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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 18, 2013
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Minmataro: Thats awesome. I love reading about people gaming origins.

i feel old but im not actually that old (mid-30s), so my gaming started on the Atari, i dabbled a bit with the old c64 before getting swallowed whole by the NES and SNES.

Then Doom 2 released and it was game over. PC has been my primary gaming platform even though i owned every console from that point on.

Im sure many of you have been gaming much longer than me lol.

Im here on GoG basically replacing a lot of my old physical games that i lost over the years and discovering games i may have passed on in the late 90s due to early 00s due to a unhealthy Ultima Online and then diablo 2 addiction.
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Kaitu: Same here. We had one of the old Ataris with the keyboard on it. Only game was Popeye. Got an NES when it was released and played it into the ground (while also giving Oregon Trail and Montezuma's Revenge a go on the Apple IIe). Distinctly remember our first PC (40MHz, I think 16Mb of RAM, 2400 baud modem). It was BEAUTIFUL! Even distracted me for a few years after the SNES came out. I STILL go back and play Mega Man X-X4, Super Metroid and Link to the Past (some of the best console games I have played to this day). Have built every PC I have ever laid hands on since. My wife keeps telling me to transition to a laptop but I don't think that will ever happen as long as there are desktop components available to buy.
My first console was an Atari 7800 - one of my earliest games there was Galaga.
Posted November 18, 2013
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MysterD: Oh, man - Contra was a classic. Castlevania was a classic, too.
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stevieknix: Was your NES second hand? Because I remember that thing came packaged with Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt, and the light gun.
Oh, yes, it came with those games, but I also got a few more (Christmas!), and Contra was the one I played first. Curiously, I wasn't really interested in videogames. Laugh all you want, but what I asked for Christmas was a microscope (I was, and I still am, a nerd). The NES ignited my passion for gaming, which hasn't faded since.
Post edited November 18, 2013 by Dreadjaws
Posted November 18, 2013
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Dreadjaws: What about Mortal Kombat on the SNES? Glad I never bought that one. I had the much better PC version.

My first videogame ever (the one I owned, actually, the first I played was in my cousin's Atari 2600) was Contra, in the NES. My first PC game was Prehistorik. Followed closely by Commander Keen. My first adventure game, the one that ignited my passion for them, was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. My first FPS was Wolfenstein 3D. The first time I saw it, my jaw dropped.
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Minmataro: I grew up in an area that had an arcade. So everyone from the area would flock to it and play Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter. I didnt actually buy a fighting game on a platform until Street fighter Alpha 3 on my playstation 1.
Oh man! I MISS the old-school arcades. There is a place called Ground Kontrol not far from me (Portland, OR). They are a classic arcade crossed with a bar. SO AWESOME!!!
Posted November 18, 2013
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Minmataro: Thats awesome. I love reading about people gaming origins. i feel old but im not actually that old (mid-30s), so my gaming started on the Atari, i dabbled a bit with the old c64 before getting swallowed whole by the NES and SNES.
Then Doom 2 released and it was game over. PC has been my primary gaming platform even though i owned every console from that point on. Im sure many of you have been gaming much longer than me lol. Im here on GoG basically replacing a lot of my old physical games that i lost over the years and discovering games i may have passed on in the late 90s due to early 00s due to a unhealthy Ultima Online and then diablo 2 addiction.
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wanderlust76: The NES was amazing when it came out most people went from Atari to that and the difference was incredible. I can't think of a bigger jump in gaming history. I missed a lot of the games in the late 90's too due to Half-Life, it's mods, and Diablo as well. Then the MMO's started rolling out too.
I remember staying up all night playing Mario Bros. I did not have many games when I was younger. I got a job at a thrift store years later and started collecting all the NES games I could find. Gave it up years ago at around 600 games. I had a friend who brought over an XBOX that had 10000 games, or something crazy like that. I felt a little irritated, but that's ok. I'm pretty proud of my videogame collection. My favorite system in my Sega CDX or maybe the NES toploader.
Posted November 18, 2013
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Dreadjaws: Oh, yes, it came with those games, but I also got a few more (Christmas!), and Contra was the one I played first. Curiously, I wasn't really interested in videogames. Laugh all you want, but what I asked for Christmas was a microscope (I was, and I still am, a nerd). The NES ignited my passion for gaming, which hasn't faded since.
Nerds FTW! ;)
Posted November 18, 2013
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Minmataro: I grew up in an area that had an arcade. So everyone from the area would flock to it and play Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter. I didnt actually buy a fighting game on a platform until Street fighter Alpha 3 on my playstation 1.
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Kaitu: Oh man! I MISS the old-school arcades. There is a place called Ground Kontrol not far from me (Portland, OR). They are a classic arcade crossed with a bar. SO AWESOME!!!
I remember Operation Wolf at the arcades, back in the day.
Posted November 18, 2013
If anyone has spare codes for the following games

Dracula Trilogy
Either of the Dark Fall games
Botanicula
Realms of Chaos
Rogue Trooper
Soldiers: Heroes of World War II
The Swapper
Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs
or
Montague's Mount

I will happily buy you a copy of Sword of the Stars as a swap just to keep the sale going. If your feeling generous I'd just like a copy of any of those in general.
Posted November 18, 2013
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Kaitu: Sounds like you and I were same generation of gamers. I still remember swapping 5 3/4" floppy discs with the old Apogee shareware demos (Commander Keen, the original Duke Nukem, etc.). Also remember playing the entire Wing Commander series from the start. Hours plugging away on The Incredible Machine and (the crowning achievement) direct connecting, modem to modem with my friend so we could play two-player Rise of the Triad (the original). As for Bastion, I got a DRM-free copy from Humble Bundle a month or two ago so it is out there for PCs.
Heh, maybe I was a bit later! I started out with an Amiga 500, but my friends hat Ataris and C64s (and some other consoles I forgot the names of). And maybe my tastes as a girl were a bit different, I did mainly LucasArts adventures (MI, Indy), things like King's Quest, Giana Sisters and later on Lemmings. I remember playing a lot of Bubble Bobble and Space Invaders too. Also Thundercats and Beyond the Ice Palace (I have a feeling those were crappy games, but I liked them and didn't know any better!). I totally despaired over Zak McKracken. Only solved it years later after with more experience (and some hints, cough cough). Same with Maniac Mansion, I never finished that. (I finished Day of the Tentacle though, hope that saves my reputation <.< )
Posted November 18, 2013
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stevieknix: Was your NES second hand? Because I remember that thing came packaged with Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt, and the light gun.
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Dreadjaws: Oh, yes, it came with those games, but I also got a few more (Christmas!), and Contra was the one I played first. Curiously, I wasn't really interested in videogames. Laugh all you want, but what I asked for Christmas was a microscope (I was, and I still am, a nerd). The NES ignited my passion for gaming, which hasn't faded since.
NEEEEEERD!!
You had to know this was on the way. ;)
Posted November 18, 2013
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Minmataro: Thats awesome. I love reading about people gaming origins.

i feel old but im not actually that old (mid-30s), so my gaming started on the Atari, i dabbled a bit with the old c64 before getting swallowed whole by the NES and SNES.

Then Doom 2 released and it was game over. PC has been my primary gaming platform even though i owned every console from that point on.

Im sure many of you have been gaming much longer than me lol.

Im here on GoG basically replacing a lot of my old physical games that i lost over the years and discovering games i may have passed on in the late 90s due to early 00s due to a unhealthy Ultima Online and then diablo 2 addiction.
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Kaitu: Same here. We had one of the old Ataris with the keyboard on it. Only game was Popeye. Got an NES when it was released and played it into the ground (while also giving Oregon Trail and Montezuma's Revenge a go on the Apple IIe). Distinctly remember our first PC (40MHz, I think 16Mb of RAM, 2400 baud modem). It was BEAUTIFUL! Even distracted me for a few years after the SNES came out. I STILL go back and play Mega Man X-X4, Super Metroid and Link to the Past (some of the best console games I have played to this day). Have built every PC I have ever laid hands on since. My wife keeps telling me to transition to a laptop but I don't think that will ever happen as long as there are desktop components available to buy.
Montezuma's Revenge was a favorite of mine.
Posted November 18, 2013
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bringthemback: so many Steam and Origin keys.... havent seen a Gog one in several pages :)
Well, GOG keys are a good deal harder to get hold of...
Posted November 18, 2013
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stevieknix: Was your NES second hand? Because I remember that thing came packaged with Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt, and the light gun.
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Dreadjaws: Oh, yes, it came with those games, but I also got a few more (Christmas!), and Contra was the one I played first. Curiously, I wasn't really interested in videogames. Laugh all you want, but what I asked for Christmas was a microscope (I was, and I still am, a nerd). The NES ignited my passion for gaming, which hasn't faded since.
Neeeeerd.



I owned a microscope. I have never been more fascinated with my own hair as I was when I had that thing.
Posted November 18, 2013
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moochorama: Thanks! I searched their store, it's not in there (maybe not yet). I'm going to keep checking.
I bought Bastion twice. As a weekly sale and later as part of a bundle.
Humble Bundle doesn't add codes for second copies. So that I could send one to you. :-(

Anyway their version of DRM-free Bastion had a problem with texts. There weren't text descriptions for items in game and levels were shown by the files' names!

I boycott Steam too.
Posted November 18, 2013
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ggf162: Only available on Steam sadly, Id's got a huge DRM fetish
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The_Blog: What a big shame :/
Both Doom and Quake are DRM free. I bought ID pack last Christmas and use the wads and pk*s in source ports engines, like gzdoom and ioquake3. Say what you will about id software, but Carmack is committed to GPL'ing all of the engine code.
Posted November 18, 2013
I shall buy the next 4 games!

And the next one to appear (after Sword of the Stars - The Pit) will be my 100th game in GOG.

edit - maybe it will be a freebie!
Post edited November 18, 2013 by background26
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