Pools of Radiance and Questron were among my favorite RPGs when I was young.

Loved the gold box games back in the day, "Pool of Radiance" (the first game) was the best in my opinion, it has a special place in my heart :). I still replay it every now and then on a C=64 emulator program.

SSI and SSG have so many classics they're much wished for to come here.
They're the two publishers I've wanted here the most since I joined GOG because they have so many really old strategy games, wargames and RPGs. My favourite genres.
God I played SSI and SSG games so much growing up. :)

Unfortunately they seem to be among the hardest to get here. No idea why though.

Yeah I remember playing most of their games on my 386.... fantastic rpg's and strategy games. Gives me shivers cause I remember spending hours configuring my config.sys to get enough base memory free...

Great company, developed and/or published so many amazing games. It's sad that so few of them are digitally available. I still dream of a re-release of all the original General games as well as the Steel Panthers series.

Oh yeah, and Warwind 1 and 2. They looked like generic Warcraft 2 clones but had some really original gameplay and interesting setting.

I still play Imperialism which was published by them. One of my favourtie turn based strategies.

I have the original CD and it is available on GOG.

Ha, I knew that we have more SSI games on here if you include ones "only" published by them.

TSI (Tactical Simulations Interactive)
http://www.tsi-games.com/

One of my favorites back in the day was The Cosmic Balance. As bare bones as it is by today's standards, it's what first got me into tactical space sims.

Also a huge fan of Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor, which I still play on my PC from time to time. I've upvoted the wishlist for it to be brought to GOG, in part because I'm hoping they (or the community here) will be able to resolve some of the graphics issues I've been experiencing with it on newer machines with current OS's.

Lol, clever. Thanks for the link.

These were awesome too

Oh yes. SSI was really big for years. By the way I see posts about those games from time to time so there is a real demand.

I'll probably be branded a heretic by some, but I really didn't care for the old SSI Gold Box D&D games even though I'm a huge CRPG fan. The two biggest hang-ups I had with them were (1) lack of an auto-map and (2) party-based combat that was real-time/non-pause. At least... I think they were all real-time. Were any of them pauseable?

I much prefer games like Baldur's Gate or Fallout over the classic SSI games. But I still have to tip my hat to the Gold Box series. Even if I didn't care for the style, they were very influential and well-designed games in their own right.

When I was in college, I had SSI's Eye of the Beholder on my old MS-DOS 386 system. I didn't play it much, but this guy who lived down the hall from me in the dorm was constantly coming over asking if he could play. I kind of felt sorry for him because his parents were outrageously rich, yet they sent him off to college without a car, computer, TV, stereo... or pretty anything other than a few sets of clothes. Although I finally drew the line when I went to bed one night and told him he could keep playing for a bit... and then woke up the next morning to find him still sitting there at my computer. He was kind of like a hipster-doofus version of Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory -- nowhere near as smart but every bit as oblivious to how socially inept he was. Whenever I think about an SSI Gold Box game, I can still see him sitting there at my computer, completely engrossed with Eye of the Beholder.

What? ALL of the SSI Gold Box games was turnbased. How did you get that switched around?

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Box

Agreed, I'd buy these and lots of the other strategy games they were known for all over again from GOG, if they were able to get them here. Probably a long shot, but we can hope and dream, right?