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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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RandomJC: Where did a -4 and a +22 come from?
It updates on a one second heartbeat, I guess a lot of people hit + or - within that window.

(edit) Actually it seems to poll the server on a 5 second beat, it is posting adjustments every 5s.
Post edited January 28, 2014 by Thruggsen
Ultima was released in 1984?
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mondo84: Wow Ultima dropping like crazy.
Nah, time just flies when you're having fun.
Now it goes faster...
This sale might go for about 10 days :>

1st game - 1 hour, 2nd game - 1,5 hours and so on.

30th game will last for 15,5 hours and sale in total for about 250 hours. It depends on purchases and clicks ofc :>
Already have this one. Next!
Wow... Ultima goes down very fast.
No love for Ultima :p
Is there a list of GOG games ordered by publication date available?
Why am I still waiting for the timer while I have already bought most of those good old games during previous sales? :D
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zeffyr: This sale might go for about 10 days :>

1st game - 1 hour, 2nd game - 1,5 hours and so on.

30th game will last for 15,5 hours and sale in total for about 250 hours. It depends on purchases and clicks ofc :>
Well, Zork started with 1.5 hours too so it solely depends on the votes and purchases
I would have gotten ultima if it was the collection at say $5 but I will skip on ultima 1-3
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yyahoo: Hmm, so this new promo mechanic has made the first sale last.... longer? An hour and half sale that, as of now, will end in 1 hour and 34 minutes.

:/
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JustSayin: SO 90 minutes here or 13 hours like last time...hard choice.
Well, to be fair, many games in the Insomnia sale lasted only minutes their first time around. The problem was with a few unpopular games and the fact that each game came around umpteen times in total.

The first run through of the Insomnia sale was *very* exciting. This is a *lot* slower and initially the new mechanic makes the counter last *longer* than the actual countdown time.
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zeffyr: This sale might go for about 10 days :>

1st game - 1 hour, 2nd game - 1,5 hours and so on.

30th game will last for 15,5 hours and sale in total for about 250 hours. It depends on purchases and clicks ofc :>
First was 1.5h too.
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Zurvan7: No love for Ultima :p
Well, I think it's more to do with the fact that we don't need an hour and a half to buy a game. And time is already added when people buy it, so there's no reason to extend the clock even more...