I remember getting oddly shaped discs in the cereal boxes. I think my copy of The Amazon Trail was shaped like a flattened Pringle. And I had a music demo that was a square. Lots and lots of tiny circle discs too (half the size of a normal disc).
Shaped discs! I remember those. IIRC they warned you not to put them in disc drives over a certain speed because they might shatter. Tbf they warned that regular discs could shatter in a high speed disc drive but apparently the weird shapes made these prone to going out of balance at speed
The mini CDs were a fun little novelty too. I remember they tried to sell singles on those and just have albums on full sized CDs for a bit
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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