What's the best demo disc you ever played?
Certainly not console discs with their measly 5-6 demos
this one was stacked>Tomb Raider 2>Parappa the Rapper>Coolboarders>Gran Turismo>Crash Bandicoot 2>Gex
>>12459108PC Play 3. I put so many hours in powerboat, we got explosives 2, red alert and quake 2.
>>12459108The one that came with the Dreamcast. Not only because of the selection of games on it(Power Stone, Sonic Adventure, HotD2, Ready 2 Rumble Boxing, etc) but it was all I had to play for a week when I first picked up my brand new DC. Lived far from town and the one game I bought with the system(Sonic Adventure) was bad right out of the case so I had to wait for my parents to take me back so I could return it.
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>tomb raider 2>blasto>einhander>tomba>gex 2>gran turismo>jersey devil i guessuncontested lineup
>Ghost in the Shell>Treasures of the Deep>Tombi>Tekken 3>Spyro The Dragon>Medievil>Kula World>Gran Turismo>Blitter Boy (one of the best Net Yaroze games)Simply unrivaled
I remember a specific demo disc that had:>Burnout 2>Hitman 2>Ratchet & Clank>Red Faction II>Summoner 2>Tekken 4>V-Rally 3I easily played it for dozens of hours.
the dreamcast one w/ virtua tennis on it. i liked it so much and never actually cared to get the full game because the exhibition game you played was enough
>>12459108Not the blue ones they didn't werk 15 years later anymore but the ridge racer 5 was good or maybe it was video only and not my launch gaem
>>12459108The one that sticks with me the most was a PSX demo disc that had Cool Boarders 1 or 2 on it.
Oh man it's got a Viewtiful Joe 2 demo on it!!
>>12459108it has to be one of these:december 1998 demo one (the one with 4 demos, the one I got with my psx), it later got a update version with 7 demos and 2 videosEurodemo 39 (the one with crash 3, toca 2, moto racer 2, blitter boy, odt and psybadeck
My friend who moved to Mesa, Arizona years later, got this one in 1997.Also really good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE35KRf54pc
>>12459940nooooo
>>12459514My cousin had this one and it was great. I remember the Tombi demo being super long.I got a more recent one with:> Destrega> Porsche Challenge> Devil Dice> CTR> GT2>Croc 2
Also if you registered your psx you got a demo>PlayableA Bug's LifeAll Stars TennisBlood LinesCrash Bandicoot 2Cool Boarders 2Devil DiceMonkey HeroOddworld: Abe's ExoddusRidge Racer Type 4>TrailerA Bug's Life
>>12459194Were these actually demos?
I didn't have too many demo discs. There was one with something like a 4x4 grid, some demos, some ads, and the top left I believe was Bloody Roar and/or Hot Shots Golf. Bloody Roar only had the first two characters.the Underground Jam Pack displayed the content as monorail or something, and each car was a different option, and I believe one of them had a Japanese demos setting, that included The Annoying Stickalso Pizza Hut gave out a THPS1 demo disc of the chicago level, it was great.
>2 full playable levels with their respective bosses>Score attack game so it was fun to revisit a lot before getting the full game>Has an exclusive FMV full vocal music video
Nintendo didn't really do demo discs with the GameCube or the Wii even
I played the hell out of the Ratchet and Clank 2 demo on the Winter 2003 Jampack as a kid before I could buy the game. That demo was definitely the MVP of that disk and it's not even close.
demo discs were so fucking comfy
>>12460416Yeah only the 2 VHS tapes for donkay kon and star fox think I got them double
>>12459940>mgs demoI dont understand
>>12460432probably just a video. they used to have to specify "playable demo". a looping video demo would be called a "rolling demo"
yeah played the shit out of the disc with the dark cloud demo
>>12459108Basically this. Imagine walking into Target and Staples and getting a demo disk with all sorts of weird shit for $5. Doom was on all of them. Sometimes you would get lucky and a weird adult game would be hidden in the mix.
>>12460329It was a mix of demos, sharewares and freewares. Pic related.
>>12460478Great times... loved those CDs.
>>12460428totally agree, it is like going to supermaket and trying all those free sample from every aisle.
great music, several playable games with either huge levels to explore, or many different players to find. And epic music in every single demo.
>>12459108Definitely the MGS2 demo disc. Put more time into that demo than most full games I’ve beaten. Also the def jam fight for NY demo pack because it never gets old smashing rappers into all sorts of things like tricked out Escalades and such.
>>12459194This has more entertainment and fun in it then the entirety of RE9 (it’s in my head from seeing it streamed and how god awful it was). Imagine a world where demo discs from the late 90s early 2000s would have deeper and better gameplay than modern aaa titles. Oh wait u don’t..
>>12460436Man i forgot that they had videos on them and not all were playable>>12460914Good times
>>12459108I have a Playstation Underground demo disc that has a whole MST3K short as an intro.
>>12459136I'll take 6 demos on an actual game console over 100 jeux complets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SwQr1Xsg9E
>>12461595That music is burned with fire in my soul and mind.
Disc came with our gateway pc that we got for Christmas. Spent that whole day playing doom, beavis and butthead, endorfun, and al uncer racing
>>12461947Thanks for the rec, going to see if this is on archive and slap it in a vm.
>>12459514This was my favorite. Seriously amazing. It was crazy to get to play a shitload of games that you then clearly wanted, but couldn't immediately play full versions of because there were so many of them.
I couldn't tell you. I played a LOT of the demo disc with g-police and crash 2 on it. I also put many hours into future cop LAPD as well. That said my most played demo (not pictured here) is the OPSM2 demo of timesplitters 2 - I played that for hours each day in the month or so before the full game release and got very, very good at it to the point some of changes in the final game (like colour of the sniper scope and flamethrower redesign) annoyed me and kinda do to this day.
>>12462867I have the metalgear solid one with 14 net yaroze games, that one is amazing.
>>12459108A Playstation Magazine disc with tons of net yaroze games, mostly 2D in the ps1 style. Also had plenty of other game like Devil Dice.>>12460180I think I had that one or similar. Monkey Hero was a Zelda style game and the demo let you play for ages. A bugs life was super impressive with how big and detailed the level was. It would take you many days to get through all those, there is something about these that is super fun because they put you in the middle of it instead of starting with the lowest gear or first level.For PC you used to already see these 100 in 1 or whatever demos. One of them had a sort of fake DOS window gui thing with games like transport tycoon and games mostly from 1995 and earlier. For the mid 90's it was perfect since newer games were starting to get really slow.>>12459194Remind me of pc gamer, they would even have non gamer stuff and articles that you could spend hours reading. Once there was the route 66 trip planner than came with a ton of Mustang commercials from the 60's and 70's.After ps2 I seemed to get bored of the demos after an hour or so.
>>12462907luv me blitter boy
For me it is demo one.
>>12460759klik n play kusoge... soul...
You ever really like a game demo only to never find an actual copy of it in stores?That game was MediEvil for it. That demo was awesome but I could never find the game anywhere, I never played the full game until it got rereleased digitally on PSN.
>>12459108I loved feeling not knowing what I would get selecting a demo from the list just looking at a small image from the cover, I missed it
>>12463246Felony 11-79. That said from playing the game years later I dodged a bullet.
>>12459514Based. I had that disc and it honestly gave me more entertainment than most AAA games have. Just such a good variety of quality games.
I'm currently downloading demodiscs from Myrient site. Any single disc release recommendations for ps1 or ps2?
The Winter 98' Jampack for PS1. I played the Metal Gear Solid demo so many times.
>>12459108The demo disc I discovered Xenogears on in 1998. I still have it somewhere and the full CIB game.
>>12465150Had this one back in the day
>>12465876coolboarders 3
>>12459150This was the one I always played. I almost shit myself when I figured out there was a whole other page of games if you held a certain button combo
>>12465876the jampacks were always greatfor me, it was pic related>less playable demos than normal>but understandable because they had to fit playable parts of Spyro 2 (2 different levels in the demo!) AND GT2, a game that had to be split into two CDs when the full game came out>Lammy is there too!
I used to have this but I can no longer find it :/
>>12462867Is x-men mutant academy any good or its sequel?
>>12467003So edgy I cut myself just by looking at this image.
>>12467169based retard
>>12467163Never played it - I only played that demo for wipeout 3.
>>12467003cool demos cars and raider.
many hours of heroes of might and magic 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmdehnCxcOQ
>>12461442Damn, Bootleg Sampler. I remember playing that.For OP's question whichever issue of OPM UK had the Destruction Derby RAW demo where you could break it by holding down Start + X before it loaded and were able to drive through the Dragonfly track itself.
>>12467446PLUS! Yet more...
Loved the menu music
I always liked that powerline music used in psx demos discs. Funky stuff.
