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If you've been a gamer for a decade or longer, you probably have a list of games you cherished from earlier eras of PC gaming that you still may fire up now and then, or at least wish you could. Often these games can be hard to come across (legally) or even outright abandonware. Couple that with the fact that nobody wants to pay $30+ for a game that is 10 years old, and it can be tricky getting to actually play old titles.

A European company wants to change that, and provide a stable environment for people to access and download old games. It is called “Good Old Games”, and the company aims to provide PC titles from the 80s and 90s in a downloadable format that they claim will be completely DRM free, almost as good as having a perfect ISO of your own. They claim their service will sell games from $5.99 to $9.99 a pop, and once purchased will let you download them at will whenever you want from wherever you want.

An attractive option in a world with so many online services that are coupled with heavy DRM restrictions. This is an interesting concept, to say the least, and I hope that projects like this find themselves to be sustainable – because it will prove to the gaming industry that people not only do not want DRM, but will be happy to pay for entertainment without it.
http://www.techspot.com/news/30826-G...le-titles.html
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Very cool +1 find!!!
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Hah. Just saw this on No Mutants Allowed (a Fallout fan site).
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Thank god someone took the initiative.
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This totally looks like that one website where they said they were offering all this music for free, and it turned out to be a scam and none of the companies had actually agreed to allow their music to be downloaded..

It could be a company that tries to rival steam but will most likely fail.

I'd be weary, but I hope it's legit!
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They could merge it with steam to form a new category: retro.

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This is an interesting concept, to say the least, and I hope that projects like this find themselves to be sustainable
Wouldn't that just be steam, something that has been sustained for years and worked fine? Sweet though, a steam for retro games!

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"I don't know why all companies wouldn't authorize this. I imagine Nintendo is taking in money hand over fist with the Virtual Console."

"... and Nintendo is criminally over charging too!"

"I dream of a day when I can go online, with $50, and download 10 games I loved in the past, that I can not longer get. Games from 1996-2002 is the period I'm looking at."

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