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[Zeeman]

GOG is doing a sale! http://www.gog.com/

Welcome to our 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?

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!

I hope that if Jack Keane 2 comes up, everyone votes for it to be up for as long as possible

PAST
1983: Zork Anthology
1984: Ultima 1+2+3
1985: King's Quest 1+2+3
1986: Might and Magic 6-pack: Limited Edition
1987: Space Quest 1+2+3
1988: Police Quest 1+2+3+4
1989: SimCity 2000 Special Edition
1990: Wizardy 6+7
1991: Wing Commander 1+2
1992: Star Control 1+2
1993: Cannon Fodder
1994: Jagged Alliance
1995: Crusader: No Remorse
1996: Tomb Raider 1+2+3
1997: Carmageddon Max Pack
1998: Rayman Forever
1999: Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
2000: Deus Ex GOTY Edition
2001: Gothic
2002: Serious Sam: The First Encounter
2003: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
2004: Thief 3: Deadly Shadows
2005: Flatout
2006: Heroes of Might and Magic 5 Bundle
2007: Sam & Max Save the World
2008: The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut
2009: Torchlight
2010: Amnesia: The Dark Descent
2011: Unepic
2012: Legend of Grimrock

PRESENT
2013: Spelunky

FUTURE
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[SolidsnackooFoxhound]

If planescape goes on sale its mine.

 

[Arthea]

time doesn't go down as fast as I thought it would with people influencing it

 

[bigkrev]

GOG is doing a sale!



I hope that if Jack Keane 2 comes up, everyone votes for it to be up for as long as possible

God, did that take like ~12 hours to sell 50 copies in the holiday sale?

I'm a big fan of the unique sales GOG does. Makes you visit the site a bunch of times a day, which is probably good for them

 

[lefantome]

If planescape goes on sale its mine.

me too I hope it won't go on sale during the night.


They said we can vote games, but I can't see any button

 

[inm8num2]

No Keane, no sale.

 

[oneida]

Link?

 

[JaseC]

OP, you may want to link to GOG, too.

Edit: Ah, nice timing, haha.

 

[Zeeman]

Link?

Added one to the OP

Anyone have any speculation for what game could be next? Anything interesting come out in 1984?

 

[bigkrev]

Just realized I bought 16(!) games in the holiday sale, and I haven't even installed a single one

 

[Tizoc]

Grr at work and it blocks gog >=/

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

GOG is doing a sale! http://www.gog.com/



I hope that if Jack Keane 2 comes up, everyone votes for it to be up for as long as possible

I still have fucking nightmares.

 

[Knurek]

Added one to the OP

Anyone have any speculation for what game could be next? Anything interesting come out in 1984?

King's Quest most probably.

I must say I find the one game per year idea a bit lacking. There should be a Gaussian spread centered around... say, 1997, so that we would get more of proper classics. Who in their right mind would play the original Zork in this day and age?

 

[ShinobiFist]

I'm ready for some classic gaming. Time for some good sounding tunes, yo.

 

[vZeroG]

King's Quest most probably.

I just introduced my children, 9 and 8 years old, to the Space Quest series. After playing Minecraft and Kerbal Space Program for so long it was definitely a bit of culture shock to lose the mouse and type commands on the keyboard - but they are LOVING the first one!

Hope you're right about Kings Quest, old school Sierra games make me so happy.

....also just picked up Manhunter: New York from Abandonia, what a trip that one is.....

 

[km3k]

Who in their right mind would play the original Zork in this day and age?

I played through Zork Zero last month. I'm thinking about replaying Zork I later this year when I find some time.

 

[TheSeks]

Ugh, limited "sale" again. No thanks, GoG. I'll just wait until you put them on a normal discount for digital titles. :/

 

[TronLight]

Hey that's actually cool.

Now I got to check which year the games I have in my wishlist came out...

Ugh, limited "sale" again. No thanks, GoG. I'll just wait until you put them on a normal discount for digital titles. :/

It's time limited, not copy limited like the last time. If that's the problem.

 

[Linkark07]

Well, if I see Wizardry 6-7/8 I'll get it. Same with Beyond Good and Evil and HoMM5.

 

[Lostconfused]

This should be interesting. Wonder what game will earn it's infamy this time.

 

[TheSeks]

It's time limited, not copy limited like the last time. If that's the problem.

Oh, so this time maybe people will have a chance to get their "free giveaways" that aren't over in 2 milliseconds because of bots then?

 

[Nakazato]

come on witcher 2

 

[Knurek]

I played through Zork Zero last month. I'm thinking about replaying Zork I later this year when I find some time.

Still, I'd prefer to have 5 games from 1994 than 5 games from the whole eighties.

 

[epmode]

I feel like these guys run a big sale every month. Keeps em from having to release more old games.

My kingdom for a new publisher.

 

[jim-jam bongs]

This should be interesting. Wonder what game will earn it's infamy this time.

Sadly, with this new format, we'll never be able to relive the glory of staring at an unmoving counter for Jack Keane 2 in one tab while watching the train wreck itself being streamed in another.

 

[Kurtofan]

What happened with Jack Keane 2?

 

[mrklaw]

so one game from each year, we have no idea what each game is, what the discount is, or how long each game will be on sale for? Won't you miss a bunch of stuff?

 

[Arthea]

What happened with Jack Keane 2?

you had to ask?
Now we will be haunted with it forever

 

[Fularu]

I remember when GoG was against deep discounts.

I'm glad that changed!

 

[ShinobiFist]

you had to ask?
Now we will be haunted with it forever

Now have to Google this, I'm curious.

 

[RPG_Fanatic]

Looks like I made my GOG account just in time. I'm hoping for (Heroes) Might & Magic sales.

 

[Artorias]

Does it say anywhere how much time each game starts with?

 

[Arthea]

Does it say anywhere how much time each game starts with?

Timer? you would think it's there for a reason (><)

Now have to Google this, I'm curious.

It's nothing NFSW really, it just a game that tortured us during insomnia sale a bit too much

 

[TheSeks]

Now have to Google this, I'm curious.

Jack Keane was being sold for like 2,000 or so copies in the Fall sale. No one asked for this. Cue 12-hour "sale" with it slowly ticking down by like 10 copies per two hours or so.

 

[Htown]

What happened with Jack Keane 2?

Last sale what happened was a game would stay up until X number of copies were sold, then the sale would end and the next game would become available.

I'm guessing nobody wanted Jack Keane 2, so it brought the sale to a halt.

 

[Artorias]

Timer? you would think it's there for a reason (><)

I'm just curious how much time the next game might be up since I may be busy, but thanks anyway.

 

[Hasney]

I get paid tomorrow, so when I see something I like, I will command you all to spam the +1 second box. I thank you for your co-operation.

 

[Baron_Calamity]

My brain is too old and soft for text adventures.

 

[Talyn]

The problem with Jack Keane 2 wasn't just the number of copies they had available, it was also that they priced it at a stunning $12.49 or so in a sale where most games were going for $5 or less. They eventually did manage to sell them all at that price but the ire of the entire internet was upon them in return.

 

[jim-jam bongs]

If people keep saying that name, the game will appear and murder our savings.

 

[Arthea]

I'm just curious how much time the next game might be up since I may be busy, but thanks anyway.

probably form 1-2 hours, we know as much as you, then they can make 12 hours of Jack Keane, just because.

Spoiler

and gog doesn't care about being busy or in need of sleep!

it's part of fun.

 

[ShinobiFist]

Jack Keane was being sold for like 2,000 or so copies in the Fall sale. No one asked for this. Cue 12-hour "sale" with it slowly ticking down by like 10 copies per two hours or so.

Damnnnnnn, that's fucked up, lol.

 

[bigkrev]

Jack Keane was being sold for like 2,000 or so copies in the Fall sale. No one asked for this. Cue 12-hour "sale" with it slowly ticking down by like 10 copies per two hours or so.

2000? Pretty sure it was 200 copies

 

[inm8num2]

Heh it was actually 100 copies of JK2 for $11.99. Took something like 4.5 hours.

 

[Zeeman]

The Keanepocalypse really was crazy. Some games had 500 copies fly by so quickly that you couldn't even refresh, then we had Jack Keane 2 sitting there for hours, selling a copy every ten minutes. It was maddening.

 

[Sinatar]

Ultima 1 - 3, 75% off, $1.49.

 

[PhoenixFyre]

Somewhere the developer of Ultima is crying and he doesn't know why. Those down votes are rolling in.

 

[Nikodemos]

Somewhere the developer of Ultima is crying and he doesn't know why. Those down votes are rolling in.

Nah. People simply don't like very old games. The interface is just too clunky. Ultima 7 is very highly regarded.

 

[PhoenixFyre]

Nah. People simply don't like very old games. The interface is just too clunky. Ultima 7 is very highly regarded.

I'm weird. I have a blast with those games. I'm crying right along side the dude. Watching the constant negative pops kinda killed my soul a little bit.

 

[nexen]

Somewhere the developer of Ultima is crying and he doesn't know why. Those down votes are rolling in.

The developer of Ultima drives a supercar and has a very expensive mansion in Austin, TX.