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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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Davane: That's premise for a Cheapass Game called Patent #1. The idea is simple - you have a time machine, and you must race to when the US Patent Office opens in order to get the first patent - Patent #1.

By the way, this is how you can tell time travel will never be invented - it would be the first patent ever patented. As stated on wikipedia (I love wikipedia) "The first patent was granted on July 31, 1790 to Samuel Hopkins for a method of producing potash (potassium carbonate)." So, no time machine... :(
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stg83: Or maybe the guy who is going to invent time travel will do so by accident. And be naive like the Winklewoss twins with Mark Zuckerberg getting all the credit for inventing the time machine and keeping it secret from the rest of the world. :P
Well, I guess that time travel could be described an improved method of creating potash... After all, what's better than jumping ahead in time and getting the results straight away to take back with you? It worked for Doctor Who...

Oh, if only I could jump ahead to the next sale (or, rather, at least one in which I can buy something new) and bring it back to me right now!
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stg83: Q: If I buy a time machine from someone, can I then use that time machine to go back in time and stop the person from inventing a time machine? Would I then have the only time machine or no time machine, effectively getting stuck in time?
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JudasIscariot: You'd probably have a paradox on your hands :)
History... abhors.... a paradox, Raziel.
Post edited January 28, 2014 by Thexder
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sirchaox1224: Well anything is better than staring at this damn unending counter all day.

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HypersomniacLive: I guess the thought doing something else during the remaining time of the Might and Magic® 6-pack sale didn't cross your mind...
Well, I'd prefer to avoid doing work. :P
Could someone PM me when the counter box says "2005", so I'll get an email about it. Also, if Bloodnet goes on sale. You'll get a free game out of it :]
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sirchaox1224: Well, I'd prefer to avoid doing work. :P
Doesn't necessarily have to be work :-P
Wow, MM is still up there!

Is it perhaps over-saturated as a result of the insomnia sale?
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JudasIscariot: You'd probably have a paradox on your hands :)
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Thexder: History... abhors.... a paradox, Raziel.
Anyone who quotes the Legacy of Cain series desserves a +1 !
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G-Doc: Ooops... Our bad. Yup. It seems reasonable to assume that there should be 31 games if we take one game per year from the period of 1983-2013. Than again - wibbly wobbly, timey-wimey. I mean, wobbly-bobbly goggy-boggy. Anything can happen.
I suppose it's fair that if multiple great games were released in year X and another doesn't have anything especially memorable, you'd put up 2 games for one year and none for the other.

This comment further validates my suspicion that they're going to include a 2014 release at the end of this, though :D
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shadowbaneaxe: Wow, MM is still up there!

Is it perhaps over-saturated as a result of the insomnia sale?
Reverse rules apply for this sale. It's still up because people keep on buying it. 3 seconds added to the remaining time for every purchase.
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sirchaox1224: Well, I'd prefer to avoid doing work. :P
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HypersomniacLive: Doesn't necessarily have to be work :-P
As far as I'm concerned, there are only two options:

1. Work
2. Watch the counter on GOG slowly dwindle down, as I feel my time on earth slipping away

Every time the GOG counter increments, my lifetime decrements by the same amount.
Post edited January 28, 2014 by sirchaox1224
From the reddit thread, about an hour ago:
speedster217
Hey is there any chance that at the end of the sale you'll be bringing all the deals back? I'd like to purchase Might & Magic but can't because I'm in class for the next couple hours.
TheEnigmaticT
Sorry, no.
Sounds like no second rounds.
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Siegor: Anyone who quotes the Legacy of Cain series desserves a +1 !
I concur, I wish they would do a reboot of Soul Reaver: Legacy of Kain like they recently did with Tomb Raider.
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sirchaox1224: Well, I'd prefer to avoid doing work. :P
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HypersomniacLive: Doesn't necessarily have to be work :-P
Yeah, but how many times a day can you do that? ;)
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shadowbaneaxe: Wow, MM is still up there!

Is it perhaps over-saturated as a result of the insomnia sale?
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CarrionCrow: Reverse rules apply for this sale. It's still up because people keep on buying it. 3 seconds added to the remaining time for every purchase.
Oh yeah, of course. That makes a lot of sense. Tthe games that are desired are up for longer this way.. probably a better format than the one we had at the insomnia sale, where many people were left unable to be online at the time the game they wanted was on sale.
wooot, the counter for M&M was on 0, stalled.. I thought it was broken so I refreshed and went back to 41:20!...