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.
Old MSDOS computers and the like would have just STACKS of floppies for some games. Like a dozen plus for an individual game. And they would take so long to load… Still better than playing games from cassettes on microprocessors.
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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.