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We’d like to inform you that due to publisher's request, Defender of the Crown, Rocket Ranger (Emulated Amiga Edition). Wings (Emulated Amiga Edition), and Wings! Remastered Edition will be delisted from our catalog on Friday, January 19th, 4 PM UTC.

For everyone who purchased these titles prior to the delisting, they will remain in their GOG library. We will also be actively working on bringing these titles back to our catalog under the new Publisher.
Post edited January 17, 2024 by Clownski_
Sad... into the cart they go.
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Clownski_: We will also be actively working on bringing these titles back to our catalog under the new Publisher.
While you're at it, please try to negotiate for some or even all of the other (previously) Cinemaware-published titles then too - if these are also changing hands, that is.

SDI
The King of Chicago
Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon
Lords of the Rising Sun
It Came From the Desert
It Came From the Desert II: Antheads
TV Sports: Football
TV Sports: Basketball
TV Sports: Baseball
TV Sports: Boxing
Post edited January 17, 2024 by Swedrami
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Swedrami: It Came From the Desert
On yes, please! "It Came From the Desert" I really love this game. *drool*

And the Amiga and the PC version together pls. :-)
With the Warsaw situation in mind, where it got delisted a day earlier than it should by a mistake on GOG's side and nothing was done to compensate that, hoarders on the fence may want to get games to be delisted as soon as the delisting is announced.
Post edited January 17, 2024 by _Auster_
Cinemaware Anthology: 1986-1991 and Wings! Remastered were also delisted on Steam last year.
The games were also removed one month ago from Steam. Starbreeze might have sold them when they went into restucturing.
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Shout-out to Barry_Woodward for the work he did getting those titles here originally.

Like others have said, I hope they return and the various other missing Cinemaware games show up.
Post edited January 17, 2024 by tfishell
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toma85: Cinemaware Anthology: 1986-1991 and Wings! Remastered were also delisted on Steam last year.
Anthology is on Steam, but with a new publisher.
Anyway, the big question is, why was Anthology never on GOG?

And if we talk about Good Old Games, one of the games in that collection is "Defender of the Crown" which is an undeniable classic.

The game also has a sequel, a remastered version, and not one, but two remakes.

So let's hope that it will be available on GOG soon enough. None of them have probably stood the test of time entirely, but they are games that should be available.
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PixelBoy: And if we talk about Good Old Games, one of the games in that collection is "Defender of the Crown" which is an undeniable classic.

The game also has a sequel, a remastered version, and not one, but two remakes.
GameFools has Defender of the Crown: Heroes Live Forever DRM-free. Their installer insists on installing to C:, but you are free to move the files elsewhere, after installation.
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PixelBoy: Anthology is on Steam, but with a new publisher.
Starbreeze Publishing AB? Their Anthology collection is not sold on Steam anymore.
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PixelBoy: Anyway, the big question is, why was Anthology never on GOG?

And if we talk about Good Old Games, one of the games in that collection is "Defender of the Crown" which is an undeniable classic.

The game also has a sequel, a remastered version, and not one, but two remakes.

So let's hope that it will be available on GOG soon enough. None of them have probably stood the test of time entirely, but they are games that should be available.
The games in the Cinemaware Anthology: 1986-1991 plus The Three Stooges and TV Sports Hockey were released as freeware on the Cinemaware website from about 2002 until 2016. I still have the files archived on an old HDD. They released ROMs and disk images for the Amiga, DOS, NES, GameBoy Advance, Amstrad, C64, Atari ST, TurboGrafx etc. versions. For Defender of the Crown their website offered the Amstrad, C64, Atari ST and Apple IIgs disk images, the DOS versions (CGA, EGA), the NES ROM and the CD32/CDTV images for free. They sold remastered versions of some of the games, e.g. a digitally remastered collector's edition of The Three Stooges.

Imho, these games should be made freeware again.
Post edited January 18, 2024 by toma85
Thanks for the heads up GOG. Love the fact that we are given the chance to still grab games leaving the store. Keep up the good work. Cheers
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PixelBoy: Anthology is on Steam, but with a new publisher.
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toma85: Starbreeze Publishing AB? Their Anthology collection is not sold on Steam anymore.
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PixelBoy: Anyway, the big question is, why was Anthology never on GOG?

And if we talk about Good Old Games, one of the games in that collection is "Defender of the Crown" which is an undeniable classic.

The game also has a sequel, a remastered version, and not one, but two remakes.

So let's hope that it will be available on GOG soon enough. None of them have probably stood the test of time entirely, but they are games that should be available.
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toma85: The games in the Cinemaware Anthology: 1986-1991 plus The Three Stooges and TV Sports Hockey were released as freeware on the Cinemaware website from about 2002 until 2016. I still have the files archived on an old HDD. They released ROMs and disk images for the Amiga, DOS, NES, GameBoy Advance, Amstrad, C64, Atari ST, TurboGrafx etc. versions. For Defender of the Crown their website offered the Amstrad, C64, Atari ST and Apple IIgs disk images, the DOS versions (CGA, EGA), the NES ROM and the CD32/CDTV images for free. They sold remastered versions of some of the games, e.g. a digitally remastered collector's edition of The Three Stooges.

Imho, these games should be made freeware again.
Thanks for the info. Yeah if the og company itself ended up later making a lot of their old stuff freeware I think it is kind of a dick move to squeeze money out of people again unless they are selling legit remasters.
Do you know if Defender of the Crown will be available on GOG in the Amiga version?