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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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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.
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Chevette: Oh no! I'd done that too with some other game at one point and I no longer remember what it was. Eventually the publishers started making the floppies with no notch in them so you couldn't accidentally overwrite the game. That was one of the best innovations ever.
I remember that. I think I ruined one game too. It was probably Ultima 2 or 3 I had to rebuy again =P
Posted November 15, 2013
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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.
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xy2345: Write protection would have been your friend back then.
I think I even thought about which way the protection thingy had to be in order to protect.... and I got it wrong...
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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N0w3gg: You're an ancient compared to me. I meant that I played every Half-Life and a hundred other games before even noticing Dues Ex. Dues Ex is good, but there are other games I like better that define me as a gamer way more.
Hey! It's not nice to call a lady Ancient! LOL

I have actually found games here that I missed or was for some reason not interested in the first time around, so we all discover "new to us" games eventually. What defines you as a gamer will usually be what most influenced your play when you started early on.

For me, even more than Deus Ex or SS2, was Starflight. That is the first game I ever played for something like 17 hours straight and eventually wondered why I felt weak and awful, then realized I hadn't eaten in all that time. Hahaha!
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.
Sure you should be admitting to that? :p
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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stevieknix: 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.
....that sounds horrible....
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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Briareos262: ohh I have a few Infocoms games. Leather goddes of Phoboes, i got so lucky I was able to grab that as a kid, guess my parents didn't pay attention to the tile or something ^_^
This reminds me of finding soft-core.. uh.. stuff on some VHS tapes that my grandpa had at his place. Good times. Red shoe diaries/showcase revue types of shows.
Posted November 15, 2013
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MGShogun: Has Icewind Dale been up while I was asleep?
Don't think so. Waiting for that one myself.
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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plan99: I'm assuming you mean The Lurking Horror, not Shadow over Innsmouth? Loved that game.
Yes, that's right. I'm glad people know what I mean, even I apparently can't remember names for crap.
Posted November 15, 2013
Someone please pony up the $128.57 to move the Torchlight sale out of the way ;)
Posted November 15, 2013
48 left...awesome how fast O_____O
i even cant see the buy now button...what is it? green? ..i think it´s green!! yeah yeah wait-...no it´s yellow! yellow green!
Posted November 15, 2013
so what's been up since cockblock last night
Posted November 15, 2013
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stevieknix: 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.
I remember some game on the C64 playing Godzilla or some other epic monsters which literally took 40 minutes to load... game starts, 40 seconds in... BOOM!

Reloading for 40 minutes....

And keeping at it! Wroah!
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.
Loved Sierra - had/have almost all of them, from near earliest game King's Quest through to Phatasmagoria, in disk form at my dad's still.

Broderbund also did Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? IIRC
Posted November 15, 2013
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MGShogun: Has Icewind Dale been up while I was asleep?
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CarrionCrow: Don't think so. Waiting for that one myself.
Frak...... thank god. *sighing*

I was so worried.
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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stevieknix: 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.
I remember loading the games from cassette, hacking the code to change the adversaries nad then saving back to the cassettes. My copy of Adventure Isle on the ZX81 had vampiric hedgehogs on it :)
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