Or you can be a social hermit! Go on a party, stand in the corner and sneer at anyone who comes close. That's what I do! So social! Much excitement! Such people!

They should rename Facebook into Lifeinvader ;)

Buses are for pussies. I used to save up all my money from working part-time when I was a teenager and WALK 5km into town to buy the game because going by bus would have meant I couldn't afford it anymore :)

Actually, now that I think about it, I still walk to the shopping centre nearby (2km away according to Google Maps) and to our local games store (4km) to buy games. Seeing as I work from home, it provides me with an excuse to get out of the house.

The nailed the cell phone thing right on! +1

thats exactly the way I'm handling it,too, I don't see any sense in buying a digital version when you can get a non-digital version for the same or even a lower price. Because in fact you get more for your money and above all something that actually lasts and which you can be proud of. It's a passion which can't be fulfilled with non-physical games. That's the reason why I even bought Pool of Radiance twice just because I wasn't satisfied with the non-special impersonal edition out of a games collection. and this wish to buy a nicely designed boxed version of a game you really love is even more urgent if you 'only' possess a digital one.
but yes compatibility is indeed a reason to buy a digital version and I think thats the main reason I'm here on gog, cause they really do a great job making old games running how you would like them to. Though, there are always offers you can't resist, but if I like the game I don't hesitate to get the physical version additionally, just like you said.
well,it's nice to read the comments of people who are enthusiastic collectors ,too. my father always says he wants me to stop enlarging my already quite large number of video games by calling them 'plastic junk' -.-

It's your fault Black Leaf died, then!

Duh. Point is: there never was a time gaming wasn't politicized.

I wonder how the current games would take if, they had to restart their computer every time to play a different game because of those files. And well, ofcourse to make them in the first place ;)

Amiga was pretty damn advanced in this sense, i think you just put the disk in and watch the loading screen while hoping not to get epileptic attack.

-> loading screens, we really need those back.

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Talking about the insane number of disks some games needed, CD age didnt really start whole lot better. I remember reading some review of Phantasmgoriam which stated the game took like 20 CD's (also mentioned the only good thing about it was that the game box was made of recyclable material - never played it myself..).

FIRE BAD!

Wait, is this the thread about what we miss about the pre-stone age?

Shit, sorry!

In the 90s a friend of mine was much more hardcore into gaming than I and followed PC Gamer and other gaming news out there so he always knew what games were out, coming out, cool, sucked, etc. I always loved gaming and played games just as much for the most part but did not follow the news and magazines so I kind of relied on him to an extent to find out about new games coming out or even just cool games that were out there already. He would buy a lot of the cool titles and bring them over to my place where we'd kind of have a night of frying our brains with video games and pizza etc. So he'd end up bringing some wicked game over, installing it on my machine, possibly loaning it to me for a day/week, then wanting it back. At the time, I could not really afford to be buying many video games at all so I ended up often just getting a brief teaser of a lot of awesome games but not being able to really get a chance to play them through. I ended up having a list of briefly played games I wanted to get that built up over time, but I did end up having some games to keep me occupied so I never ended up getting many of the awesome games that I'd have liked to.

Fast forward 12+ years and now I'm finding almost ALL of these old games on GOG.com at great prices, and I can afford it so I'm able to play games I never got a chance to when they were fresh, plus relive games I just got a teaser of. Some of these games include:

Bioforge
Myst series
Magic Carpet series
Tex Murphy series
Some of the later King's Quest games
Gabriel Knight 3
Phanatasmagoria series
Tomb Raider series
Wing Commander series

Quite awesomely, GOG has accumulated all of these games and more and I've picked up all of the ones that I didn't already have from the past, and even bought some of the ones that I did already have. But... there are some games that are still missing. :)

Star Wars Xwing and it's addons
Star Wars Tie Fighter
Star Wars X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter
Star Wars X-Wing Alliance (have a backup copy but seem to have lost the original)
Janes Longbow Gold
Janes Longbow 2 Gold

There are other LucasArts games I'm interested in also but the ones above are the most wanted ones. It would be awesome if GOG could aquire the rights to sell these games DRM-free some day, I'd buy them up in a heart beat.

/facepalm
Black Leaf is a meme. There was a demonizing D&amp;D and <i>even though</i> no one took Jack Chick seriously, several people I know* whose parents weren't religious had their books thrown into the trash anyway. As for video games specifically, people have been bitching about them [url=http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2007/10/how-protests-ag/]since 1976 at the latest (that's a seven).

*"know" as in "I can ask them to front my kickstarter" sense**, not "some guy on a forum"
** (un)fortunately, not in the biblical sense, either

(Oh, and for the record, the earliest modern anti-game*** screed I know was published in 1931.)
(***as in, "escapism is harmful for children" - not games of chance and suchlike)

Wait, that comic was serious? I thought it was a satire, the girl replacing one cult with another and all ... So it's just unintentionally funny? :D