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http://store.steampowered.com/sub/42721 has the complete Pajama Sam pack for $24.99.

To me, on GOG that would be $9.99 for two games (PS 1 & 2), another $9.99 for two games (PS 3 & 4), and $5.99 for the two arcade titles.

Overall, imo that seems pretty reasonable pricing for GOG - maybe not perfect, but certainly a better deal than $5.99 per each game.
Because this would have been sooooo impossible to get released anywhere without Night Dive's help, I mean, it's not like Tommo has a presence on Steam or something.
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Austrobogulator: If one were to pick up one of these games, which would one pick up?
I'm biased, but I would go with Spy Fox in "Dry Cereal" . This was my favorite growing up.
Too bad these aren't on GOG. I think I'll get Putt-Putt Joins the Parade. I only had Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo, which is surprisingly absent from the Putt-Putt pack, and I always liked it as well.
Post edited April 17, 2014 by OvaltineJenkins
Maybe they were too busy filling the release schedule with "fantastic launch day releases, preorders, and other exciting new content".
Fingers crossed this'll come around eventually, at least for tfishell's sake and all the "gog's work" he's been doing :salute:
Man those Pajama Sam screens make me wanna point'n'click.
I've taken the liberty of listing of all the HE games not on the Steam release schedule. Hopefully Tommo might be convinced to release some of these in the future.

Really should happen:

Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo
- The only reason I can think of why this one isn't on the list is that it was released a while back on Big Fish Games. Perhaps there was some sort of exclusivity deal with that release?
EDIT: Night Dive posted on Reddit saying that Saves the Zoo will be coming to Steam in August. Since it was released on Big Fish in August of last year, I would guess there is in fact a one year exclusivity deal.

Pajama Sam: Games to Play On Any Day
-Really hoping for this one. It's an mini-game compilation, similar to the already planned for release Putt-Putt and Fatty Bear's Activity Pack. Plus it's extremely hard to find, so a digital re-release would make it a lot easier to (legally) get a hold of.
EDIT: In that same Reddit thread listed above, Night Dive mentioned "There is a rare Pajama Sam game that slipped through the cracks as well..." Nothing definite, but nice to see they at least know it exists.

Fatty Bear's Birthday Surprise
-Other than Saves the Zoo mentioned above, this is the only "Junior Adventure" not on the Steam list. I wouldn't be "surprised" if it was eventually re-released.
EDIT: Again, Night Dive responded on Reddit to someone asking about Fatty Bear, saying "That's something I'll be looking into."

Could potentially happen:

Putt-Putt's Fun Pack
Fatty Bear's Fun Pack
-These two games were combined into Putt-Putt and Fatty Bear's Activity Pack. As such, they probably couldn't be sold alone, but it'd be nice to see them as freebies when you buy the Activity Pack.

Putt-Putt's One-Stop Fun Shop
Freddi Fish's One-Stop Fun Shop
Pajama Sam's One-Stop Fun Shop
-These weren't really "games" but rather HE themed versions of those "print studios" that were popular in the late 90's. They do contain some unique artwork and voice acting, so it'd be nice to see them for completion's sake.

Big Thinkers! Kindergarten
Big Thinkers 1st Grade
-More on the "edu" side of edutainment, these games were made to directly compete with the JumpStart series. The only thing is I'm not sure if Tommo got the rights to these along with the other HE games.

Let's Explore the Farm
Let's Explore the Jungle
Let's Explore the Airport
-These "Junior Field Trips" let you look around and learn about different locations. Again, I don't know if Tommo acquired the rights to these or not, and the fact that they were a joint project with Random House certainly doesn't make matters less complicated.

Backyard Sports
- When Atari went bust last year, these were sold not to Tommo, but to The Evergreen Group. This wouldn't necessarily prevent a re-release, but since they don't seem to have done anything with the IP yet, it's really anyone's guess.

Will probably never happen:

Blue's Clues Games
-Considering the show has been off the air for nearly a decade now, I really don't see Nickelodeon wanting to negotiate on this one.

Freddi Fish: ABC Under the Sea
-It was a DS game, and a pretty obvious cashgrab to boot.

Putt-Putt's Fun House
Freddi Fish's Fun House
-Very simplistic, non-animated games Nimbus put on mobile phones last year. While not bad, they were rather unremarkable, so I really don't see anyone making a PC port anytime soon.
Post edited April 19, 2014 by pezhead53
Just another example of bundling GOG could potentially do: http://store.steampowered.com/sub/42722/ - the Spy Fox compilation is a $20 bundle. If GOG can negotiate the same price, you could bundle Dry Cereal, Assembly, and Ozone (the 3 adventure games) together for 9.99, and the two arcade titles Cheese Chase and Hold the Mustard, for 9.99 also.
Various gaming news agencies covered the Steam releases:

https://news.google.com/news?ncl=d_g4jrHSHrCcFgM4VyF08sLvp4RmM&q=steam&lr=English&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VlFUU7qGJ-issATfg4GoDA&ved=0CCsQqgIwAA
I see that Night Dive replied to you:
https://www.facebook.com/NightDiveStudios/posts/393264557482304?reply_comment_id=1959676&total_comments=3
It sounds like something is preventing them from releasing the games anywhere but Steam, not even on Humble Bundle, which Night Dive has a presence on, and does not curate to the extent that GOG does. But I'm also intrigued by the hint that they have something for us GOGgers coming up.
Post edited April 21, 2014 by SCPM
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SCPM: I see that Night Dive replied to you:
https://www.facebook.com/NightDiveStudios/posts/393264557482304?reply_comment_id=1959676&total_comments=3
It sounds like something is preventing them from releasing the games anywhere but Steam, not even on Humble Bundle, which Night Dive has a presence on, and does not curate to the extent that GOG does. But I'm also intrigued by the hint that they have something for us GOGgers coming up.
From what I can tell (remember, I'm not involved in this, so take what I say with a grain of salt.) both GOG and Night Dive would love to see the games available here, but for whatever reason Tommo only wants them on Steam, at least for the time being.

As for the "something for GOGgers", I'd assume they're referring to Bad Mojo. They've been teasing that one a lot recently. (even above Night Dive's usual standards of teasing EVERYTHING)
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SCPM: I see that Night Dive replied to you:
https://www.facebook.com/NightDiveStudios/posts/393264557482304?reply_comment_id=1959676&total_comments=3
It sounds like something is preventing them from releasing the games anywhere but Steam, not even on Humble Bundle, which Night Dive has a presence on, and does not curate to the extent that GOG does. But I'm also intrigued by the hint that they have something for us GOGgers coming up.
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pezhead53: From what I can tell (remember, I'm not involved in this, so take what I say with a grain of salt.) both GOG and Night Dive would love to see the games available here, but for whatever reason Tommo only wants them on Steam, at least for the time being.

As for the "something for GOGgers", I'd assume they're referring to Bad Mojo. They've been teasing that one a lot recently. (even above Night Dive's usual standards of teasing EVERYTHING)
I'd LOVE to have Bad Mojo on GOG! I only found out about it recently, via IAmSinistar, if I recall correctly, and I instantly knew it was my kind of game.

It's a shame, this whole Humongous Entertainment deal, for all the die-hard fans out there, but on a more personal level, I don't really care, I never played the games or even knew about them, and I don't know anyone who did. Like I said before, I think they might have never been released in my country, and looking at them with no rose-tinted nostalgia glasses, I don't think a large number of people would be interested in them.
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pezhead53: From what I can tell (remember, I'm not involved in this, so take what I say with a grain of salt.) both GOG and Night Dive would love to see the games available here, but for whatever reason Tommo only wants them on Steam, at least for the time being.
Did Steam get any classic Tommo's games released on GOG? Maybe they're just dissapointed about their outcome on gog.com....
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groze: It's a shame, this whole Humongous Entertainment deal, for all the die-hard fans out there, but on a more personal level, I don't really care, I never played the games or even knew about them, and I don't know anyone who did. Like I said before, I think they might have never been released in my country, and looking at them with no rose-tinted nostalgia glasses, I don't think a large number of people would be interested in them.
Although I do see where you are coming from, I respectfully disagree. Given the clientele here on GOG, I would think that several very well designed, if somewhat simple, adventure games (many of which were led by LucasArts veteran Ron Gilbert!) would find a good a mount of success here.

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tburger: Did Steam get any classic Tommo's games released on GOG? Maybe they're just dissapointed about their outcome on gog.com....
That's possible. It seems there are currently only two games published by Tommo on Steam, Tycoon City: New York, and The UnderGarden. Not to sound too cynical, but perhaps Tommo sees GOG as a dumping ground for the games they bought the rights to, but have deemed not well-known enough to be successful on Steam?
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pezhead53: That's possible. It seems there are currently only two games published by Tommo on Steam, Tycoon City: New York, and The UnderGarden. Not to sound too cynical, but perhaps Tommo sees GOG as a dumping ground for the games they bought the rights to, but have deemed not well-known enough to be successful on Steam?
These are old deals published by Atari. Humungous catalog is a new one. Tommo is a small company rather new on the PC gaming market. Could be Steam used his predominant position as DD and called the shots in this case (that is forced exclusivity).

And sadly, I cannot imagine any game - no matter retro, new, indie - that will be (in terms of copies sold) more successful here than on Steam. GOG may occupy the second place on DD market but Steam is waaay ahead of them. The number of people that will buy game on gog.com and definitely will not buy it on Steam (for instance me) is just too few.
The Twitch stream archive is now viewable, they answer the Humongous question right about here (seems to require a humongous broadband to watch comfortably though).

"We have not yet gotten them, we may some day do so... we're trying to arrange something, I'm sure" on one vaguely hopeful, probably not-very-imminent TET hand.
"I'm not sure if it's our core audience, but yeah, those are good games" on the other Marcin hand, which sounds like it wasn't only a matter of pricing.
Post edited April 22, 2014 by MoP
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MoP: "I'm not sure if it's our core audience, but yeah, those are good games" on the other Marcin hand, which sounds like it wasn't only a matter of pricing.
Yeah, I've noticed it too.
Odd, isn't it? On one hand gog keeps repeating about growing problems with finding available classics, how many of them are in copyright limbo etc.
And then when catalog of 20 or so colorful, charming point’n clicks and arcade games from 90’ pop up - “I’m not sure if it’s our core audience”…What is their core audience then?

Would it really hurt if they took 3 of them and did a test on how would they sell? AFAIK those are all SCUMMVM games – not many work involved in making those games run on newer systems…