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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
Wait...

But the Kings Quest info page says it was release October 1, 1986

what gives!?
will there be a second round of this?
for the people that actually sleep or occasionally go AFK :)
How are these dates determined? 1985 is the date for King's Quest 2.
I think this would be better if people couldn't downvote, only add a second. For instance, King's Quest barely gets a chance - a minute or two and like 1/4 is already done.
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Randalator: You know, sales like this really suck when you have to work for a living...
Right?

They should really do these on weekends, but then I'd be staring at a screen rather than out enjoying myself, so I guess I lose either way.
Another minus on my part. These three are mostly bettered by the AGS remakes. Ah well.
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Titanium: I can promise your that Jack Keane is going to be up for hours and hours on end.

Just like good old times! I feel so nostalgic!
I know the feeling, I'd +1 that myself.
Can't say graphics are too important to me and I do appreciate pixel art but somehow games before the 16-bit era look too bad to my eyes to really invoke some sort of atmosphere. The resolution is just too low and most importantly those 4-bit colors ... nah.
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XYCat: will there be a second round of this?
for the people that actually sleep or occasionally go AFK :)
Exactly what my point; they be like : Wha' Happened?
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Tpiom: I think this would be better if people couldn't downvote, only add a second. For instance, King's Quest barely gets a chance - a minute or two and like 1/4 is already done.
Umm, you can see the troll potential in that, right?

I could see 1 1/2 hours flat with no up or down votes, give people an idea of when they need to check back for the next game, but upvote only would result in some massive times for games nobody wants.
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Randalator: You know, sales like this really suck when you have to work for a living...
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liamphoenix: Right?

They should really do these on weekends, but then I'd be staring at a screen rather than out enjoying myself, so I guess I lose either way.
Haha, I was just thinking the same thing...
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MrVonClassico: And once again. I can neither purchase or even see the price of the item. Gee GoG if you didn't want me to take part in this sale you should have said so. :p

I have actually made a mention of this to the support though. Though this seems to be a trend with GoG sales events I'm noticing. The prices for everything else on the site work fine... just not the items on sale. Even Zork antghology which I couldn't see before or buy before is perfectly visible and purchasable now.
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Cavalary: What version of FF? What plugins? Any script blockers, overly high security, stuff like that? Because I just looked at it in FF too and it's just fine.
FF 26.0 and my settings are the same as always...but I'll tweak my settings a tad to see if that fixes it... but it still underscores the issue.
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Cavalary: What version of FF? What plugins? Any script blockers, overly high security, stuff like that? Because I just looked at it in FF too and it's just fine.
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MrVonClassico: FF 26.0 and my settings are the same as always...but I'll tweak my settings a tad to see if that fixes it... but it still underscores the issue.
If you know something about HTML you could use Firebug to see where did the button go
Nowhere in wikipedia are the years 1984 listed for either Ultima 1, 2, or 3.

What gives? How are they determining these dates? Arbitrarily?
Another week of insomnia :P