What a friendly bunch! I'm from Indonesia/Germany/UK (in that order) and currently working in Saudi Arabia. It's a demanding job, but somehow I still manage to get some gaming in.
Got into gaming around the time I discovered Bombjack and Donkey Kong arcade cabinets. Started off at home with C64 and a tape player. Somewhere there was a friend's Atari VCS and another friend's PONG on a black and white TV... my memory is jumbled. At some point I graduated to the NES and Amiga 500. Friend of mine introduced me to Wolfenstein 3D and Wing Commander and that pretty much sold me on PC. The first game I owned was X-Wing.
I used to dream about traveling to the future to buy "the most powerful PC in the world", so I can run all these demanding games, today. Glad GOG came around, so I can pretend I'm still in 1991 and try out the best games of yesterday...today ¬_¬;
I'm not the most active forum poster. Not much time between playing and working :). But see you around anyways.

Hi All,
I am an Italian born in Rome but currently living in Reykjavik.
I hold a PhD in Mathematics and aim at a career in the academia.
I play computer games since I was 5 or 6, having started on a Philips Videopac (some may know it as Odyssey) and continued on VIC-20, Commodore 64, Amiga 2000, and several PCs. My all-time favorites include Bard's Tale (on the Amiga), Uninvited, the MechWarrior series, Shogo, Unreal, the Diablo series, Neverwinter Nights, and many more.
I have a nice collection of games, though I have missed some masterpieces such as Fallout or Planescape:Torment. Some are now difficult to find in online stores, while others are available for download but usually require installing cumbersome software and/or accepting obnoxious DRM.
I learned of the GOG initiative from another forum and ultimately decided to sign in for the beta. Until now, I am very satisfied.
My workhorse, which I nickname Farquaad, is an Acer TravelMate 292LMi:
- Pentium M (Banias) 1.5 GHz
- 1x1GB DDR333
- 60GB 5400rpm HD
- ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 w/ 64MB dedicated VRAM
- Windows XP Service Pack 3 + Ubuntu Linux 8.04
I am testing the Good Old Games both on Windows and (with Wine) Ubuntu.

I am 23 years old gamer who absolutely loves old games :) I started to play games with Intellivision. After that I have owned NES, SNES, GC, PS2, 360, PSP, DS and of course couple PC's. I can't really say what would be the best game I have played. There is just way too many good games... I mean Fallout's, Baldurs Gate's, Doom series, X-com... I think you all know what I mean.
Currently I am studying and I am looking for work (Have to get more money for these games ;) ). Okay but I don't want to bore anyone so I am going to stop my introduction here.

Hi there, I'm Brian and have been playing PC games for nearly 30 years now. My favorite period of PC gaming was between 1992 and 2000, so I'm glad we finally have a site dedicated to what I think is PC gaming's golden age.
I like nearly anything except sports games, but mostly space flight combat sims. If it's got a spaceship in it, most likely I've played it. My favorite games of all time include Freespace 2, Tie Fighter, Starflight, Fantasy General, Interstate '76, Heavy Gear 2 and many more.
Looking forward to talking with y'all and getting to know y'all. :)

Hello
My name is Miguel but you can call me Pickles.
I'm 14 years old and I think i know too much about computers than a average 14 year old would. I'm a gamer that plays when I can.
My Xfire is: pickles740
STEAM:pickles1994
I play TF2 mostly with a clan [-Ex-] for Exodus. www.exodusgaming.net
I'm a cool guy, quiet most of the time and laid back. I joined this to get all the old school games that rare to find in store.
My computer specs [[not that it matter here]]
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ (2 CPUs), ~2.0GHz
2 Gig ram
nVIDIA geforce 6150se nforce 430 128 video ram
Windows Vista

Howdy, I'm in the US, south Georgia to be more precise, and I've played games since a friend of mine introduced me to MegaMan 2 on the old NES. I still remember having much fun with that little 'robot' gadget back then. I've played any number of games over the years, but my preference is in the RPG/Adventure region. The first time I played Quest for Glory I (oh so long ago) I was absolutely mezmerized. I'm also still quite partial to MegaMan, for some reason, though I can't keep up with the sequel churn they've been doing.

Yet another late 20-something male american gamer, I'm afraid. I got started on adventure games (a few text adventures, but mostly Sierra's KQ and QFG series) when I was a kid, but missed the best part of the 90s at the time because of a lack of PC access (my father stopped buying PC games for himself, and so his PC became off-limits again). It wasn't until I got my -own- PC in '99-'00 that I started to go back and dig through the last decade of releases, and since then console titles have been strictly secondary for me (don't get me wrong, I -enjoy- console titles from time to time, but I buy my consoles 1-2 generations behind the curve and then go back to pick up the "classic" titles each platform inevitably hosts. I just grabbed a gamecube last year, for example, and proceeded to play through Zelda: Twilight Pincess, Metroid Prime, and the Skies of Arcadia port. In a few years I'll do the same with the PS3 and get around to MGS4 and White Knight Story, and so on).
In any case, I'm very much a PC gamer, and while I've never been able to find a RTS game I really enjoyed (and I've tried and still try on occasion), and sports and racing games have never interested me, for just about any other genre there's at least a handful of titles I enjoy. That said, my favorites are what I'd call the "golden era PC RPGs" (Black Isle and Bioware late 90s to early 00s RPGs and their stylistic imitators) and FPSes, with classic graphical adventure games and older school RPGs coming a close second. I also have a soft spot in my heart for space sims.
Finally, I'd like to thank the GOG team for their risky but wonderful business venture, and say that not only do I look forward to interacting with the community here, I look forward to giving them my money. And on that note, I always meant to pick up Descent 3, so...

Hello, my name is Anthony and I'm 21 years old. I've been a primarily a console gamer for most of my life. GOG is my excuse to finally get into the world pf PC gaming. I finally get to catch up on all of the classics from PC gaming's past without having to spend money on a modern PC capable of running the latest games. I look forward to discovering what PC players have known about for years and I would like to thank the GOG team for allowing me to do so.

I'm an average 20-something college-bound gentleman who doesn't want to run virtual PCs to play older games and will gladly spare a few dollars to make the classics run on his newer computers.

Hello, I'm Andrew, born in Romania and currently residing in the UK. I've been gaming from the Pentium era I guess and found myself involved in mostly RPGs and Adventure games (Bladur's Gate series, Planescape: Tourment, Sam&Max (the old one), Day of the Tentacle, The Fallouts etc.). Recently I've made the switch to the FPS genre thanks to Team Fortress 2 (running a vanilla server for it) and I look forward to Left4Dead.
I mostly find myself coding though so game time is becoming more and more scarce; this, coupled with the fact that I'm at Uni and with the responsibility of being an editor for an online Romanian tech journal means that gaming is the second most important means of relaxing.

Hello, tovarăşe! 8D

Heh, we're everywhere. Hello greedz. This boy here is another TF2 aficionado and old-school gamer.

Hi , My name is Mark from Melbourne Australia(wouldn't want to live anywhere else)
My first passion is Harness racing see pic (track is close to my house)- and games of course. i have 2 laptops 1 new (vista)and 1 about 3 years old (win xp pro)i love them both and a wii and xbox 360. This might seem a bit different but i have a collection of gameboy advanced fullbox games that i am proud of also.
my old pc broke down so that's why i moved to a laptop(s). i haven't looked back and that's why this site excites me. I am playing redneck ramapage and stonekeep at the moment on my laptop and you always have the option that it and the games can come with me anywhere i go with a minimum of fuss!
I have a boxed old game called Ecstatica 2 and it works perfectly on xp(no music though)and that surprised me! so there are the occassional old games that work easily without patching or anything.
I really hope that we all support and interact with GOG as much as we can and that it will be around for years to come.
cheers from Mark

My name's Matthew, I'm 19, a lowly college student. My credentials as a retro gamer I owe to my grandfather, who set me up with the old Apogee classics when they weren't yet old or classics, and I still love them (as you might be able to infer from my name/avatar). Now I'm that guy who everyone knows is a computer geek and who gets asked computer questions from people he doesn't know; you know what I mean. That gets a bit annoying now and again, so I play games just to wind down, and I enjoy trying to get older ones running. So you guys have taken a bit of the fun out of it, I guess. ;)

I'm Steven. I'm 21 and in between reading books, political news, writing, and building/fixing/repairing computer related things, I'm an avid gamer.
My earliest memory of gaming was playing on my dad's dial-in BBS system when I was three. That and Nethack on a 286. I barely understood what was going on in Nethack but I could sit and play for hours. And there were actual load times deeper and deeper I got into the dungeons... wow.
Anyway, I play too many video games.