Launched in 2008,
GOG.com
(formerly known as Good Old Games) is a
digital distributor of video games for
Windows and
Mac OS. Owned as a subsidiary of Polish video game studio
CD Projekt RED (of
The Witcher fame), via the Cyprian company GOG Ltd., GOG.com is best known for ports of
abandonware titles from
The Eighties and
The Nineties to modern operating systems, though they also have a decent catalog of current releases as well (primarily
indie games rather than AAA titles).
One of their major advertising points is the fact that they distribute their games without
DRM, in contrast to services such as
Steam and Origin. In addition the older games in their catalog are all modified to run properly on modern systems (frequently using
DOSBox emulation), and usually include lots of
feelies such as soundtracks, manuals, and forum avatars, as well as scans of feelies that came with the original game (maps, comics, and the like). With older games the feelies frequently take up more hard drive space than the game itself does.
Many of the titles in their catalog are
compilation rereleases: for instance, the first three
Ultima games are one package, the next three are another,
Ultima VII and its
Expansion Pack Serpent Isle are a third, and the
Ultima Underworld duology are yet a fourth.
Compare
Steam and
DESURA.
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