Forget about the old Pope coming to Britain, our lovely little third world country, and telling us we shouldn’t listen to Richard Dawkins as he’s a very naughty man, there is some more frankly startling news which will granted, only concern 3 people, but as I’m one of them, and this is my corner of cyberspace, I bloody well will type away in some clanky fury.

Yes game fans, the good old days of main characters made up of pixels that look like body parts appear to have been consigned again to history, as Good Old Games has sadly departed from us from the time being.

As you may remember from some ramblings in 2008 oddly, around September it goes, I was telling you not to inject your arms with cocaine no longer, as GOG.com provided simple old people like me the ability to purchase all these old classics, which they have tweaked and massaged into running on modern day equipment, all for a reasonable price while they are at it; $5.99 with the odd couple at $10, so god only knows what has happened in the meantime in order for the service to come crashing down like the Hindenberg blimp.

I even remember (well I say remember, I just used the search feature to find when I first wrote about the thing, what a lier I am) that I regaled you about the fact that they threw you the biggest bone to make you throw more money away, the filthy bastards, in bringing back classics like the Descent series, a series of games which you got lost in mines, fighting aganist robot hordes, vomiting all over the screen due to the sheer freedom of 360 degree movement. Then I probably muttered away about the good old days when you could leave your doors open and people got buried under patios.

But for now we will have to bid farwell to the service, and it seems it may not be for long as they do state on the holding page, that the idea of GOG.com is not gone forever, so we may yet again see how it’s meant to be done with ye olde games some day. Now though, I reside myself to some more Cannon Fodder…. Who says we can’t live in a timewarp?