Remember when we used to share demo discs from magazines?

I was cleaning out some old boxes last weekend and found a stack of those PC Gamer demo discs from like 2003. Man, that took me back. My buddy was a PlayStation kid and I was on Nintendo, but we'd both trade those discs around at school like they were gold. Getting to try a level of a game for free before buying it felt way more honest than watching a curated trailer on YouTube now. I swear the demo for Jedi Knight II on one of those discs sold me on the full game instantly. There was something cool about having a physical thing to pass around and talk about during lunch. Does anyone else miss that whole era of finding hidden gems through demo discs instead of algorithms?

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rowan6668d ago

Dude my demo disc collection was basically a shrine to bad decisions. I'd spend like an hour installing Quake 3 Arena from a disc just to realize my family's dial up couldn't handle it. The demo for the original Half Life on one of those PC Gamer discs literally made me fail a math test because I stayed up all night trying to beat it. Swapping discs at lunch felt way more personal than some algorithm feeding me the same trailer for the 50th time.

river_hart188d ago

Wait @rowan666, did we all fail a math test because of Half Life?