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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 29, 2014
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JMich: Sinistar is sleeping atm. List should be updated once he wakes up.
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shayne3: This reminds me of one of those uber-cliched lines in hollywood disaster movies, where someone picks up a phone and says
"Get me the President!... *pause* ... Then WAKE HIM!"
"This a matter of National Security" written and directed by Roland Emerich. :P
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johnnygoging: seems that list is no longer being updated

from reddit

1985. King's Quest 1+2+3, $2.99/70%
1987. Space Quest 1+2+3, $2.99/70%
1988. Police Quest 1+2+3+4, $2.99/70%
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gizmomelb: i *SO* hope GOG do a roundup at the end of the sale..I would have bought the above games if I hadn't have been asleep.

GOG - make an app so you get a notification when games on your wishlist are on sale please!
GOG did send an email when the time machine was at Might and Magic in 1986. :)
Post edited January 29, 2014 by stg83
Posted January 29, 2014
I seem to have chosen a rather bad time to check back in - Lara's going to take for ever to sell out!

I just noticed that now the timebar shows the amount of secs being added or subtracted - was that there from the beginning and I just didn't notice it before?


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gizmomelb: i *SO* hope GOG do a roundup at the end of the sale..I would have bought the above games if I hadn't have been asleep.

GOG - make an app so you get a notification when games on your wishlist are on sale please!
TET said on reddit that there'll be no roundup. That doesn't rule out that there're might be a second round though (his wording was a bit vague in this aspect).
Posted January 29, 2014
You know, I probably would have purchased some of the early games, but since the email about this sale didn't hit my inbox until SimCity was up...
Posted January 29, 2014
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HypersomniacLive: I seem to have chosen a rather bad time to check back in - Lara's going to take for ever to sell out!

I just noticed that now the timebar shows the amount of secs being added or subtracted - was that there from the beginning and I just didn't notice it before?

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gizmomelb: i *SO* hope GOG do a roundup at the end of the sale..I would have bought the above games if I hadn't have been asleep.

GOG - make an app so you get a notification when games on your wishlist are on sale please!
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HypersomniacLive: TET said on reddit that there'll be no roundup. That doesn't rule out that there're might be a second round though (his wording was a bit vague in this aspect).
the time machine was glitchy before and that was previously happening 1 second in the future or 1 second in the past depending on whether it was a plus or minus second. they fixed it.

(apparently it was a firefox bug. I did a doubletake as well)
Posted January 29, 2014
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HypersomniacLive: (...)
I just noticed that now the timebar shows the amount of secs being added or subtracted - was that there from the beginning and I just didn't notice it before?
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Yes, it has been there since the beginning.

And if Tomb Raider is taking longer it's because people choose too, as it is entirely up to us whether we add or subtract seconds to/from the timer.
Posted January 29, 2014
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HypersomniacLive: I seem to have chosen a rather bad time to check back in - Lara's going to take for ever to sell out!
Lara sold out a long time ago with the abysmal Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness ;)
Posted January 29, 2014
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stg83: Lara sold out a long time ago with the abysmal Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness ;)
I second this statement. Plus, I lol'ed hard.
Posted January 29, 2014
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johnnygoging: seems that list is no longer being updated

from reddit

1985. King's Quest 1+2+3, $2.99/70%
1987. Space Quest 1+2+3, $2.99/70%
1988. Police Quest 1+2+3+4, $2.99/70%
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gizmomelb: i *SO* hope GOG do a roundup at the end of the sale..I would have bought the above games if I hadn't have been asleep.

GOG - make an app so you get a notification when games on your wishlist are on sale please!
They've said no round-up this time.

Also, I just bought ALL of the Sierra Quests during the Quest sale. Could have saved a few bucks.
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HypersomniacLive: (...)
I just noticed that now the timebar shows the amount of secs being added or subtracted - was that there from the beginning and I just didn't notice it before?
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groze: Yes, it has been there since the beginning.

And if Tomb Raider is taking longer it's because people choose too, as it is entirely up to us whether we add or subtract seconds to/from the timer.
Or because it's selling well. Sales add 3 seconds, you know...
Post edited January 29, 2014 by CalicoPup
Posted January 29, 2014
I'd like Arcanum for 2001. =)
Posted January 29, 2014
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groze: Yes, it has been there since the beginning.

And if Tomb Raider is taking longer it's because people choose too, as it is entirely up to us whether we add or subtract seconds to/from the timer.
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CalicoPup: Or because it's selling well. Sales add 3 seconds, you know...
Yup, I'm aware of that. I still think it counts as user choice, since if people choose to buy it they add 3 seconds to the timer. But thanks for clarifying, my post was, indeed, vague in that regard.
Posted January 29, 2014
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groze: Yes, it has been there since the beginning.

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I'm pretty sure it was not showing for me until now.
That's pretty useful - with all the +/-1 secs and purchases going on, it gives a better visual way to tell them apart.


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groze: snip

And if Tomb Raider is taking longer it's because people choose too, as it is entirely up to us whether we add or subtract seconds to/from the timer.
Not sure it's because of the extra +/-1 secs. When it first went live, I noticed an almost constant flow of +3 secs popping up on the timebar, causing to stick around 1:28:00 for a long time - just now there was a +14 secs; that can't have been 14 people clicking on the +1 sec arrow, most of it must have come from purchases.
Oh well, give me time to check the rest of the forum threads out :-)
Posted January 29, 2014
Oh darn, I missed cannon fodder :(

And it came up right after I went to sleep, too. Ah well, I suppose another sale will come around before I'm finished with my huge backlog :p
Posted January 29, 2014
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HypersomniacLive: I just noticed that now the timebar shows the amount of secs being added or subtracted - was that there from the beginning and I just didn't notice it before?
It was there from the beginning. Pretty funny to watch in the first seconds after a new deal, when thousands of people hit the minus button (-82 sec, -140 sec, -216 sec, -204 sec, ... ... ...), before the buyers take over and push up the time bar again.
Posted January 29, 2014
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Austrobogulator: 2 minutes have passed in 20 mins. This is the worst time machine ever :o
That's because they didn't hire mine...
Posted January 29, 2014
So not a single year was skipped yet, eh? And no doubles either...

That's odd. I thought Unepic was confirmed from the email for 2013, but there would be no space for it if there were only 30 games; there would have to be 31. And earlier in this thread, a GOG-staffer hinted at it that there might not be a game for each year.

I'm confuzzled!

Still hoping this promo will end with going "back to the future" for 2014 Witcher 3 pre-orders, though! ;)
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