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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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fronzelneekburm: GOG, consider sending me a pager for the next time one of those timed sales is on.
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OdanUrr: Well, to be honest, GOG kept this sale pretty quiet until it started. Not very nice of them.
To be fair, they did mention it to certain gaming news sites (heard about it on escapistmagazine.com yesterday), so they did give certain people some presale warning.
Posted January 28, 2014
It's Sierra's world. We just live in it.
Posted January 28, 2014
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OdanUrr: Well, to be honest, GOG kept this sale pretty quiet until it started. Not very nice of them.
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AquaticIdealist: To be fair, they did mention it to certain gaming news sites (heard about it on escapistmagazine.com yesterday), so they did give certain people some presale warning.
They could've announced it on their own site 24 hours earlier.
Posted January 28, 2014
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fronzelneekburm: GOG, consider sending me a pager for the next time one of those timed sales is on.
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OdanUrr: Well, to be honest, GOG kept this sale pretty quiet until it started. Not very nice of them.
It was advertised almost everywhere, except here on GOG. I only got an email when the Time Machine had already reached 1986. :)
Posted January 28, 2014
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sedaps: The "X-bit" eras were a console phenomenon. PCs had been 16-bit for years by then and 32-bit was already coming out. PC eras would be better defined by graphics standards.
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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.
I suppose it does. Never really thought about it because I skipped quite a few developments in PCs. I went from CGA to SVGA and already had a Genesis by then. Or should I say my parents did.

I didn't exactly follow every little development in technology back then, what with the lack of the world wide web and all. I did know what games I couldn't play because we didn't have EGA or VGA. But mostly I just thought Sonic was cool and Commander Keen didn't look as good.
Posted January 28, 2014
What's been up so far? I've seen Might and Magic, Space Quest and Police Quest.
Posted January 28, 2014
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stevieknix: What's been up so far? I've seen Might and Magic, Space Quest and Police Quest.
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/drmfree_time_machine_sale_game_list/post1
Posted January 28, 2014
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bloksma: Very entertaining idea. But for europians this is not the best time.
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silenthunter382: Same could be said for American when its daytime for us.
I think if it had started just 3-4 hour sooner, that would be much better for us, and still not bad for them
Posted January 28, 2014
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bloksma: Very entertaining idea. But for europians this is not the best time.
If you're referring to the starting time of the Sale, GOG has said that about 50% of their general sales comes from the US, so I guess that they planned the beginning with that in mind.


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silenthunter382: Same could be said for American when its daytime for us.
True, but look at it this way - now that the sale is in full steam, it's bed time for Europe and leisure time for the East US, while the West US and the Aussies have the whole day ahead of them. And that's what I think bloksma meant.
Posted January 28, 2014
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IAmSinistar: Police Quest - In Color!
wat
Posted January 28, 2014
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silenthunter382: Same could be said for American when its daytime for us.
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bloksma: I think if it had started just 3-4 hour sooner, that would be much better for us, and still not bad for them
The Insomnia sale started 2 hours earlier than the Time Machine sale did.
Posted January 28, 2014
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stevieknix: What's been up so far? I've seen Might and Magic, Space Quest and Police Quest.
I know the Zork Trilogy was the first item of the sale.

Think it was Ultima 1-3 then Might & Magic.


I missed Space Quest?

Was it the 1-3 pack?
Posted January 28, 2014
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OdanUrr: Well, to be honest, GOG kept this sale pretty quiet until it started. Not very nice of them.
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stg83: It was advertised almost everywhere, except here on GOG. I only got an email when the Time Machine had already reached 1986. :)
Same here. It wouldn't be so bad, but I already checked the site several times today, with no mention of the sale, and if I hadn't have gotten the GOG.com email this evening, I'd have missed all this fun. I missed most of the Insomnia sale, simply because I refused to wait around for some promos for games, the most of which I own.

I much prefer the weekend promos, because now it has got to the point where I can take one look at the promo and decide if I am going to be poor that weekend or not. And, right now, most of the time I actually own at least 50% of the games on a weekend promo already, so it is mostly catching up on the missing few titles.
Posted January 28, 2014
So... Populous or Quest for Glory?
Posted January 28, 2014
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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.
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justanoldgamer: 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.
One could argue that nothing ever sounded better than the SID chip of the C64 but it took people 20 years or so to realize that ;) Its sound is still immediately recognizable which is astonishing given its basic capabilities.
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