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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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Caladus: Someone explain the Jack Keane thing to me. I must've missed it.
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The_Blog: A while ago there was a gog Sale, where always 1 deal was up until the limited numbers of copies ran out. And you had to wait for the current number of copies to run out before the next sale would come. One time there was Jack Keane up and basicly NO ONE wanted to buy it so it lasted forever ^^
Thanks. This timer idea is better if not perfect. It's great for GoG. They get to sell the maximum number of copies within a limited time frame.

Space Quest looks to be going quickly. I hope for more Ultimas. But '88 was a good year.
Posted January 28, 2014
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Davane: You think that is bad? I get a feeling that we are going to be seeing Police Quest on here too. Now that was a "fail happy" game if ever there was one! Although I don't think it is trying to be evil, like with "I Wanna Be That Guy!" but it sure does like to end the game a lot if you don't do everything exactly right.

I think King's Quest is probably the best of the three "quest" series' (not including Quest for Glory) simply because it seems a little more lenient when it comes to player death. Sure, you can screw up and die, but for the most part, it is lost points rather than lost lives when you make mistakes (once you get past the whole "run off the screen like a big sissy because there's a monster here that will kill you!" thing).
I think not. From 1989 onwards, choices start getting a lot more readily available. The only one I can't think of is 1988.
Posted January 28, 2014
1987 was the beginning of the 16-bit era according to Wikipedia. You wouldn't know this from game.
Posted January 28, 2014
Oh, man, I just knew about the sale - I was working, I missed all the previous deals.
I foresee I'll miss the sale almost entirely :(
Posted January 28, 2014
I have to say I like this promo a lot more than the insomnia one. It's good to know I don't have to stay glued to the screen because I have no idea how long the offer will last. Instead I come by from time to time and see what's currently up.
Posted January 28, 2014
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Davane: You think that is bad? I get a feeling that we are going to be seeing Police Quest on here too. Now that was a "fail happy" game if ever there was one! Although I don't think it is trying to be evil, like with "I Wanna Be That Guy!" but it sure does like to end the game a lot if you don't do everything exactly right.

I think King's Quest is probably the best of the three "quest" series' (not including Quest for Glory) simply because it seems a little more lenient when it comes to player death. Sure, you can screw up and die, but for the most part, it is lost points rather than lost lives when you make mistakes (once you get past the whole "run off the screen like a big sissy because there's a monster here that will kill you!" thing).
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Malek86: I think not. From 1989 onwards, choices start getting a lot more readily available. The only one I can't think of is 1988.
Ultima 4+5+6
Wasteland
Post edited January 28, 2014 by randomengine
Posted January 28, 2014
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mudd1: 1987 was the beginning of the 16-bit era according to Wikipedia. You wouldn't know this from game.
Maybe at that time people thought it was a fad like 3D, GOG is trying to keep it authentic with their game selection.
Posted January 28, 2014
So next we are looking at probably either Wasteland or King's Quest 4? Outside shot: Leisure Suit Larry 2?
Posted January 28, 2014
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innerring: The problem with JK2 wasn't the quality of the game but the price.
^Sadly this.
Posted January 28, 2014
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randomengine: Ultimate 4+5+6
Wasteland
Yah, I forgot about Wasteland. That's most likely it. Well, we'll know soon, Space Quest really isn't lasting long - I wonder how many bought it.
Posted January 28, 2014
Please don't hate me for asking, but it's a long thread and I only checked the first and the last page: is there a list, maybe a partial list, of the games? A list of games that went already?
Posted January 28, 2014
Can't wait for 2000. The Longest Journey or Sim City 2000. Please vote.
Posted January 28, 2014
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gscotti: Please don't hate me for asking, but it's a long thread and I only checked the first and the last page: is there a list, maybe a partial list, of the games? A list of games that went already?
Yep. ;p
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/drmfree_time_machine_sale_game_list/post1
Posted January 28, 2014
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JudasIscariot: More like "Stay a while and listen..." :D
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stg83: haha...yes that is more appropriate for this particular harrowing tale.
I thought it was more...

"Another visitor. Stay a while. STAY FOREVER!!!!"

I can't believe Might and Magic 6-pack lasted for 3 hours and 22 minutes!
Post edited January 28, 2014 by Davane
Posted January 28, 2014
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Morten79: Can't wait for 2000. The Longest Journey or Sim City 2000. Please vote.
Sim City 2000's picture is in the E-mail ad, but I think that came out before 2000.
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