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Posted November 13, 2013
Deals so good, you won't want to fall asleep.
You remember back when you used to walk into a store, browse the shelves, pick out a game, and then buy it--all in the actual real world? We don't know about you, but most of us at GOG.com have had our limbs atrophy to small vestigial nubbins since all of our shopping happens online these days. Of course, one thing that sometimes happens in real world stores with real world goods--particularly when they have a good sale--is that they run out of stock. Usually that means that the deal was so good that they couldn't keep up with demand.

Well, in the digital realm, this is usually pretty rare. How do you run out of stock on digital games, short of entropy devouring the universe? Well, we have gotten 101 games that will be on sale on the front page of GOG.com, but the discounts are so high at the moment that we can't just sell an unlimited number of copies of these games: we are only able to sell a few at these discounts--up to 80% off--and once they're gone, they're gone.

So what games will be on sale in our Insomnia promo? Bestselling classics and new games alike. There will also occasionally be some free games in super limited numbers (like, 20 or 30 copies)--if you're fast enough on the trigger finger to pick 'em up, that is. The deal will run from now until we're out of "stock" of games for the sale, and games may show up more than once. So it's time to bathe in a tub of coffee*, dip some espresso**, snort an energy drink***, or do whatever else it takes to stay up so you don't miss out on the best deals on fantastic games on GOG.com since summer.
*This is probably not a good idea
**This is definitely not a good idea
***This is totally safe, though****
****NO IT'S NOT WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU CRAZY PERSON
Post edited November 13, 2013 by TheEnigmaticT
Posted November 15, 2013
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Chevette: Yes, because you've played it. So you are a TRUE PC gamer. Before Deus Ex we barely knew what gaming was.... (I am being silly of course, having played PC games since you had to use floppies and swap them multiple times in order to play anything... and you had to have another blank one to save your game... IF you could save it.)
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UncleOvid: Ah... Those were the days. Speaking of which--so we all know from Zork, right? Does anyone remember the Infogrames Adventure Pack (I think that's what it was called)? With, like, all the Zork games, and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Shadow Over Innsmouth and all? Would love to see GOG put those up.
I'm assuming you mean The Lurking Horror, not Shadow over Innsmouth? Loved that game.
Posted November 15, 2013
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UncleOvid: Ah... Those were the days. Speaking of which--so we all know from Zork, right? Does anyone remember the Infogrames Adventure Pack (I think that's what it was called)? With, like, all the Zork games, and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Shadow Over Innsmouth and all? Would love to see GOG put those up.
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Chevette: Yes indeed. I have it somewhere in my boxes and boxes of games. Man that would be great to have on GOG... I don't think my 3.5 floppies still work.
Send them to me and I will rip them to images that you can mount in DOSBox and/or zip files. I pulled out some of my 3.5" and 5.25" floppies and did this a couple years ago. Still need to go through the rest of them sometime.
Posted November 15, 2013
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HunterZ: Is that what's holding things up?
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Infin8ty: That's pretty much what holds everything up for the "good old games." Companies die, IPs go into limbo, nobody knows anything, it's a legal mess. It's really a miracle we have as many as we do here on GOG to be honest.
Abandonia.com is a good source for the ones with lapsed licenses.
Posted November 15, 2013
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Frostyfirefly: I keep holding hope they will continue the series; and no, that multiplayer game does not count.
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Cardian: There was a multiplayer game?
It's going to come out next year I think, one of those "free to play", vampires vs humans... vampires vs humans in the Legacy of Kain series!? Ridiculous, most humans are cattle there.
Posted November 15, 2013
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Chevette: Ugh yes, I have those somewhere too. It was wonderful to have the save feature... until you accidentally reused that floppy for something else. (We learned the hard way to put tape over the write protect tab on the floppy.)
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Cardian: This reminds of a sad sad story. I had bought a new game (Syndicate!) for the Amiga 500 and, because I'm paranoid, I wanted to make a security copy of it, so that my original discs wouldn't get hurt. And somehow I did it the wrong way and I erased my new copy.... and there was much sadness.
Write protection would have been your friend back then.
Posted November 15, 2013
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BoxOfSnoo: You mean Infocom.
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UncleOvid: I do. That's right.
Think it was the lurking horror and not shadows over innsmouth. Still have it and infocom games are still awesome !
Posted November 15, 2013
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temia: Has there been the "Last chance" for Alpha Centauri yet? Does anyone know?
Not yet.
Posted November 15, 2013
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UncleOvid: Ah... Those were the days. Speaking of which--so we all know from Zork, right? Does anyone remember the Infogrames Adventure Pack (I think that's what it was called)? With, like, all the Zork games, and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Shadow Over Innsmouth and all? Would love to see GOG put those up.
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Kaitu: Ahhh... Infogrames! Memories. Right alongside Apogee (Commander Keen Forever!), Sierra (King's Quest and Outpost 2) and (to a lesser degree, Broderbund (LOVED the Dr. Brain series, especially Island of Dr. Brain).
Broderbund, man... Did they do Kidpix? I spent freaking DAYS with Kidpix.
Posted November 15, 2013
Has Icewind Dale been up while I was asleep?
Posted November 15, 2013
50 left :P
Wonder how much longer^^
Posted November 15, 2013
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Chevette: Yes, because you've played it. So you are a TRUE PC gamer. Before Deus Ex we barely knew what gaming was.... (I am being silly of course, having played PC games since you had to use floppies and swap them multiple times in order to play anything... and you had to have another blank one to save your game... IF you could save it.)
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UncleOvid: Ah... Those were the days. Speaking of which--so we all know from Zork, right? Does anyone remember the Infogrames Adventure Pack (I think that's what it was called)? With, like, all the Zork games, and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Shadow Over Innsmouth and all? Would love to see GOG put those up.
I had something like that. It came with a ton of strange things like fake maps and newspapers.
Posted November 15, 2013
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N0w3gg: I was a PC gamer before I played Deus Ex, and I'm still one now.
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Chevette: Yes, because you've played it. So you are a TRUE PC gamer. Before Deus Ex we barely knew what gaming was.... (I am being silly of course, having played PC games since you had to use floppies and swap them multiple times in order to play anything... and you had to have another blank one to save your game... IF you could save it.)
I remember playing games on cassette. It would take an hour to load and then I'd play for ten minutes before I just got bored.The loading screens were interesting, because it would load a slice of the image at a time, by the time the game was done loading you'd have a full image.
Posted November 15, 2013
I know it's not, but on the GOG home page, that zoomed in picture of that berry looks like a radish. And it makes me hungry!
Posted November 15, 2013
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Kaitu: Ahhh... Infogrames! Memories. Right alongside Apogee (Commander Keen Forever!), Sierra (King's Quest and Outpost 2) and (to a lesser degree, Broderbund (LOVED the Dr. Brain series, especially Island of Dr. Brain).
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UncleOvid: Broderbund, man... Did they do Kidpix? I spent freaking DAYS with Kidpix.
That they did. Almost forgot about KidPix. :-)
Posted November 15, 2013
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HunterZ: Is that what's holding things up?
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Infin8ty: That's pretty much what holds everything up for the "good old games." Companies die, IPs go into limbo, nobody knows anything, it's a legal mess. It's really a miracle we have as many as we do here on GOG to be honest.
That's one of the reasons I like to support GOG over other retailers. They go out there and find a way to get these games back into our hands, including getting them working on modern OSes (which is getting to be a big deal for Win9x games and such) and digging up cool extras, and then the rightsholders turn around and throw GOG's hard work up onto Steam to make an extra buck at GOG's expense.
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