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Demo's you loved of games you never owned
- Thread starter KORNdog
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Surprised how little shareware is listed here. It was easy to get shareware versions, much harder to get full versions since you'd have to send a mail order to the USA or hope for one of the few times when such a game would show up on shelves. I still feel regret over seeing Tyrian on a shelf ONCE and not picking it up then (probably lacked the money even though it was only 50 DM, about 25 US dollars).
Now in recent years it became much more feasible to get the full versions of those games with GOG around and various old re-releases but that's about 20 years later. There were a lot of these games, it's taking me quite some time to remember...
Ones I played in the 90s but didn't get a full version until a decade or two later: Raptor: Call of Shadows, Tyrian, Halloween Harry (AKA Alien Carnage), Duke Nukem 2, Wacky Wheels
Never got a full version of these: Sango Fighter, Tanktics, The Lion King, GODS, Tubular Worlds, OverKill, Zone 66, a Zelda-like game where you played as Thor with a boomeranging hammer, Lost Vikings, Blood & Magic
Now in recent years it became much more feasible to get the full versions of those games with GOG around and various old re-releases but that's about 20 years later. There were a lot of these games, it's taking me quite some time to remember...
Ones I played in the 90s but didn't get a full version until a decade or two later: Raptor: Call of Shadows, Tyrian, Halloween Harry (AKA Alien Carnage), Duke Nukem 2, Wacky Wheels
Never got a full version of these: Sango Fighter, Tanktics, The Lion King, GODS, Tubular Worlds, OverKill, Zone 66, a Zelda-like game where you played as Thor with a boomeranging hammer, Lost Vikings, Blood & Magic
Heroes of the Might and Magic 2 ... the disk printed by the magazine was the full game... (it was a pacman disk imprint, black and yellow, for a french PC magazine i cannot remember the name, i don't think it was pcteam, must have been another)
So, nope, i didn't buy.
So, nope, i didn't buy.
You never bought takedown???
Eh the ps2 substance had much better content that the Xbox version didn't have. Plus there was weird slowdown on the Xbox version.
I'm sitting here trying to remember a demo I played over and over but never bought the full game for. If I loved a demo that much, I usually always ended up buying the full game.
A PS1 demo disc my brother and I had back in the day was amazing. Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, Syphon Filter, & Medieval.
Yeah... Tombi/Tomba demo was awesome, and so long too. I think I'll buy it one day on PSN (if it's available...)
Puyo Puyo Tetris on Switch.
I still find the full game quite expensive. And the demo has everything I need.
Also the demo disc that came with the PS2. I think I only bought SSX later.
I still find the full game quite expensive. And the demo has everything I need.
Also the demo disc that came with the PS2. I think I only bought SSX later.
Oh man you should have bought Die Hard Trilogy it was amazing. But yeah PS1 demo discs is the answer here. So many demos I'd replay over and over again but never actually get the game. I was addicted to Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2.
In more modern times I'd say WWE All Stars. Absolutely adored that demo and that gameplay. I never bought the game. I'd say I'm part of the problem why it failed, but then it's not like I bought the main series WWE games either.
Destrega, it was part of a demo disc and my and my brother played that demo to death.
Alien vs Predator 2. This is probably one of my favorite demo's, Just Aliens vs Marines and 1 predator. It was fantastic. I got to play the full game once and it was a mess with all sorts of different alien types and such, it wasn't as fun anymore.
Alien vs Predator 2. This is probably one of my favorite demo's, Just Aliens vs Marines and 1 predator. It was fantastic. I got to play the full game once and it was a mess with all sorts of different alien types and such, it wasn't as fun anymore.
Yeah I should have, I really liked the demo and IIRC it didn't even have all the 3 different modes (the one I remember the most was the Virtua Cop-style shooter) but back then I was a youngling with very limited budget and choices to make, so some games I knew I liked would eventually slip through my fingers.
Look, I will buy it at some point or another ok?
I have at least a couple or more hours offline. u.u'
I have at least a couple or more hours offline. u.u'
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Well, that was the level I replayed the most on the full game, you were lucky! :DFor me it would have to be a demo of Klonoa 2 for the PS2, it had two levels that were picked at random.if I remember correctly, and there was one where you surfed down a river, and that level was my jam. Replayed it so many times!!
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Came here to post this.
Never found an original copy of the full game afterwards. Never played it.
Dat Marseille level...fck man
I played the HELL out of this disc. It had the Tony Hawk 2 demo! Still the best Tony Hawk experience I've ever had
I remember loving the demo for the super obscure Akuji the Heartless, but due to the circumstances of being a kid with very limited funds, I was never able to purchase the full product.
Thinking back on it though, if there was a demo of a game that I ended up loving, I would make it my mission to obtain that game somehow and end up usually succeeding. There are loads of examples back in the PS1 era of random ass demos for games I had never heard about before completely selling me on the whole product alone. Bust-a-Groove, Jumping Flash!, Silent Hill, Vib Ribbon, Soul Reaver and Rollcage were all day one purchases because of demos. Hell, the demo for Broken Sword introduced me to and made me a die-hard fan of the entire p&c genre.
Man, I miss those days of getting freebie demo discs with a magazine. The Official PlayStation and Dreamcast Magazines were amazing for those things alone.
Thinking back on it though, if there was a demo of a game that I ended up loving, I would make it my mission to obtain that game somehow and end up usually succeeding. There are loads of examples back in the PS1 era of random ass demos for games I had never heard about before completely selling me on the whole product alone. Bust-a-Groove, Jumping Flash!, Silent Hill, Vib Ribbon, Soul Reaver and Rollcage were all day one purchases because of demos. Hell, the demo for Broken Sword introduced me to and made me a die-hard fan of the entire p&c genre.
Man, I miss those days of getting freebie demo discs with a magazine. The Official PlayStation and Dreamcast Magazines were amazing for those things alone.
Steel Reign PS1
Unholy War PS1
Those are a couple that I can think of right now. Most of the Official Playstation Magazines had some amazing demos on them. Ironically I just found at least 50+ demo discs from the PS1 and PS2 in a desk the other day so I'm looking forward to trying some out.
Unholy War PS1
Those are a couple that I can think of right now. Most of the Official Playstation Magazines had some amazing demos on them. Ironically I just found at least 50+ demo discs from the PS1 and PS2 in a desk the other day so I'm looking forward to trying some out.
Sentient for the PlayStation.
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In the late 90s there was a demo for Macross VFX 2 for PS1 that I played a ton of. I remember calling Microplay (local Canadian game store) almost every few days during the summer about a release date because all that was in magazines at the time was "TBA Summer '99". It ended up getting cancelled in NA so I never got to play it.
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I love demos
Big fan of Vietcong and Fist Alpha, both had MP demos pretty sure
Men of Valor was also a pretty impressive one
Used to play the shit out of the first time they released BF1942 Secret Weapons demo, still remember the map
COD Burnville and Dawnville SP demos were amazing
Demos I mostly did on PC, console ones with CDs not as much as I didn't get magazines and so on
Fileshack was my favourite
Most of these games I have eventually purchased so I can't really remember any demos of games that I liked I didn't end up buying
MGS2 obviously was pretty much the most amazing demo, played that shit more than the ZOE game when I rented it multiple times lol
Big fan of Vietcong and Fist Alpha, both had MP demos pretty sure
Men of Valor was also a pretty impressive one
Used to play the shit out of the first time they released BF1942 Secret Weapons demo, still remember the map
COD Burnville and Dawnville SP demos were amazing
Demos I mostly did on PC, console ones with CDs not as much as I didn't get magazines and so on
Fileshack was my favourite
Most of these games I have eventually purchased so I can't really remember any demos of games that I liked I didn't end up buying
MGS2 obviously was pretty much the most amazing demo, played that shit more than the ZOE game when I rented it multiple times lol
