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Posted January 29, 2021
Once again Ziggurat Interactive and GOG.COM invite you to discover some timeless classics. Accompanied by discounts, these gems return from the pages of video game history to bring you fun and excitement.

Gunboat (-33%) is a simulation game where you board a river patrol boat and maneuver it in 3 sweltering combat zones: Vietnam, Colombia, and Panama.

Sea Legends (-33%) is an exhilarating blend of RPG elements and swashbuckling combat, where you must use your strategy and swordsmanship skills to solve complex puzzles.

Steel Thunder (-33%) is a simulation game where you lead an elite tank crew in one of four frontline U.S. tanks of the Cold War era across 21 missions in 3 theaters of operation.

The Train Escape to Normandy (-33%) is a simulation game set during WW2. Your mission is to take control of the train full of stolen works of art and guide it across enemy lines.

All four of the mentioned above games are available on GOG.COM 33% off until 5th February 2021, 2 PM UTC. The same 33% discount rises if you buy two (-40%) or at least three (-50%) games from our Special Sale that includes titles published by Ziggurat Interactive.
Posted January 29, 2021
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Dray2k: With The Train: Escape to Normandy it is just a matter of time until the legendary game Transarctica is also being released. Just a matter of time until a publisher notices that people are missing that particular game

Both games are resembling each other so close that they're practically similar.
Which is very weird since GOG should have contact to the IP holders for old Silmarils games - Transarctica, Colorado and Storm Master in the first place.

And since they release some more niche old games from Ziggurat, they could also bring back Silmarils games.
Posted January 29, 2021
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Dray2k: With The Train: Escape to Normandy it is just a matter of time until the legendary game Transarctica is also being released. Just a matter of time until a publisher notices that people are missing that particular game

Both games are resembling each other so close that they're practically similar.
I also could never understand how they never republished Transarctica. Specially since the renewed interest on the Snowpiercer concept.
Posted January 29, 2021
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karnak1: Gunboat was one of the first games I played for PC many, many years ago. I loved the game but couldn't do much with it, because I was playing a pirated copy and had no manual.
Interesting, as also for me it is my first EGA/VGA era PC game that I remember playing, and it was the game that convinced me that I want a gaming PC at some point (I have had a Commodore Amiga 500 before, but had just sold it).

My big brother had borrowed a PC (probably 386sx or something) to our home and Gunboat was installed, so I played it to death. It was simple enough to just start playing, but still felt almost like it was simulating something. It was not a hardcore simulator like Microprose simulators etc., which was fine by me.

So yeah, good memories... but I don't feel like buying it anymore because I don't think it has necessarily aged that well, and I am not really interested in playing it anymore.
Posted January 29, 2021
I wonder if we ever get Test Drive II considering the release of Accolade titles today.
Posted January 29, 2021
I'm not familiar with these but I'm happy about any old game I'm introduced to... will keep them in mind
Posted January 29, 2021
The Train? I always wanted to play this on my C64 but it required FDD and I only had tape recorder..So Instabought plus Seal Legends and Steel Thunder.
Great beginning of a weekend, GOG!
Posted January 29, 2021
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igrok: I wonder if we ever get Test Drive II considering the release of Accolade titles today.
Did some research and the IP for Test Drive was acquired by a company called Nacon and I don't believe they do business with GOG at the moment.
Posted January 30, 2021
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Maxvorstadt: The train? Here? I played the sh!t out of it on my C -64 and was even able to beat it one or two times!
Nice, looks like it IS indeed the C-64 version!
High five!

One of the first games I obsessed about. Though I - admittedly - never beat it.
Posted January 30, 2021
I always hold my breath seeing titles like this hoping Dungeon Master 1 and 2 are inside.
Posted January 30, 2021
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wolfsite: Did some research and the IP for Test Drive was acquired by a company called Nacon and I don't believe they do business with GOG at the moment.
Nacon? They do. They were previously known as Bigben Interative.
You have plenty of their games here. One of the more recent ones is Warhammer: Chaosbane.
Posted January 30, 2021
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wolfsite: Did some research and the IP for Test Drive was acquired by a company called Nacon and I don't believe they do business with GOG at the moment.
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bluethief: Nacon? They do. They were previously known as Bigben Interative.
You have plenty of their games here. One of the more recent ones is Warhammer: Chaosbane.
Wow how did I miss that...... focused on the book I was reading I did`nt see the wall in front of me :)
Posted January 30, 2021
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wolfsite: Wow how did I miss that...... focused on the book I was reading I did`nt see the wall in front of me :)
No worries :)
As for Test Drive, I honestly don't believe those games will be back on sale. Just like the old Need For Speed games. And yhe reason is that they're based on licence cars (and music) that might have already expired. So they'd need to renew those licences and/or remove the cars and songs they couldn't renew.
Posted January 30, 2021
GOG's really going all out this week bringing some older titles in and it's long overdue.
Posted January 30, 2021
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wolfsite: Wow how did I miss that...... focused on the book I was reading I did`nt see the wall in front of me :)
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bluethief: No worries :)
As for Test Drive, I honestly don't believe those games will be back on sale. Just like the old Need For Speed games. And yhe reason is that they're based on licence cars (and music) that might have already expired. So they'd need to renew those licences and/or remove the cars and songs they couldn't renew.
True especially with newer titles. They would need to alter each vehicle (Sega did this with some of the Outrun games when they decided not to renew the vehicle licenses.

The Burnout games would have a better chance as the cars in those games are, to my knowledge (Playing Paradise City right now), fictional....... but that is owned by EA and by the looks of it EA forgot this place existed....... much like Ubisoft.
Posted January 31, 2021
I hope we'll soon get Marco Polo, Altered Destiny, Murders in Space & other Ziggurat titles that are on Steam, but not here.
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