• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    12 hours ago

    You had to pay for the disk it came on; the internet wasn’t publicly available until the year this article was published. Demos for games were typically $5 at retail. You’d also find compilations of demos on a single disk being labeled as “50 games in 1!” even tho they weren’t even full games.

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        10 hours ago

        Like the one this article came from. Man I loved CGW. I was subscribed right up until they ended publication. Unfortunately, my shit-ass family threw my collection out when I was gone 6 months on a cruise ship job. 😡

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          I’ve watched too much Futurama because I first read that as “circuits gone wild”… But it sucks that your family threw away your collection.