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Share your Good Old Gaming memories and get up to five $9.99 games!

We are all retrogamers at heart and our identities are built on the foundation of classic gaming memories. We know you have plenty of those as well. Memories, that is, not identities (and even if, let’s just not go there). We would like to give you an opportunity to tell us about your very own greatest classic gaming moments and grab some free games in the process!

"Let's play" videos seem to be all the craze these days. But they’re so 2010’s. Let’s do something with more of a retro-feel. Let's talk about the classics! Tell us your "GOGgame Story"! There has to be at least one game on your GOG.com shelf that holds a special place in your heart. One that you think of more like an old friend than just an item of electronic entertainment. Recall the good times you had with it, record a video and upload it to YouTube to share your love for classics with the world and get a chance to grab some free games!

To put it in six simple steps:

1. Look at GOG.com catalogue of games.
Choose one that you feel like you have much to tell about.

2. Make a "GOGgame Story":
a video of some in-game footage, your commentary, and maybe even you in person--just about anything that will spice up your video.

3. Please include the following screen at the end of your video.
The image is provided in 720p resolution. If your video is smaller, re-scale or crop, but keep the 16:9 aspect ratio.

4. Upload your "GOGgame Story" to YouTube.
Call it something like "[Game Title], a GOGgame Story, by [YourGOGForumNickname]" and make it public. Also, please include the following text in the video’s description: “The game in this video is available on http://www.GOG.com”.

5. Provide a link to your video in the thread below.

6. Profit!*

* Starting next week, each Friday till the end of November, the video with the most views will be awarded with 5 codes (each for a $9.99 game). The same prize will go to the author of the most cereative video (Mr. A, our Video Ninja will be the judge of that). Yet another pack of 5 codes will be given to the author of GOG's favorite video (by popular vote of our whole staff). Three runner-up prizes, 1 code each, will be handed out as well. Ingenuity, humor, and creativity will be taken into account. Multiple entries are allowed. A public list of winning videos will be held in the forum. Picking a game that didn’t already have a winning video created for it, will improve your chances. As well as wearing a monocle and a top hat in the video. Just kidding. Or...?

That’s the whole deal - pick a classic game that you love from GOG.com catalogue, tell the internets your "GOGgame Story", get free games. Sounds pretty easy, eh? Well, ladies and gentlemen, start your cameras!

Third (and final) Week entries:

Fallout, a GOGgame story by xerosus

Theme Hospital, a GOGgame story by Neoxin

Space Quest III, a GOGgame story by Hiddenite (grand prize winner)

Moto Racer 2, a GOGgame story by Razor61289

The Incredible Machine, a GOGgame story by Flaose

Stronghold Crusader, a GOGgame story by JackAttackNZ

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, a GOGgame story by cannard
(reupload with better quality audio)

Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, a GOGgame story by cannard (follow-up prize winner)

Second Week entries:

Neverwinter Nights, a GOGgame story by guitarbard (follow-up prize winner)

Evil Genius, a GOGgame story by JackAttackNZ (grand prize winner)

Evil Genius, a GOGgame story by Thelius (follow-up prize winner)

Pro-Pinball: Big Race USA, a GOGgame story by Accatone

Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World, a GOGgame story by Flaose (grand prize winner)

First Week entries:

Fahrenheit, a GOGgame story by Raven-Valor95 (grand prize winner)

Rayman 2, a GOGgame story by Lambda462

Betrayal at Krondor, a GOGgame story by deadlyhabit (grand prize winner)

Earthworm Jim 2, a GOGgame story by Razor61289

Crusader: No Regret, a GOGgame story by pugsarecool (grand prize winner)

Battle Chess, a GOGgame story by Viciousdex (grand prize winner)

Raptor: Call of the Shadows, a GOGgame story by Flaose

Battle Realms, a GOGgame story by Elratauru

Fallout, a GOGgame story by epighales

Heroes of Might and Magic 2, a GOGgame story by jigrou

Quest for Glory, a GOGgame story by Rambutaan (grand prize winner)

Duke Nukem 3D, a GOGgame story by Dunno

Psychonauts, a GOGgame story by godofbreadsticks (follow-up prize winner)

Rayman/Rayman Forever, a GOGgame story by sharptap

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars, a GOGgame story by Sentimeta (follow-up prize winner)

Fallout, a GOGgame story by cj13810

Quest for Glory (VGA), a GOGgame story by macktion (follow-up prize winner)

Evolva, a GOGgame story by Shiuman (grand prize winner)

Thief, a GOGgame story by hucklebarry

Nox, a GOGgame story by bensinkula (follow-up prize winner)

Might and Magic VI, a GOGgame story by Hiddenite

Kings Quest 3: To Heir is Human, a GOGgame story by rknight718 (follow-up prize winner)
Post edited December 01, 2012 by G-Doc
Quite sure I'm out of my league here, as my entry was neither of high quality or getting high views, but congratulations to the winners. Whoever they are, all are well-earned!
Good luck everyone! There were a lot of great entries that I saw. Remember, visuals are not everything. Most of the videos were able to convey a sense of importance that these games warranted from us. it's our stories that I think matter more than anything.
Someone do one for Jagged Alliance please. I don't have the necessary equipment, but this game deserves a GOGgame Story!
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G-Doc: Oh, and Flaose--thank you for keeping track :-)
No sweat, oh Guardian of the Forums!

I've enjoyed this weeks entries. Congrats to the winners, and good luck next week everyone!
How did I miss this topic??? O_O
Darn it, would have loved to participate but I have a lot of work to do and the deadline is on the exact same day as for this contest. I'm so angry right now, I feel like hurting myself... guess I'll have to watch Rebecca Black's Friday.
The results are in!

In the category of GOG staff's favorite, the award goes to...
Betrayal at Krondor, a GOGgame story by deadlyhabit!
(for striking a note that resonates so well with all of our hearts)

In the category of YouTube viewcount domination, the award goes to...
Battle Chess, a GOGgame story by Viciousdex (Rerez)!
(for passing 1800 views! Also: Mr. A was impressed by the tech. quality)

In the category of creative achievement, the award goes to...
Quest for Glory, a GOGgame story by Rambutaan!
(Mr A's opinion: It’s not easy to show point-n-click adventure game in entertaining way. Good story and idea with listing all pros of game)

Each of you guys will soon receive 5 giftcodes for games regularly priced up to $9.99.

Three runner-up prizes (1 giftcode each):

Fahrenheit, a GOGgame story by Raven-Valor95

Psychonauts, a GOGgame story by godofbreadsticks

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars a.k.a. Broken Sword: Circle of Blood, a GOGgame story by Sentimeta

Congratulations, guys! We're very impressed.

If you're not among the winners, don't fret--your video is still in the competition ant it might get an award next Friday. Seeing how many great submissions were entered, we are contemplating on handing out ever more awards in different categories next week!

Once again, thank you all for participating and for shearing all those wonderful gaming memories with us, and with each other. You guys rock!
Post edited November 16, 2012 by G-Doc
Great job, winners and everybody who entered, too!!! Awesome that our entries will carry over. I'll have to watch them all!
Woohoo! Thank you very much G-Doc and the staff at GOG. This just further cements my opinion that GOG is the best thing to happen to PC (and now Mac) gaming in a long time :).
Woo Hoo! I'd like to thank the academy... and my goldfish, and and...
Nah congrats to the other winners as well, and what I love is that one of my other favorite series won as well (Quest for Glory).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgWzmx10Ibk&feature=youtu.be

Apologies for the poor quality - I'm stuck with Windows Movie Maker. *cringe*
Kudos to you guys, you deserve it. Well done!
Awesome work everyone!
Good job everyone! It was really fun to watch everybody talk about their favourite games. Can't wait for more submissions.
I don't get the point of rewarding the viewcount. Oh yeah, a high viewcount means that the participants did a great job at advertizing GOG but a high viewcount comes from having an already popular channel which is an achievement unrelated to this compo. It's just wrong. :P
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guitarbard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgWzmx10Ibk&feature=youtu.be

Apologies for the poor quality - I'm stuck with Windows Movie Maker. *cringe*
Great Video! I have not yet played Neverwinter Nights; however, that will change shortly...