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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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rookie1: Did anyone have a Powerglove for their console? I think it was for the nes.
I LOVE the Power Glove. It's so bad.
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rookie1: Did anyone have a Powerglove for their console? I think it was for the nes.
Yes, the power glove for the NES. I forgot want game you can use it for, but it looked really cool at the time.
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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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howardc007: Anyone remember the NES that also came with the robot and the game gyroscope?
Still got it. R.O.B. is sitting on top of the entertainment center I built to hold my vinyl collection. He is with us always.
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MysterD: I remember Operation Wolf at the arcades, back in the day.
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Minmataro: I remember walking into an arcade and seeing a 12 TV tube wall screen with if i remember correctly a six player cabinet for X-men the old beat em up. my mind was blown. You cant get an experience like that at home.

Its also why i always played fighters in arcades you couldnt simulate that "i got next" atmosphere at home. Other sub-genres like in the cab driving and on rail shooters were similar games that really rocked in arcades.
Oh, yeah - X-Men Arcade was good, back in the day.
I also remember TMNT and Simpsons arcade beat 'em ups, as well.

And of course, DOUBLE DRAGON! Back in the day, I loved to use that elbow move, hehe.
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Shaaka: done what i can to speed up, bought a copy, was interested in the sword of the stars anyways.
+1!
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rookie1: Did anyone have a Powerglove for their console? I think it was for the nes.
It was... i did... and anyone who remembers the Powerglove can also remember the movie The Wizard xD
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Infin8ty: Random question: Descent, M&K or Joystick?
Mouse for aiming. Even a decent flight stick isn't accurate enough, based on my testing almost a year ago.
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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.
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AndyDivine79: Montezuma's Revenge was a favorite of mine.
Did you check out La Mulana? Looks like a cross between that and the original Mega Man games. :-)
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howardc007: Anyone remember the NES that also came with the robot and the game gyroscope?
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AndyDivine79: Still got it. R.O.B. is sitting on top of the entertainment center I built to hold my vinyl collection. He is with us always.
That's cool!
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AndyDivine79: Montezuma's Revenge was a favorite of mine.
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CorranHorn: Not many who knows about that one, ever play Rick Dangerous?
I don't recall that one.
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ooddaa: 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.
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The_Blog: Mhhkay still sad that it ain't on GOG. Although I got a quite large Steam Library. 352 Games.
Jeez! I just barely exceeded 100.
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rookie1: Did anyone have a Powerglove for their console? I think it was for the nes.
I'll always think of that Nintendo movie with "Wonder Years Kid" when I think of the powerglove. Awesome!
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moochorama: Thanks! I searched their store, it's not in there (maybe not yet). I'm going to keep checking.
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vanchann: 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.
Amen! Steam and I have long parted ways due to irreconcilable differences.
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Infin8ty: Random question: Descent, M&K or Joystick?
I played it mouse and keyboard. It's not really a flight (space?) sim, it's more a fps without gravity.
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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.
I remember being blown away seeing Battle Chess for the first time on a friends PC and I was in my late 20's early 30's then so I suppose that makes me a real old timer lol. When I started playing computer games there was no standadised OS each manufacturer had their own version OS software no compatibility. No HDD games loaded and saved on a casette tape no monitor, you just connected to your tv, ram was measured in Kb's and processor speeds were around 50Hz.
If you look at videos of Lords of Midnight that is exactly how it looked when I used to play it in the 1980's and during loading from an audio tape, a central title window surrounded by flashing bands confirming that the program was loading.
Post edited November 18, 2013 by don2712