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Posted January 28, 2014
Let's do the time warp again*!

Welcome to our [url=http://www.gog.com]DRM-Free Time Machine Sale! Fasten your seatbelts and prepare for a fascinating ride to the early days of PC gaming and back again, with 30 excellent titles selected from the years 1983-2013, available up to 90% off (that is for as little as $0.59!). You'll find amazing games in amazing prices featured one by one on GOG.com main page, and before the sale is done you'll be able to complete your very own display of gaming history on a budget below $65 (because this would be the cost to get every single game in the sale). Are you ready?

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There's more than just buying games incredibly cheap to our DRM-Free Time Machine Sale! We're ready to pass its steering wheel (or rather the control console) to YOU. Each game in the sale is offered for a limited time only, and how long we stay in its year is up to you! Each time you see a new game on sale you can vote to either add or subtract 1 second from the timer. Each time you buy a game, you add 3 seconds to the time of it being on sale. We begin with 1983's Zork, bundled with the rest of the Zork Anthology of 6 games in total, for only $1.79. How long will it last on the front page? You'll be the judge. What comes next, as the game of 1984? Let's find out!

Let's take a trip in GOG.com's DRM-Free Time Machine Sale! 30 great games from 1983-2013 will be available up to 90% off, and you get to decide how long each game is on sale. Ready? The technomagical gateway to 1983 opens NOW!

* "Again?", you might ask, "when did they ever do the time warp?". Well, once you embark on a journey through time, all becomes relevant and there's absolutely no guarantee that what you are doing, you are doing for the first time. In fact, that's highly improbable. After all, time isn't linear. It's more like a giant wobbly-bobbly goggy-boggy ball of gaming awesome!
Post edited January 28, 2014 by G-Doc
Posted January 28, 2014
The problem with CRPGs is that they're so dang time-consuming. As interesting as some of them look (though I can't say I was ever interested in the Wizardry series,) I just have to draw the line somewhere, and this whole genre is more likely to get a pass from me than most others. I've got Arcanum, Ultima VII, all the Fallouts, Ultima Underworld, Driftmoon, and aaallll the D&D titles here. Those alone should keep me occupied for a couple of decades, and I really don't need to compound it with still more CRPGs!!
Posted January 28, 2014
There seems to be a lot of these 'special' sales going all the time, maybe prioritize bringing more games in instead of having a raving sale every month?
Posted January 28, 2014
I'm glad people have been keeping a list. You are saints, scholars, and gentle-persons <3
Posted January 28, 2014
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Silverhawk170485: Can anyone tell me what sense an upvote makes, without buying the game? I mean the people who are interested in the game buy it and upvote it automatically. All other people are waiting for the next game in sale. So upvoting it for 1 second is just trolling by artificially stretching the waitingtime until the next game will show up.
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gamefood: No, Sir, not only. I would say its also a possibility to honour a great game for those who have it already AND/OR
give others more time to buy it.

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Well, that and I didn't want the only "positive" interaction with a game's duration to cost money, since that seems a bit shady to me.
Post edited January 28, 2014 by TheEnigmaticT
Posted January 28, 2014
How do Wizardy 6/7 hold up? Are they still worth playing?
Posted January 28, 2014
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randomengine: I think Populous is going to be skipped. They wouldn't put the sequel on sale when they have the original.
They might bundle the two together, perhaps even with the third one. They are using a good amount of latitude in assigning a year to a game or set of games.

Personally I believe it's going to be Tex Murphy or Duke Nukem, if not Populous. But they could just as easy pull something else out of the hat and assign it to 1991.
Posted January 28, 2014
Do Wizardry 6 + 7 have an auto-maping feature?
Posted January 28, 2014
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DrYaboll: Wizardry disco inferno!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z4sfjGfQxY burn that mother down!
Post edited January 28, 2014 by uruk
Posted January 28, 2014
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zavlin: never heard of wizardry? They sort of defined the first person dungeon crawling genre.
Dungeon crawling? Yeah well, I never really liked Diablo either. I still just bought Wizardry. I mean how wrong can you go for a buck, right?
Posted January 28, 2014
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Niggles: If Jmich's spreadsheet is right, 1991 will be from the following

Castles 1+2 1/01/1991
Tex Murphy 1+2 31/12/1991
Populous 2: Trials of the Olympian Gods 1/09/1991
Alien Breed + Tower Assault 1/01/1991 (was this THAT old??)
Ultima Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams 31/12/1991
Dangerous Dave Pack 1/01/1991
Duke Nukem 1+2 1/07/1991
Catacombs Pack 1/01/1991
From those, I'd go with Tex Murphy, since it was a pioneer of the adventure game, which would later on boost the use of FMV cutscenes and cd-ROM sales. Without Tex Murphy, we'd probably not be able to burn these lovely GOG.games on to DVD right now...

Alternatively, Duke Nukem is a good choice, but most people would know him better from Duke Nukem 3D, which was genre expanding, if not genre defining. Unfortunately, without any Doom or Quake, if they don't stick Duke Nukem 3D in there, then we're basically looking at Blake Stone as representing the advent of the FPS - it uses the Wolfenstein 3D engine, the pre-cursor to Doom in many ways...

Finally, there's Populous 2, representing the Populous franchise, and Bullfrog's humble beginnings in the simulation genre, but there are way better titles to choose from than Populous. Yes, it created the "god game" genre, but Populous just isn't that good of an example of Bullfrog's contributions to gaming.

Ultimately, I would like this promo to be a proper tribute to gaming, rather than a chance to flog some games that don't otherwise sell, because people don't think about them any more. I, for one, would be quite up for putting together a rundown on why every game in this promo is a defining game in history, just as long as GOG.com picks the best games for each year!
Posted January 28, 2014
Looking ahead, I will predict Alone in the Dark 1+2+3 for 1992.
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Niggles: If Jmich's spreadsheet is right, 1991 will be from the following

Castles 1+2 1/01/1991
Tex Murphy 1+2 31/12/1991
Populous 2: Trials of the Olympian Gods 1/09/1991
Alien Breed + Tower Assault 1/01/1991 (was this THAT old??)
Ultima Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams 31/12/1991
Dangerous Dave Pack 1/01/1991
Duke Nukem 1+2 1/07/1991
Catacombs Pack 1/01/1991
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Davane: From those, I'd go with Tex Murphy, since it was a pioneer of the adventure game, which would later on boost the use of FMV cutscenes and cd-ROM sales. Without Tex Murphy, we'd probably not be able to burn these lovely GOG.games on to DVD right now...

Alternatively, Duke Nukem is a good choice, but most people would know him better from Duke Nukem 3D, which was genre expanding, if not genre defining. Unfortunately, without any Doom or Quake, if they don't stick Duke Nukem 3D in there, then we're basically looking at Blake Stone as representing the advent of the FPS - it uses the Wolfenstein 3D engine, the pre-cursor to Doom in many ways...

Finally, there's Populous 2, representing the Populous franchise, and Bullfrog's humble beginnings in the simulation genre, but there are way better titles to choose from than Populous. Yes, it created the "god game" genre, but Populous just isn't that good of an example of Bullfrog's contributions to gaming.

Ultimately, I would like this promo to be a proper tribute to gaming, rather than a chance to flog some games that don't otherwise sell, because people don't think about them any more. I, for one, would be quite up for putting together a rundown on why every game in this promo is a defining game in history, just as long as GOG.com picks the best games for each year!
My prediction is Tex Murphy 1+2 or Another World 20th Anniversary Edition.
Post edited January 28, 2014 by randomengine
Posted January 28, 2014
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randomengine: Don't forget Another World 20th Anniversary Edition
Really? Then, without a doubt, Another World has to be the chosen game then. I mean, I have a degree in games design and gaming history, and I studied this one as part of my course. It is iconic of what would become the 3rd person perspective genre - seen today mostly in the survival horror genre. If THAT isn't enough to make it a time machine game, nothing is really. I'd go so far as to say that this outranks Tex Murphy, who's main contribution is almost just as equally matched by the iconic Myst series, which will no doubt be covered in a few hours.
Posted January 28, 2014
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randomengine: My prediction is Tex Murphy 1+2 or Another World 20th Anniversary Edition.
Another World would be an excellent choice as well. A groundbreaking game.

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randomengine: Looking ahead, I will predict Alone in the Dark 1+2+3 for 1992.
Those would be good picks too, also pioneering titles.
Posted January 28, 2014
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randomengine: Don't forget Another World 20th Anniversary Edition
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Davane: Really? Then, without a doubt, Another World has to be the chosen game then. I mean, I have a degree in games design and gaming history, and I studied this one as part of my course. It is iconic of what would become the 3rd person perspective genre - seen today mostly in the survival horror genre. If THAT isn't enough to make it a time machine game, nothing is really. I'd go so far as to say that this outranks Tex Murphy, who's main contribution is almost just as equally matched by the iconic Myst series, which will no doubt be covered in a few hours.
Yeah I am leaning heavily towards Another World, however every game up to this point has been a franchise game. Then I remembered that some of the games that will show up near the end are not franchise games. So Another World seems like a safe bet.
Post edited January 28, 2014 by randomengine
Posted January 28, 2014
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gamefood: No, Sir, not only. I would say its also a possibility to honour a great game for those who have it already AND/OR
give others more time to buy it.

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TheEnigmaticT: Well, that and I didn't want the only "positive" interaction with a game's duration to cost money, since that seems a bit shady to me.
Awesome response. :-)
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