Turok on PC? The only thing I remember about those is the FOV is fucked and it makes me dizzy! Pretty sure they were direct ports of the original N64 versions.

Also, Duke it out in DC isn't free.

Another one I'm curious to know about is the rest of the Infocom text adventure catalog. We have the original Zork titles and Planetfall but not the others. They ARE however, available to buy on iTunes' app store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lost-treasures-of-infocom/id577626745?mt=8

Note the games missing: Hitchhiker's Guide, Bureaucracy, and Shogun. The former two likely due to rights issues with Douglas Adams' estate, and the latter also was an adaptation of a book, so licensing issues with its publisher would pose a problem. Otherwise, the gang's all there... but not here (save for a few). :/

EDIT: Actually more is missing from there than I thought, besides the three I mentioned, Nord and Bert, Journey: The Quest Begins, Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels, and Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur aren't there either.

I dunno about the FOV but there were differences, especially in the second game. The first game was mostly the same save for slightly sharper graphics and slight changes in the music (underwater theme is gone, different sound board for the music obviously). Second game though allowed you to save anywhere, unlike the first title or the N64 version, ran on Redbook audio, plus not only had the sharper graphics but without the insane slowdown and framerate drops from the N64 version's running on the Expansion Pak.

Maybe next year that will show up here.

I would hope so. We've had the Zork Collection here for a while, and the iTunes collection there has been available since apparently 2012 (most recent update was in January of this year). The Zork Collection on here is pretty odd to be honest. Planetfall seems like a random addition, seeing how it has nothing to do with the Zork series (and is missing its sequel, Stationfall at that!). It's also missing the Enchanter trilogy (Enchanter, Sorcerer and Spellbreaker), which was a noteworthy spin-off of the Zork series. Also, where's Zork: The Undiscovered Underground?

Anyway did you catch my post on where to get the original Alice game? ;)

The No One Lives Forever series. The three games have over 30,000 votes combined.
This might not fit in the thread, because the rights to the series seem a bit lost.
The rights were last known to belong to Activision, who has many games here, but they say that they "do not believe that Activision has the rights" anymore, and have no idea who does.
Very mysterious situation, but the only solid info is that Activision is the last company that anyone knows of to own the rights.

edit - Here's a video of an Activision employee explaining the whole thing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_0n-ENboZY

Seeing the video about NOLF's rights situation was almost amusing in a way. It's like they misplaced the rights to the series in the same way someone would their wallet or car keys. Maybe it's somewhere underneath one of Activision's couches, or between the cushions.

Haha! I am thinking the exact same thing! Maybe they dropped coffee in NOLF's filing cabinet, and a bunch of words got all smudged up or something...
I edited my above post to include the video.
I think it would be weird if they had sold it. It was pretty successful, wasn't it? I'd think they would want to keep it around. I dunno.

Years ago, I read something on the now defunct site NOLFGirl, that Activision owned the right to series, but Monolith owned the characters, and the rights to the actual names of the games were owned by Activision but were about to expire... Something like that... I think this info was coming from a Monolith employee.
But my memory is probably wrong. I read this like 6 years ago, and have had electro-convulsive therapy since then. So please don't think that it means anything.

edit - Okay, I was way off. I found the article I mentioned with the help of archive.org - here. It was not written by a Monolith employee, I was wrong about who owns what rights, and this was written well before the Vivendi/Activision merger. The info is pretty much useless. It says that Vivendi owned the rights as of December 30, 2007 (about 6 months before the merger, if I'm not mistaken.) But we already knew that... so... Just forget I was here. I have confused myself. I'll slowly back out of this thread now...

I did, thanks, but I got a 404 for that page.

EDIT: Y'know I didn't realize the Infocom games were free on iTunes, maybe that's why GOG isn't interested in the games appearing here yet? Too bad.

Huh, I got a 404 too. I didn't know what was going on until I found that the link wouldn't work without the end slash, which the hyperlink kept failing to include. Annnyway I fixed it in a way that it should work now, ha ha!

Which Infocom games are free? In any case, GOG never had a problem with freeware, so that shouldn't make a difference.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lost-treasures-of-infocom/id577626745?mt=8 says "Free" on the side there, so I assume all the games are free. Wait, just saw this: "Complete your collection and keep these classic games alive for generations to come. Players can purchase five bundle packs with 5 games each for $2.99 per pack; OR own the entire game collection PLUS all game maps AND the exclusive, never-published bonus adventure “Zork: The Undiscovered Underground”, for just $9.99. " Okay that makes much more sense.

I'd imagine there's a couple more Monolith/Vivendi/Fox interactive - Activision games that are in the same situation (although NOLF is the one that more people are interested in) Sanity: Aitken's Artefact (aka just plain 'Aitken's Artefact') is one I'm defiantly aware of and would be worth a look IMO - anyone know of any more worth a mention?
Speaking of Freeware, does anyone know the Freeware status of the early C&C games - I know EA released a bunch to celebrate C&C's anniversary or something but they've killed all their own links and put the old games in the new compilation - there are a few old download links still around but I'm not sure if they should be
i.e. does anyone know if EA have officially tried to cram the genie back in the bottle and revoked the freeware status or are they just sweeping it under the carpet and hoping everyone forgets?

This would be awesome but the way Ubisoft is going right now I can only hope.

Those interested probably already know, but I think soon we'll finally be able to cross Journeyman Project Pegasus Prime off the list in the next two 1/2 months: http://thejourneymanproject.blogspot.ca/2013/12/pegasus-prime-for-windows-coming-in.html

I don't think I mentioned this, but I tweeted Activision support encouraging them to look into this and other Activision classics not on GOG yet, such as Freddy Pharkas, "Lost Treasures of Infocom", and Bloodlines. The replies are basically the same, but it's nice to get tweeted back. https://twitter.com/ATVIAssist/status/412531142697713664

Maybe I'm just dumb, but I was never able to comprehend how it is possible for nobody to know who owns the rights to a a certain work. Don't they keep some sort of records on this kind of stuff, where it says clearly who is the owner of what? Imagine how disastrous the real estate business would be if nobody knew who the owner of a real estate was.

NOLF - a prime example of why laws should be changed so that say every X number of years a copyrighted work needs to be renewed, if nobody renews it on or before the renewal date then the work is considered to be orphaned and henceforth treated as public domain.