henke on 21/2/2017 at 17:54
Follow me, won't you, on a nostaliga trip into the bag of old CDs I found at my mom's place.
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https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/90297811/Games/bag_of_cds/the_bag.jpgIntriguing! Let's unpack this bad boy!
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https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/90297811/Games/bag_of_cds/bag_contents.jpgContentsUpper row: 5 old games, a huge pile of PC Gamer UK cover discs.
Lower row: drivers and crap (will be thrown away), demo discs from various magazines that aren't PC Gamer UK, general PC magazine cover discs, shareware collections and the like.
Let's take a closer look at some of these discs!
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https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/90297811/Games/bag_of_cds/old%20games.jpgThe GamesOnly one of these I remember playing extensively and enjoying is Gripped Off-Road Racing. Not sure I even tried whatever Chaos Overlords is, and only played enough of Fantasy General to instill in me a life-long hate-affair with hex-based strategy games.
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https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/90297811/Games/bag_of_cds/PCPlus.jpgPC Plus Super CD, October 1995First PC magazine I ever bought. I remember being disappointed with the lack of games on the disc. Not the first computer magazine I ever bought though, that would be an issue of Commodore 64 mag Zapp 64, in the early 90's.
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https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/90297811/Games/bag_of_cds/PCG_US.jpgPC Gamer US, January 1996I bought this while on holiday in Teneriffe with my mom and sister. This was more like it. Lots of cool games!
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https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/90297811/Games/bag_of_cds/PCG_UK%20%281%29.jpgInline Image:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/90297811/Games/bag_of_cds/PCG_UK%20%283%29.jpgPC Gamer UK, discs from 1996-2002 (not
all the discs from that period. Also, some discs from Swedish and Finnish issues of PC Gamer mixed in)
It was later in 1996 that I discovered, to great delight, that the store in my town had started stocking PC Gamer UK. IIRC, the first issue I bought had Terra Nova on the cover. Expensive as hell, it cost me 3 or 4 allowances per issue, and I probably would've saved a lot of money if I'd figured out how to subscribe, but I just kept buying the expensive single-issues anyway. I loved PC Gamer UK, and not just for the demo discs, but for the writing in the magazine. It was smart, funny, and in English. It represented a world I wanted to be a part of. And, being stuck in a tiny Finnish town, it was my one window into that world.
Gonna end this post here. Will post about the rest of the CDs later. I hope you will join me on my further travels... INTO THE BAG!
Jason Moyer on 21/2/2017 at 18:14
Is Gripped the same thing as SODA? That game is still awesome.
Renzatic on 21/2/2017 at 18:19
I remember when I used to have a stack of demo CDs that big. Looking at that PC Game disc in particular takes me back to the days of playing the Bad Mojo demo while trying to figure out how to get Under A Killing Moon to work on my old janky computer back in the day.
TAKE ME INTO YOUR BAG OF NOSTALGIA, HENKE!
henke on 21/2/2017 at 18:49
Quote Posted by Jason Moyer
Is Gripped the same thing as SODA? That game is still awesome.
Yeeeeeeees! I was surprised to see it labeled as Gripped because I seemed to remember it having a way sillier name than that. SODA it was.
Pyrian on 21/2/2017 at 19:21
Lemmings Paintball? Apparently that really was a thing that happened.
Shadowcat on 21/2/2017 at 20:38
Big Red Racing was awesome!
Zerker on 21/2/2017 at 21:35
Quote Posted by Pyrian
Lemmings Paintball? Apparently that really was a thing that happened.
Yes. I even own the full game. Somehow I had to own everything Lemmings-related at one point.
Pyrian on 21/2/2017 at 23:01
Seems contradictory. The point of (fictional) Lemmings is to march blindly towards a horrible death, the point of paintball is to shoot people without killing them.
