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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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tammerwhisk: I had hoped they'd have been done with boring promos that drag on, especially after the Keane incident.
What's this "Keane incident" everyone's referencing?
Posted January 28, 2014
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Shendue: Is it just my impression or does this promotion look like a test on new functionalities that improve on the Insomnia promo? As far as i can tell, the improvements are amazing. Timer lets you do real life stuff instead of staying glued to the screen 24/7 and the possibility to add/subtract seconds would prevent too much keaning from happening. Very well thought.
Except this one can be abused, thanks to the vote functionality.
Posted January 28, 2014
Ah, what an evening/night!
Started watching from the beginning, went to sleep, got up and got Might & Magic, went to bed again, got up again...
Now waiting the 1990 if I can stay up :)
Post edited January 28, 2014 by superstande
Posted January 28, 2014
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Shendue: Is it just my impression or does this promotion look like a test on new functionalities that improve on the Insomnia promo? As far as i can tell, the improvements are amazing. Timer lets you do real life stuff instead of staying glued to the screen 24/7 and the possibility to add/subtract seconds would prevent too much keaning from happening. Very well thought.
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tammerwhisk: Except this one can be abused, thanks to the vote functionality.
It is a bit annoying having to wait hours upon hours for the next sale.
Posted January 28, 2014
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tammerwhisk: I had hoped they'd have been done with boring promos that drag on, especially after the Keane incident.
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OdanUrr: What's this "Keane incident" everyone's referencing?
During a recent promo they had sales with limited number of copies on sale. Once x number was sold it would switch to the next promo item. Jack Keane 2 was up for hours on end, because no one wanted it (especially at the price point it was at).
Posted January 28, 2014
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randomengine: I predict that 1990 will be Railroad Tycoon.

Edit: nvm, Railroad Tycoon is not on GOG :(.
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InfraSuperman: You can get it as freeware, anyway.

http://www.2kgames.com/railroads/downloads.html
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Post edited January 28, 2014 by Morten79
Posted January 28, 2014
So, so far there has been Zork (1983), Ultima (1984), King's Quest (1986), Might and Magic (1987), SimCity2000 (1989, which is when the original SimCity was released, through 2000 is obviously* the best version).

Did I miss any yet?

Edited to add the ones I realized I had missed which I did see. Does anyone know if these are the correct years they were shown as?

*If you don't think SimCity2000 is the best of the series, you obviously aren't the right age. The original came out while I was growing up. I played it a lot from when I first got to use a computer powerful enough to run it (at a friend's house for ages until my parents got one that ran it). I played 2000 a lot when it came out. 3000 and onwards are heresy.
Post edited January 28, 2014 by sipos
Posted January 28, 2014
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Shendue: Is it just my impression or does this promotion look like a test on new functionalities that improve on the Insomnia promo? As far as i can tell, the improvements are amazing. Timer lets you do real life stuff instead of staying glued to the screen 24/7 and the possibility to add/subtract seconds would prevent too much keaning from happening. Very well thought.
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tammerwhisk: Except this one can be abused, thanks to the vote functionality.
However it also has the advantage that no game is going to disappear instantly - even the fastest to depart so far took more than 30 minutes - so you do not have to be there for the moment each game ends (you did in the Insomnia sale or risk missing). So you can just check back in each hour and be pretty confident not to miss anything.

It is still not perfect, but much better.
Posted January 28, 2014
Two episodes of Police Squad down, and there is still 50 minutes of Keane City 2000.

Actually, this kind of reminds me of a quote from SimCity (3 I think)...

"Online Game now has more subscribers than the population of the planet."

I definitely feel that some of these games are so great, that there must have been more copies sold in this promo by GOG.com than there are people on the planet! :O

Any idea how long 21 billion seconds actually is?
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randomengine: I predict that 1990 will be Railroad Tycoon.

Edit: nvm, Railroad Tycoon is not on GOG :(.
No, but Chris Sawyer's Locomotion is...
Post edited January 28, 2014 by Davane
Posted January 28, 2014
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Davane: Any idea how long 21 billion seconds actually is?
If I did my math right, Approximately 665 years...

Anyways, just woke up, and missed the beginning of the sale(s), but I didn't miss anything I'd say is too important for me.
Post edited January 28, 2014 by rtcvb32
Posted January 28, 2014
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Morten79: Troll's Tale instabuy :P
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stg83: Ha!, so its an actual game, the description makes its sound real interesting.
Troll Quest: A Hi-Hes burning experience
Troll Quest is a misadventure game which requires minimal typing, using the mouse to select from several possible memes which are available on the internet and posting them by pressing enter to incite console flame wars. :P
I startpaged (instead 'googled') "Troll Quest"... and found this! http://www.fettspielen.de/spiel/trollface-quest
Have Fun! xD
Post edited January 28, 2014 by gamefood
Posted January 28, 2014
Keane City 2000.

STOP BUYING THIS GAME. :(
Posted January 28, 2014
ha hah ahahhaahaaa!!!

*sings*

"Sim City Fields for-eh-va!! do do do dooo"
Posted January 28, 2014
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tammerwhisk: Except this one can be abused, thanks to the vote functionality.
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Thruggsen: However it also has the advantage that no game is going to disappear instantly - even the fastest to depart so far took more than 30 minutes - so you do not have to be there for the moment each game ends (you did in the Insomnia sale or risk missing). So you can just check back in each hour and be pretty confident not to miss anything.

It is still not perfect, but much better.
Considering the late notification, I'm sure many already missed things they may have wanted (looking at you Zork Anthology). The way the time is working some things stay up for ever like M&M, and others seem gone quickly like SQ (or at least it felt quick).
Posted January 28, 2014
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tammerwhisk: I had hoped they'd have been done with boring promos that drag on, especially after the Keane incident.
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OdanUrr: What's this "Keane incident" everyone's referencing?
If this carries on, I think we might have to add "Keane"ism as a new trope to TV Tropes...
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