Hi I'm Anthony, 20 years old, I just got into the Beta and already bought a couple games. I love the site because I'm always looking for good old games I never got to play which are often hard to find through... legal means. Will defiantly be buying many more over time and hope to see this site live long and prosper? Hehe.

Erik Sagen. I'm a former game designer (almost worked for Shiny back in the day) and nowadays a "Senior Designer" for AOL/Weblogs, Inc.
I'm nearing 30 (few years to go!) and have been a gamer ever since the Atari. As for console gaming, I own a Wii, Playstation 2 and Dreamcast as well as a DS and hope to convert my own kids to gaming.
The first exciting and industry-changing PC game I remember playing was Alone in the Dark at a computer convention that stopped briefly in town. They also had, in demo form: Wolfenstein, Sim City, Jill of the Jungle (an early Epic game) and Virtual Pool.
To sum it all up: I love games, used to design them and now design web sites for AOL.

Hi, my name's Eric and I'm a 33 year old neuroscience researcher at Harvard. I'm also married, but the extent of my wife's interest in gaming is limitted to recognizing the games I play.
In terms of my gaming life, it began in elementary school when I would visit my friend across the street who had an Apple IIc. In an effort to keep me at home more often, my parents bought me an Atari 2600 for Christmas. I would play Combat and Air/Sea Battle against my father (I know he still has the potential to be a hardcore gamer, but so far he's only let it manifest as a slight addiction to Lemmings and Populous: The Beginning).
While the Atari did help draw the neighborhood kids to my home from time to time, I was still drawn back to my Apple friend. How could I resist when he had games like Ultima II and Wizardry? He had every game imagineable as his older brother was a big-time hacker. One day, my dad brought me to his office and set me up in front of an old PC with only a copy of "The Ancient Art of War" to babysit me. When he gave me the manual to read, I made photocopies and studied it like I had never studied before.
By the third-grade, my parents bought me a PCjr as a reward for my grades. The first game I acquired for the PCjr was King's Quest , which totally blew my Apple friend's computer out of the water (couldn't compete with my 3-tone sounds,16 color graphics, and KQ's open-world exploration). I was pretty much hooked by then. I passed on my enthusiasm to my younger brother, and it's really brought us together over time.
Our console gaming evolution then went on to the NES, Sega Genesis (NBA Jam and Mortal Kombat in college was dorm heaven), a Sega Dreamcast, an X-Box (due entirely to Halo bouts with fellow grad students), and finally an X-Box 360.
My father's frequent computer upgrades (which eventually turned into hand-me downs), always fed my hunger for computer games, with the standouts being series from Ultima, Wing Commander, Starflight, all the Sierra Quest games, X-Com, Planescape:Torment, Diablo, Warcraft, System Shock 2, and Star Control. Somehow, I didn't catch onto the FPS phenomenon until Unreal Tournament.
Given that I've never sold any of my games, between my brother and I, we have a pretty impressive collection. Even still, I really hope this site succeeds to preserve a bit of gaming history, so that others who have never seen these games can play them first-hand.

So YOU'RE the one we should be mad at!! ;-)

I should have posted this a few days earlier, but here goes.
I'm just a person in the southeastern United States who seeks out the best gaming experiences out there, especially the greatest games most people have never played. I've found that I tend to favor older games as opposed to newer ones, since most newer games just seem to be lacking something present in the classics of yore. Heck, my five personal greatest games of all time are all classic PC games-you can probably identify what's on the top of that list if you recognize my avatar. (I also have several consoles, but find myself doing most of my gaming on my PC.)
I'm especially glad that GOG.com has some very overlooked titles like the MDK series, Die By The Sword, Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising, and Giants: Citizen Kabuto. All of those games (except DBTS) are titles that I've never owned full versions of before, but wanted to-and it has happened, all thanks to this site.
There's also more greatness to be found here, like Descent, Freespace, and Fallout, which I'd also buy if I didn't have hard copies of them already. (I only re-purchased DBTS to get Limb from Limb and make sure that it was a package worth directing people towards if they get interested in the game after I tell them about it.)

Hope your okay with the Hurricane now in your area mate! Let us know you;re okay when you can!

i'm damien. born + raised in nyc.
buried somewhere within the rest of my interests i like playing games, studying games, and reading about game theory and design.
i am pretty good at stating the obvious on messageboards.

Hope you're okay with the hurricane an' all!.

Hi all!
I am John (duh!) and i'm from London,England. I started playing games on the Commodore 64 in the mid 80's and when I got a disk drive for Chritmas I never looked back! I loved all the American games that NEEDED a drive, like Wasteland and Red Storm Rising and Manic mansion! I also loved every single Microprose game - especially the simulations (RSR, Stealth Fighter, Gunship)! I also enjoyed the RPG's (Legacy of the Ancients) Adventures (all the Telarium games like Perry Mason and the Case of the Manderin Murderer) and wargames (Decision in the Desert)
In around '88 I was lucky enough to win a franchise for SE England to distribute Specturm, C64 and PC games to mostly Mom and Pop gaming stores (that's all that existed back then!). That lasted for just one year as the main company went bust and it was impossible to get stock! I joined a gaming retail store chain as area manager and in 1990 I took my second holiday to the USA. While there I saw lots of PC games that had never got to England. So I bought half a dozen of what I thought were good games and came back and told my employer that maybe we should get into publishing? We contacted these small game publishers in the U.S. and agreed deals to distribute them in Europe and Australia.I ran this part of the company while somebody took my old Area Manager position.
Having done a good job selling these American games, one of the companies said they had a new product in development but really wanted to be a developer not a publisher and would we be interested in worldwide rights? That of course meant opening a U.S. office....
Given my two month long trips to the U.S.in 1986 and 1990, My boss asked if I wanted to run the U.S. office! Of course, as a working class kid from London, I said 'yes!'!
In May 1991 I opened our U.S.office in Houston, Texas. The company was called R.A.W. Entertainment, Inc. (Roleplaying, Adventure and Wargames) Our most famous title was probably 'Action Stations!' a hardcore naval simulation (check it out on Home of the Underdogs!). Over the next 6 years (1991-97) We published titles on Amiga and PC. Unfotunately 1991/2 was when Doom came out and the market changed. This meant the company found it hard to grow (just like small publishers now - except they have the web and the ability to sell through downloads,which we didn't have!)
During this 6 years I was lucky enough to go to Trade shows regularly and meet the names we know and love, like Sid Meier, Dave Holland, 'Lord British'! and Jane Jensen (Gabriel Knight author). I also met lots of celebrities who were endorsing and giving their name to games. People like Buzz Aldrin (Buzz Aldrin's Space Race') and Tim Curry (Gabriel Knight).I also got to know the editors of great magazines of the time like Computer Gaming World! One of the biggest Trade shows had a show in L.Vegas in the winter and another in Chicago for the summer. I went to all the Vegas CEX's and half the Chicago CEX's during that 6 years! It was the best 6 years of my life up to that time and I couldn't believe I was actually running a games publishing business out of Houston, Texas U.S.A. When I thought my life would be spent in the suburbs of London!
All during this period in the States I played loads of games - they were tax deductible! So any U.S. hit game of 1991 through 1997on PC I probably played!
Eventually as more and more smaller publishers were bought up or closed down, and EA started taking over the world, I decided to call it a day and come back home.
With the little money I had I opened a computer game store and ran it successfully until 2001 when it was bought out by the forerunner of 'GAME' stores. I then went to work in I.T. support, which I did until a couple years ago.
I am 51 now,and have spent 25 years in computer gaming.I have been a distributor of games, a retailer of games and a publisher of games. But mostly, I have played games!
I currently have a collection of around 600 PC games and 150 Commodore 64 games (along with an actual C64 and two disk drives!). Between Microsoft's Virtual PC, which I have running Win 98, and DOSBox, I can play pretty much all the games I own. DOSBox has changed the whole outlook of retro PC gaming, as quite literally everyone can now play DOS games fairly easily!
Being steeped in the history of gaming, it is obvious that G.O.G.would be attractive to me, and I supported it immediately by downloading Fallout 1 and 2!
I hope G.O.G. goes on to much greater things, not just to give publicity to great old PC games, but to show we don't need onerous DRM and that we don;t need ever higher levels of graphics, forcing continual PC upgrades. These things are killing PC gaming. And if we can get games produced using the Half Life 2 and far Cry engines, instead of the Oblivion and Crysis engines, gamers would be more than happy with the graphics and developers could then concentrate on the gameplay! Without a successful G.O.G. I don't know how we will have a successful PC games market in 2-3 years! That's how important I think G.O.G. is!

I hope not. :) I'm not directly responsible for anything that isn't aren't part of the Weblogs, Inc. network. We are an AOL-owned company that runs somewhat separately from the rest of AOL. The sites I'm responsible for are sites like Engadget, Joystiq, Autoblog, WoW Insider, Massively, etc. (These are not the views of my employer, of course.)
Aside from that... the fact that this site exists is proof that old-skool gaming is alive and well.

Hi! I'm RevenantActual and I'm from Florida. I love FPSs, strategy, and RPGs and found my way to this site when I heard they had DESCENT! I have been trying to get my hands on a copy for a while now, and I don't have to worry about getting it from some dodgy ebayer. For those of you wondering where my online handle comes from, I'm a big Battletech/Mechwarrior fan and am especially a fan of the character Victor Steiner-Davion, who commands a unit called the Revenants. Actual is a military term that a unit commander uses in comm transmissions to identify himself (i.e. All Revenant units, this Revenant Actual). So thats where it comes from. My forum title is from the Journeyman Project series (a classic graphic adventure series) and is Temporal Security Agency Agent Five (which is the character you play in the series).

Hi all, Rainstorm is my nick when it revolves RPG's, hence used when being on such forums/writing comments about articles on that subject and such, when it comes to FPS's (which I really haven't played online for years, apart from a couple of weeeks or so with UT2K4 about half a year ago) I'm known as RiotSquad or rather fce2.RiotSquad.
I'm a 40 y/o bloke who started my gaming career on one of the first consoles, it had pong, "hockey", "tennis" and a shooting game with a gun :o.
After that I got a ZX Spectrum 48K and enjoyed classics like Fred, Jet pack, Ghost rider and so on until I moved to a C64 and the glorious days of "turbo", it only took about 30 tape revolutions to install a game, I still remember how fast that felt compared to the around 5 minutes without it. :) (not to mention having to rip out the screwdriver to adjust the tonehead now and then to be able to install the game at all and of course the classic Tac 2, very hard to kill, even with Olympic games)
My first proper PC however was a P100 (I did have an 8088, but that wasn't with me long) and that's where I started upgrading and playing online, the evolution from an average, in timedemo, 17 to a whopping 21 FPS in Quake, when I got a Hercules Rendition card, was awesome :). (since I play very little online nowadays I've stopped upgrading as often though, I'd probably be on my third year with the X1800 GTO if it hadn't gone belly-up on me)
Favourite games:
RPG's: Fallout, Fallout 2
FPS's online: Quake, UT
FPS'S offline: Chaser (great story and a big game, pretty hard though)
Racing: NFS Porsche and Underground 2 and Flatout
Action adventures/"RPG's": Gothic, Gothic 2, Arx Fatalis, Dungeon Siege and Icewind Dale.
(note, I'm very picky about what I refer to as an RPG, the two Fallouts are in fact the only games I refer to with the term since they are the only two games where I really felt that I've been able to properly play and make a character according to my own preferences and will)

Hi all, i'm an old fart at forty something, from Scotland.
Started off with a Z81 at college hooked up to a massive tv screen cant remember the size.
But was pleased as punch when i got the typed in clock program to work! :)
whent through all the home pc's and consoles.
Gonna get Redneck Rampage, "Get off me Land!!", this is class!

I'm a student in Colorado, i'm more of a modern gamer, but i enjoy a lot of the good old games, play pretty much anything but sports games.