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I remember as a young kid browsing the aisles of the Microcenter close to our house on the weekends like a kid in a candy shop - 500 games on a single disc for
by vunderba 2y ago
I remember as a young kid browsing the aisles of the Microcenter close to our house on the weekends like a kid in a candy shop - 500 games on a single disc for 15 dollars, what sorcery was this? One particular pack was specifically for Windows 3x and all the game concepts were... shall we say liberally borrowed from classics - WinTrek, Wintris, Winroids, you get the idea.
You can actually still find a few of these old mega shareware CDs on Archive.org under the Shareware CD section.
https://archive.org/details/cdbbsarchive https://archive.org/details/cdbbsarchive
- tombert 2y agoYeah, I remember sometimes they would be really cheap at TJ Maxx of all places, like $5-8. I hated clothe shopping as a kid so my mom would buy them for me occasionally to entice me to put up with trying on a bunch of clothes. I too remember thinking it was magic that they could squeeze so many games in a small space. A lot of them were definitely ripoffs, but I was young enough to not know about most of the originals at the time, so to me they were all completely original games. It was awesome.
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- miunau 2y agoThey still kind of exist, but now in the form of crappy ten-dollar knockoff handheld gaming devices that go into e-waste after the first 15 minutes.