Good Old Games, or GoG as it's more commonly known now, has been around for five years. That's a long time by any gaming platform's standards, but it's still going strong, championing not only the best of our past, but the best of our future and all of it without DRM. To celebrate that fact, GoG has released a retrospective video, looking back on the history of the site and its service.
The video starts off by showing you the first video the site ever put out to promote itself, before the creators - the guys behind The Witcher over at CD Projekt Red - began talking about what it was that they wanted GoG to be in the early days.
The cornerstones were of course, DRM free and unified worldwide pricing, multiple OS support and classic games to start with, but more than that before long.
We also learn that GoG was almost an Amiga only location, but due to licensing issues it became problematic and they instead went ahead with the GoG plan.
If you were lucky enough to get into the closed beta, you'd have gotten a lot of games for free, since it took the guys behind the site a while to get the payment system working. In-fact, the open beta had to be postponed because they still didn't manage to get a security certificate in time.
Remember the shutdown in 2010 too? And how they apologised as monks?
Let's look at some stats though, to get a real idea of the scale of GoG as it is today. There's over 50 million members, two million regular visitors to the site and a total of 18 million downloaded games in total. Games have been bought in strange places like North Korea, The Vatican and the middle of the Amazon rainforest.
And what's coming next? Fighting the good fight in the DRM war, more games but no more fake site closures.
