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Today we have a surprise for all retro gaming fans! Check out these classic tactical titles that will engage for weeks and put your strategic thinking to the test:

Sabre Team (-33%) is an isometric squad-level turn-based simulation that lets you take command of a Sabre Team unit that confronts delicate and dangerous scenarios.

Shadoworlds (-33%) is a gripping isometric squad-based sci-fi RPG that follows a team of explorers as they trek through the dark environments of a weapon research facility.

Both Sabre Team and Shadoworlds are now available on GOG.COM along with a 33% discount that will last until 11th June 2021, 1 PM UTC.
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UCrest: Shadoworlds is an extraordinary role-playing video game for MS-Dos, highly recommended. I wonder why it's only in English when the original European release on floppy and cd-rom came multi-language with texts in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Still, great rerelease on GOG!
Thanks, GOG!
Likely one of those cases again where the separate rights to all the different localisations cannot be cleared because no one knows who the current rights holders are or the current rights holders for some reason have no interest in the localisation being commercially utilised again.
Or something completely different.
Post edited June 04, 2021 by Swedrami
If I'm not mistaken there's a fantasy spinoff called Shadowlands too.
Wonderful news! I cannot believe that some Krisalis Games have finally found their way to GOG. I wonder if we can also see Soccer Kid (one of my all-time favorite platform games) or even Arabian Nights on GOG. Ziggurat's games library do not include them yet unfortunately. I hope that they can get these games too.
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Crosmando: If I'm not mistaken there's a fantasy spinoff called Shadowlands too.
Shadowlands is Shadoworld's predecessor, not a spinoff. You're right – it has a fantasy setting.
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InkPanther: Licensing most likely. GOG can't make something just because they're capable of. The good side is that usually there are no issues when you switch dosbox yourself, to Linux version for example, and fix conf files to run those games on non-Windows systems.
Thanks, didn't know that :)
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Swedrami: Should arrive on GoG too... sometime:
That's awesome! Thanks for pointing to the info!
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Accatone: I wonder if we can also see Soccer Kid (one of my all-time favorite platform games) or even Arabian Nights on GOG.
But Arabian Nights is alrady here:
https://www.gog.com/game/arabian_nights

Or do you mean another game?
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Accatone: I wonder if we can also see Soccer Kid (one of my all-time favorite platform games) or even Arabian Nights on GOG.
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wildapple21: But Arabian Nights is alrady here:
https://www.gog.com/game/arabian_nights

Or do you mean another game?
https://www.mobygames.com/game/arabian-nights_
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wildapple21: But Arabian Nights is alrady here:
https://www.gog.com/game/arabian_nights

Or do you mean another game?
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karnak1: https://www.mobygames.com/game/arabian-nights_
Interesting. Never seen that one? Wow! It seems like a game similar to Titus the Fox. Maybe more player friendly. Or not?
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wildapple21: Interesting. Never seen that one? Wow! It seems like a game similar to Titus the Fox. Maybe more player friendly. Or not?
I never played it but I remember it having great reviews at the time. It was released on the final years of the Amiga so it didn't gather too much attention.
I suppose it was an OK platformer but probably didn't brought anything new to the genre.
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wildapple21: But Arabian Nights is alrady here:
https://www.gog.com/game/arabian_nights

Or do you mean another game?
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karnak1: https://www.mobygames.com/game/arabian-nights_
Yes, that's the one!

It is not as good as Soccer Kid, a fun game nevertheless.
Post edited June 04, 2021 by Accatone
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karnak1: I never played it but I remember it having great reviews at the time. It was released on the final years of the Amiga so it didn't gather too much attention.
I suppose it was an OK platformer but probably didn't brought anything new to the genre.
Thanks for the information.
The screenshots looks interesting. Will have to watch a video of gameplay.

And do you think, that Ziggurat will port some older Amiga games to PC?

I never actually used an Amiga myself, just remember ads in a computer magazine and some reviews. My uncle had an C64, that was quite primitive compared to the Amiga.

However, I do remember, that the reviewer of these Amiga games always wrote, that the graphics and sound were fantastic, comapred to the primitive DOS games (in that time most games were EGA, some even CGA and such). Not to speak of sound cards, that weren't that common in PCs. Sound Blaster, Adlib etc. were mostly "dreams" from many.
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karnak1: I never played it but I remember it having great reviews at the time. It was released on the final years of the Amiga so it didn't gather too much attention.
I suppose it was an OK platformer but probably didn't brought anything new to the genre.
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wildapple21: Thanks for the information.
The screenshots looks interesting. Will have to watch a video of gameplay.

And do you think, that Ziggurat will port some older Amiga games to PC?
I think it's very unlikely to get old Amiga games nowadays. Because the publisher would need to create a specific emulation program for the game or else pay royalties for an emulator creator. In case of the Amiga I think it's even worse because some years ago (I don't know how things are nowadays) even the Amiga Kickstart ROMS were copyrighted (to Motorola? - I don't know) and weren't officially available for download.

That's why on GOG and steam you always get the inferior PC ports of certain old games instead of the superior Amiga ones.
At least, I think this is one of the reasons. But maybe someone here may provide more details.
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karnak1: I think it's very unlikely to get old Amiga games nowadays. Because the publisher would need to create a specific emulation program for the game or else pay royalties for an emulator creator. In case of the Amiga I think it's even worse because some years ago (I don't know how things are nowadays) even the Amiga Kickstart ROMS were copyrighted (to Motorola? - I don't know) and weren't officially available for download.

That's why on GOG and steam you always get the inferior PC ports of certain old games instead of the superior Amiga ones.
At least, I think this is one of the reasons. But maybe someone here may provide more details.
Thank you! This is a sad thing :(
damn son, where is ziggurat digging these games out of? I mean like I have never even heard of those :D