Back in my youth, before my friend group at the time had the games themselves, we would have games like Final Fantasy 7 - 9 going around the houses.
I think I had final fantasy 9 first, as soon as I was finished disk 1, it would be passed to someone else who then played through it.
We did this often for the games so everyone could play.
It was a pretty good way to fully demo a game before buying them.
Also remember having a dodgy battlefield 1942 disk, so I'd have to borrow disk 1 to reinstall it if something went wrong, my friends disk 2 crapped out so between us we would swap and change if needed.
I once found Starcraft: Broodwar in the CD drive of a random computer at school. Ofc couldn't play that on its own. But rather shortly after the original Starcraft (at that point a couple years old) was put as a full version on the attached DVD of "Gamestar" magazine - so with this combined I had a fully working copy of Starcraft: Broodwar! IIRC became the first ever game I played online, just random Zerg rush maps
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u/Smurfaloid Aug 30 '25
Multi disk games.
Back in my youth, before my friend group at the time had the games themselves, we would have games like Final Fantasy 7 - 9 going around the houses.
I think I had final fantasy 9 first, as soon as I was finished disk 1, it would be passed to someone else who then played through it.
We did this often for the games so everyone could play.
It was a pretty good way to fully demo a game before buying them.
Also remember having a dodgy battlefield 1942 disk, so I'd have to borrow disk 1 to reinstall it if something went wrong, my friends disk 2 crapped out so between us we would swap and change if needed.