Old Games For Sale - Legit!

Posted: November 15th, 2008 | Author: telcor | Filed under: Games, Linux, Play | Tags: , | No Comments »

GOG, if you haven’t heard, is a way to purchase older games that work on newer systems. Many of the games are from the late 90’s and early 2000’s (although there are a few older than that), designed for either MS-DOS or the MS-Windows 9x line of operating systems. As such, some of the games are unplayable on modern systems (especially on the NT based system such as Windows XP). The prices are rather reasonable: $5.99 to $9.99.

One game from that era I never played, but recently wanted to, is . The reasons being:

  • The developers had opened the source code a few years ago
  • I like space sims and haven’t found one I like for Linux
  • X3 was not available (although it finally will be Nov 28, 2008)

Some weeks ago I searched for a legit copy of Freespace 2 for purchase. E-Bay was a rip-off and I stopped looking.

The good news is both Freespace games are available from GOG, so I purchased Freespace 2. One wonderful aspect of this is their service does not require any special client software to use (unlike Steam or Impulse), other than a browser. A second
wonderful aspect is their installer works great with Wine 1.0.

Within minutes of download, Freespace 2 was installed and I was enjoying FSSCP. This will definitely bring me back to GOG. Hopefully they will continue to add games to their library.