Greetings fellow GOG members.
My name is Ryan aka Tenmar/Luinreg and I look foward to playing Decent games that I loved so dear. I have been playing games since I was a child and has been my main hobby that has been consistant in my life. I'm a very straightfoward player with nothing to hide and I enjoy getting to know you all and set up groups to play some good old games.
I really look forward to helping to ensure this beta does successful but I wonder what I can contribute to these games that I have already played?
Outside of gaming I am making a podcast called Games and Me and I have my B.A. degree in history. Strange part is that even after getting my degree no one wanted to hire me so I like many other current graduates were sent back to working retail.
But happy gaming and feel free to contact me.

my name is weclock
i sometimes give myself self-importance, but really, i'm nobody.
why is my name weclock? it is not a question you should ponder but something you must accept within your soul. there is no reason.
if you were to look me up, it would be just a mild disappointment, unless you truly are interested in creating a canonized version of Goldeneye for the Source engine.. but that is an old grudge, i must let it pass. or if you enjoy machinima by the janus syndicate... but for any of you to even know what i'm talking about.. it would be a shock.
I've had many travels within the half-life 2 modding community, i have a youtube page and a blogger..
perhaps one day i might review some games off of GOG.com.. perhaps one day someone will have the ability to watch my reviews..
as far as games go, you'd assume I only played half life, but this of course cannot be true.
I have been a PC gamer for a long time, until my recent purchase of an Xbox 360.. I've been playing some more console titles.. I suppose in the future, once the xbox 360 is outdated, I may return to PC gaming as my main form of gaming, until then my main pc will sit, and I won't play games that I bought for it, like UT3, CoD4, and the orange box (need to get those heavy achievements!)...
but my laptop, i will play the old games, games like deus ex, fallout, fallout2, age of empires, starcraft, warcraft II, and many more.. hopefully we'll see a windows xp systemshock..
but I am not as old as all of that, I became aware of these games afterwards, I enjoy an older game.. there once was a poll on Gamefaqs, asking if you were stuck on an island and could only bring one generation of console games with you, which would it be? to which I answered the SNES/Genesis era.
It's something that I personally enjoy.. perhaps it is peculiar.. perhaps reading this post is a waste of your time, and my typing it, a waste of mine, perhaps in the future we will not talk so much as play.
i would like to see a multiplayer service setup to match players of the same game.. but this may never exist.

Jessie here. I've loved games since I started playing the 2600 at my cousin's house years ago. I remember playing Combat together. Trying and failing at Raiders, thinking "didn't Pac-Man turn in the arcade?", Wondering what the heck was the point of E.T. (Yes he did own it.) and playing many other games on it. Then i moved on to the NES, with platformers like SMB, GOOD arcade ports, and Dragon Warrior. I still can't believe I ever grinded that much. Then right to the SNES, but the cousing mentioned earlier had a Genesis so I got to play both.
Computer gaming started with the usual Edutainment stuff. Oregon Trail, Carmen SanDiego, etc. However, I really got interested when one of my teachers let me buy a 386 DX66 that he'd built for $100. (This was right before Pentiums came out so it was still a nice deal.) I bought a few floppy games for it, but played a lot of shareware downloaded from AOL's File system when they still had good content. Then I upgraded that computer with a multimedia kit that came with Wing Commander II and Return to Zork and I just went from there. Since I'd started PC gaming late I made it a point to pick up any collection I was interesting in. Sierra Quest games, LucasArts Archives, Infocom collection, XWing/Tie... I didn't get into FPS games until Jedi Knight. I got into CRPGs thanks to the Ultima Collection, and Baldur's Gate. Somewhere around here I picked up a PSX, but gave it away when emulation made it possible to play most of my PSX games (mostly JRPGs) by just popping the disc into my computer. (Other people used the TV so it just wasn't convenient.)
For a while I kept an old P166 around to play older games. I even volunteered on Sierra's Quest for Glory forums to play people's QfGIV saves to get them by Error 52. The machine was a DOS/win98Se dual boot. It even had a Voodoo2 12MB card and a Roland LAPC-1. However, it finally died right around the time DOSBOX and SCUMMVM and MUNT emulation all really got a nice computability jump so I didn't bother with a new one.
A few years ago I went back to consoles thanks to my (then) new WS monitor having component video inputs. I started with the PS2 and when went to Wii, 360 and finally replaced the PS2 with a PS3 when I got a very nice deal on a 60GB (Full BC).
I'm greatfull for services like GOG and Steam because they give me a chance to see things that might have slipped under the radar for me over the years or games that I've lost. Plus I love that GOG is DRM Free. I don't really see a point in DRM for games this old. I can't see anyone pirating a GOG version of a game when these games have been out (probably on "abandonware" sites) for years.

And awesome it is. GOG is pure genius.

Hello, im Senn. Been playing pc and console games since I was a wee child. Currently playing Fallout and excited to see what other great games come out in the future.

Name's Ben. Was a console gamer for years, but since my family never had a computer, I didn't get into PC games until I was about 18. I started at the bottom and worked my way forward, though. I'm still working my way through DOS classics and early Windows games, so obviously GOG is right up my alley. I have a penchant for obscure, rare, underrated, older games. I find them more fulfilling, and less demanding on my wallet and hardware than the latest releases. I actually think that the most recent title I own is 7 years old. RPG's are my favorite genre, followed by adventure games and FPS's, but I can name a game from almost every genre that I'm fond of. Except strategy games, for some reason.
Currently playing Daggerfall, The Beast Within, Ultima VII: The Black Gate, and Hardwar.

Hey there. I was born in 1978, so I've seen the home computer era almost from the beginning. I have vague memories of playing the Pong game when I was very young, not sure what happened to it later, and since then we had quite a few different computers.
My father was interested in electronic devices and computers, so I was surrounded by them right from the start. I later heard him say he made some quite big phone bills with a 300 baud modem back then, calling into various BBS's. I later duplicated this feat with faster modems.
We never had a Commodore, but another computer from the same era: Amstrad CPC 464. It had a green screen monitor, though sometimes I was allowed to connect it to our TV so I had a bigger screen and colours! Later we got Amstrad CPC 6128, with a 3" disk drive and a colour monitor, so I stopped bugging my parents about the TV.
I live in Finland, and we start learning English at 3rd grade. Still, I'm not sure what was my second language, English or BASIC. What I'm sure of, is that I'm more fluent in English. Playing around with programming languages was fun, but it never evolved into anything serious, and I haven't done any programming for years now.
Anyway, then came the PC's and DOS games. Nothing like rewriting your autoexec.bat and config.sys to free up more memory for some game or another. It's like some PC games had a built-in puzzle game as a bonus: trying to figure out how to get the game running. I think the reason I've never been into console gaming is that the consoles are too easy to use.
After Windows became the default OS, I still used the DOS-shell for most of my file commands for quite a long time. I think I dropped the habit only after I didn't play any DOS games anymore. Or well, I still use DOSBox to run a couple legendary games like the original X-Com. It's still the best game of that type, and one of the best computer games in general.
I think I'll stop here. Everyone has seen the modern Windows XP times. Maybe I'll make a post about that around 2030 on some virtual reality corner meant for old fossils.

Howdy fellow goggies!
I´m Gustavo, since good ol' 1984. Guess my first real contact with gaming (other than watching my uncle play some forgotten "Atariesc" tank shooting game) was Jones in the Fast Lane in a neighbour's PC. Fell in love with it, and with Carmen Sandiego (the original DOS one), Betrayal at Krondor and Civilization (man i wasted a lot of my childhood on that one).
Might I mention that I was born and (if I may say, proudly) raised in Brasil, so, as many of us back in the day, I had my own Sega Master System console (hence the Phantasy Star nickname and SS).
Well, I'm just beggining to DL the obligatory Fallout combo. Been a member of this select club for only a couple o' minutes and I'm already loving it!
3 cheers to GOG!

Hi folks ! :]
I'm a 20 year old polish ninja player :]
First contact with computer games was thanks to my C64 (which I still posses :] ) ,then Amiga 1200 and finally my PC of course :]
My fav. game gender are FPS ,like Half-Life , CS or TO:AoT and many others :]
I also like RPG games (Fallout , BG , NWN , Witcher etc. ) , RTS's (Warhammer40k , SC , W3) ,hack'n slash (Diablo , Sacred) :]
From Sport games I only play Pro Evolution Soccer :]
I'm also HoMM and Disciple series fan :]
There are of course many other unspecified games :]

Hello! My name's Keenan Weaver, aka Vagabond. I've been PC gaming since I was about five years old (1993). I get my screen name from a character in Wing Commander III and IV, which is my favorite PC game series ever.
My favorite video game ever is Crusader: No Remorse. Pure game design genius. But I believe the *best* game ever is Deus Ex.
I run a website dedicated to Crusader, Echo Sector. And I also have another website dedicated to PC gaming, with a weekly podcast with a cast of old school, mature PC gamers, called Game Central.
From what I've seen of this community thus far, it looks like a good one! Can't wait to get into it.

Alright all :) born 1981, rocking my Spectrum a few years later, moved thru the usual consoles and PC speeds lol.
Been looking around and this place looks cool, can't wait to start talking to you guys on here.

Hello, fellow retro fans and GOG staff. My name is Chad, and I'm from Fort Walton Beach, Florida, and now I am living in Orlando, FL. Been playing games since I was 3; first experience was either Pac-Man for the 2600 or the Star Wars arcade game -- the sit-down model w/the vector graphics.
I dig FPS, action/platforming, and strategy.
Currently working at Full Sail University in the Game Development program teaching design. These older games are a wealth of information and vital to all gamers. I consider myself lucky.

Hi, I'm MiWi, I'm from Brazil, 21 years old.
And I'm so sleepy right now that my sentences look like crap written by ten years old learning english.
I have a blog, written in Portuguese, about games and game design. And, I'll probably write about how I gout Fallout 1&2 for 6 dollars 8D

I'm jon from the UK. My first RPG was Fallout 2, and I remember playing this baby till the early hours of the next morning, walking back with the GECK to the village and thinking that that was the end of that, pity it couldn't have gone on for a bit longer. Surprise surprise:-)

Hello all, My name is Sascha from Krefeld, Germany, i am 26 and a Chemical Plant Worker.
My Gaming Carreer began when i was 5 and my uncle had his Atari VCS, since then i played on nearly every actual Console and Computer, from the C64 to my current Gaming Rig, from the VCS to my Triumvirate of Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360.