Game Nostalgia

You tired of going to your used/old games store and picking up one of your most favorite games of all times and get home just to find that your OS (vista/XP) is not compatible ? Sure you can probably get some silly patches or set your compatibility back in order to make your game work but this usually comes with some quite annoying quirks such as game crashing every three minutes or that your brand new graphics card is too new for the game to recognise etc etc. I am sure most of us have experienced it.

But now Salvation is here !

It comes in the form of a new(ish) online store which specialises in good old games and allows you to buy (yes buy, for real !) most of your good old favorites. Sure there are some games missing (mainly from ridiculous multi-corporations such as EA ) but you are bound to find at least one of your great old games.

Some of the advantages about gog.com are the following:

-Very reasonable prices (yes they are!)
-Accessible from most countries (I would say 'all countries' but I am not actually sure about that)
-No ridiculous extra software required (Such as Steam or EA downloader)
-No limit as to how many times you can actually download the game (such as EA) and they do stress this issue a lot on their website, you actually do OWN the game, just not an actual physical copy.
-As far as I know and as far as I have heard their modifications* to certain games are incredible, granted due to lack of money I have not actually bought more than one game (Heroes of might and magic 3 including all expansions) but it works perfectly. Perfect as in they work like the original, it only crashes occasionally and due to the Autosave feature of HOMM 3 this is not an issue. This is actually quite a big deal since other online stores who releases oldish games (Steam) promises the same but does not always deliver.

*Modifications in this case is making the games compatible with XP and Vista.

I know that I at least am looking forward to going on a shopping spree as soon as I get some disposable income.

Also I love EA games, just not EA itself...