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stonebro: Soooo "The Manhole" is liiike ... a kids game?

Yeah. It's fun puzzle game though. It was marketed as a sequel to Treehouse, which was another fun kids game. Manhole is actually aimed at younger kids than Treehouse. I think it requires reading though.
The puzzles in Treehouse and Manhole reminded me of "Castle of Dr. Brain", which is my all time favorite edutainment game. If GOG scores the old Sierra catalog, that's an instabuy.
Well done gog!
Welcome Cyan!
Oh, now this is very good news. I played the heck of out Riven on my Playstation, but I couldn't ever get it to run properly on my XP computer years later (and no, I wasn't trying to use my PS CDs, I had bought a Myst collection :P).
It'd be nice to have it sans disks, and considering all the material Cyan has released on these games (music, artbooks, making of, etc.), I can only hope for some nifty goodies to download with them. :D
Real Myst could be added later, as Cyan did that game, but I believe Mysts 3-4 were done by somebody else.
Uru and Myst 5 are probably too new to have here, but you never know....
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Peppermint: Oh, now this is very good news. I played the heck of out Riven on my Playstation, but I couldn't ever get it to run properly on my XP computer years later (and no, I wasn't trying to use my PS CDs, I had bought a Myst collection :P).
It'd be nice to have it sans disks, and considering all the material Cyan has released on these games (music, artbooks, making of, etc.), I can only hope for some nifty goodies to download with them. :D
Real Myst could be added later, as Cyan did that game, but I believe Mysts 3-4 were done by somebody else.
Uru and Myst 5 are probably too new to have here, but you never know....

Myst 3 and 4 were made by Ubisoft, which already has a deal here.
I certainly hope Cosmic Osmo or Spelunk'll be available, though I'll understand if you guys can't manage it (trying to get Hypercard emulated properly on modern OSes is probably near-impossible).
So .. is this the big new deal we've been hearing whisperings about? Or is the something new in the works, still?
I ask because I haven't bought any GoGs in a little while - I currently have ~80, having not even played well over half. Therefore I figured I'd take a little break and cut down on the backlog some.
Turns out though, that the backlog of games-I-have-to-buy is growing faster than the backlog of games-left-to-play is shrinking.
I've currently got Commandos 2+3, Psychonauts, Advent Rising, Sanitarium, Bloodrayne 1+2, Divine Divinity + Beyond Divinity, UFO Series, Tropico Reloaded, and now the Myst games that I absolutely need to buy, from the games that have been released only in the past 6 weeks or so. Add that to the wishlist as it existed at that point.
And there's possibly more big things in the works, if we're to put some trust in the rumours.
Damn! I'm glad we have only half taxes in december ...
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stonebro: So .. is this the big new deal we've been hearing whisperings about? Or is the something new in the works, still?

They were talking about 3 big announcements. What that means for partnerships and games I do not know (nor do anyone not part of the GOG team).
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Peppermint: Oh, now this is very good news. I played the heck of out Riven on my Playstation, but I couldn't ever get it to run properly on my XP computer years later (and no, I wasn't trying to use my PS CDs, I had bought a Myst collection :P).
It'd be nice to have it sans disks, and considering all the material Cyan has released on these games (music, artbooks, making of, etc.), I can only hope for some nifty goodies to download with them. :D
Real Myst could be added later, as Cyan did that game, but I believe Mysts 3-4 were done by somebody else.
Uru and Myst 5 are probably too new to have here, but you never know....
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POLE7645: Myst 3 and 4 were made by Ubisoft, which already has a deal here.

Myst 3: exile was published by Ubisoft, although it was made by Presto Studios, best known for the journeyman project series, a sort of spiritual predecessor to the red faction series, although they also made the painfully bad Star Trek: Hidden Evil, a follow up game to Star Trek IX. Combined, Star Trek HE and Myst 3 Exile pushed Presto out of game development.
FANTASTIC news. I am SO sold on all three games, although the perfect thing would be to get Myst III, IV, V and Uru onto here as well. I realize the rights to these games belong to Ubisoft, but still; would be absolutely mindblowing.
That said, Riven without the hassle of CD switching and retrieval: Sold.
I know this will sound blasphemous, but the Myst I enjoyed the most was Myst IV. The way they combined 3D with FMV was (and still is to this day) a real contestant to fully 3D games. It made me said when they decided to go fully 3D for URU and Myst V.
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Thompsons: I certainly hope Cosmic Osmo or Spelunk'll be available, though I'll understand if you guys can't manage it (trying to get Hypercard emulated properly on modern OSes is probably near-impossible).
Apparently they're on Steam, so someone has gotten it working now.
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/4870/
Can we has gamez, Team GOG?