Upon hearing the phrase "Golden Age of RPGs", many gamers might immediately think of Origin's Ultima series or Sir-Tech's Wizardry series. Some might also remember New World Computing's Might & Magic or even Interplay's Bard's Tale or Wasteland. However, the company that perhaps embodied the Golden Age most of all was Strategic Simulations, Inc., commonly known as SSI.

Over a decade before Baldur's Gate and the Infinity Engine games, SSI published a whole slew of licensed AD&D CRPGs, starting from 1988's legendary Pool of Radiance. The most famous among these were the "Gold Box" titles, named for the distinctive gold-colored boxes in which they were sold, but there were many others. Sadly, these classics remain inexplicably absent from modern digital distribution portals, and their memories may eventually be lost in time...like tears in rain.

To help remedy that, Reggie Carolipio, a chronicler of gaming history whose work we've featured before, has spent the last month finishing up his retrospectives of SSI's Golden Age AD&D titles. Here's the list of them all, organized by series:

• Pool of Radiance
• Curse of the Azure Bonds
• Secret of the Silver Blades
• Pools of Darkness

• Gateway to the Savage Frontier
• Treasures of the Savage Frontier

• Eye of the Beholder
• Eye of the Beholder II – The Legend of Darkmoon
• Eye of the Beholder III – Assault on Myth Drannor

• Hillsfar

• Champions of Krynn
• Death Knights of Krynn
• The Dark Queen of Krynn

• Heroes of the Lance
• Dragons of Flame
• Shadow Sorcerer

• DragonStrike

• Spelljammer – Pirates of Realmspace

• Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday
• Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed

You can read all of these and more over at Reggie's excellent blog, World 1-1. And FFS Hasbro, rerelease these games on GOG already!