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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
cool, if you put in the effort and time you can actually determine the exact time when a game you like from a particular year MIGHT be discounted! :o) but I guess I'll just watch them all ;)
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Ghorpm: King's Quest 1 is from 1984, isn't it?
Yep. :)

So I guess that will be next if they're going year to year in chronological order.
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jamesbuc: Im not exactly wanting Zork at all. Its a bit too old-school for me to really play. I remember trying text adventures before waay back when I had an Amiga and not liking them back then either. Oh well.
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Karma313th: Zork's hit and miss, but you really should give some of the other Infocom games a shot if you get the chance.

They covered such a wide variety that there's bound to something for just about everyone. Nord and Bert's worth a look if you're into word play at all, for instance.
I think my problem is just I prefer more graphical adventure titles to to text-only ones. Zork is nice (I think I had the second one on Amiga) but the series can be a bit akin to running into a brick-wall accessibility-wise. (I later picked up Zork Nemesis and Grand Inquistor many years later and enjoyed them both)
This is a great sale idea GOG. I love it :)
During the Insomnia sale we had almost no time to get these games and now we have way too much. Why not set it to 45 or 30 minutes?
http://www.agdinteractive.com/games/games.html

King's Quest 1-3 for free (and they are better then the originals)
Nice to get an official thread on this. But all the good discussion is already underway over here. :)
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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)
Indeed. Its hard to recommend the original three KQ games outside of any real completionists when these three are around.
Wow this is WAY better than insomnia concept (even if there're no free games).
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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.
I own the King's Quest Collection on Steam, and Kq 7+8 here anyway :)
Nice one! And there goes my plan to be a productive human being today. I'll still get some work done, but I now have an excuse to take plenty of breaks. :)
If it's one game a year from 1983 to 2013 then it's 31 games, not 30. I guess they might skip a year.
There's a popular game on the front page sale, and after 10 or so minutes, it's still there. What is happening?!
Just ninja'd by justanoldgamer while reading to make sure nobody else did even earlier, but will ask as well, just to be sure :p Which year will be missing, since 1983-2013 make for 31 years?
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retsuseiba: There's a popular game on the front page sale, and after 10 or so minutes, it's still there. What is happening?!
The more popular a game is, the longer it will last since each sale adds 3 seconds.