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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
Time to give Xanathar a bloody good walloping.
Posted August 20, 2015
Great work GOG.

Being DOS games, I assume these will have far fewer compatibility issues compared to the Warhammer releases (I still hope you can sort that out because those brought in some really bad reviews, and I still haven't gotten over that).

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Kirben: Unfortunately GOG just seem to have dumped the Gold Box versions provided on the previous CD releases (Gamefest/Wizworks), which include two flawed versions.

Pool of Radiance 1.3 removed the introduction music, which is played at the start of game, and before combat, when using Tandy mode.

Curse of the Azure Bonds 1.3 broke the introduction music for PC Speaker & Tandy, which works in all previous versions.

Any chance of these issues been fixed? by using older releases of those two games?
This is unfortunate to hear.
Posted August 20, 2015
Very pleased to see this news. The vintage SSI AD&D games, starting with the very first one licensed for a computer translation (Pool of Radiance), were conspicuously absent from your list of classic games. Now if only you can secure the rights to the 2001 Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor title, you will then be one step closer to SSI completion.
Posted August 20, 2015
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nemesismartyn: Hey Guys!
Nice to see these old games here. Honestly i never played one of this, my childhood RPG gaming experience started with Might and Magic 6. Which of these 3 Bundles would you recommend? Maybe someone familiar with these can sum up the 3 bundles with like 1-2 sentences :)

Best Regards!
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JudasIscariot: If you're familiar with Might & Magic you may have some luck getting used to the Eye of the Beholder games since they too have a first person perspective :) The only caveat is that they are in real-time like Legend of Grimrock unlike the turn-based Might & Magic series :)
Yes, I used to have the Super Nintendo port of Eye of the Beholder 1 which was awesome till I got stuck on the last level cause I couldn't figure out what to do. :/ Now's my chance to finally correct that.
Posted August 20, 2015
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amrit9037: Thank you gog.
Can someone tell me why Forgotten Realm Digital Archives 1 is dated 1991 but digital archives 2 is dated 1988? Did I miss something?
That's because the Eye of the Beholder games are newer than games like Pools of Radiance.
Posted August 20, 2015
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Crosmando: Nice, this has to be the single best day on GOG for RPG's, even better than I assume Might & Magic 1-6 was (before I found this site though).
The next best possible thing is them releasing the remaining Lucasarts games here.

Monkey Island 3 and 4
Full Throttle
Maniac Mansion
Day of the Tenticle

(The latter 3 will probably be released by Double Fine "Remastered")
Posted August 20, 2015
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NoNewTaleToTell: Major release! I've never played them but they look quite good, especially for their age!

A bit of a side question: I'm completely uninformed with Dungeons and Dragons, but the Forgotten Realms is the same Plane that Baldur's Gate and most of the other Infinity Engine DnD games are set in, right? Are there any other games set in the same Plane as Planescape: Torment, or others that are completely different than the "This Really Isn't Ye Olde England, We Swear!...Just Don't Look Too Closely Please" Planes?
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 :)
Posted August 20, 2015
I can't wait for the Dragonlance games since they're my favourites of the GoldBox games and I remember that there was a Spelljammer game,if I'm not mistaken.
Posted August 20, 2015
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benmar: Oh my GoG.
I love you.

Edit:

Enjoy the game, that got me into RPGs.

5F67B-B337E-CF3BF-BB*

* = FF9
You're code is temporarily locked because you did not exit the window :)
Also I LOVE EoB. Sure it's a lot clunkier than Lands of Lore, but the setting. The beautiful setting! The mind flayer level was so terrifying to me as a child.
Posted August 20, 2015
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Elmofongo: So these are the SSI Gold Box games?
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MetalPlateMage: Most of the forgotten realms ones (and thanks to GOG for a reasonable price on most of these as well).

There are still the DragonLance and Dark Sun series (anyone know if those have IP problems?).

My personal favorite of the gold box games is Dark Queen of Krynn (DragonLance).
I believe the Dragonlance IP is owned by Laura and Tracy Hickman rather than Hasbro. My understanding is TSR had only licensed it's use. At some point they had gained the rights to their own version of the RPG. To what extent that extended to past properties is unclear.
Posted August 20, 2015
Yeah, I'd love to get my hands on the rest of the master piece collection games (Ravenloft, Darksun*,etc).

The old "goldbox" Dragonlance games would be nice too.

*It'd be really nice to have properly final patched versions of those games hopefully with some of the more head breakingly irritating bugs fixed (like the final battle in Shattered Lands not triggering if you used the conventional method to get back home after triggering it or didn't wait patiently for a certain NPC to slowly walk off the screen, or the bug that stops you getting both halves of the Amulet to get the Cursed Sword in Wake of the Ravager or the inventory bugs.

It'd be nice to have someone clean up the Character Transfer (for the Dark Sun and Ravenloft games) too but those things were a freaking mess so that may be going above and beyond the call of duty).
Posted August 20, 2015
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Telika: Biased (very), but Eye of the Beholder are awesome extraordinary great memories, and I would urge anyone to play it urgently. It's a game from a genre that I don't like a lot, yet it had completely seduced and obsessed me. Great gameplay, great interface, great graphics, a really smooth feel of everything. I never really grasped why some people preferred Dungeon Master (did they really?).
Yes, because you kill monsters with doors (not possible in EoB) and also eat the remains. DM has a little more complexity (like the need for light sources).
Posted August 20, 2015
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Telika: Biased (very), but Eye of the Beholder are awesome extraordinary great memories, and I would urge anyone to play it urgently. It's a game from a genre that I don't like a lot, yet it had completely seduced and obsessed me. Great gameplay, great interface, great graphics, a really smooth feel of everything. I never really grasped why some people preferred Dungeon Master (did they really?).
There would be no Legend of Grimrock if it weren't for Eye of the Beholder! Of course, there would be no Eye of the Beholder if it weren't for Dungeon Master.
Posted August 20, 2015
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Telika: Biased (very), but Eye of the Beholder are awesome extraordinary great memories, and I would urge anyone to play it urgently. It's a game from a genre that I don't like a lot, yet it had completely seduced and obsessed me. Great gameplay, great interface, great graphics, a really smooth feel of everything. I never really grasped why some people preferred Dungeon Master (did they really?).
I preferred Dungeon Master and the Chaos Strikes Back sequel on Amiga, but only by the slightest margin. Dungeon Master, Eye of the Beholder and Black Crypt were some of my favorites.
Posted August 20, 2015
F^&* YES.

Don't ever change, GOG
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