[General Discussion] More, MOOOOOOORE

What demos have caught you completely off-guard with their powers of awesome-o gameplay and made you want to rush out and play the full thing? Tasting just a sample of a video game is fun, because you don't need to lie to them like the people in Woolworths. "Here have this sample of bread, it's made from grease and seven different types of wood bark!" "Yes, yes, I will seriously purchase a full loaf later on!" Then you drop everything and rush out of the store, never to be seen again.

Hyperblade on PC was a huuuuge one for me. Never heard of it before, time for a mystery demo install! The game was another totally original 'death sport of the future!' type thing but it was SO MUCH FUN. Kinda like hockey, in a curved arena with all sorts of powerups and stuff. You could knock the heads off your opponents and use them to score goals. The demo was a short timed match, but it kept me going for about a million years. After that million years I went out and bought the full thing.


Man, look at those advanced 3D graphics, watch out Stunt Race FX.

Also SSX on PS2. Even though I got the machine at launch, my head had mostly been stuck in the sand leading up to it (because I lacked a metal detector and was looking for treasure at the beach), so I knew nothing of this games greatness. The demo was packed in, and again, a short timed thing. BLOWN AWAY I was. Me and a mate spent nearly a whole night just playing the demo because we're extremely sad. I later got the full game and threw many more nights at it! But now game demos are either attached to magazines that cost nearly as much as the full game itself or they're ten hundred zillion gigamegafloppabytes in size to download. Where are my free demo discs sitting on the counter of EB for me to take many of for the sole purpose of throwing them around? Nowhere, that's where!

Oh, oh. I remember when I was -39 years old, we had this angry beeping 286 computer featuring a stunning monitor that could display orange AND black. It had all sorts of shareware on it, one was Blockout!


Here's what it might have looked like with a real monitor.

I loved Blockout so much. But it'd kick you back out and play a bad version of the James Bond tune after a while, asking to send money to some hobo in America. COULDN'T DO THAT BLOCKOUT, COULDN'T DO THAT. What a depressing screen that was. To this day the thought of a full version of Blockout for a 286 compatible computer haunts me. Or maybe it's just the music.

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