As the title ask I was wondering how many of you GOGers couldn't wait to get your hands on this game. I know I was saving my allowance for weeks before I had enough to get it in its massive box with an amazing manual. I stil have my Computer gaming magazines with the review inside for Arcanum around here somewhere.

I don't remember exactly how I heard about Arcanum back when I was 11 (when it came out), but I do remember very distinctly getting it for my birthday present that year and wanting it so bad I actually tried to find it hidden by my parents before my birthday-day.

I also remember my parents (well my dad) playing with me/watching me play the game for the first couple of hours to make sure that I was mature enough to actually play it (which they deemed I was at the time).

I first read about it in a letter column of a gaming magazine. Someone sent in a (written) letter bashing Arcanum, and the reviewer responsible for the letter column disagreed emphatically. The highly metaphorical language he used led me to believe orcs machinegunning hobbits is a routine event in the game, and I was somewhat disappointed that it turned out not to be the case.

I was able to get the pirate version of Arcanum to run on my machine, which is why it didn't make the first batch of games I bought on GOG - but it did make the second one.

Bought it on the first day... of its original release :)

I bought it pretty much straight off the printing machine.

Now again to play it on my Mac.

Same here

And here

Same here. And loved every day of it!

In my case, I didn't even know this game exist, and found it on GoG. Pretty Weird, because I have always follow Troika Games, but... well, those where another times, when gamers bought magazines about games to get new information, and that with "small" titles (or titles with a small distributor in your country) was deadly.

A real gem, by the way.

Yup, bought Arcanum first day it came out. Same thing with Temple of Elemental Evil. Vampire: Bloodlines I did not get until long after it came out (got that one from the bargain bin). Back in the days when there still were brick and mortar software stores (sigh)..
I still have my boxed copies of Arcanum and ToEE; they are treasured possessions. Got both games off GoG though so they would play nice with my current PC..