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PS1 demo CD appreciation thread?

>> No.1748328

Would have never discovered bust a groove without them. Kind of a cool idea that was replaced by modern tech, but it does seem like the demos get shorter and shorter as time goes on.

>> No.1748348

>>1748301
The main reason I have got my first PS1 to own Brave Fencer Musashi, was because I tried the demo from Playstation Underground and it made such a lasting impression at my 13 years old

>> No.1748381

>>1748348
Pretty noice demo I must say.
I've got a lot of trouble finishing it back at my days

>> No.1749406

>>1748301
I played this demo disc into the ground until my mother finally dropped that "video games are horrible and created from the devil" crap they used to say in the 80's and 90's. Good stuff.

>> No.1749421

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hleU6PVXByo

>> No.1749739
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1749739

I actually liked the the combat mechanics in the Soul Reaver demo alot more than in the final product

>> No.1749753
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1749753

Meanwhile, at Sega...

>> No.1749756
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1749756

This got these fuckers some business.

>> No.1749759

>>1748301
These were important to me because when I first got my playstation back in '98. These were all I had to play for almost a year, until Christmas when I got Gex: Enter the Gecko and Tekken 2.

I remember though having this one particular demo disc that had a shooting game I can remember the name of, and once I got past the ship selection screen, it wouldn't do anything. The disc was clean and everything else worked just fine. So it puzzled me.

>> No.1749803
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1749803

>PlayStation Magazine
>A free-ish (it could be considered "free" with the magazine) demo disc each month

>> No.1750042
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1750042

Demos being distributed with magazines/consoles was one of the best concepts introduced that gen.

Along with the full games of Rayman, Discworld, and Mortal Kombat 3, those discs in the pic were the trio of discs I had at Xmas when I got the console.
Fresh off the Mega Drive, my 9 year old self was blown away by the that bundle of entertainment, and I played each demo, and watched every trailer, dozens of times over.

>> No.1750078

Fucking ET demo. Why did they make an ET game for PS1 anyway, considering the reputation of the ET Atari game?

Also, demo discs were the fucking shit.

>> No.1750098

I remember the "secret" demos, too. Like if you hit L1 or R1 it would unlock a code to put in that would give you a game like Fighting Force.

That was how I discovered Jade Cocoon and that game pretty much dominated my young teenage years.

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>>1750098

>> No.1750105

>>1750098

Yeah man I remember those. Another would give the Star Wars fighting game.

>> No.1750108

>>1750042
Even Pizza Hut distributed PS1 demos

>> No.1750114

>>1749803
Its pretty crazy they did that considering alot of ps1 games came out at like 40 bucks

>> No.1750119

>>1750114
>Its pretty crazy

*It's pretty crazy

>> No.1750125

>>1750119
Suck my diglet

>> No.1750132

>>1749803
Never would've begged my mom to buy crash 1 without this old ass demo disc.

I actually still remember the day my aunt bought it for me at Toys R Us. It was already a greatest hits one too. I think I was 6

>> No.1750152

I remember Viva Football on I think it was "Station" magazine's demo 9. There was a clothesline button, you can imagine the number of red cards and little football played.

Rival Schools was on it to, still a lasting impact on my mind. Fuckin' love fighting games!

>> No.1750158

>>1749759
It wasn't Retro Force by any chance?
That shit used to happen to me

>> No.1750258

Best Playstation demo music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SwQr1Xsg9E

>> No.1750280

Is there some kind of collector or fansite for PS1 demo disks?

Net Yaroze alone is a lot of content on them, those custom menus and music too. I have a big stack of demo disks (50+) but nearly all the cases are gone, and my magazines were thrown out.

So, is there? Even ISOs or scans of the covers? Feels like a lot of stuff going to waste.

>> No.1750415

>>1749759
Wasn't it Einhander?
It came at CD Interactive volume 7 I think.

Also it contained Tekken 3, Gex: Enter the Gekko and Crash 2 demos.

>Bretty good demos

>> No.1750417

>>1750280
I want it so much!

>> No.1750419

>>1749756
Same with McDonalds.

>> No.1750443

>>1750104

I don't say this often because I think it's over used, but oh the feels.

I got my playstation in Christmas of 96.I had mortal kombat trilogy, and this. I remember seeing the opening of the star wars game and seeing fmv for the first time and getting blown away. Movies on a video game system? What a concept. Then you had crash, previews for twisted metal 2,jet motor, tobal no 1.

Man that demo disk gave me content for a month. Looking back on it now, this was a great way to sell the system.

>> No.1750483

The Playstation Perfect Guide has a lot fo info on demos.

game-rave.com

>> No.1750491

Pizza hut had a special back in the day where if you ordered a certain pizza you got a playstation demo disc. My family got the pizza once and got the demo disc to go with it. Later for my birthday I got a playstation and that demo disc was all I had to play for it at the time. The disc had THPS, FF8, Crash Team Racing, and a cool boarders game on it.

>> No.1750493

>>1748301
>get a new Dreamcast with one of the demo discs in it
>Super Roundabout and that Christmas demo of Toy Commander
>play both for months
>now
>Dreamcast is dead
>Find out that Dreamcast emulation has gotten quite acceptable
>demo disc doesn't exist as an iso
>Super Roundabout doesn't work on nullDC

All my tears

>> No.1750501

emuparadise.me/Sony_Playstation_-_Demos_ISOs/List-All-Titles/25

I can't download it right now, can someone confirm if legit?

>> No.1750508
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1750508

Of course we'll show some appreciation! I have an entire collection of these discs! One had a demo of Crash Bash. I vaguely remember using cheats to access the full game.

>> No.1750683

>>1750508
>>1750508
Pics or didn't happened

>> No.1750731

>>1750683
Not him, but in the Rage Racer demo from Sony's JamPack discs, you could crash the game by coming in first. In Super Puzzle Fuck Capcom 2 Turbo, if you pressed start on both controllers at the same time, you could play two players, one round, Ken and Felicia.

>> No.1751094

>>1750114
CDs are a lot cheaper than ROM cartridges.

>> No.1751472

>>1749753
ah sega... somewhere I have my dreamcast demo disc stashed away.

I also still have my ps2 network disc with the 7-day trial of everquest on it.

>> No.1751490

>>1750114
>>1751094
Yeah the price to produce something like one copy of a modern disc game even is well under $5 whereas the price of an NES cart is $25+, not even counting packaging

So on the flip side, it's pretty crazy they charged $40(now $60+) for a game when it cost a few dollars to physically make
>but development costs
I know I know

>> No.1751797

>>1749756
I had a ton of these since my mom's friend knew I had a PS1. I'm sure most of them are still in their Pizza Hut sleeve. Also, I used to go to stores and ripped open the PSM and OPSM magazines just to take the demos with me.

>> No.1751812

>>1749739

This exact disc is the entire reason I know about Metal Gear, and have bought every game in the franchise. I'm surprised to see it here.

>> No.1751817

>>1751797

I remember there were tons of kids that did that shit. Annoying as fuck back then to have to sift through a bunch of copies just to find one that had a disc that I could buy.

>> No.1751992

Ohhh God, the feels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wll_bQiYkBU

>> No.1752006
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1752006

So much nostalgia...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBt_9ufLJAw

>> No.1752086

I had the one with hercules and oddworld. There was that game called lifeforce tenka, scared the shit out of me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA24Hpr6yCM

>> No.1752098

>>1752086
WOW it looks so smooth and gorgeous!

>> No.1752116

I remember having the Interactive 6 disc, which had Blasto, Tomba, Einhänder, Bloody Roar, and others on it. I loved that one. Only other demo disc I owned had this imports section which let you play that Tail Concerto game.

>> No.1752117

>>1752116
See this >>1751992

Actually it's volume 7

>> No.1752119

>>1752117
Ah, right. I know I had the Interactive 6 as well.. just can't remember what was on that one.

>> No.1752121

never even played a demo disc but I appreciated them because they were great discs to use for the swap trick before I could get a modchip.

>> No.1752125
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1752125

Hey guys whats going on in this thread?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWTmSFcxSu0

>> No.1752129

>>1752125
>whats going on

What's going on

>> No.1752130

>>1752129
>being this autistic

>> No.1752135

>>1752129
Hey faggot>>1752079

Take your autism elsewhere.

>> No.1752143

>>1752130
>>1752135
You keep using that word but I don't think you know what it means. Being anal about spelling would be something someone with OCD would care about, not an autist.

>> No.1752153

Ok kids, don't fight

>> No.1752154

>>1752143
whatever autist no one cares

how about contributing with some old demos or fuck off with your autism

>> No.1752170

>>1752129
I said hey

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>>1752154
>No one cares
>Still replies

>> No.1752176

>>1752170
What a wonderful kind of day

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>>1750152
The demo I have, stops at a certain time, and generates a code for your scoreline, stats, etc. that was used in a competition at the time.
I definitely spent more time trying to knockout the ref, and the opposing keeper, than aiming for the high score.

>> No.1752293

>>1749739
this, played a lot of medievil to see how far I could go before the demo ended.

Watched that parasite eve trailer a hundred of times (never got to play the real game though).

Also used to play gran turismo, test drive 4 (i still remember the song) and coolboarders 3 with my bro.

And how can I forget about spyro the dragon and that ninja game.

That disc was the shit. I think I still have it...somewhere.

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1752392

Is Net Yaroze appreciation a different thread for another day?
>dat NY Hall of Fame demo disc

>> No.1753018

>>1752392
Is this Hotline Miami?

>> No.1753030

>>1750280
http://www.emuparadise.me/Sony_Playstation_-_Demos_ISOs/List-All-Titles/25

>> No.1753046

>>1753018
Psychon, I'm pretty sure developer of HM played this game.

>> No.1753064

>>1753046
They have been inspired by it so much that is almost offensive. Jeez

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>>1753064
Bastard Operator From Hell comes to mind.
There is also a DOS game that is quite similar, but I forgot the name.
And some japanese Windows game that is top-down. Player has to infilitrate a house and is armed with grenades if I remember correctly.

>> No.1753131

>>1748301
does anyone know the name of a game that was like a doom clone? I can't for the life of me remember the name but it was a 2.5d type shooter and I only ever played it on a demo disc

>> No.1753159

>>1753131
Power Slave?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQHSVEg4wts

>> No.1753165

>>1753159
no. i think i found it though, "disruptor"

>> No.1753210

http://youtu.be/6-SRoA-Rr-M

this is now a celebration the demo disk game testers and their cool tips/tricks

>> No.1753759
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>>1753046
Psychon was directly inspired by Team 17's Alien Breed

>> No.1753845

>>1750501
I download from emuparadise all the time, don't see why it wouldn't be.

>> No.1754768
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcyi7hGqQ48

>> No.1755540

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ5FEWJtwfk

PAL version of Demo 1 was amazing.

>> No.1755548
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Greatest demo there ever was.
Bought Metal Gear Solid on day 1 because of it.
God that shit was great.

>> No.1755553

>>1755540
>main Ram 16 Mbit