I'd love for games like Phantasie, The Magic Candle, Omnicron Conspiracy, Sentinel Worlds, Starflight, Spirit of Excalibur and such to show up here. What are the odds we'll see any of that era start to show up?

OLD SCHOOL OVERLOAD.

You've been eaten by a Grue. :(

Who knows, I wonder if there are any stipulations, or if they've just become super abandoned and hard to find. But, I'd imagine they'd do like a whole old-school update for that.

If we somehow got the Infocom Interactive Fiction titles I would be so happy. :D I know they wouldn't come with any of the feelies but I'm sure they could work out a way to still get any info needed via PDFs to beat the games.

I just realized I have never heard of any of these games. Makes me feel young.

"Hammurabi, I beg to report...."

I remember playing Starflight years ago on my Atari ST....

I believe Omnikron Conspiracy was known as The Nomad Soul in some countries, it certainly was in the UK.

I agree. I'd love to see some of the games you mentioned.

Dude.. completely different games.
Omnicron Conspiracy
Omikron: The Nomad Soul

Yes, definitely gog.com should add more oldies. I was thinking: what was so special about those games…Well, that is what came to my mind:
1) boxes & art: ok, in game gfx was not too pretty but those cover arts on boxes/reference cards/manuals was excellent…. Sentinel Worlds…you looked at the box and it was like poster from kind of Hollywood multi $$$ SF movie not single 5 1/4 floppy game. You felt the ADVENTURE is coming…
2) game intros: or actually lack of it :-). Having relatively primitive PC at their disposal - game designers had to put intro of the game, world description etc. on the paper…Reading such additional materials was much more atmospheric than just watching another cool rendered intro in later games. I don’t know how many of you remember manual from Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat..It contained a story about Grudgebringers split into several parts and dispersed around entire manual – I don’t remember how many times I read this, but it certainly gave me a feeling of Warhammer World. Or manual for UFO2 and interview with veteran from UFO1? Masterpiece..Or above mentioned Sentinel World “...MAYDAY MAYDAY CALDORRE DO YOU RECEIVE THIS IS THE TRANSPORT BARGE "NEW MOON" OUT OF NORJAENN TOWN WE HAVE BEEN ATTACKED” you read this and your mind starts to work drawing pictures...
3) game manuals: this I miss most. LOTS of pages, pumped with ALL kind of in-game information. Like in : “Red Storm Rising”: submarines, surface ships, helicopters, torpedoes, fighting tactics, photos, pictures, schematics, water layers, this story about selling by Japan corporation machines for propellers production to Soviet Union etc. They specified exactly EVERY aspect of the game, all game mechanisms. And what do we get today: some 5 pages installation tutorial, game mechanism description like: click on the enemy unit to attack it and oh yes how could I forget “epilepsy warning”.

As for the prices… I would accept $5,99 for masterpiece and $2,99 for just good game. But if I'm going to pay the price for 25 years old game - such game would have to have manuals, scans of boxes and other printed materials present in original releases. No excuses, no txt files.. Pretty high-quality scans, please.

No, I was not eaten by a grue. I have light! :P

And as for Hammurabi's report, 17 people died but 120 moved to your city.

What other games do we need here. Universe 1-3, um Elite, Skyfox 1&2, all the missing Sierra stuff, all the infocom stuff from Zork to Arthur, Project Space Station, MegaTraveller 1&2, Space 1889, the old Star Trek text games (Promethean Prophecy, etc). Hmmm, I think I'm going to go through my collection and make a comprehensive list for everyone. Back later. Post some here if you think of any. Had to have come on a floppy or had the series start with a floppy game.

And for you, Mr "I've never heard of these..." When I was a boy we whistled into the phone to sync up with the 300 baud bbs signals. If you wanted to play a game from tape you started it loading and went and mowed the lawn or something, because you had a good 45 minutes to wait. A first person shooter was called "Laser Tag". It involved exercising. An "epic fail" was why lawn darts were outlawed. Instant Messaging was called yelling. Add more to this list too classic players :P We need our old gamer rant list :)

Given GOG's two price points it would be difficult to get such old games on the site without bundling them.

I'm with you on that one - In the early-90's, Activision released 2 box sets of Infocom games, I think they were called the Lost Treasures of Infocom (1 & 2). Each boxes had a softcover book that included all the instruction booklets plus copies of the feelies that were required to complete various puzzles (brochures, etc). The first box also included the Invisiclues in a softcover book (obviously with the clues already revealed). I don't think the second collection included the invisiclues. I'm sure .pdfs of these books could be made.

Sometime late in the decade (it seems like), Activision released all of the above on a single CD - it may even have included the invisiclues but I'm writing this from memory. I've got all 3 sets (I've temporarily misplaced the invisiclues book but I know I've got it somewhere). I'd love to see GoG release the entire collection that will work on modern computers sometime.

EDIT: I found my CD version ("Masterpieces" dated 1996) and popped it in the drive. It has over 30 games (including Leather Goddesses of Phobos, sadly no scratch and sniff card...) and has the instructions (w/ some "feelies" scanned in), clues, and maps already placed in 3 separate pdfs (900+ pages scanned!!!). The CD also includes install set ups for DOS, Win 3.1, and Win 95.

C'mon GoG! Most of the work has already been done - just need to get the games working in DOSBox.

I agree. I don't know if I'd pick up too many of these games for 5.99 each, but bundle a few good ones together and I'd buy it.

Wintersbite, you mention the Megatraveller games, damn those were difficult, but do you also remember there was a Twilight 2000 game?

Also, we need the SSI Gold box range, the trouble though with those was that the retail games had a 'manual/supplementary book' which you had to refer to in certain points to understand the story, it was a primitive but effective form of copy protection.

I remember a game I played years back, can anyone remember it, it was a spy thriller game, first person viewpoint in a Bards Tale style setup (NOT Spycraft), and it was set in cold war era Berlin.

Other really old games worth having, the BAT series, Transarctica, Captive.

It would be awesome if GOG got this.