1) C64
2) C64
3) C64
It is without a doubt the avatar of the entire concept of the good old game. It was the first really open and affordable platform for programming (not all of us could spend 2 grand on a 43% PC Compatible word processing machine with a massive 32KB of ram) and was almost singlehandedly responsible for the english gaming industry, the amstrad and speccy were there and put in an effort but the C64 was the unquestioned king.
It provided for an experience vastly removed (and usually a lot better) from the consoles of the era. Some of the games were quirky, unique, complex and replayable. Of course other games were cheap pacman knockoffs, took a while to get rid of those bastards. What nintendo called an RPG was laughed at by the C64 where you had to have a bloody book to encompass the whole story or even better had to have a notebook and write your own quest log.
It also had the finest sound reproduction of the 8bit computer era, did you hear digitised speech in any other platfiorm? To be honest I don't remember but I'd bet the answer is no and it wouldn't have been as good. Would Impossible Mission have been the same without the manic presence of Elvin Atombender saying "Ahh another visitor. Stay a while, stay FOREVER" or the good old "Destroy him, my robots"
Paradroid, Archon, Action Biker, The Bards Tale, Zak McKracken And The Alien Mindbenders, International Karate +, The Last Ninja, Impossible Mission, Epyx Summer/Winter/Whatever Games, Defender Of The Crown, Pirates!, Elite, Wasteland, Times Of Lore, Laser Squad, the Ultimas, the SSI Gold Box D&D games... Basically if it was on the C64 if was the best 8 bit version
Choice 4 (or 2 if you're counting unique choices) is the Amiga because it was home to nearly every awesome pre1996 game that wasn't on the C64
Also, there's absolutely no fucking way you could get nintendo to sign on, the only way you'd see their games on here is if GOG got big enough to buy nintendo (I'm doing my part, thinking of getting panzer general 3d tomorrow)
One really important point, if this happens it has to be in the form of selling collections or extremely cheap games, I really doubt that people would pay much more than 2 bucks for a C64/Amiga game
ucfalumknight: I think the arcade games (perhaps through MAME) would make an excellent addition to the GOG library. I would pay to play Magic Sword legally!!!
You got an xbox 360? They recently released an arcade emulation of Magic Sword bundled with Final Fight (and pretty cheap too)