Good old Games Website Review

[Golgatha]

http://arstechnica.com/news.ar...-for-download-age.html

Good games that are 5-10 years old with no DRM, lots of extra downloadable content (manual, soundtrack, wallpapers, etc.), updated to work on modern computers and OSes, no proprietary download client, re-download titles I've purchased whenever I feel like it for no extra fee, and all this for $10 or less per game. :Q

Surely this is a FTW situation. Now, if they'd do this for current games (adjusting the price upwards of course for newer titles), I'd be in heaven.

 

[Maleficus]

Most of the people who will appreciate these games already own them, the new people that might give them a chance will go zomg what shitty graphix lol, time for more CODsucker4 guys, rofl grenades.

You can bring a horse to water etc etc

 

[KaOTiK]

Pretty cool site. I'll keep an eye out for any games I might have missed, but I do own a lot of the ones I see already lol.

 

[KeypoX]

cool man

 

[Jesusthewererabbit]

This could be great. Buying old games that are guaranteed to work on Vista? Excellent! As long as they have Dungeon Keeper 2. I haven't been able to get that to run since I upgraded to XP in 2001.

 

[Frodolives]

The idea is good, long overdue really, but I'm reserving judgement for the long haul when I see more titles added that are truly a challenge to obtain and/or run on modern systems. Pretty much of the ones they have so far that I was interested in at all, I was already able to run them on XP.


And since we're on the subject, now that my motherboard can already have an onboard stripped down version of linux on a chipset, I don't see why we shouldn't someday have a legacy chipset to let us just boot into a choice of ancient OS' to run the classics.