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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
I'm currently looking at some police quest images; wow, those were the days, when policemen used to wear brown dockers and could outrun a criminal even with an abundant beergut slowing them down.
Are there any others Quest games? Or we have finished :D
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McDon: What was for 1987?
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Morten79: Space Quest 1+2+3 $2.99 -70%
Crap, probably would have got that.
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mudd1: Sure, but regarding looks you can pretty well match 8-bit to EGA and 16-bit to VGA. Of course memory constraints were different but that's not what keeps me away from 8-bit/EGA games. And yes, I played my first games on a C64. I really loved them a lot but they just don't age that well.
Commodore 64 games looked better than PC EGA games. It took VGA and Soundblaster for games to look and sound better on PC than on the C-64.
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truhlik77: Are there any others Quest games? Or we have finished :D
Quest for Glory 1-5 and Leisure Suit Larry (Sex Quest)
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stg83: From key Features of Police Quest:
Risk not only your life, but also that of your partner. This made me chuckle. :P
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Frostyfirefly:
To be fair the game does look interesting, definitely must have been good in 1989 looks quite detailed in its depiction of police procedures complete with the pixelated Dunkin' Donuts. :)
Post edited January 28, 2014 by stg83
GOG, consider sending me a pager for the next time one of those timed sales is on.
Hate these types of sales, I would prefer a straight forward price deal, I cba sitting here waiting for a game I want, to pop up randomly.
Very entertaining idea. But for europians this is not the best time.
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shivamurti: 1999:
Heroes of Might & Magic III vs Planescape: Torment

2000:
Baldur's Gate II vs Deus Ex

Any other candidates for these years?

Too many good games! :)
Well, if they go with Baldur's Gate in an earlier year (and I think they will), both Planescape: Torment and BGII will be out of the picture, leaving both HoMM III and Deus Ex as the defining games of their year (and rightly so). After all, this is about celebrating history, so the focus should be on the first groundbreaking games, not the improved sequels. As AWESOME as BG II is, BG is simply more genre defining.

Of course, by this logic, HoMM should be better than HoMM III, but as any HoMM fan will know, HoMM III has long been considered the ultimate, defining version of the HoMM series, even seeing off the later installments, such as HoMM IV, HoMM V, and HoMM VI. With V and VI being Ubisoft games, many HoMM fans see them as shameless rip-offs of the HoMM series, with quite a bit of "dumbing down" involved. HoMM IV divided the fans, simply because it was a radical shift from the formula set by previous HoMM games (although I enjoyed the increased focus on heroes, rather than just armies). But, while I would dismiss HoMM III for the same reason I'd dismiss BG II, the fact is that there is still a magnificent amount of fan support for HoMM III, and the fact that it is a clear fan favourite is enough to make it a defining game for me.
The GoG E-mail shows pictures for:
Legend of Grimrock
Sim City 2000
Rayman Forever
Unepic
and
Spelunky
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bloksma: Very entertaining idea. But for europians this is not the best time.
Same could be said for American when its daytime for us.
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fronzelneekburm: GOG, consider sending me a pager for the next time one of those timed sales is on.
Well, to be honest, GOG kept this sale pretty quiet until it started. Not very nice of them.
Police Quest - In Color!
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fronzelneekburm: GOG, consider sending me a pager for the next time one of those timed sales is on.
Yes it's odd. I bought heaps of games from GOG.com and didn't get any email notice about this. I have most of the games I want already however.