Is there any chance you can get these games here? Some of the earliest adventures. Bundle 'em all and you'll get 6-7 packages. Maybe even more!

Anyone can chip in as to why we don't have them on GOG?

I can fully speak for all the staff at Gog, level 7, the copyright office and all of humanity that these will appear here right now, Tada!

Now seriously, we have no idea or impact on the getting of games here. There is a thing called the wish list where you can add your wish or vote for it exists already.

well, my question was more towards the legal issues (if any) of that company.
I know those games won't sell like Hot Cakes, but Text and Graphic Adventures is a genre that GOG is kind of lacking.

Do you mean these?
http://adventure.if-legends.org/Level_9_Computing.html
If so I don't think they would be interested, quite hard to sell games from that era. You could of course get an emulator and play these, plenty of them for each system, obviously you would own the hardware and game to be able to play them legally. There are also a few sites for modern day text adventuring such as:
http://www.ifarchive.org/

since the folded in 1991 due to limited funds, it is very difficult to say. Most likely most of the games IP's are still held by Mike, Nicholas and Pete Austin (the 3 brothers who owned the company).

However, some of the games where published with BT under the Rainbird Software brand (such as Silicon Dreams), which later was sold to Microporse UK, which is now a part of Hasbro.

Thanks for the answers guys.

For historical reasons these games need to be here even if they don't make huge sales.
And the fact that they may belong to Hasbro is good news i guess.

Hasbro Interactive (the gaming division of Hasbro who purchased Microprose) was later acquired by Infogrames (now Atari), along with Microprose so, in theory, the games should be under Atari.Having said that, none of the games were spotted in Atari's bankruptcy bidding, so the rights may have remained with the original developers.

yeah, since Level 9 did not go through a bankruptcy, and depending on how the deal was with BT, it is more likely that all the IP's are still held by the Austin brothers. it is very unlikely that the IP's are with ex-Hasbro. They did not publish that many games under the Rainbird Software brand, and as an asset, they are not really worth that much. The Austin brothers more likely kept the IP rights while BT had the publishing rights (which is more the norm).

If its for historical reasons, then it would be best to get a release to archive.org so anyone can use it, and avoid the whole "whose making money" part of the equation. Gog aren't here as historians, they are here to make money, plain and simple.

Well, i see GOG also as historians of Gaming.
Otherwise why did they get in the trouble of bringing us games like Dragonsphere, The Hugo Trilogy or even the Game that Should not Be Named (by John Romero). A game that everyone loves to hate.

Like it or not GOG brings us games from all the eras and games that many don't care about. But others do. And i'd like the original devs to get some money for their work back then.

They really aren't though. If they were then where is all the Z80, BBC, Amiga etc. games? The simple fact is they are a shop, they will only bring things here that they can either a) make money directly from, or b) entice people in who may buy in the future. Dragonsphere is a freebie available almost everywhere, so it makes sense for them to offer it to bring people in. Daikatana and hugo, irrespective of the reviews seem to still be popular.

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against them coming here, but personally I wouldn't want to pay the £4 or $5 that they would need to sell them for, and I don't see any commercial viability for the enterprise of license aquisition, building and testing installers, support etc.