GOG updates site, gives away 1994's Dragonsphere

@wenchwogg
Why don't you just use steam? You can add any .exe file to your library.

@Fox318 it's not the same. doesn't track my hours played when it's non steam :'(

@Stevetrop Man of Mystery That was the beauty of games back in the day.
No kids played them because it would probably make them rage ;D
I mean I'm 21 but I've enjoyed growing up with DOS games and even a commodore 64 through the 90's and part of this gen.
I'm actually doing a play through of Full Throttle. Switching it up to KoToR2 for now though.

@Johnny Locke

I think you're making a joke, but I don't get it?

@Aerothorn
He's referencing the Joystiq Podcast episode 171, which I also came here to do.
It's Micro Bros, you're mispronuncing it

@Powerlord
I remember getting really stuck on adventure games (not this one, never played it) back in the day too - but these days we have the internet, so if you get really stuck on something, it's not a problem.

By the way, I downloaded this and played it for a few hours. While it's Windows-only, it's actually emulated anyway; it runs OK on Mac if you (a) run the installer in WINE, then once it's installed (b) use the standard Mac version of DOSBox.

Incidentally the game seems to have been made in the UK (although the voice 'actors' I think are American... and never has there been a word so much in need of scare quotes).

There is an odd bit of dialogue:

'Beware! The prophecies say that in the future, the Fair will be so numerous that they will war among themselves, and a man named Blare will make an unholy alliance with evil to bring destruction upon his own kind.'

AHA SATIRE right? Except than in 1994 Blair wasn't even in power (that's 97), let alone teaming up with Bush to invade Iraq... I guess it must be a reference to something else... still seems a bit uncanny...

@Powerlord
Finished the game now. It was pretty good!

I liked that one of the female characters saves the day at the end (also, she is rock hard, suitably dressed, and not particularly thin), also after saving the main character's life earlier on too. Progressive? For 1994, not especially. For video games? Yeah, probably still. Sigh.

The wizard puzzle (what colour eyes does he have, etc) wasn't a puzzle - it was presumably copy protection of some sort. In this GOG release, the answers are included in a file called answers.txt (which they could've included more prominently...)