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Some of you must remember the crazy thread by Sephirath about creating a GOG song based on AC/DC's T.N.T. This inspired our first holiday contest for our great and creative community: write your own lyrics to a GOG holiday carol! You can record yourself performing the carol if you feel like it, but that's not required to enter the contest.

We won't be limiting you with how long the carol should be or which, if any, carol it will be based on - that's totally up to you and your creative minds. But there are a few rules:
Only one entry per GOG member is allowed.
If you're basing your carol off a popular tune, please indicate what tune you've been inspired by so we don't have to guess.
If you're submitting a video or recording of your entry, please don't attach it to the email. Our mailbox refuses emails larger than 3 megs, so it will surely bounce. Send us a link to somewhere you've posted it online, please.
You're giving GOG rights to repost your entry if we decide it's one of our potential winners.
To claim your prize, we need a physical address to mail the goodies to. If you're not a resident of this planet, or are a non-corporeal being, you should probably think twice about entering.
The contest starts now and will end on Sunday, December 5 at 11:59 p.m. EDT.
Your entry should be sent to contest@gog.com before the contest ends. Of course, if you feel like sharing your efforts with your fellow Goggers, feel free, but keep in mind that we're only judging the entries that land in our inbox.
If you have any questions that simply must be addressed, you can always reach us at users@gog.com.

On Monday, December 6, we will post the best carols sent to us, and for the next four days you, the GOG community, will vote for the best GOG holiday carol - each user will be eligible to vote once a day. At the end of the voting period, we'll award prizes to the first, second, and third most popular carols.

Now, what are the prizes, you ask?
The first place winner will receive: 10 games of their choice from GOG, a GOG laptop skin and the awesome and cult GOG's announcement game box with stickers, buttons and--finally-- a holiday card signed by the whole GOG team.
Second place will be awarded with 5 games of the winners choice from GOG, and GOG's announcement game box
Third place will receive: 3 games and his very own GOG launch game box.
Sounds cool? Yeah, we thought so.

Ok, there's no time to waste - feel the GOG holiday spirit and write us a carol!

Here, to help get your juices started, is a sample lyric from your very own GOG team:

Gamers We Have Heard on High
[i](To the tune of "Angels We Have Heard on High")
Gamers we have heard on high
Tell us to go out and buy
Asking what new bargain brings
Gee Oh Gee on floating wings
Geeeeeeeee
Ohhhhhhhhhh
Geeeeeeeee--you're great!
Old Skool Gaming will soon commence
Geeeeeeeee
Ohhhhhhhhhh
Geeeeeeeee--it's fate!
Old Skool Gaming will soon commence[/i]

Hey, we never claimed to be songwriters. Let's hope your submissions are better!
this is based on Deck the Halls, and using the infamous trolololo meme

Tis the season to be Jolly,
tro lo lo lo lo, lo lo lo lo lo
find great savings and dont be a dolly,
tro lo lo lo lo, lo lo lo lo lo

don't be a troll of old carol
tro lo lo lo lo, lo lo lo lo lo
or you won't get games like mob rule
tro lo lo lo lo, lo lo lo lo lo

look upon the games sold by us
tro lo lo lo lo, lo lo lo lo lo
like Creatures exodus
tro lo lo lo lo, lo lo lo lo lo

we sell games that you'll treasure
tro lo lo lo lo, lo lo lo lo lo
Arcanum: steamworks and magic obscur-a
tro lo lo lo lo, lo lo lo lo lo

we do sell quite alot genres
tro lo lo lo lo, lo lo lo lo lo
shooters, action and many others
tro lo lo lo lo, lo lo lo lo lo

lets all play games, all together
tro lo lo lo lo, lo lo lo lo lo
we'll all be gog friends forever
tro lo lo lo lo, lo lo lo lo lo
Huh, just realized that this was mainly a lyrics writing competition; I thought everyone had to actually record their songs, too. Ah well, hopefully I'll have a chance to win all the same.
Jingle Games

Surfin' on the web
Browsing for good games
Over to Steam we go
But to our dismay
Prices are quite high
Protection much too tight
So we start to pray
To find a way and play

Oh, Good Old Games, Good Old Games
All for you and me
Oh how fun they are to see
Now protection free
Good Old Games, Good Old Games
This website's for me
Built up nice by smart Polish guys
Best box under The Tree.

Couple-a-days ago
I thought I'd sit and play
An old CD of mine
With a great game, I must say
Which sadly, didn't work
Hardware much too new
So I sat and thought
And finally found a way

Oh, Good Old Games, Good Old Games
Best games sold dirt cheap
How great it is to have
Full compatibility
Good Old Games, Good Old Games
This website's for me
Wrapped up nice by "The Witcher" guys
Best box under The Tree.

Beeest booox un-deeer The Treeee!
Gamers all agree.
23h59 EDT? I submitted my entry 30 minutes ago, was it too late already?

Anyway, here's my poem:


'For many years, the Ghost of Christmas Past
Spread gloom among us, and we all despaired,
Our dear old games, never to know again,
And the glory of yesteryear pixels,
Overlooked gems we never got to meet,
Was told to us by bedazzled gamers,
Whose eyes shone, dimly, with a distant light,
And our hardware, discouraged, failed on us.

But two years ago, He came from the east,
Where the sun rises, and he said He was
The Ghost of Christmas Present, and he said:
'It is not fair that you, gamers, have been left
Alone, all alone with your memories,
By editors who ride the gravy train,
Nor is it fair, that all of the good games
That live in your heart, don't live for today'

Come and unite, you gamers from the world,
Follow the Ghost of Christmas Yet to come!
Because with him, it's Christmas everyday!
We have burned our prison, crushed our shackles,
And D.R.M, a very bad nightmare,
Now feed monsters in Fallout's Wasteland.
We share, rejoice, care about each other.
Huuray! Huuray! Three cheers for Gee-Oh-Gee!

G___ood Cratchites will team up in Unreal,
O___ld Scrooge will dive alone in Arcanum,
G___ames for everyone on GOG!

And behold! For the best is yet to come!'

I see that some adapted songs from The Nightmare before Christmas. How about GOG's staff singing:

'Kidnap D.R.Ms,
beat them with a stick,
lock them up for ninety years,
see what makes them tick'
Heres mine to the tune of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.

GoG bless ye merry, gamers
They brings games for all to play
Remember, the GOG, our saviour
Was born 2008
To save us all from the gaming hell
of the crappy games of late
O weekly updates of drm free classic joy,
Classic joy
O weekly updates of drm free classic joy

In the internet, a series of tubes,
This blessed GOG was born
And gave us a gaming library
To give us gamers the horn
Classic games and forgotten wonders
To play early into the morn
O weekly updates of drm free classic joy,
Classic joy
O weekly updates of drm free classic joy,

From GOG our Heavenly Father
THe Atari RPG series came;
And unto old and new gamers
Brought crpgs of fame:
So all could see on the PC born
The best of role playing games
O weekly updates of drm free classic joy,
Classic joy
O weekly updates of drm free classic joy

"Be not afraid mortal gamers," said voice of GOG,
We will keep you gaming into the night.
We are your gaming saviour
Let our catalogue be your guiding light
To save all those who rock the PC
From modern games lack of sight
O weekly updates of drm free classic joy,
Classic joy
O weekly updates of drm free classic joy,

The GOG community partied hard
As more publishers signed,
Adventure, strategy and so much more
With add ons and low price
Downloaded unto our PCs
A genre for every mind.
O weekly updates of drm free classic joy,
Classic joy
O weekly updates of drm free classic joy,

And upon arrival at our community
Fellow gamers were heard to say,
We have never seen such generosity,
From members who give the gift of games
Giveaways and competitions,
So we all have a GOG to play
O weekly updates of drm free classic joy,
Classic joy
O weekly updates of drm free classic joy,

Now to the GOG raise your mouses,
All you gamers up in this place,
GOG is kicking it old school
Providing the awesome from "Back in the day"
So to the GOG and all its members have a great holiday
May gaming always put a smile on your face
O weekly updates of drm free classic joy,
Classic joy
O weekly updates of drm free classic joy,
Well mine didn't make the cut, but I'll share it on here.

The GOG Song (The Christmas Song)

Servers burning, in an open room
Air conditioning nipping, at their cores
Polish gods, with their eyes all a glow,
and staff members dressed like average joe's

Everybody knows, extra goodies and drm-free games
help to make the whole year bright
Avid gamers, who can never get enough,
will never get to sleep, tonight

They know that Michal Kicinski, is on his way
His gog games are loaded with lots of goodies on his site
And every gaming child, is going to visit
to see if GOG, has been updated on time

And so i'm offering, this simple phrase
To devs from one to ninety two
Although it's been said, many times many ways
GOG gets it, so you should all too.
Heres mine
To the tune of "Lego Spongebob Squarepants Don't Be a Jerk It's Christmas"
Hay Everybody Gog.com is here Crhismas means great gifts and games giving and loving so dering this joyful season dont be a meanie
Bring joy to gamers and pepoel alike is a thing to do earth does not revol around you dont be a meanie it's crhismas
theres a site named gog.com that means good old games
Gog.com is the best of all
bring back that joyful ness when you were younger
bring it back
we are gog we are good
This is the one of them all
so be very nice or bad will happen to you
its time to nice not mean
dont be a meanie its crhismas

Mine hadent made the ehtier but here is is its above

End of song
Sorry for poor english
Sorry if its bad
Post edited December 06, 2010 by Noah120
. . . I noticed the time and threw this together at the last minute . . . only to realize just after sending it in that the due date was yesterday. Oh well. Here 'tis anyway.

(Hallelujah Chorus. Gaudeamus == "let us rejoice")

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Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus!
Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus!

Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus!

Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus!

for all our favorite games are now reborn.
Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus!

for all our favorite games are now reborn.
Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus!

for all our favorite games are now reborn.
Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus!
Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus!
Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus!
Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus!

The gamers of this world can now play
the Classics as they please, and without strings, in clean pure form;
and we shall play for ever and ever
and we shall play for ever and ever
and we shall play for ever and ever
and we shall play for ever and ever

Good Old Games,
for ever and ever. Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus!
no D-R-M,
for ever and ever. Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus!

Good Old Games,
for ever and ever. Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus!
no D-R-M,
for ever and ever. Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus!

Good Old Games,
for ever and ever. Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus!
no D-R-M,
for ever and ever. Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus!

Good Old Games, no D-R-M,
and we shall play for ever and ever
and we shall play for ever and ever

Good Old Games
for ever and ever. Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus!

and we shall play for ever and ever,
for ever and ever,
Good Old Games,
no D-R-M,
Good Old Games,
no D-R-M,
and we shall play for ever and ever,

Good Old Games,
no D-R-M.
Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus! Gaudeamus!

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As you can see, it didn't require many lines to be written. :-p
So do we know who won this?