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Posted August 21, 2015
We're casting True Resurrection on Eye of the Beholder and twelve more D&D GoldBox classics.

You are sitting in a tavern. The mighty Wizards of the Coast bestow upon you their greatest treasures: Forgotten Realms: The Archives - long lost relics of an RPG renaissance that changed the face of gaming forever. Today, one of the forgotten grails of gaming history is within your grasp, should you travel to a magical, DRM-free realm known as GOG.com

Eye of the Beholder, Pool of Radiance, Menzoberranzan - the list of groundbreaking RPG classics goes on. We set out on the quest for Forgotten Realms: The Archives a long time ago, and though it was a perilous journey - after years of searching, huge help from our friends at Hasbro and Wizards of The Coast, as well as months of technical work - we get to be freaking excited to sit here and say:
Forgotten Realms: The Archives are available now, DRM-free on GOG.com





The Archives are a set of thirteen D&D GoldBox classics packaged across three collections:
--<span class="bold">Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection One</span> features Eye of the Beholder I, II, and III. It's the three and only, the gold-standard in classic RPG dungeon crawling.

--<span class="bold">Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection Two</span> features more gameplay hours and secrets than we could ever count - with Pool of Radiance, Hillsfar, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Gateway to the Savage Frontier, Pools of Darkness, Secret of the Silver Blades, Treasures of the Savage Frontier, and D&D: Unlimited Adventures.

--<span class="bold">Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection Three</span> features near-infinite replay value and and an important chunk of RPG history with Dungeon Hack and Menzoberranzan.





We are now home to precisely 20 years of digital D&D RPG history - from Pool of Radiance (1988) to Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir (2008). You can also complete your personal collection with all the remaining D&D titles on sale at up to 80% off in our early D&amp;D Weekend Promo! Planescape Torment, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights - they're all here, so head straight to the promo page, or read more about it.






Stream watch:

We'll be featuring lots of D&D classics at Twitch.tv/GOGcom - follow us to not miss 'em or read on for the full Dungeon-and-Dragon-filled schedule below!

THURSDAY, August 20th:
2pm GMT / 4pm CEST / 10am EDT / 7am PDT: Pool of Radiance with Classicor
4pm GMT / 6pm CEST / 12pm EDT / 9am PDT: Eye of the Beholder II with MegapiemanPHD
6pm GMT / 8pm CEST / 2pm EDT / 11am PDT: Eye of the Beholder with Outstar
10pm GMT / 12am CEST / 6pm EDT / 3pm PDT: Menzoberranzan with Classicor

FRIDAY, August 21st:
6pm GMT / 8pm CEST / 2pm EDT / 11am PDT: Curse of the Azure Bonds with Piranjade

SUNDAY, August 23rd:
10pm GMT / 12am CEST / 6pm EDT / 3pm PDT: Dungeon Hack with Classicor
Posted August 20, 2015
oh my god. The day I didn't think would ever happen has happened. Now I'm really scared I'll get run over by that train despite the nearest tracks are about 100 km away.
Posted August 20, 2015
Someone already asked but n o confirmation.

Can someone confirm the need of the code wheels supplied as images with the packs. Do you have to print them and put them together to use and be able to play the games or have the games been fixed so that you either don't get asked or can just put anything in there.

Hillsfar is quickest and easiet to test this, start a pre rolled fighter, then head to fighters guild at top of map over towards left side near arena and when you speak to the master it should ask for code then.
Posted August 20, 2015
Great! Now I have to add "available on gog.com" to all my Let's Play videos of the series... :)
Anyway, thanks for pulling these great games out of the shadows!
Posted August 20, 2015
oh my god.

gold box games!

mind blown!
Posted August 20, 2015
Pardon my Elvish, but FUHQ YES!!!

Eye Of The Beholder, at long last! And so many other great games. Bought the whole release set, sales be damned!
Posted August 20, 2015
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Smannesman: Nice release, if a bit too expensive.
But could you really not have picked better names?
Better names for what? These are the actual names of these collections, they already existed since the late '90s, now it's just digital premiere.

Made me wonder what the first RPG I played was actually. Actually I think it was quite a few years between getting a computer and first RPG, but I sure found my "spot" since. Hm... Wonder what it was and when... Castle of the Winds maybe? Quite sure I was playing that before QfG2, which was likely what got me "hooked".
Posted August 20, 2015
While I appreciate this offer, I think that I will wait for the sales. I already own everything but Hillsfar and Dungeon Hack and I don't think that either game alone is worth the full price.
Post edited August 20, 2015 by OlausPetrus
Posted August 20, 2015
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DoctorPirx: Great! Now I have to add "available on gog.com" to all my Let's Play videos of the series... :)
Anyway, thanks for pulling these great games out of the shadows!
this is not a bad problem to have :)

in case you don't want to give it out in public, could i ask for your youtube username, please, so i can check out your work?
Posted August 20, 2015
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groze: So, this was "the big thing" you've been hinting at?! GOG, you seriously have to learn not to hype people's expectations too much like you tend to do, I was left hoping the NOLF games, or something high on the Community Wishlist was going to be released today, not yet another collection of Tolkienesque turn-based dungeon crawlers for "old school people" (i.e. guys who are really bad at anything that involves action and can only excel at these slow things).

More power to those who have been waiting for this, I guess... though we'd all welcome Konami bringing their games here more than this overhyped announcement.
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RadonGOG: The is much unjustified disrespect in your comment, something you simply have to punished for! -1 for you!
How about the unjustified disrespect anytime GOG releases an adventure game? And you don't see me downvoting every single person that goes into *every* adventure game release thread complaining about the games.
Posted August 20, 2015
wow'n'wow - deeper wow
Posted August 20, 2015
Awesome, thank you GOG!
Posted August 20, 2015
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JudasIscariot: Most of them *should* be set within Faerun, which is the setting that Baldur's Gate uses :) Planescape: Torment's world is another setting entirely within the Forgotten Realms :)
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Crosmando: How are you going to categorize the Kyrnn gold box games?
Hopefully as "Dragonlance" series boxed sets. I would also love to see the Raven loft games get this treatment!
Posted August 20, 2015
Just noticed Blood and Magic isn't included even though it was included in a previous Forgotten Realms archive boxed collection, though Unlimited Adventures wasn't in that box set.
Post edited August 20, 2015 by jcoa
Posted August 20, 2015
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Iain: Someone already asked but n o confirmation.

Can someone confirm the need of the code wheels supplied as images with the packs. Do you have to print them and put them together to use and be able to play the games or have the games been fixed so that you either don't get asked or can just put anything in there.

Hillsfar is quickest and easiet to test this, start a pre rolled fighter, then head to fighters guild at top of map over towards left side near arena and when you speak to the master it should ask for code then.
All of the games except Hillsfar (and Gateway under specific circumstances) don't actually require you to look for the proper word, but you can.

For Hillsfar our techs prepared an amazing tool which you can use to get the code wheel words.

Tl;dr: You don't have to print anything. Everything you need is there.
Posted August 20, 2015
Nice job GOG, this place is recently a total haven for RPG goodness.
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