I mean, in 1996, the first issue of PC Gamer I have is September 1996, which has 14 demos on it, plus other stuff like the awesome PCG Underground environment thing, some patches and stuff, etc.Īugust 2002 has four demos and one large mod. but only for the overpriced newsstand version. well, CGW, PC Games, CGSP (later just Computer Games), and CD-ROM Today are all gone now, but while PC Gamer is still there, its downhill slide has continued, and I believe that the subscription version is STILL CD-based. I told myself that I'd consider subscribing again once they moved the demo discs to DVD. I stopped subscribing in '01 because I had cable internet by then, the magazine was going downhill fast, and with the new larger demos CD-based demo discs were increasingly irrelevant - you simply couldn't fit enough demos on them. I loved those discs, it definitely did exactly what the OP said - got me to try games I never would have otherwise. I have about five to six years worth of PC gaming demo discs from 1996-2001, mostly PC Gamer from my four year subscription to the magazine, but also including a few 1996 issues of Computer Games Strategy Plus, CGW, PC Games, and CD-ROM Today, and a 2002 PCG and a 2004 issue of CGW. PC gaming magazines had awesome demo discs in the late '90s.
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