardware or software you have, dont get finished, all kinds of bad stuff

all of a sudden a friend tells me about gog, i see games without drm, with lots of extras, a nice community, and also games i thought i couldnt get my hands on anymore

gog and a few little other things tell me there is still good will in the gaming industry :)

I think Hitler already beat you to it...
But congratz!

First congrats on the 3 year mark.

Ah i remember the day i stumbled onto steam i was surfing the net about old games when i saw a headline about a upcoming new website where you can get classic games. Didnt read any more clicked the link say Fallout and clicked the join beta button and then i went and looked at the rest of what this new website was saying and i thought omg omg my dreams have come true.

Anyhow more than 200 games later i am still here and happy with gog.

Actually 3 years is 1095 days. ;)

But yeah congradulations OP. :)

I too hope i'll be lucky enough to reach that mark someday as well. :)

733 days on mine calendar ;)

Congratulations for being here for so long :)

For me it was Red Baron 1 and Master of Orion 2. I thought I had lost being able to play them forever - when I first got here I didn't even know being able to play such classic games was possible on modern computers never mind thinking someone would actually be selling them. I never bothered to find out or investigate getting them because I just assumed there wasn't a way to get them working. I didn't know about DOSBox, (and for playing somewhat more modern games on Linux/OS X) had only vaguely heard of WINE.

I found this site because the shutdown stunt got reported by a gaming site (probably Gamespot). I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the catalog; further couldn't believe when I saw those two in particular; and was further amazed to read forum threads, from actually knowledgeable users, that they could be played in OS X to boot! I was truly happy to be able to play those games again. This whole site was just an eye opener to the whole field of classic gaming which again I didn't even know such a field existed much less that I could relive some of my favorite games as a kid (including some I haven't specifically mentioned) and play classic games I had just totally missed.

This site was a real discovery.

That GOG sold games DRM-free and cheap was really, really nice icing on the cake (and definitely factors in my continuing to indulge my ever growing backlog). The extra perks of artwork or other digital goodies with the games are ... well perks. :)

Yeah you might be lucky and have a couple of Extra rep points by then ! :p

Yeah I did , posted there too I think ... ;)

Gratz to the OP on your milestone :)

Congrats OP - and certainly you are not a spammer in the forums, lol.

I think I wanted to be sure to get English version of some game - may have been Divine Divinity - the physical retail tends to have "pure" German version where I live or at least they never tell, and for some reason I think that the retailer in Amazon did not want to ship to Switzerland since it is outside of EU.

Either it was sponsored link in Amazon, most likely I just hit gold on google, I am not even sure anymore.

But my real awakening came with Windows 7 when I lost the ability to play BG due to incompatibility with the new operating system - I was desparing down the path of bying PC HW just to run XP when I most happily noticed that gog versions had been ameded for BG... and many others that either run buggily or not at all even on XP...

That is when I became quite an active customer.

524 days since I joined.

I found GOG looking for a way to play the Might and Magic games. I got the 6-pack, Manhattan Project that day and have gotten about a 100 more over time.

Congrats on the milestone. I joined during the beta because of Fallout and DRM-free games.

I joined 354 days ago.

I was just browsing and somehow ended up here. I saw "DRM-free" and "Heroes of Might and Magic 3" and suddenly I was registered with credit card in hand.

Was on mmorpg.com when someone link to this website. He commented that this site has lot of classic games that I really want to play as young kid but never had a chance.

The moment that I click on the link, I became rabid fan of GoG. :) I have 50 games in my collection so far so I'm very happy about it. It's wonderful that I can relieved my childhood through those games.