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I’ll give the folks over at Good Old Games (GOG) credit: they’re certainly doing what they said they were going to do. We’ve been talking about GOG a fair amount lately, mainly since the platform announced it was pivoting back to focus on its initial raison d’etre: bringing retro, DRM-free games back to a public storefront for gamers to legitimately purchase. GOG stated that it was doing this in part in order to get into the business of video game preservation, a prospect that everyone knew would be tested largely due to fights and/or confusion over IP rights held by publishers, studios, and god knows who else.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

You can literally request Nintendo IP there. Doesn't mean that it will come true, but I requested literally all Mario amd Zelda games as soon as I found out.

There is no comparable equal to those titles on PC.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No One Lives Forever has disappeared off the face of the earth and I really enjoyed it back in the day. I wish GOG sucess in getting it back into circulation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I happen to have the original CDs and might be of help in preservation efforts. Not quite sure where I misplaced them, but I just had NOLF 2 in my hands.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Freelancer was such a good game, I wish there were more like it.