• Ends@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    200+ Shareware games on a CD, played the shit outta those. And they came in magazines or were given out completely free.

    I believe demos for games should still be the norm.

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      1 year ago

      And they arrived (because I don’t want to use ‘came’ given this thread already) on cereal boxes.

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        1 year ago

        I had never heard of that around here (Germany). Got my first PC '99, so I should have noticed; was looking everywhere for cheap Software deals. But there were some other companies which gave out free CD-ROMs as advertising with shareware and demo games. Some of those games were never finished, lol.

        The Internet Archive has those Nestlé CDs btw :)

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          1 year ago

          Happened in Canada for sure. The post made me go dig through boxes in the basement and try to remember where my old cdrom drive and cable that would connect to a new Mac would be found. Good times and worth it.

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            1 year ago

            Got no “vintage” hardware sadly. In a VM it’s not the same. I still have a Floppy drive, but those disks were all corrupted eons ago. I wonder how long my heaps of gamer magazine and bundle-box (bought at Aldi for practically nothing _) CDs are still gonna last…

            They were the best of times, that’s for sure!

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      1 year ago

      I think demos are coming back. I have a bunch on steam recently, and Nintendo has a ton of them on thier storefront.