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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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cemtufekci: So what did i miss so far?
The list has been summoned!!
Posted January 29, 2014
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geminidomino: For starters, they don't have the first System Shock in their catalog...

(I know, it's not their fault. Still a glaring omission, right up there with TIE Fighter. <_<)
reply :)
Posted January 29, 2014
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BoxOfSnoo: So pick a year, estimate when you think it will be on sale and check in. Nobody says you have to watch every minute of the progress bar.
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gscotti: Unfortunately, you just cannot estimate. I mean, you can't estimate AT ALL when some games go for 30 minutes while others for 3 hours and 30 minutes!

I actually don't have an issue with you - I am bummed that I missed Zork Antology - and I had NO way of knowing or estimating that one, since it was the first game in the list!!!!!! >:(
Yeah well, you have to give yourself a large margin of safety, if you think you want something 4 years in the future, you can check in after 4-5h. Chances are there is at least one popular game in there that will last longer than 1.5h so you might even be OK with 7! If you want something in the next year though, you should check in every half an hour!

I hear ya about Zork. might take some of the sting out of it. Yep it's legal. Also [url=http://www.infocom.org.uk/downloads.htm]here to add on The Undiscovered Underground. No Zork Zero or Beyond Zork (or Planetfall), alas, for those you'll need the anthology here.
Posted January 29, 2014
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geminidomino: For starters, they don't have the first System Shock in their catalog...

(I know, it's not their fault. Still a glaring omission, right up there with TIE Fighter. <_<)
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stan423321: That's the joke. It was mentioned after Diablo, mind you.
I know. I just wanted to pimp TF again. :D
Posted January 29, 2014
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shmargin: And now we're in the late 90s, which is sort of an ugly portion of gaming in a lot of ways.
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Leroux: Blasphemer! Burn the heretic! ;)
haha this thread is at least half of the fun of the sale
Posted January 29, 2014
Just an observation regarding Rayman Forever. It's included with the year 1998, but wasn't actually released until May of 1999? At least that's what Rayman's product page says. I thought that was interesting. (Maybe 1998 really was an awful year for PC gaming?)

edit: grammar fix
Post edited January 29, 2014 by troybenedict
Posted January 29, 2014
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foxworks: gscotti, check your inbox for Zork Anthology
Thank you, gentle sir (or madam).

Next time you come to Finland, you have a drink on me! Or if my post-doc adventures bring me to your city.
Posted January 29, 2014
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foxworks: gscotti, check your inbox for Zork Anthology
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gscotti: Thank you, gentle sir (or madam).

Next time you come to Finland, you have a drink on me! Or if my post-doc adventures bring me to your city.
Sounds good kind forum user. Enjoy!
Posted January 29, 2014
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troybenedict: Just an observation regarding Rayman Forever. It's included with the year 1998, but wasn't actually released until May of 1999? At least that's what Rayman's product page says. I thought that was interesting. (Maybe 1998 really was an awful year for PC gaming?)

edit: grammar fix
The release dates I find elsewhere say '98, so it seems all right and the gamecard may be wrong, or may refer to a specific release. There were odder cases at the start of the sale, with bundles included in a year when some re-release of one game from them took place or something of the sort. But all these various releases do give them a lot of leeway, and most were right anyway.
Posted January 29, 2014
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flambeau: I wish 1999 game were Planescape: Torment. I've never played it

(oh, Lord, staring at the monitor is making me sick. guess I'll have to go for a while)
That is an amazing game, if you like good storytelling in an amazing setting, trust me. Even if not on sale it's still worth every cent.
Posted January 29, 2014
Time is not our enemy, forever is.
Posted January 29, 2014
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cmdr_flashheart: You add 3 secs when you buy, so you did make it longer :]
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nrjank: but not as long as I wanted to make it.

MUAHAHAHAHA
Insidious.
Posted January 29, 2014
Damn i completely missed this one. You do lack one game that really needs to be on GoG since this game made games what they are today, Elite.
Posted January 29, 2014
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gscotti: Unfortunately, you just cannot estimate. I mean, you can't estimate AT ALL when some games go for 30 minutes while others for 3 hours and 30 minutes!

I actually don't have an issue with you - I am bummed that I missed Zork Antology - and I had NO way of knowing or estimating that one, since it was the first game in the list!!!!!! >:(
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BoxOfSnoo: Yeah well, you have to give yourself a large margin of safety, if you think you want something 4 years in the future, you can check in after 4-5h. Chances are there is at least one popular game in there that will last longer than 1.5h so you might even be OK with 7! If you want something in the next year though, you should check in every half an hour!

I hear ya about Zork. might take some of the sting out of it. Yep it's legal. Also [url=http://www.infocom.org.uk/downloads.htm]here to add on The Undiscovered Underground. No Zork Zero or Beyond Zork (or Planetfall), alas, for those you'll need the anthology here.
Free Zork! This is another thing I didn't see coming! Although foxworks has magnanimously gifted it to me, it's very interesting to see such great games being provided for free.


Aaaaahhh..... the pleasure of playing Zork "is almost orgasmic" (Salad Fingers quote).
Posted January 29, 2014
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gscotti: Unfortunately, you just cannot estimate. I mean, you can't estimate AT ALL when some games go for 30 minutes while others for 3 hours and 30 minutes!

I actually don't have an issue with you - I am bummed that I missed Zork Antology - and I had NO way of knowing or estimating that one, since it was the first game in the list!!!!!! >:(
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BoxOfSnoo: Yeah well, you have to give yourself a large margin of safety, if you think you want something 4 years in the future, you can check in after 4-5h. Chances are there is at least one popular game in there that will last longer than 1.5h so you might even be OK with 7! If you want something in the next year though, you should check in every half an hour!

I hear ya about Zork. might take some of the sting out of it. Yep it's legal. Also [url=http://www.infocom.org.uk/downloads.htm]here to add on The Undiscovered Underground. No Zork Zero or Beyond Zork (or Planetfall), alas, for those you'll need the anthology here.
Thanks for the post. I did enjoy those Infocom games back when on my Atari 800xl.
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