Is there any chance of GOG releasing the older D&D titles? Gold Box and Black Box games? Especially the Dark Sun and Eye of the Beholder games?

yes

The Gold Box games are great, but if you recall, the lack of ROM on the old 5.25" disks that the games came on meant that the dialogue for the games had to be printed in a book that came with each of the games. There would be a whole lot of exiting the games to check a PDF or a text file. It would be nice to have them here though.

The Eye of the Beholder trilogy would be great, expecially if they sold them as one collection. You just don't see games like Eye of the Beholder anymore. They are unique titles that are just perfect for PC's.

Darn. I was hoping we might get on the "yes, no, maybe" track again.

You are right of course but what did they do on all of the re-release collections that came out over the years?

The wizardworks collection had the books on a text file that could be printed, and all of the other games I have seen, like the Forgotten Realms archives, actually had all of the books compiled into one big book that came with the games.

Actually that's pretty cool, wonder if GoG could somehow organise to get the books printed and if you pay extra you get the book posted to you? That would be awesome as.

_Any_ chance? Sure, but not much of one.

Realistic chance? Not for a long while at least.

As far as I know, only Atari are allowed to sell D&D computer games. The gold/black box games were not published by them, but by SSI who are now owned by Ubisoft. For the same reason we won't be seeng Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor here, it was published by Ubisoft, and Ubi have had their D&D-selling rights taken away by Hasbro.

I actually just brought this up earlier today in another thread. I'm hoping that because atari (who currently hold the license for D&D games) and SSI (which I think GOG has a deal with because panzer general is on the site) are both already on GOG it wont be to hard to get the old gold box games in the future. I remember playing those when I first got a computer. Unfortunately, at the time I didn't have the patience to play the games through.

Nah what'd be better is if they wrote a custom framework that had a dosbox shell running the game in the left half and PDF reader with the adventurers journal open in the right.

THAT would be awesome as.