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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
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triock: Hey, Keane, where art thou? :D
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G-Doc: Sorry, Triock, but your Keane was in another promo ;-)
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Nice trailer!
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randomengine: Nowhere in wikipedia are the years 1984 listed for either Ultima 1, 2, or 3.

What gives? How are they determining these dates? Arbitrarily?
Ultima 1 is listed as 1980 and 1986 (the remake?) so i don't know what these dates are
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randomengine: Nowhere in wikipedia are the years 1984 listed for either Ultima 1, 2, or 3.

What gives? How are they determining these dates? Arbitrarily?
Ultima 2 (which was the first one released on the PC) apparently had a 1984 re-release. And considering the potential of releases in various parts of the world, improved versions and so on, they have quite a margin.
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Tpiom: I think this would be better if people couldn't downvote, only add a second. For instance, King's Quest barely gets a chance - a minute or two and like 1/4 is already done.
The minus button is there in order to throw the total sale time of a game out of balance - in other words, to keep people spending more time or at least coming back in shorter intervals than 1.5 hrs.
That's the actual point of these types of sales - keep the total number of people on you site as high as possible for as long as possible.


On another note - so far the discounts are within the usual GOG's percentages. Curious about which games will get the higher discounts.
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randomengine: Nowhere in wikipedia are the years 1984 listed for either Ultima 1, 2, or 3.

What gives? How are they determining these dates? Arbitrarily?
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gira93: Ultima 1 is listed as 1980 and 1986 (the remake?) so i don't know what these dates are
Weighted average of the release and re-release dates of all three titles. Adjust coefficients accordingly ;)
I'm expecting Broken Sword for 2013
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gira93: I'm expecting Broken Sword for 2013
Why not Redshirt?
The Escapist article on this sale mentioned Spelunky, which would put it as the 2013 game, correct?
Oh awesome, another one of these sales.

I already like that little timer idea...

:D

Let's see how fast Jack Keane 2 goes by...
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gira93: I'm expecting Broken Sword for 2013
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wrathsinger: Why not Redshirt?
I never heard of it! but it seems good from the gog page
GoG tried to fix what went wrong with the last sale by letting the customers choose how long the sale lasts.

Unfortunately, GoG were counting on people all being responsible individuals.

Swing and a miss again. Third time lucky?
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gira93: I'm expecting Broken Sword for 2013
Nope, Spelunky
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G-Doc: Sorry, Triock, but your Keane was in another promo ;-)
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Novotnus:
Keane's Castle 2: The Fire Within ?
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Whoops, was off playing through a quest in Fallout and forgot about this sale. Did I miss anything before King's Quest? (other than Ultima)