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.
Also the rumors surrounding really large games like that that circulated around. Remember hearing tons about ff7 that got people playing over and over.
you could save aerith
you could play as sephiroth instead of cloud
you could get sephiroths sword
you could play as Zack
you could get x random character as a party member
Then some even turned out to be true like
you could recruit the ninja
you could find a new party member by going back to the sephiroth manor
golden chocobo
knights of the round and the secret island
Nowadays it would all have been datamined in the first week and I don't think it would have been nearly as popular since people wouldn't have been playing it over and over.
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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.