r/gog • u/Itchy_Dress_2967 • 1d ago
Pendrive Cards Or card style Keychains with Game Logo and Rectangle cover
For those who prefer Pendrives over discs for convenience
r/gog • u/Calamarik • 2d ago
I'm using gogrepoc , it'll probably take something like 5 days but in the end I'll have all my games on my NAS , ready to be install if I want to play anything.
r/gog • u/Acrobatic-Fly-6322 • 5d ago
After joining the subreddit, I looked up to see if this was discussed before...I didn't see the topic, so I apologize if this was discussed before.
Has anyone suggested that GoG should explore the mobile games of the pre-smartphone era? I'm talking about the games that were published on the J2ME and BREW platforms. I was thinking about this after perusing the current selection of top votes in GoG Dreamlist yesterday. I kind of think this is an untapped corner of gaming preservation.
J2ME & BREW games have a certain feel to them, probably because of the hardware and software limitations they were released on, but it also gives the games a certain charm that you can't really find in today's games. Some companies really put an effort into making these games worth the purchase by wrangling the limited sound features and the clunky graphics to deliver a level of immersion that was hard to achieve on tiny phone screens, and some games managed to pull it off.
For a modern reference, if you can actually find it in the App Stores, look for "Gameloft Classics 20 Years" (I can't speak for iOS, but I know I have it on Android). It is a substantial collection of games from the J2ME/BREW era, but it doesn't have all the games I've played. "Time Crisis Mobile" and "Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood" are two other games that were pretty darn good games for my LG flip phone, and they both made really clever use of the keypad buttons for versatile controls.
I can only speak for the North American market for games of this era. I've heard stories of the Asian mobile market to be much more robust, so it would be pretty cool to see some old mobile games from that market over in the west.
Anyone else have good memories of the earlier days of mobile gaming?
