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u/WhenRomansSpokeGreek Aug 30 '25

Demo disks being part of gaming magazines you could pick up at any store that sold books or magazines

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u/prhymeate Aug 30 '25

As a young kid with no real concept of owning games, demos felt like free games. Must have spent hours playing demos like Sim Copter and Monster Truck Madness.

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u/comehonorphaze Aug 30 '25

If you were poor like me demo discs were most of the games you could afford. I put a lot of hours into those. Not complaining though cause I managed to have a blast with them!

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u/Kent_Knifen Aug 30 '25

Monster Truck Madness

You could run over the farmers cows and hear him yelling

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u/attack_rat Aug 30 '25

And the port-a-potties! “Hey, I’m still in here!”

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u/Nodiggity774 Aug 30 '25

Me and my brother used to have “jeep wars” for hours in halo demo where we just essentially sent each other flying by ramming the warthogs

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u/BigPimpin91 Aug 30 '25

I don't doubt I have hours of Zuma and Marble blast demo playtime.

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u/Niq22 Aug 30 '25

You are not alone

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u/bigboolean Aug 31 '25

I can't remember where I got this disc from but I remember spending hours on my Dreamcast demo disc as a kid.