I don't see any praise for this around here, why is that? Lots of demos and interviews to see, and all being exclusive at the time made it a no brainer. Playing demos until you mastered them felt like a rite of passage in my area. Anyone else have any special memories of the Underground?
>>12123532as an MST3K fan as a kid, getting issue 1 in the mail and popping it in gave me a pretty great surprise.
>>12123532Having new PS1 demos was almost as good as getting an actual game back in ~98
>>12123532I was subscribed to a magazine that sent me these demos. It was amazing booting them and seeing like 10 games to play plus music videos. I had one with Korns Got the Life lol.
Did they have many subscribers? I know they had their own demo discs for subscribers that weren't sold in stores. Unfortunately, it seems they've become lost media.
>>12125305are they? this channel seems to have em.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC6nEciG204
>>12125338hey not bad, shame there's no way to play the demos
>>12125367wow, you're just making me do all the work for you, aren't you.https://archive.org/download/Redump.orgSonyPlayStation-NTSC-U-P
>>12125367bitch use your imagination
>>12125379have a jampackhttps://youtu.be/PXe3OKv5rN0
>>12125379Having a full set of these would be a bit messy to sort out per-system since later issues started including a PS1 and PS2 disk and later went PS2-only.
>>12123532Lol a couple weeks ago I was watching a bunch of videos on Crash Racing to beat the Time Trials and such, and I had one of their "tip" videos recommended on Youtube. It's funny because the shortcut the guy shows off doesn't even require an item.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBjDQizD6cU
>>12125883I remember learning a combo for Dhalsim on SFA3 from one of their videos. Abusing that combo was the easiest way I was able to clear world tour mode all the way to Shin Akuma and unlock every character.There was another video for Tenchu 1 that essentially involved abusing the lack of z-buffer. (Lean against a wall and free-look for a wall hack.)
>>12125883How bad
>>12125338Thanks. These videos were boring as fuck though.
>>12128012should play some fortnite and set it to 1.5x speed
>>12123532Demo discs were so fucking amazing. It's crazy for me to think zoomers will simply never know the joys of that shit.
>>12123532Playstation Underground definitely shaped my taste in games. It's how I first played Spyro and Ape Escape. There was something cryptic about certain things being "not available in demo", then seeing still pictures of later in the game once you beat the demo. Last thing I remember getting from it was a promo for the PSP game Gangs of London. It was a cardboard PSP with slide outs that had pictures and info about the game. Then it was curtains.
