Magic Carpet flies onto GOG
Bullfrog's much-loved Magic Carpet has landed on Good Old Games, priced at $6. It spells the end to the digital distributor's first batch of vintage EA games.
The final title from Good Old Games' first batch of vintage Electronic Arts games, Bullfrog's classic wizard simulator Magic Carpet, has arrived on the digital distributor. It's available now for $5.99.
Magic Carpet hails from 1994, back when Peter Molyneux games inspired gasps of wonder and awe rather than cynical Internet comments. Playing as a wizard on a very snazzy flying carpet, players take on monsters and rival mages to collect mana and restore balance to the world. Wizards are armed with a hefty arsenal of spells, from your basic fireball and healing spells to summoning skeletal forces and earthquakes.
Certain spells deform the terrain, which was jolly impressive in full 3D for 1994. You never forget your first fiery death-raining volcano.
GOG's EA releases are going on hiatus for the summer now, but another twenty or so unknown games are still in the pipeline. Unfortunately there are legal hurdles surrounded the much-desired System Shock series, but GOG hopes to one day offer the Looking Glass Studios masterpieces.
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replyAlice O'Connor posted a new article, Magic Carpet flies onto GOG.
Bullfrog's much-loved Magic Carpet has landed on Good Old Games, priced at $6. It spells the end to the digital distributor's first batch of vintage EA games.-
I can only imagine how much fun a Magic Carpet game with the From Dust engine would be.
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I love GOG, oh so much.
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I had this game as a kid and I didn't get it at all. "What, you just fly around on a magic carpet?" Of course, my machine sucked at the time.
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It's funny... I remember playing the game for a bit and just being blown away by how great it looked and how cool it was.. but I really don't think I could have spent more than 6 hours actually playing the game. As cool as it all was at the time, it didn't hold up for long play sessions (at least for me).
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Majority of the stuff on GOG is either $5 or $10. It adds up, but isn't too much for individual purchases.
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I'm seeing Nimbus as a $10 game atm, maybe it was on sale? I think that's the issue, Steam and whatnot have sales so often that it feels like those prices are standard retail sometimes. Regardless, I too feel that Nimbus is worth more than MC is now, and it's current pricing reflects that, but I also think a lot of the better indy games are underpriced.
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The entire $15 - $25 market is under represented and it's difficult to do so until you start making a name for yourself I agree.
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Most indy games suck though, the good ones could easily go for $20-$30 if they came from a known studio though.
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No, at least compared to old classics on Steam, the ones on GOG are actually playable. I want to reward GOG for that.
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not always. some of them hold up and depending on your nostalgic memories, might be worth playing through
others, yeah, i agree, you play for a bit or load up every few months just to relive the memories. more than replaying itself just booting up a childhood favorite seems to bring back that rush of happy feelings. you don't necessarily need to play much to get the nostalgia benefit. in fact, playing too much of an old game might ruin the memories. -
I've put a couple hundred hours into games I bought on GoG.
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Six dollars is high? Isn't that like couch change money?
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Most of them are just the original game with dosbox wrappers. They do tweak settings for the individual title and sort of guarantee compatibility with modern Windows.
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magic carpet is a monster to get to work on modern hardware with dosbox. 6$ is worth it for a working config alone to be honest.
magic carpet is one of those games that would sync its screen updates to your CPU clock, therefore even if you get it working on dosbox, it will run at one hundred and ninety three billion frames per second, literally. you have to tweak down your CPU speed, which is mildly irritating.-
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