That actually sounds really cool..

However, it's a little strange that they would sell Freespace, considering the game is open source now and you can basically download it legally and for free. I imagine a good portion of the people who'd be using the service would know, but they should!

And they've wisely put Fallout 2 as the first box on the image

Fallout 2 alone makes this worthwhile.

No kidding.. it'll hopefully let me pick up all the games I used to have and can't find the discs too. Baldur's Gate (the original, I still have the discs for BG2 ) is up there as well.

These should be CHEAP. Like, Virtual Console kind of cheap at worst. Let's not forget they probably just paid a few people a few bucks for the rights to redistribute these with no other real cost... If they even paid anyone for some of these unsuported products from defunct companies and not just made some settlement in court to have the right to publish them or something. And they really shouldn't offer now free games on there, it's misleading for people who aren't in the know.

They're pricing them at $6-10.

Pretty reasonable in my opinion, too. Some of the boxes on the pic aren't ancient enough to be worth scrap - I'd pay $10 for Fallout Tactics (another victim of lost discs )

Well... sure, the engine is open, but the content isn't. Yeah, yeah, I know about the EULA, but that was changed (that is, even on the original CD, that EULA wasn't copied to the machine -- the one without the "friends" clause was), unfortunately. *Technically*, those FSOInstallers and whatnot aren't on the up and up. No one cares at this point, but they might start caring if this picks up.

Then again, gametap has been offering it for awhile now and they still haven't caught any crap over it, so maybe not.

I'm particular impressed by the fact that they claim all titles will be Vista compatible. No small feat, given the age of some of the games.

Ehh, most games work on Vista with little trouble. I have yet to find one I could not run, even in 64-bit.

My roomates and I, all run 64-bit Vista (Home Premium through Ultimate), and have had times where we have gone back and played Dungeon Siege, Diablo, Diablo 2, and other various old titles.

For the most part, if it was programed well to begin with, Vista can run it. If it was programed poorly than it will have trouble.

Note, some games (Dungeon Siege), claim they have known compatibility issues, played through nearly the entire game and no sign of them. Did notice some strange graphical errors that happened pretty rarely. ie, a character would be dead, but wouldn't change from his alive animation.

I just signed up for their beta. Anyone know any other games they will have? Wing Commander FTW!!! I tried the dosbox thing and I got to one of the missions and everything runs just a little fast so it was impossible to complete the mission.

DOSBox allows you to speed up or slow down the emulation speed--check the documentation.

Lets hope this takes off and the catalog grows and grows!  Although with some of the software companies out there we may never see some really good classics.

Man, I have surely and thoroughly left the gaming mainstream. Nothing on that splash page looked familiar to me, but I'd definitely think about GOG if they offer a perpetual license for titles like SimEarth or Master of Magic.

I'd love  to see some old Bullfrog games. Dungeon Keeper, Theme hospital, Syndicate.

Puke wave!!!!!!

Awesome games! If they add Baldurs Gate 2 I'll be over the moon with joy.