PC GAMER Demo Discs - PC gaming in the 90s
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
- This is a video I've been wanting to do for a while now, because these discs were more than just a compilation of game demos, but they were an actual experience! PC Gamer magazine really took the time to make each one special and an experience. Plus...Coconut Monkey!!
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I remember telling everyone not to pick up the phone because I was downloading something lol
"MOM!!!! Hang up the PHONE! I'm on a BBS downloading WAREZ!!!!" LOL
@@MetalJesusRocks Usually it was the other way around. Moms can yell very loud, my ears still beep.
Or the other way around, my friend's dad shouting down the stairs for us to get off the internet cause he was trying to make phone call. My friend shouting back: just a minute!
@@MetalJesusRocks "Only 5 more hours!"
They were still better days
I remember I would cheat, and skip the disk menus altogether, and go right to the disk root directories, and install the demos right from there!
Same!
This was basically the earliest form of "pop up blocking".
You make Coconut Monkey SAD 😭
@@MetalJesusRocks half the fun was going through the disk and seeing what changed!
You Savage
These demos were incredible. Here in Brazil, besides magazines with game demo discs, we used to have magazines with heavy metal demo discs. They had about 16 tracks each one from a different band and was so useful especially because the MP3 format was still in the beginning.
The same in Mexico. Those kind of magazines were like paradise for metalheads.
We had em here in the US too. I still get the samplers from Nuclear Blast, Relapse, Roadrunner, and Century Media.
Loved those demo discs! Hundreds of megs every month!
@Timothy Vreeland We had a subscription in the 90s. I discovered so many of my favorite games through those discs. I bought a big collection of them on Ebay recently.
Hundreds!
But seriously, a 4 MB SNES ROM took over 20 minutes to download at 3 kb/s if it wasn’t interrupted so a 650 MB CD represented DAYS of downloading.
@Timothy Vreeland I was going to do that too, but I read about capacitor issues on those. I picked up a couple eMacs, but they both had bad capacitors too. Long story short, I found a PowerMac G4 Quicksilver and it has none of those issues. I recommend going with a PowerMac G4 of some kind, because they have all solid capacitors and they can still run OS9.2. Just verify that it's compatible with OS9, since some later G4 models might not be.
Used to love getting demo discs for PC and PlayStation
Me too. The print magazine was almost secondary!
@@MetalJesusRocks whatcha talking about?
I swear mom, I read it for the articles ...
Oh, wait, its its actually okay to only want the demos?
But, it was like porn, you get to see everything but you don't get the whole cow for free! 😄
I used to love getting ZX Spectrum Demo cassettes off of Speccy Mags, sometimes you got free FULL games that were previously commercially released. Then I got a Megadrive, £40 for a Cartridge and NO DEMOS(could hire games from the local video rental store though(£2.50 a night, back by 6:30pm the next day)) Then when I got my Playstation, I would buy PSX magazine JUST for the DEMO DISC. Don't think I ever read the magazines. Got a few various PC Demo disks, when they had like 100's of MS-DOS games on them. I did read the captions under the screenshots in Your Spectrum/Sinclair though, since they were usually humorous.
I miss game-magazines.
You can still get them. I still get them :D but then again I got stuck in the 90s, :S
i stopped buying PC gamer sometime in the early 2000s, the magazine was starting to have less content and more advertisement in it. I also found the reviews less interesting to read than previous yrs.
Yup, I remember getting like 3 of them every month. I still have a Gamepro magazine from 99. I was surprised the other day to still see physical copies of camel to magazine still in publication.
I remember taking 7 hours to download Internet Explorer 4. That 7 hours *did not* include any failures or retries because someone picked up the line. It was *just that slow*.
DAP... Dowload Acelerator Pro my friend :)
I bought so many games after playing them on demo discs, shame we don't get more demos nowadays, now we have to preorder to get into betas yuck!
I still have to do a sort of cartoon double take when I see beta keys for sale on CD key websites - who the fuck pays a pound for playing the bf5 beta?!
True 😥
I would like to have for e.g. MH World demo so I could check if it'll run and if I enjoy it (played previous games). Now we can pirate games and then buy them eventually but demos had just that thing and I miss these
Fortunately, there are still modern games who puts out free demo. But it's weird because it barely gets any news from gaming medias. There are so many games today that I had no idea had demos until I browsed it in the demos section of the ps store.
@@Huraszki Or you can just pirate them and not buy them even if you like them because fuck paying for digital distribution.
I used to gauge wether or not I would buy an issue of PC gamer based on what was on the disc that month. I also bought the PlayStation Magazine the same way and was excited to start getting PS3 demo discs. Imagine my dismay.
I remember, up until at least 2007, official Xbox magazine still included demo discs, I'm sure those are gone too.
I remember these demo discs being so good. I remember that there were even some that included mods for games and that introduced me to some cool Half-Life and Max Payne mods.
Yes..thanks for such an awesome childhood
Man what an epic video I just had some right good flashbacks to my child hood watching this!!! More of this please MGR hit me right in the nostalgia feels
I would NEVER miss a PC GAMER magazine (I'm living in France and we had them too!). I remember discovering so many games in these demo CDs, sometimes, indeed, with full games! One that I really loved was "S.C.A.R.S."! Great video, thanks!
I remember in 1995 having a rocking 9600 baud modem, running Windows 3.1, and getting onto the world wide web. I went to ESPN and after waiting several minutes for it to load, I was shocked - I have not only scores and stats, but also they had a link to a video. WOW! So I hit download on the video and wait... and wait... I waited literally 45 minutes, then finally, it played, a glorious 15 second NASCAR video clip that was maybe 1/10th the size of my screen - and remember, that's 1995, meaning how it would probably be the size of a finger nail. 45 mins to watch a 15 second clip that was in terrible quality - oh, and no multitasking, that was just letting it download the clip and doing nothing else as you couldn't run a browser and do anything else the PC couldn't handle it. Not to worry however I'm sure hipsters will soon move on from records and discover dial up, then they'll setup dial up internet services so you can relive the entire era again.
jesus you were far behind back in 1995!!! back then everyone was on 14.4 or 28.8
Yesss! I love it when Jason does PC game videos. In particular I love this episode as I too collect these magazine demo cds. I have so many fond memories exploring every folder on those discs as a kid. My favorite were definitely the PC Gamer discs & later on the PC Accelerator discs. My 1st ever of these discs was from PC Gamer October 1995, Disc 11 with Magic Carpet 2 on the sleve cover.
As soon as I saw Coconut Monkey I knew I had to check the video out. I loved the demo discs and still have the island paradise one you showed off. I'm sure I have more on one of my cd spools. Great trip back down memory lane. Keep 'em coming.
Thank You For Making This Video.
MetalJesusRocks Forever.
Oh man, so many memories. I loved this video. My first PC Gamer demo disc was the one that included a demo of Exhumed (Power Slave in the USA I believe) and I got absolutely obsessed with that game. I went to the shop (I was 8 years old) by myself to get the magazine for which I had been saving quite some time and I remember the excitement I was feeling while walking back home to try those demos. Thank you for bringing back those memories to me. Great job as always.
Great video, Demo discs were a huge part of my gameplay experience growing up. My family was going trough some rough times, so for a couple of years instead of buying full games i would use the little money i had to get magazines with demo discs that as you showed sometimes included compilations of older fullgames for free. If it wasn't for them maybe i would had been forced to drop gaming as a hobby altogether, so i remember them fondly.
You guys are truly rocking with memories. I miss those days...and nights.
Thank you so much for doing this!! Brings me back!!
My Dad was one of the types to burn time in the magazine isle and often brought home PC Gamer.
I distinctly remember getting the PC Clasics, Duke 3D Complete & Half-life Opposing Forces Demo Discs.
Good times
This video was great man! Please keep making them.
Thank you so very much for doing this video. I Remember every month wanting to go to Barnes & Noble or two Borders books and pick up the newest PC Gamer magazine curious what demos and what full games are going to be on each desks was always my question. It's cool to see all the different ones. You're awesome
The effort put into these is awesome! I didn't appreciate it at the time but looking back on it just gives me the nostalgic feels. Can you imagine a demo disc like these today?
Please do more videos like this! I learn so much about game history through your videos!!
Ahhhh! The good old days! So many great memories! Thanks for sharing, MJ!
This brought back a lot of great memories. Great video!!
Love this episode thanks for talking about these great old things we used to get! The main reason I used to love these was for the extra content for my games, I remember when Unreal Tournament was first out it would get pretty much monthly mods packed in with these disks. Almost like new DLC each month free with a magazine. So good when you're a kid, didn't know whether to read the mag or pop in the disk first!
Thanks for the nostalgia trip! I remember being so stoked for the demo disc each month.
great video man love this classic retro content man keep it up. i remember all of it.
Great video, MJR! These disks are super nostalgic, even though the mid-90s don't seem that far away! Time passes way too quickly. My favourite 90s disk was from PC Format (I think) when they gave away a Star Wars Making Magic CD in 1996. The video was grainy but I was so excited because it featured the scene where Han met Jabba below the Falcon and Jabba was just that Irish actor dude! I'd never seen this and back then it seemed really special as I'd only ever read about it. It's easy to forget how things like this achieved legendary status in your head when you couldn't just go out and google it!
This is awesome. nice job showing these.
Cool video. This is not a topic I'm even remotely interested in but your passion shines through. Love it!
I spent about 30 minutes playing around 3D Realms' Terminal Velocity because of this video, Thanks for the nostalgia Metal Jesus. Rock On!
Omg dude I use to love those magazines that came with demo discs wow 😯 ty for this happy holidays
Awesome! Thanks for this. I love seeing late 90s PC stuff. Brings back memories for sure.
im in the process of moving and i just found a whack of my old pcgamer demo disks! stoked to go through them again!
Oh man, I remember looking forward to seeing which demo discs were coming with PC Gamer each month. Now I'll have to dig into my storage unit one of these days and find mine! Great video, thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Thank you so much for making this video man. This reminded me of how much I loved getting issues of Official Xbox Magazine with their demo discs.
Awesome! I appreciate the nostalgia trip. I still have a few of them laying around somewhere.
my family didnt have a lot of money growing up so getting these magazines and demo discs was the highlight of my month! I played these demos COUNTLESS times and always enjoyed the immersiveness of the layout. Awesome vid and great memories!
PC Gamer demo disks were a huge part of my childhood! This was a great retrospective, thank you!
nice vid, thanks for showing all those covers at the end!
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This video brought back memories of my past, when I used to game on my PC. I used to collect the PCGamer magazine and I remember waiting to play the demos. Thank you for this video MetalJesus.
So cool! This is why I love your channel!
I had a whole bunch of them back in the 90's with my subscriptions for many years. I wish I still had them but stuff gets lost when you move a lot ugh lol. I miss those discs lol! Great Vid Man!
Recently found some ps1 and ps2 demo discs from ops2m they were my childhood and I'm stoked to have some again
Awesome video MJ!! Kept the nostalgia knob all the way to 11 :D Cheers!
Coconut Monkey! I forgot about him! Didn’t you love seeing how the game changed from the demo disc to the release? The witch’s voice from Diablo rings a bell as a glaring change. Also her location on the map. Oh and those internet speeds....took us all day to download the NEW MORTAL KOMBAT movie preview, which may have been the first time is saw a web address on a tv preview.
Great video and a very nice topic. I even started with demo diskettes in the early 90's. Just great times...
OMG how I loved getting those discs. Thanks for this episode. I've got most of those discs stored somewhere... Heck, I've even got discs from the first few issues when they were on 3.5" floppy.
remember that magazine and those discs fondly! some great gaming moments :) glad to know others felt the same!
I wish I had hung onto them
I still have a huge collection of PC Gamer demo discs dating between April 1995 through April 2002. By that time, content was getting so big they were only able to fit a few demos on them. GREAT VIDEO!
I still have a ton of these floating around, absolutely loved demo discs.
I have a bunch of those demo disc's still. Looked at them not to long ago. Funny to see one's I've actually used and owned loved getting these back in the day. Great vid
DEMO DISCS!!! HELL YEAH! I had PC Gamer magazine first, then Playstation magazine and lastly XBOX magazine. Demo discs were a huge part of my childhood. Good call Metal J. Loved the video.
great vid... i love when you do pc games... rock on jesus
Fantastic trip down memory lane. Thanks for reminding about these. Gotta go look in some old boxes now. :)
Man this brought back memories...thanks for the video.
One of my favorite videos, MJ! I used to get these discs (along with the Playstation demos) all the time. Couldn't afford to buy the full games, so I settled for a level or two! :-)
Awesome video. I loved this kind of demo disks, it was always fun and exciting to try every new game. Sometime I found my self playing some demos over and over again because they were awesome games and then imagining how the full game would be. One of that kind of demo was the Heart of Darkness one.
Such great memories, pretty cool and nostalgic video. I used to collect demo cd's too!
Thanks for bringing back all those memories!
Love this! Still have a lot of my PC gamer demo discs!
Great video, definitely brings back memories! I'll bet there's still a couple of these discs in a closet or drawer somewhere at my parents' house.
This is awesome. Demo discs like these are blast from the past since they include much more than just game demos. I recently got a collection of around 80 Mac Addict discs that are very similar. In the mid 90s to early 2000s tons of games were on both platforms. This is when I started gaming, and I played demos of Duke Nukem, Shadow Warrior, Unreal Tournament, Diablo, Marathon, etc. This is what really started me into PC gaming and I still play many of these today.
It wasn't a weird video. I really enjoyed it and it brought back memories. I actually subscribed to PC Gamer and the Electronic Gaming Monthly. One of the benefits of a subscription was that you also got these neat gifts and trinkets from game companies every now and then. Nothing major, but they were still neat to get, especially back then. The 12 free games CD was an awesome collection. As you pointed out, getting the updates and patches instantly from these was a huge time saver. Great video.
Nice one! Fondly remember these, had a bunch of these same issues!!
Man - the nostalgia of this.....I miss demo discs! Remember when we used to get demo discs in Playstation boxes??
Hey MJ, thanks for these videos. This is an awesome part of gaming history!! I remember these demo-disk times. I used to live down in Uruguay/south-america and a few times I got the chance to get my hands on some of these cds. Of course down there it was easier to go to some illegal shops that existed back then, and purchase a cd full of games you would select from a catalog. One funny thing was that they "measured" the price they charged you for each game by the amount of 3,5 inch floppies the game fitted into. Great memories!!
Great video, this kind of gaming nostalgia I like, even though I'm not much a gamer nowadays. I used to play a lot of shareware/demo games because my parents didn't buy me new full games that often. Free/cheap compilation discs were an easy way to get a lot of new stuff to explore.
Hell yeah! The best part about PC Gamer mag!!
I'm right there with you man! PC gaming in the 90's, my CD-ROM would burn a hole in those disks, I played them so much. This video has inspired me to get a subscription again. Thanks MJR!
I loved those disks. Not only for the demo's but also for the utilities and updates.
Wow! I just cleaned out my storage and found a box of these! So much fun back in the day.
Yes!! I still have mine, I'm going to check them out as soon as I get home!
No weird video at all MJ. I’m all nostalgic here. Love it!
Those CDs ruled, a huge reason I subscribed to PC Gamer back in the day. Still a subscriber 20 years later. :)
You're making me all teary eyed. I had all of those, every single one. Pcgamer, pcgames, cgw, pcxl... And my parents just left em behind when we moved as a kid.
this is a blast from the past lol. I had nearly everyone of these disks at one time. They were the reason I went to the book store lol.
Awesome video brother. I still have many of these still in the wrapper.
After I graduated HS in 1996 I had a subscription to this mag and needed the discs for the same reason you describe. My 28.8k modem could not handle downloading the content you needed to play a decent demo of a game. I loved these demo discs! They pointed me in the right direction countless times...
Now this an original video! So many memories!
Not only do I remember the discs, I was looking for someone else who did. Thanks for the video! /cry
This takes me back. You're right, for $5+ you not only got the magazine but a much MUCH more valuable cd that just seemed OVERLOADED with cool stuff. I really miss those days when it was all so new and adventurous. I remember when I first tried Thief demo. I was obsessed.
I had some of those frome different magazines, but never had this kind of custom menus. That was an other time and it was very cool. Great vid.
Love the new intro dude!
Awesome video! I remember this era so well! Dial-up inet, disks you get with magazines.. I still got a disk I got by opening a bank-account.. it was sim city 300 (although that was a bit later in the 90's) .. Good times! :)
Amazing video metal jessus
Wow this brings back sooooo many memories! Im looking at you Under a killing moon!
I would have LOVED to have these kinds of discs in the 90s - the fact that it's set up as a game & you have to explore to find the demos would have blown me away as a kid. Cool to find out that these existed.
Great Video, Loved It!
Awesome video. Never seen these demo discs before
love this, these demo discs changed my life
The 90's were a magical time. Truly wonderful.
Oh man these were amazing back in the day!
Ahhhhh the nostalgia! Those PC gamer and EGM mags were the cornerstone of my childhoods. The demo discs were everything.
Dial up was a pain in the arse, but really only in retrospect. It served it's purpose at the time. I used to love playing Quake 3 Arena & Unreal Tournament online in the UK but then America got broadband before we did & we couldn't compete anymore. Demo discs were definitely a godsend though. Dial up as far as downloading was concerned as far as I recall you'd be looking at 2-3 hours for a single mp3 by your chosen band & if your internet dropped during that download, you'd have to start again. Great video man 👍
good vid, ive collected a few hundred pc gamer demo disks from ebay.. lots of unique content on them, some special quake 2 mods (like coconut monkey) and half life maps really stand out.. there was also lots of cool freeware/shareware games that are practically unknown today