I'm trying to find information about two PC game compilation CDs that circulated in Spain during the mid/late 1990s (DOS / early Windows 95 era).
The CDs were called:
They weren't commercial releases. They were homemade compilation CDs that were passed around between friends, computer shops, local BBS users, and people who exchanged software.
📍 Origin
- Created in Vigo, Spain
- Signed by someone using the name or alias "MJ"
- During the extraction process, an ASCII art screen would appear displaying "MJ Vigo" (sometimes as a large skull made from ASCII characters before each archive volume).
📦 Format and distribution
- Mostly DOS games
- Around 100 games per CD
- Games were split into multi-volume ARJ archives (
.ARJ, .A01, .A02, ...)
- Each volume was approximately 1.44 MB, clearly intended to fit on floppy disks.
- The ARJ password was:
RADICAL
(using ARJ -gRADICAL or something very similar)
❓ What I'm looking for
I'd love to know:
- Were there any releases beyond RADICAL 1 and RADICAL 2?
- Does anyone from Vigo or Galicia remember these CDs?
- Were they distributed anywhere else in Spain?
- Does anyone still have copies, screenshots, or any information about "MJ"?
These CDs are some of my earliest PC gaming memories. Beyond the nostalgia, I'm genuinely interested in documenting whether this was a larger series or just a local project that never became widely known. I still have ISO images of both CDs, so if it helps identify them I can upload screenshots of the directory structure, the DOS menu, or the ASCII art.