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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
Trying to do a quick calculation but somewhere around ~4000 people had to have hit the -1 second for King's Quest to have come and gone within a half-hour.
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cmdr_flashheart: So, is the sale going to last all through the night? Or will it take a break at the end of the work day?

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HypersomniacLive: Who's work day would that be on an international site? If we're talking about GOG, their working day ended officially at about the time the sale started.
LOL, yep.

It's almost 12:30 AM here and I'm about to go to bed, so I'll miss a huge chunk of the sale.

Oh well.....it's not like my backlog needs more games anyway :)

Cool idea for a sale, though and fun to watch.
My next prediction is Leisure Suit Larry 1-6 for 1987.
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HypersomniacLive: Who's work day would that be on an international site? If we're talking about GOG, their working day ended officially at about the time the sale started.
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Bloodygoodgames: LOL, yep.

It's almost 12:30 AM here and I'm about to go to bed, so I'll miss a huge chunk of the sale.

Oh well.....it's not like my backlog needs more games anyway :)

Cool idea for a sale, though and fun to watch.
I know how that goes, my backlog has about a hundred games in it, might be a good thing I have to leave now.
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Punished_Snake: http://www.agdinteractive.com/games/games.html

King's Quest 1-3 for free (and they are better then the originals)
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jamesbuc: Indeed. Its hard to recommend the original three KQ games outside of any real completionists when these three are around.
The new ones look like a nice effort, but I like playing the games with their original look more. The pixels are big and the artwork basic but I appreciate the look of them still. And KQ4 - KQ6 look very nice. KQ7 looks to Disney for my taste and KQ8 just looks _________. I do like the look of many early 3D games but KQ8 is as __________ as Simon the Sorcerer 3D. They should have mixed polygons with sprites, like New World Computing did with Might and Magic 6. That game stills looks very fine.

EDIT: And just by coincidence that game is on sale now. My recommendation: Buy Buy! Buy!
Post edited January 28, 2014 by Sargon
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Bloodygoodgames: It's almost 12:30 AM here and I'm about to go to bed, so I'll miss a huge chunk of the sale.
We had folks doing game watches for others during Insomnia, to catch desired items while others were away. We don't know yet if this will loop, but if it does, then it might be good to do that again during the final pass. Assuming anyone misses any games through multiple iterations of this sale.
I'm hoping for Pirates! Gold for 1987.
what was 1985 guys? : o (Cant believe Might Magic started same year I born.. awesome)
I don't have time to watch the sale, and I am pretty sure I actually own every game that is likely to show up, but is there any chance that we can have a wrap up with a full list of games by year, and how long they sold for?

It'd be great for those of us that have missed certain sales if they are all given in a one-time 30-year anniversary of gaming promo special!
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Drerhu: what was 1985 guys? : o (Cant believe Might Magic started same year I born.. awesome)
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Davane: I don't have time to watch the sale, and I am pretty sure I actually own every game that is likely to show up, but is there any chance that we can have a wrap up with a full list of games by year, and how long they sold for?

It'd be great for those of us that have missed certain sales if they are all given in a one-time 30-year anniversary of gaming promo special!
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/drmfree_time_machine_sale_game_list
Quick! Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow!
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Davane: I don't have time to watch the sale, and I am pretty sure I actually own every game that is likely to show up, but is there any chance that we can have a wrap up with a full list of games by year, and how long they sold for?

It'd be great for those of us that have missed certain sales if they are all given in a one-time 30-year anniversary of gaming promo special!
Not sure how long I'll keep it up, but for now see http://blog.cavsplace.com/?p=1216...

(If you mean if we'll have an official one at the end... That'd be cool. Maybe include the number of votes each way too.)
What are the odds of getting Tomb Rider triple pack? :P

Btw, how do these years work? Are they just there to mark each round or do they have some additional significance?
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Davane: I don't have time to watch the sale, and I am pretty sure I actually own every game that is likely to show up, but is there any chance that we can have a wrap up with a full list of games by year, and how long they sold for?

It'd be great for those of us that have missed certain sales if they are all given in a one-time 30-year anniversary of gaming promo special!
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IAmSinistar: http://www.gog.com/forum/general/drmfree_time_machine_sale_game_list
Sweet! It's just sad that the first game - Zork - was in 1983, the year my younger sister was born. I guess that makes me older than video games! :o
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GOGwiiisfun: I'm hoping for Pirates! Gold for 1987.
I call BS on that Pirates release date. No way it was released on New Years Day in 1987.