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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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Cavalary: 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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mabrookes: It doesnt make for 31 years, but it does make 31 games if you count a game per year.
That's impossible. You can't have 30 years and 31 games per year.

It's exactly 31 years.

1983 1
1984 2
1985 3
1986 4
1987 5
1988 6
1989 7
1990 8
1991 9
1992 10
1993 11
1994 12
1995 13
1996 14
1997 15
1998 16
1999 17
2000 18
2001 19
2002 20
2003 21
2004 22
2005 23
2006 24
2007 25
2008 26
2009 27
2010 28
2011 29
2012 30
2013 31
GOG always has the most awesome promos!

Just when I thought my wallet was done taking a beating from all the winter sales...
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Cavalary: 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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mabrookes: It doesnt make for 31 years, but it does make 31 games if you count a game per year.
Well, Jan 1 1983 @ 00:00:00.000 to Dec 31 2013 @ 23:59:59.999 make for 31 years too :p
For me Lords of Midnight, Elite and Tir Na Nog were the best games of 1984. GOG only sells one of them, though...
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simon_vd: Actually this is way better than insomnia and I don't think that it has anything in common with insomnia sale at al.
It is better, but I think the idea came out of the same concept as the insomnia sale (it is essentially the insomnia sale with a different limit system instead if just a set amount of copies, and a set theme for the games coming up)
What games will be discounted during trhis promo?
The trailer seems to make it clear that King's Quest and Ultima will be next in the sale.
So, when this sale ends... will Pegasus Prime be out?
It's just a jump to the left ...

Let's do the time warp agaaaaain!

Btw: Nice presentation :)
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mabrookes: It doesnt make for 31 years, but it does make 31 games if you count a game per year.
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yyahoo: That's impossible. You can't have 30 years and 31 games per year.

It's exactly 31 years.
The range of years 1983-2013 includes years from the beggining of 1983 through to the end of 2012 but not 2013 - if it included 2013 it would be 1983-2014 (because it goes to the end of 2013 to include it).

It is a problem with how they have worded it and how the numbers work as years, not just numbers.
Post edited January 28, 2014 by mabrookes
I suppose this will get faster, once the folks from the Americas jump on, remember how SS2 went in the 1st round in te Insomnia Sale. :)
Zork Anthology, pretty awesome but I already have the disc. Let's see what's next.

Unfortunately, most of the games on my wishlist don't really look like the best of their respective years.
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PetrusOctavianus: For me Lords of Midnight, Elite and Tir Na Nog were the best games of 1984. GOG only sells one of them, though...
Very good choices! But personally I wouldn't be able to limit myself to just three games. A lot of awesome games were released in 1984...

B.C. II: Grog's Revenge
Boulder Dash
Bruce Lee
Entombed
Impossible Mission
Jet Set Willy
The Seven Cities of Gold
Spy vs. Spy

To name just a few...
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animalmother2105: I suppose this will get faster, once the folks from the Americas jump on, remember how SS2 went in the 1st round in te Insomnia Sale. :)
Every sale adds 3 seconds to the timer. Once the big traffic comes in the sales will be longer.
... or more people will hit the -1 second button. That is how I meant faster.:)