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Anyone else remember in this era it was common to get a disc with a ton of games on it? I remember having one as a kid with like 25 games on it and just flippi
by arduinomancer 4y ago
Anyone else remember in this era it was common to get a disc with a ton of games on it?
I remember having one as a kid with like 25 games on it and just flipping through playing each for like 10 minutes
Recall playing a lot of Ant Attack from one of those discs for some reason
- jiayo 4y agoTokened shovelware, as in they shoveled as much onto a CDROM as they could. Sometimes, they'd accidentally include not just shareware but licensed software... oops. The "Shovelware Diggers" YouTube series does a great job documenting these: https://www.youtube.com/user/Pixelmusement https://www.youtube.com/user/Pixelmusement
- arduinomancer 4y agoOh neat thanks for sharing that channel
- qbasic_forever 4y agoYou want to check out this archive: https://archive.org/details/cdbbsarchive https://archive.org/details/cdbbsarchive
- arduinomancer 4y agoOof looking through that takes me back to the era of big CD binders And scratched disks was such a problem, I remember trying weird toothpaste lifehacks to fix them Ended up buying some games twice due to that
- jonathankoren 4y agoI one time bought some 4 in 1 box set with Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer, The Hunt for Red October, and two other games, I forget. For some reason, the games were stripped of all display drivers except glorious 4-color CGA graphics. One game had a teal sky, and a hot pink ground, and there other had a pink sky, and teal ocean.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y agohttps://archive.org/details/cdbbsarchive https://archive.org/details/cdbbsarchive Thanks to that I was able to locate a game[0] I had been searching for for years by investigating likely candidates on a "1000+ Games!"[1] or somesuch CD. [0] It was Space Exploration Mission Alpha[2]. A lunar lander clone where you play as aliens visiting all of the Sol system planets. I never did find the non-shareware Space Exploration Mission Bravo, so if anyone knows Jeffrey R. Marken please drop me a line, I'll gladly pay the $16.75. [1] A bald-faced lie [2] https://archive.org/details/SpaceExplorationMissionAlpha_1020 https://archive.org/details/SpaceExplorationMissionAlpha_102...
- wolpoli 4y agoYet somehow the thrill is gone these days even through we have unlimited games on the mobile app store.
- giobox 4y agoBy "disc", you mean CD? I remember this a lot once CD-ROM became huge in the mid 90s, but most of my DOS shareware came on 3.5 inch floppies.