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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
... The immortal might and magic 6pack
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randomengine: Thirded.
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yyahoo: Fourth-ummm-ed
+1'ed :-p
This increasing counter reminds me of the Keane incident.
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assassin33: I have never been to 4chan and didn't it come for the Simpsons originally.
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JudasIscariot: I am not sure, I know I saw it on 4chan most of the time and so I erroneously thought it came from there :)
It came from those of us who were around when the movie came out, such as myself. It was inconceivable to most of us that a movie as terrible as Breaking would get a sequel, much less one with such a laughable name. So "Anything 2: Electric Boogaloo" became a catchphrase for any terrible followup, or any terrible first thing that threatened to have a followup.

It's call oral tradition, and shockingly it predates both the internet and tediously popular television shows. Everyone tends to assume that their first exposure to something must also be the first occurrence of it, but that is more often not the case.
And time is going backward!
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IAmSinistar: I already have the Might and Magic 6-pack, but clearly a lot of others don't because the time is staying high. It's a great deal on this set, too.
Great deal, and Might and Magic's mindshare is probably about as high as it's been in years thanks to the M&M X release.

Also, didn't the Insomnia sale really go nuts around this time, too? People are out of bed, gotten ready for the day, and now they're checking out the internet and "Oh, what's this new sale GOG's doing I need to get on that".
Post edited January 28, 2014 by andysheets1975
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Nice_Boat: I was thinking on maybe buying this pack, but I readed this:
http://www.gog.com/forum/might_and_magic_series/these_games_are_tampered_with_by_advertisers

Could anyone tell me what is this about?

I didn't found anyone more complaining about it.
98% sure there is nothing in it. Probably just a lame prank, a confused user or someone trying to badmouth GOG for some reason. I downloaded the version I have been using in march 2011. I have never had any problem with it. I use a software firewall so I would have known if the game tried to connect to the internet. (Unless it used some fancy trojan tricks.) Also, there have never been any advertisements in my games. Theoretically this issue could have been there in a earlier version of the installation files, but in-game advertisements would have been so controversial among GOG's customers that I'm sure I would have heard about it before. Putting in game advertisements inside a game is so unlike GOG so I would be extremely surprised if they ever did anything like that.
Post edited January 28, 2014 by Sargon
half an hour ago it was 20 minutes shorter to go than it is now. That's pretty amusing.
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Senteria: half an hour ago it was 20 minutes shorter to go than it is now. That's pretty amusing.
People are waking up in the US and other areas and buying the crap out of this.
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Nice_Boat: I was thinking on maybe buying this pack, but I readed this:
http://www.gog.com/forum/might_and_magic_series/these_games_are_tampered_with_by_advertisers

Could anyone tell me what is this about?

I didn't found anyone more complaining about it.
I have a recent installer (v. 2.0.0.41) and the eula doesn't mention "Massive Incorporated". That company was closed in 2010 anyway, after being purchased by Microsoft.
I wonder if the counter will glitch out if it goes above 1h 30m.
If anyone wants to catch some sleep during this sale, now would be a good time :)

Then again, I imagine there will be quite a few other opportunities, since it seems I was way, way wrong when I was estimating that games will get at most 10 min extra from sales. This may get hours, and it probably won't be the only one.
Does buying a game add seconds to the timer, or is it only via the +1/-1 buttons?
I don't think you should put MMX next to these epic classics. MMX is a disgrace as it is, dumbed down to the core, tried to copy Grimrock and failed, not to forget the half assed beta state it is as a full price game.
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Malek86: Does buying a game add seconds to the timer, or is it only via the +1/-1 buttons?
Per the OP "Each time you buy a game, you add 3 seconds to the time of it being on sale."