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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 28, 2014
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Davane: 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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mudd1: Well, 1983 is the year the 3rd generation of video game consoles came out. So there are two generations before that. And Pong is a full decade older in any case.

And in any case, since there was a crash, video games must have been big before.
I remember that crash! Admittedly, I was like 2 at the time, but still... Mind you, I was born in 1981, and have pretty much been around computers my whole life - my first experience was pre-crash with a VIC 20! :o

Okay, so yeah, I'm not really older than video games, but it is still a bit off-putting when people recall 30 years of something, and I realise I am actually older than that. I am older than ever game in the GOG catalogue, at least!
Posted January 28, 2014
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Caladus: It's the only thing keeping me from outright just buying the pack right now. Of course it would be easy enough to just firewall the software itself.
There is no mention of the company name he mentioned anywhere in the EULA. In fact, the word "massive" doesn't appear at all, neither does anything related to "advertisement". So I'd say "go ahead". It seems to be a false claim, at least by now.
Posted January 28, 2014
Every DRM-Free Sale is welcome.
Only I wish I had the chance to participate, due to a problem with Paysafecard in certain countries. Needless to say my country is one of them.
I hope it is something temporary, because I want to buy some of these "Good Old Games"!
Posted January 28, 2014
"In the previous sale we made you love some bad games (okay, not so good ones) (that would be Jack Kean 2). Today we'll make you hate some good games for a change."
I mean some promos apparently will go on indefinitely...
Posted January 28, 2014
One thing that nicely parallels the Insomnia sale is all the community activity around this one. I enjoy that more than the sale itself at times.
Posted January 28, 2014
It's increasing! (on a melody of "it's alive!").
Posted January 28, 2014
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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.
Bought the pack and installed it like a year or 2 ago.
Completed the entire pack and didn't see a single ad.
Unless he meant the ads the gog installer shows (about other similar RPGs GOG sells)?
Posted January 28, 2014
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Fictionvision: I wonder if the counter will glitch out if it goes above 1h 30m.
I imagine someone may be calling a certain coder about now to ask him to check exactly what will happen.
Posted January 28, 2014
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IAmSinistar: One thing that nicely parallels the Insomnia sale is all the community activity around this one. I enjoy that more than the sale itself at times.
Same here, Insomnia was awesome
Posted January 28, 2014
Sorry if this was addressed already but I am at work and cannot read the whole thread, kind of busy today. Will the sale repeat like the Insomnia sale (for those of us who cannot frequently check the site during work hours)?
Posted January 28, 2014
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IAmSinistar: One thing that nicely parallels the Insomnia sale is all the community activity around this one. I enjoy that more than the sale itself at times.
You mean to say that it glues us more to the screen and steals more of our time than the sale itself ;)
Posted January 28, 2014
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foxworks: Per the OP "Each time you buy a game, you add 3 seconds to the time of it being on sale."
Uh, then it looks like the previous games weren't particularly successful. I wonder how many more times we'll get "roadblocks" like this one.
Posted January 28, 2014
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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 :)
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IAmSinistar: 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.
It's a well know trope - Electric Boogaloo. Troperiffic! :D
Posted January 28, 2014
disappointed. after buying my +/- buttons went away. I wanted to buy and click +1 to make all of you wait a bit longer.
Posted January 28, 2014
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yyahoo: Fourth-ummm-ed
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wrathsinger: +1'ed :-p
Sixthed.

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