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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
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ghostgate2001: Heh. Those were actually commands in some ancient version of BASIC I vaguely remember using. TRON and TROFF. Trace On, Trace Off. Made it print all the line-numbers on-screen as it executed them, for bug-hunting. (Damn, I'm old) Now I'm wondering which came first, TRON the movie or TRON the programming command...?
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Chevette: It was the command. TRON the movie is actually named after the command to trace the program. When you used TRON it would print out the lines of code on the screen as it executed them so you could check what was going on for debugging. When you wanted it to stop you'd use the TROFF command.
Since the movie is really about Kevin Flynn, shouldn't it be called "Flynn"?
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TriciaMcMillan: That's a pretty scary thought. Next up: 1200 copies of JK2. *sobs quitely*
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wackyanne: we're safe - JK2 is done
Best news I've heard all day! : )
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ALH: All the Keane trauma victims need to always remember that you can talk about this....don't shut it away, it will destroy you.Dark days ahead, we need to be there for each other.
Let the healing begin...
Common Witcher 2 :D
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Navanod66: I think the promo is losing steam after so many rounds...
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Deva: I was thinking the same.... doing this for a day or two is a nice experiment... but after awhile, the novelty of it will likely wear off for some. I wasn't able to watch much due to work for the first couple days, so I'm just curious to see how it's still going at this point.
I don't think GOG planned for the promo too last this long.The games seem to be lining up in a slightly rearranged, but still predetermined, list that's probably going to end when it's cycled through it's entire catalog. The only reason it's gone on so long is probably due to no one foreseeing the probability of "keane" (hour long spans of time where a games sales come to a grinding, trickling halt.) levels of down time happening between sales.

That's what I think anyway, I could be completely wrong.
Post edited November 16, 2013 by Bonshea
9 copies left and slowly decreasing. Everybody brace yourselves, for that was not true Keane. It seems.
Someone use the Top Spin on this guy already and get him out of here.
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wackyanne: TRON the programming command. I learned a bit of BASIC as a kid, b/c we had a Sinclair, then the Texas Instrument TI 99. You bought a book if you wanted more than a few games, and you programmed them yourself ;)
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SpiderFighter: The TI-99 4/A was my first love! I had it wired up to a cassette recorder with a variable speed so we could tape the programs and store them (no disk drive back in those days). I think it was Compute magazine that had the games, no? Spent many hours reading and typing. Great memories. I used to make my own pac-man clones. :)
Did you get the Extended BASIC cartridge for it? Made it so much better. I still have my tapes and TI-99 in a box, and last I checked, the data was still good on them. :)

Of course, they could be dead by now. :(
600 Retros. Sounds like nap time.
Aquanox 2 free and gone

Retro City Keanepage! 600 of them

Goto bed folks
Ah retro. That's my queue to sleep.
I lost Aquanox 2!!!!
Aquanox freebieMissed out/ damnit/

Dear lord RCR
Didn't even see the counter go down for Aquanox lol, just saw 40 than bam, switch.
I have to agree that GOG probably didn't expect us to be so uniform in our taste towards certain titles, or lack thereof.

Next up: 600x Retro City Rampage for 3.74$. Also, there was AquaNox 2 for free, 40 copies.