Where do you get your DRM-Free Amiga games in 2014? Yesterday you would have said eBay soon you will say GOG.com! Cinemaware and GOG.com are starting off this graphical journey with the epic Defender of the Crown. In typical epic GOG.com fashion the game will come with scans of the manual, box art and other bonuses like the music and possibly more.
But now you’re probably like I don’t have an Amiga, what can I do? We won’t know until it’s sold but I’m going to guess you’re going to have to track down an emulator. However if that’s all techno mumbo-jumbo to you then just do what you always did and play the DOS version! Sure it’s not as graphically awesome but Defender of the Crown is still an awesome game! Hopefully we’ll be getting more games like It Came From The Desert, Wings and King of Chicago from Cinemaware on GOG.com and this hopefully opens the floodgates for even more Amiga fun.
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PRESS RELEASE
Cinemaware announces one-of-a-kind Amiga & PC distribution agreement with GOG.com
Cinemaware today announced a digital distribution agreement with GOG.com, the leading source of DRM-free games. Under the agreement, GOG.com will offer a selection of Cinemaware’s classic games, starting with Defender of the Crown®! All Cinemaware games will come with original manual scans, box art, music files and when possible other bonus content available at the time of their original release. Best of all, the original, graphically superior Amiga versions of these games will be sold with the DOS version!
Defender of the Crown, the first Cinemaware title to launch on GOG.com, is a strategy game originally launched on the Commodore Amiga in 1986, as it set a high bar for stunning graphical presentation and innovative gameplay for the time. Eventually ported to a variety of systems, Defender of the Crownbrought the Saxon struggle to fight off the hordes of Normans to life in a colorful and memorable fashion that endeared it to fans of strategy gaming around the globe.
Wolfric The Wild, spokesperson for Cinemaware, said “We are really proud to be working with GOG.com in bringing our classic games into wider distribution so that many more gamers can enjoy the classic gameplay of Cinemaware’s games. Cinemaware had a great influence in the golden age of videogames and a new generation of gamers will now be able to enjoy them!”
Guillaume Rambourg, managing director of GOG.com, said, “We startedGOG.com as a store that sold only classic games; and many of us at the office have fond memories playing Cinemaware’s titles on Amiga when we were kids. These games had a cinema-like flavour and universe of their own. It’s a real pleasure for us to bring back to life some of their classic titles in a DRM-free fashion, for nostalgic and young gamers alike!”
