DOS 500 in 1 shareware CD-ROMs

[mkultrafanboy]

does anyone remember those? Those CD-ROMs that had like 500 games on them, they were all shareware demos though. I remember Hugo's House of Horrors, Wolfenstein 3D, and a whole lot of games that probably no one can remember the name of.

 

[Dan]

I had so many of these, and I would often spend weekends just going through each game to try them all.

 

[Frindis]

I never had one of those, but I used to buy PC Gamer magazines all the time back in the '90s/early 2000. I always grabbed a magazine whenever I was taking the train and loved looking through them, not to mention playing the demos. Here is Metaljesus Rocks going through some PC Gamer Demo CD history.

 

[Volley]

Those were awesome, really made use of that newly acquired optical disc drive back in the day.

And I've got a ton of PC Gamer demo discs that sustained my appetite to try new games. Did Coconut Monkey's Gravy Trader ever arrive?

 

[mkultrafanboy]

I had so many of these, and I would often spend weekends just going through each game to try them all.

Some of the demo games were super comfy like Hugo

 

[jpishgar]

Here is Metaljesus Rocks going through some PC Gamer Demo CD history.

And I've got a ton of PC Gamer demo discs that sustained my appetite to try new games.

I'll do you one better - you can download each CD that accompanied the old PC Gamer magazines from the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/pcgamer-cdroms

Coconut Monkey sends his regards.

 

[Frindis]

@jpishgar That is awesome! Thank you for the tip🙂

 

[Volley]

I'll do you one better - you can download each CD that accompanied the old PC Gamer magazines from the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/pcgamer-cdroms

Coconut Monkey sends his regards.

Nice find my dude!

 

[PCG AndyC]

Hell yeah, I've still got a bunch of them. Picked most of them up when I was running a local BBS, it was kind of a status symbol thing - not just to have all the files on demand, but as kind of a sly way of letting people know that, yeah, that's right, I got a CD-ROM.