That game is one of my favorites and I still kept staring at the hint for 15 minutes or so. All I could think was X-Men... :D

Ok, so let's level the playing field here. Since some are using scripts to sort out the catalogue ie. (Random comment in thread: Sure, it's easy. I just wrote a Java script in 10 min and applied it to the catalogue, blah blah blah. Me: o.O ) While on the other hand if one goes to the first page some bozo genius is going Bozo Genius: Boy that was easy, it took me like 10 min to finish this and that's counting the time I spent going to the toilet in between, blah blah blah Me: o.O , so I will at least help my middle of the road brethen like myself, how to input the entire GOG catalogue game into excel filled with pure title goodness.

Ok, here is how it goes and of course someone can come up with a faster way but I will use my rusty old mad corporate skills to get this thing done as fast as possible starting from the GOG games page. (The list might be out there somewhere already for all I know).

Anyways just start by selecting from right behind the first game that appears, in my case Baldurs Gate and make the selection all the way to the last game which appears, in my case Teenagent. (Poor Teenagent). Then do the CTRL+C thing and open up your Excel.

Next, Paste Special---->Text the entire list onto the spreadshit. If you just do a simple paste, enjoy your Excel crashing or whitescreening for a while.

Now we got a huge list with all the titles (yay) but lots of unwanted guests ie. "Works on", duplicate with price on it, and duplicate with owned on it. (Should have done the list unlogged, duh). No biggie though, first getting rid of the "Works on" is a cinch. Simply, sort the whole thing. The "Works on" will all pile up in one big stack that will be deleted effortlessly. So that's gone.

That leaves us with the duplicates that have either the price or OWNED tagged on them. This is the sad part since you now have to manually delete every other line and do it 600+ times *sob*, errrr NO, what would be the point of that and of writing this, right? Might as well do something more enjoyable like helping grandpa shovel some manure out by the farm.

How you fix that is easy and painless. Just use the Replace function. In my case I found it in the Home tab lumped in with the Find function, look for it, it's there. Now we will replace the "$" and then the "OWNED" with a very very long string so that they stand out when we do the sorting by number of letters. I personally replaced both of each with PLEASE DELETE ME written several times. I do highly recommend you write the phrase 5 times or so, so that they stand out so much that even the longest title will be dwarfed and it will be obvious that they are duplicates. (just humm the Pink song Please Dont Leave Me while doing it and the activity is actually enjoyable).
The last part is simply, on the cell next to this list, use the function =LEN(A1) the value of A1 is of course the value next to it. Drag that formula down all the way and a numerical value appears. The is the number of characters the cell next to it has. Sort that and get rid of the crazy Pink inspired high value duplicates and there you go. A clean GOG catalogue of all games in Excel.

Now it's up to you to figure out how to use that list. Good luck.

(Boy, I was in a writing frenzy today) BANZAI!!!!

Even better, use the "Custom Text Filter" with either the equals or starts with functions. Extra points since equals supports wildcards.
P.S. You could always use the existing spreadsheet with GOG's releases, I do link it quite often. Just make sure to use "Everything" and not a single year.

I knew there likely was a list somewhere but I just did it using long forgotten rudimentary skills since I haven't used Excel for job purposes in ages. I don't know about "custom text filter" but my steps are just copy, paste, sort, delete, replace,sort, delete. Pretty rudimentary I must say.

I wonder what is the total number of submissions for this :). It's not very hard but you need to have played at least 2-3 games from gog's catalog.

sent my answer but i don't know one of the game titles. still managed to guess what letter supposed to go into the field.

I also found it easier than expected. But it was still a fun exercise, and surprisingly fair too.

I think it was G-Doc who created this, right? Good job!

I tried, I really did... but I'm too stupid...

At 3:00PM GMT Can someone please post the answers to this mo-fuddling puzzle pleeeeeeeeeeeeease!!

It's called "delegation". Some people tell other people what to do. I tell my computer what to do. How stupid would one seem if they couldn't tell other people what to do when they have them just sitting there at their beck and call 24/7 and they have a menial task that needs to be done? As long as barking out orders takes less effort than doing the work, it's a win. To me, doing tedious grunt work that can easily be delegated to a computer is what seems funny.

1. I spent more time "puzzling" than I did writing the program. (It's a trivial program -- total time to "figure out" how it would work was about a minute. As for creation, I type at about 60 wpm, though more like 20 wpm when editing programs. It's a bit over 30 lines of code -- feel free to do the math. Nowhere near "an hour or more".)
2. How do you know how GOG intended us to solve it? Why would GOG intend for me to use my brain less efficiently, in less fun ways, to merely conform, to not leverage my individual talents and instead be weighed down by the limitations of the common layman like we're living in the world of Harrison Bergeron? I don't think they do.
3. I did solve the puzzle "by using my brain". My brain told me to delegate part of the problem to my computer, made that happen, and combined the results (with some help from emacs -- more delegation there).

And some people here have given up entirely. Just because you found the puzzle easy to do "manually" (whatever that means for a puzzle that you can't even access without having used a computer) doesn't mean it is easy for everyone else, nor that everyone else should want or choose to solve it "manually".

Wow, I would never have been able to do it without the Excel list. Working from the smaller ones up was key.

I only knew 1 at the start, Fallout and was completely blocked about the others.

Here is the entire puzzle solved on GOG's own crossword pic.

The only thing that really stumped me is thinking of putting Sacrifice instead of Syndicate for the clue Selected! But that would spell GOLR at the end and I knew it had to be GOLD, since I had the first three letters. So I worked around that one and finished it all up to there, then just did a sort of all games and looked for what fit.

The titles are so random from so many different genres that I don't know how anyone can get this done without an Excel list to sort out length of letters in the game title and go from there. I can imagine that very very few have played or heard of all of the titles.

Umm, yeah, that's totally what I did.

Here's my little Excel screenshot ;-)

I simply assumed that the password is made up by real words so there weren't many choices to use in the middle (OF, ON, TO) and I pretty much built it up from there.

Twenty years on, I can still remember the sounds of my brother at the computer:
SELECTED SELECTED UZI UZI UZI MINIGUN UZI UZI MINIGUN UZI UZI SELECTED