The Halo PC demo
On a [I]Mac[/I].
A PowerMac G4, 700mhz. Half a gig of RAM. GeForce 4 MX.
Dark times indeed.
UT2004.
ONS-Torlan all day erryday, the map's music is burned into my mind.
Also the C&C Renegade multiplayer demo on Gamespy Arcade.
Doom and Duke Nukem 3D. Played the absolute crap out of both.
multiplayer demo for BF1942
i had the full game, but it never worked online for me, while the multiplayer demo did for some reason
Dark Cloud on the original PS2 demo disc.
OG Red Faction, Half-Life 1, Postal 2, and Just Cause 2 are the big ones I remember.
Operation Flashpoint
Life Force Tenka and that one PS1 Hercules game. The demos for both were better than the full games.
GTA 2, Max Payne 1, Commandos
Gods it's been ages since I've had demos in my hands. The one I played most, though...mmmm, WAAAYYYYY back in the day. A few come to mind. I forget the actual titles(It's literally been 20 years or so since I've played them) but I remember where I got them and when. Maybe ya'll can put an actual title to them and enable a nostalgia trip :v:
It's the late 90s, and 8 year old me is havin' a blast with Janes' WW2 Fighters. I get a chance to dial in and go to their website, and I find a naval combat sim on there that....and I don't know why but this sticks out to me....let you follow your kills to the sea floor, let you look at the wrecks. Janes games were pretty good about that, WW2 Fighters also let you follow your kills to the ground and swap your camera over to the wreckage while the game flew the plane for ya.
Still the late 90s, I had gotten Hard Truck 2 at Walmart, loved it. then I found King of the Road, it's slightly better European brother. Probably the first full price game I ever bought(At the time 40), and on that disc came a rally game of some sort, only gave you a couple stages, a mini cooper. Pretty good crash physics too.
I was also fond of Novalogic's games at the time, though I Didn't actually own any. I did play their demos pretty heavily, and the one that sticks out the most was where you're driving an Abrams around and there's stuff to shoot at, hills to explore. Great fun.
I don't know if it truly counts as a demo because I can't remember it having any typical demo limitations, but since it came on the Games disc that shipped with the Gateway deskop we bought in 1998 I'll mention it as well. Monster Truck Madness 2 by Microsoft Game Studios took a lot of my time up as well.
L4D1's demo also comes to mind, ten years or so later. Probably the most recent demo I've ever played. These days, between demos themselves being a relic of yesteryear and my chronic disinterest in pretty much everything getting released these days, I haven't touched a demo since then.
PBPX 95008 Demo One, the best playstation demo disc on the planet.
You've got:
Medievil
Crash Bandicoot 3
Spyro
Tomb Raider 3
Gran Turismo
Tekken 3
Tombi
And two games that are comparatively meh:
Kula World
Bust a Groove
With so many good demos in one disc, this disc was more valuable than a full game
Stubbs the Zombie
I remember playing the PS2 Lego Star Wars 2 demo a lot, it was a part of a single-CD demo compilation. Does anyone know what CD I'm talking about? I ended up buying that game and I spent a ton of time playing it with my brother. Those are quite fond memories, I must say.
medievil and timesplitters 2, ts2 was the first game i can remember being hyped for.
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