http://www.gog.com

Feeling nostalgic about the good old days where gameplay reigned supreme? Longing to spend some long, passionate nights with your favorite games of yesteryear? We’re proud to present GOG.com, the site where it's all about Good Old Games and the people that play them.

1. We’ve got games your 10-year-old won’t be better at.

GOG.com offers you critically acclaimed games from major publishers in every genre. Don’t let your kids mock the graphics; remind them that the classics never go out of style, unlike their totally wicked haircut.

2. So you’re cheap. It’s okay – we are, too.

For less than the cost of a lunch at some lousy diner you can own some of the greatest games of all time. No matter how big the file is and how successful the game was, you’ll leave the table satisfied that you got a great deal for your money. As an added bonus, our house specialities won’t make you sick.

3. You buy it, you keep it.

Don't let your DRMs turn into nightmares (clever, no?). You won't find any intrusive copy protection in our games; we hate draconian DRM schemes just as much as you do, so at GOG.com you don't just buy the game, you actually own it. Once you download a game, you can install it on any PC and re-download it whenever you want, as many times as you need, and you can play it without an internet connection.

4. All games are Vista and XP compatible.

Thanks to our handsome programming team, the classics are now Windows Vista and Windows XP compatible. Now you can use your lightning-fast PC to unleash the full potential of those games you just couldn’t play properly on that busted old 386.

5. Extend the experience with tons of cool and exclusive add-ons.

Buying the game is just the beginning. With the purchase of any game at GOG.com you'll also get some great additional materials for free, including game guides, walkthroughs, MP3 game soundtracks, wallpapers and more. No joke.

6. We’re bringing together classic games and a classy community.

Dive into the GOG.com community, share your love for the games and meet other gamers with the same passion for classic games as you. Rate and review every single game, discuss your favorite titles on message boards, get support for your games and help others. Who knows, maybe you’ll find that special someone.

7. It's so easy, your gramma’s probably already playing.

GOG.com is so easy to use. We have an easy account setup, game installers as user friendly as can be and simple, fast and hassle-free downloads. Thanks to these features, you'll need just a few clicks to get you on your way to playing some of the best PC games of all time.

tl;dr version:
GoG.com is a new up-and-coming digital distribution service, similar to Steam or GameTap. Basically, for 5 measly bucks (ten in the case of very few games), you can download old classics like MDK and Giants: Citizen Kabuto, in XP and Vista-compatible forms. It's in beta at the moment so it's not open access yet, but having an account myself I have to say that it's a rather solid service and already has quite a few quality titles.

Just found a pretty good interview with one of the staff: http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/idiocy-of-games-drm.ars

By the way the guys who made this website are the same guys who developed The Witcher.  I like the idea of generating interest in old products that time has forgotten as the latest graphics cards are completely incompatible with some of these things (if you have the latest NVIDIA drivers and 4gb of ram you pretty much can't play any game pre-2004; if you remove 2gb of ram it somehow fixes the problem).  I can't get Fallout working on vista but they got both games up there for purchase.

MDK? I'm sold, just gimme a few years till I can pay for these and I'm so going to try and kick that game's ass!

In all seriousness, MDK is definately one I would get this for, along with maybe the fallout series to see what they are like (Never played 'em! =O)

I think this is a fantastic idea, and really sorta... not so much RESPECT the dudes behind it, but eh, can't think of the word. Sure you can go out and get dosbox and do it yourself and shit (for free, none the less), but these guys are really branching out to a different sorta audience so that everyone can play this stuff again.

what a strange post.

By the way the guys who made this website are the same guys who developed The Witcher.  I like the idea of generating interest in old products that time has forgotten as the latest graphics cards are completely incompatible with some of these things (if you have the latest NVIDIA drivers and 4gb of ram you pretty much can't play any game pre-2004; if you remove 2gb of ram it somehow fixes the problem).  I can't get Fallout working on vista but they got both games up there for purchase.

same reason you can't play old DOS games without an emu like DOSBox, the old games were made in a time were like 512MB of RAM was EPIC or MYTHICAL, so basically your PC winds up being so fast (if they dont have vsynch which dos games dont afaik) the game can't run or runs SUPER FAST 900000000000000 FPS. dosbox, stuff like nes emus etc force these to run at 60fps so they are playable, afaik!

same reason you can't play old DOS games without an emu like DOSBox, the old games were made in a time were like 512MB of RAM was EPIC or MYTHICAL, so basically your PC winds up being so fast (if they dont have vsynch which dos games dont afaik) the game can't run or runs SUPER FAST 900000000000000 FPS. dosbox, stuff like nes emus etc force these to run at 60fps so they are playable, afaik!

I read an article somewhere that all of the "unique effects" that old graphics cards used (like transparent pixels and really old shaders) is a short line of code that could easily be incorporated into newer GFX cards but the manufacturers of these things are too concerned with speeding them up than typing in a few short lines that slow it down.  I can't wrap my mind around the idea that a 256mb graphics card in a system with 2gb of ram runs Vampire Bloodlines at max quality but the same setup with 4gb of ram forces the game to permanently switch to low.  Why is it that all the magic effects in Planescape Torment, which happen to be sprites with a bunch of alpha transparencies, can't be "emulated" or whatever using that same graphics card? 

UGH sometimes I wish I were these PC manufacturing bigwigs because I'd take the time to ensure that support for all systems is maintained *flowery ideology for another 5 paragraphs*

I wish dosbox worked with the Challenge Pack II games. I have the Challenge Pack II with all these awesome games that
I can't find on the internet. I tried to run the cd from dosbox, but after some searching it turns out both the Challenge Pack cds are setup so you have to have actual dos files on your computer or something, so you can't play them even with dosbox. I thought dosbox emulated all the dos files and stuff, but I guess not.