One time, I was re-reading my IG Magazines. In France (bonjour !) it's a magazine about video games and it's the best I've ever read.
The reviews were really detailled , they talked about a lot of games and companies I didn't know and they also talked about old games or consoles like the Master System.
There were also articles about famous videogames developers like Brian Fargo. Or even retrospectives about an entire video game serie like my favourite : Shin Megami Tensei (you should try it)

It's saddens me to see that this awesome magazine doesn't exist anymore. It stopped in summer with one awesome big volume about RPGs. Now all that is left are pretty mediocre magazines.

In that last book they were talking about Planescape so I got curious about it since I discovered the first Fallout games at the same time.

With a friend we looked for it on the internet and we found our dear awesome GOG.

So thanks IG Magazine people for making me, indirectly, discover this awesome web-site and Planescape, I hope everthing goes well for you if you're reading me.

I found it the same way I find all the other awesome things in life..... by accident.

I believe it was a Kotaku post on my rss feed :) Even before the start of beta, so I just bookmarked it, applied for the beta and waited till september :D

Using Google, I was looking for a place to download "One unit whole Blood".

FOUND IT!

It was just south of Winterhold the whole time; how did we miss that!?

To be honest I used to download abandon games alot but they were a chore tio get it running and there was a game that had a link to gog and since then I never went back to abandon game sites again.The only game I have as abandon games is eye of the beholder trioligy if gog would put that on there site I would bought them instanly.

I was invited to betatest, long ago when was more active in gaming community on gram.pl (old cdprojekt project, sold to someone now). One of the best things that happend to digital distribution over last years ;]

I think it was when i realized i liked old-school games better than newer ones. I remember telling it to someone then i was told of this site.

I was reading the comments on a LordKat video on TGWTG.com some time in 2010. It was for an RTS game, but I can't recall the name right now. There was an argument on legalities and moralities of abandonware games and GoG was mentioned. Came here, insta-bought Heroes of Might and Magic I, II, and II, and been purchasing the classics ever since.

I think I was either looking for a used copy of an old game, or it was recommended on GameSpot. I can't remember which came first, but I do remember avoiding Steam like the plague at the time. Mind you, it wasn't such a huge problem back in 2008 - there were still enough DRM-free retail titles to make PC gaming worthwhile.

GOG and Humble Store are the only reason that I game on PC nowadays. Anything worthwhile on Steam I usually end up buying for PS3 or Wii U.

I was (and still am) a great fan of the game "Vietcong". On September 24th, 2010, I looked for a possibility to buy its add-on "Fist Alpha", since I only own the vanilla retail version.

It became quickly clear, that the add-on was only available for more money than I was willing to spent on a (now almost 10 years old) game.

So I looked, if there was a possibility to purchase a downloadable version of "Vietcong: Purple Haze" (which is the game plus its add-on).

Unfortunately I had no luck in finding such a version, but in some forum on the internet, someone mentioned this side "Good old games.com", so I tried my luck here - once again with no result.

But I found so many other good old games, all DRM-free, like back in "the good old times", I made an account and here I am...1206 days later, and still counting.

Found it on NMA as I was trying to download mods and patches for Fallout 2 for which I own the original box and disc.

On another forum, a member posted that on GOG, they are giving away Torchlight for free during the Summer Sale. Never heard of the site before, but when I went through the catalogue, I was hooked. And DRM-free? Woohoo!

Was pointed to it by an online friend from another forum back in the beta days. Wasn't that impressed at first because the nostalgia factor wasn't that great with me (hadn't played that many classics before), until I made my first purchase with Original War. I enjoyed it greatly and stuck around for good.

I wanted me some of that might & magic-y goodness that I fondly remember from my youth