Pizza Hut Demo Disc was a big impacter on a very young me. I would regularly acquire these discs because I was very poor and only could acquire actual new games at Christmas. My mom was crafty though and traded some drugs and my old Sega for a stolen PS1. Stolen from a Walmart truck, not a person. Good times.
Bro nakeyjakey’s video on Pizza Hut demo discs lives in my head rent free I did have cable tv and a mall nearby but having Pizza Hut on a Friday night with some ps1 demos was epic sadly that era is long gone.
I don't know why, but this just makes my heart so warm. There's something so beautiful about a mother selling drugs to get her kid a PS1 and not her own fix.
Used to regularly get the Official PlayStation Magazine in the UK, but what stood out to me most over time were the Net Yaroze games you'd sometimes see. it blew my mind that bedroom coders could make games for the system, albeit games with a bunch of compromises like no CD access so the entire game had to fit in RAM. Was definitely a cool time for demos!
PS1 demo discs having their own individual personalities is one of the reasons why the PS1 is my favorite console. In an era where new games came maybe 2x a year they were treasured items for a kid and got a lot of mileage. Probably played the Syphon Filter demo on the Toys R Us disc the most. I'm slowly working on a full collection, so far I've completed the US OPM set (112). Wish I had cut myself off and not go for the PS2 discs
We had it all brother. I miss the old days. The Resident Evil 2 demo, the RE3 Demo and there were so many. I wish we still had GameShark an stuff like that too.
That first pizza hut demo stands out to me. My friends older brother had a PS and one of my first experiences with it was the MGS demo. When he wasn't around we would totally execute our own stealth mission and try to play without him knowing.
I remember PC magazine demo discs too. Not just demos and trailers but patches, applications, mods, Unreal Tournament levels, wallpapers... some were DVDs and had thousands of items on them. Pretty essential back then on a 56 connection.
I was definitely more of a console gamer at the time, but PC Gamer magazine had some awesome demo discs. I still remember playing games like Diablo, Daggerfall, and Mech Warrior 2 on some of those discs. Such great memories.
Interactive Sampler CD 6 is actually one my cousin had and I remember playing Crash 2 on it and it made me ask for a PS1 for Christmas. When my parents finally bought it, we had Interactive Sampler CD 7, which had Blasto, Tomb Raider 2, Einhander, Gex 2, Tekken 3, and Tomba. That was a really fun time. I eventually did get Crash 2 a couple of years later after getting CTR first. To this day, Crash 2 is my favorite. So much so that I even play it in Japanese. It's not that much different, but it gives me an excuse to play it twice a year. Thanks for taking me down memory lane!
You helped me find the specific demo disk I've been looking years for! We got the Interactive Sampler Vol 4 with our Playstation for Christmas 97. Thank you! Definitely liked and subbed.
In PAL region we had some good ones too. Still remember old Demo Disc 1 with Tekken 1 ( not even a demo just a video of one match) and tech demo of T-Rex. One of my favs was Demo for Medievil (whitch were few that had different atages or even a boss fight) and Nightmare Creatures.
For me the greatest of all time is 'Demo1'. 🤩The one that came packed in with the console and had demo's of tekken and crash bandicoot and you could play around with the Dinosaur 🦖and Manta Ray🐟
My uncle is a big gamer and was at the time of the ps1 we got all the demo discs from him I remember playing a bunch of games through demos good memories
I remember that my school year group was once taken on a trip to Pizza Hut and we all got a PS1 demo disc. It was the best school trip ever. From your video, I would assume that it was the 1998 disc because I remember having demos of MediEvil and I don't remember the demos on the 1999 discs. I also had 'a' Gran Turismo and 'a' Tomb Raider game, but I didn't remember which which number in the series they. The funny thing is, if it was the 1998 disc, it meant I held onto the disc for a year hoping my parents would eventually get me a PS1. I'd been asking for several years, but they didn't get me one until 1999. Other demo games I remember having were: Spyro the Dragon (I played the main hub world to death), Tombi, Kula World, and Tekken 3. It's funny how memory plays tricks on you because Eddy and Xiaoyu are my favourite Tekken characters, and I just realised now that that's because they were the only two characters on the demo, so the only characters I'd played for years! 😅
Here in the EU/UK we didn't get the sampler discs with our PS1, we got Demo One discs which had different style and IIRC there were 6 versions of them.
PS1 magazine demo discs were pretty much 'third-gen' by that point. In the UK, we had magazine demo cassettes for the 8-bit micros (ZX Spectrum, C64, Amstrad etc.), and then demo discs (floppies) for the 16-bit Amiga and Atari ST.
We got a new neighbour when I was a kid. Really nice dude who became friends with my parents and one day gave me a box with 30+ demo discs for my (for me) new PlayStation. Awesome memory and helped me so much deciding on which games to spend my allowance and garden work money.
This was what made a 4/5 year old me mindblown and I begged for a PlayStation. I got a PSone for Christmas in 2000. Interactive CD Sampler Pack Volume 9 A demo disk packaged with the PlayStation console in January 1999. It contains the following playable game demos: - Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped (titled 'Crash Bandicoot Warped') - MediEvil - Spyro the Dragon - Gran Turismo - A Bug's Life - Cool Boarders 3 - NFL GameDay '99 - Rally Cross 2 - Tomb Raider 3 - Wild 9 - Bust-A-Move 4 - Metal Gear Solid - NHL Face Off '99 - Brave Fencer Musashi It contains the following game videos: - Twisted Metal 3 - Rugrats
Super minor detail and fun fact: OPM actually transitioned into the PS2 demo discs. For a few months, they would include a PS1 disc in one issue, then a PS2 disc in the next, then back to PS1 the month after that, and so on. I think it continued like that for about 5 or 6 months until it was exclusively PS2 demo discs after that. I remember because I was a crazy huge fan of the magazine and those demo discs. I had a couple of games, but tons of demos lol
I remember getting a demo disc that had the full version of one of the re on ps1 in the 90s. But you only got 2 hours game play each time. Me and my brother were speed running that before speed running was even a thing. Was a challenge, but was just about possible
The demo disk era was awesome because it fit the cultural zeitgeist at the time Rock and metal Music magazines came with disks showcasing new songs by all the bands that got albums reviewed in that respective issue CD samplers for more EDM/techno/house-ccentric music producer/DJ rags infiltrated many a new to the club scene selectors Even the erm…more ‘cultured gentlemen’ top shelfers came with VHS tapes and later on DVD’s😅 Everything was tangible The magazines were weighty, every review was a spread, the editors understood the overall culture of the mid to late 90’s demographic and how they heavily crossed over. At risk of sounding like a cantankerous 40 year old This really was the era to end all eras in terms of how people got a bang for their buck with their media catalog Stone cold was stunnering everything with fingernails Rap music and alternative music finally began to coexist (with varying degrees of success) You could have as much fun staying in on a Friday night as you could going missing over the weekend Puff was still illegal but it was an acceptable social past time behind closed doors with a takeaway, a korn record, Sonys grey box and pals to play on it with If you was there You miss it every now and then 🤘🏻 And those demo disks where the hype man for every incoming birthday, Christmas and paper round pay day for years
My father brought every copy of the official PlayStation Magazine from issue 1. As a result, he had a lot of demo discs that I got after he was done with them. At one point, I think I had more demo discs than actual games. The UK demos had some really cool menu systems with some great music.
I also got interactive disc 6! I'll never forget Bloody Roar and Parappa from that set. Could not figure out Parappa for the life of me (have since beaten it multiple times) and the novelty of transforming your character in Bloody Roar blew my mind.
Interactive no 9 was my favorite. I remember me and my friend would play it so much as if it was a full game. Especially the MGS demo. Wish I could have gotten the Pizza Hut ones but they didn’t deliver to the hood lol. But demo discs saved me a lot of boredom since we didn’t have much money when I was a kid
Hi! Just a few corrections, specifically regarding the OPM demos. I own a majority of them physically. There ARE 52 OPM demo discs in total, from the magazine's inception to it's end, BUT there are NOT 52 PS1 demos! Before and after the release of the PS2, they began to transition their demo discs from featuring PS1 games to PS2 games, and around the time they reached 50 (Specific numbers below), the games featured were all for the PS2! Every disc made past that was for the PS2 exclusively. So, the actual number of OPM Playstation ONE demos is 49! Also, your estimate of some demos featuring as little as two demos per disc at times is very wrong- each disc had AT LEAST 4+ demos, and they also featured many video trailers and gameplay demo videos, too! (Plus one disc that has an anti-smoking ad on it, One that has trailers for some final fantasy movie... stuff like that.) I'll share more data below about the OPM discs that were made, I got all this info from google in just a few minutes, so it's disappointing to see something so simple to find misrepresented here. It's a small gripe, but I think presenting accurate info is very important!! (ALL OF THIS DATA IS CENTRIC TO THE U.S. OPM MAGAZINE DEMOS, THIS DOES NOT APPLY FOR OTHER REGIONS) OPM published a total of 112 demos in its time, consisting of PS1 and PS2 games! (Although the magazine did live on around the PS3, PS3 demos were not made. It was a different time! That's partially why OPM died out, too, but that's a whole other thing.) The total amount of PS1 demo discs was 49, while the other 63 were for the PS2! I'd also just like to point out some more fun information about them. They had unique themes every year, and the intros showed a continuous "storyline" between each menu! (nothing too deep, just used like.. the same flying car. Except some of them didn't. It was weird and cool.) I'm not sure if that storyline continued into the PS2 discs, but it's just a cool detail... As I said before, each disc had PLAYABLE and NON-PLAYABLE demos, and I don't believe they ever had less than four playable demos on each, unless I'm misremembering. But, even the more unique discs that put more focus onto the videos had plenty of playable things, too. Also, lots of the playable demos were repeated across multiple discs, just at different stages in development/with different demos. Metal Gear Solid has quite a few playable and non-playable ones and it's really interesting to see how the game and how it was presented changed over a few years, before and after release!! I would highly recommend taking a peek at the OPM demos and other PS1 demos yourself, either thru emulation or videos or by buying them urselfff... The OPM discs are fairly cheap, they just don't pop up online a lot. I got mine in a big binder full of them, minus a few that I still need to find, so if you ever see a big bundle for sale, definitely grab it!! They're a super cool and important piece of history : ) I appreciate that you made a video on them even though I'm sort of peeved about the shoddy research.
OPM, PSU, Underground Jampack, Pizza Hut, the samplers that came with the console and the Toys R Us demo discs were the primary way I got to experience games. I had a small stack of games but spent more time on those demos.
Got fond memories of one of those demo discs. Might be mixing 2 up as it has been 25/26 years but it had Rival School, Klonoa, This game where you played as a beach ball navigating platforms and a pool game. This was a UK magazine/disc so doubtful the same was available in other regions.
Man, the amount of money I spent on those sealed thick video game magazines JUST so I could play the demo discs. lol. They definitely inflated the price of them knowing they'd sell.
Playstation Demo discs also had a huge inpact on me. I only had 2 and cant remember all games but I know they had a lasting impact. Ill list what I remember, if anyone can point their actual name to me, would be nice: Disc A: -Menu: it was some sort of Space or Underwater (one of these tw), you were cycling though some Spheres that represented a game. Games I remember: -Tekken 3 (could play only with Xiaoyu abd Eddy) -Spyro 1(the first overwolrd and I think it may also have level 1) -Medevil (level 1 i think) -Tomba Disc B: -The 3D Isometric Final Fantasy Fighting Game) -Street Fither Alpha (dont know the number, the one with Final Fight character that has swords)
I wish I could find a copy of that FF fighting game. The first disc you mention sounds quite similar to one of the Best Buy demo discs, but I'd have to find my game box and pull them out to check.
Awesome video thanks. I don't recall exactly which it was, but there was a demo disc that had road and track presents the need for speed. It's still my favorite need for speed to this day. I was so blown away by it.
As a kid growing up in the late 2000s/early 2010s i mostly downloaded demos but i had a few demo discs from the xbox magazine that they still had in a grocery store magazine stand I think the last one i got was from 2011 and it was issue 124 the game was wwe all stars
Just checked my shelf and it seems i have PlayStation Underground Vol Number 2, with ff7, bushido blade, saga frontier, ff tactics and other content, such a packed disk.
I'm biased, but I really loved Interactive CD Sampler 7, and I probably played Tomba! and Gran Turismo too many times, lol. Got that with my PS1 in 1998, along with my copy of Parasite Eve. That game also had a sampler disc, albeit limited to 1 demo and 3 videos, but I played that Xenogears demo so many times. I eventually found a copy of the game in a pawn shop a year later, and scooped it up so quickly.
Man, I wish the game industry would get back to that 00's era vibe. When mag's had creative demo discs. Where they dove into game development as well. I miss seeing the behind the scenes stuff, seeing the devs process of putting ideas together & finding out what works & what doesn't through an active play testing process. I think it would be beneficial if we got to see glimpses of gameplay more and cut it out with all of this "radio silence route" that game companies now do. It feels like they're creating a sorta reverse psychology effect around games because they just are not approaching how to handle these long spaces in between games. The entire game industry needs to find better ways to approach & do these things. It will benefit gaming as a whole. The companies & the customers will be in a better place. If they want to keep making $$$ they gotta improve things.
I got a demo disc with Spyro 1 on it at the checkout at Best Buy, and that convinced me to buy Spyro next. I even went back and played it a few times after I got the game to compare and contrast what changes they made. I borrowed a demo disc from a friend at school that had FF8. If I remember correctly, it went as far as the fight against the giant mechanical crab. Probably contributed to my dislike of the Rust mascot. I still say FFT is the best FF from that generation, and I completely agree with just starting over whenever with any game because if it's fun, why not. Although, I definitely had more demos for PC games from that time and even burned remix CD's that had just my favorites that I installed on the school computers. Those were awesome times.
Playstation magazine was great , my older cousin would always get the newest issue just for the demo disc. Walking with him to our local Albertsons and the anticipation of waiting to pop in the newest demo made some of my favorite childhood memories 🔥💯🤘
Shame you didn't talk more about the menus of the demo disc as they were all unique and some of them went hard on the presentation. And each magazine had its own style of menus. I grew up with the UK PS magazine and its euro demo disc which has a different style than its USA counterpart.
I've been looking for a Japanese Sword fighting demo game for ps1 for years on end and i still can't find it. Hopefully I'll play it again one day. Love the demo discs 👍 I remember playing Jet Moto demo over and over again with Bon Jovi on the stereo
I think I still have our Demo Disc 1 from when the PS1 first came out. It was a launch day console I think. I should look into digitally collecting these. It would be fun to add to the library
I used to play the heck out of the demo discs when I was 9 years old. I liked the one that had like 14 Net Yaroze games (yes, the same disc that has Metal Gear Solid demo on it). 52 and 54 were my favs because of Spyro 2, Toy Story 2 and Worms Armageddon alone. I wanted Spyro 2 and Toy Story 2 so bad that my parents offered me a pirated copy of it instead, yes the ones with the cracktros.
I still have my original demo discs on ps1 and plenty I have on ps2 due to buying gaming magazine's back than, and others i got for free in buying stuff like pizza hut, also foods it would come with a free ps1 demo discs. My holy grail of demo disc I have for me is the demo discs I got from Sony when you brought a new ps1 ps2 console, you would send your details address and they would send you a special limited edition demo disc, I still have them with the Sony thank you letter.
Final Fantasy 8 was my first FF as well, and I discovered it when I got Brave Fencer Musashi, it included a demo disk for it and it made me a proper FF fan (:
I remember a soul Calibur demo with 3 characters. You could fight 2 players and me and my friend played it all night. Trying different characters and stuff. Such a fun night and we payed nothing for the demo because we took it from a magazine at Walmart. Lol
Demo discs are a lost art these days. I had many from the PSU and OPM and interactive samplers. Hope to see you showcase demo discs for other platforms, like XBox, Dreamcast and sometimes Nintendo as well.
I actually did stream every OPM and PlayStation Underground Disc on Twitch recently. :D LOVE my demo discs! There actually was ONE PS Underground Disc for the PS2 labelled Issue 5.1. Afterward, though, the OPM discs felt more like Underground discs so they probably didn't feel like they needed to do the separate thing anymore.
@@themexicanwolverine Thanks for the name, I've played most of the popular shooters, Ikaruga, Radiant Silvergun, and all Dreamcast shooters, never came across this game even tho it came out on PAL which is rare, also this was made by Taito, I've played a few games from them on the ps1 and ps2 era like Puzzle Boble, going to to play this.
its so sad how everything is fucking copyright nowadays so much media and other stuff that doesn't get shown are just lost because of copyright laws that are complete bullshit. My favorite Demo disc was interactive demo disc 3 i believe it had crash bandicoot,twitsted metal,bushido blade,tomb raider, ridge racer, and 2Xtreme. i think Demos are very important and they should be mandetory especially in todays industry way to many broken games being released without the proper testing. Great Video made me very Nostalgic and well made look forward to what you do next :)
You don't have to reset ps1with paying demos, all you have to do is press all shoulder buttons and start + select at the same time and you will be taken back to the menu ❤ same with all resident evil games cos they don't have a quit game option.
Feel sad for todays gamers. Still have about 40 demodiscs available for my Psone. Play on it daily. Pop in the disc. Takes 3 min ATMOST then youre playing. No fking downloads, patches or broken shit. Im so glad i stopped with xbone.
This video is ruined by the horrendous upscaled video. If you're doing a retrospective video about older games. Show them in their native resolution or at least 1x res if you're using an emulator. There's nothing nostalgic about this video
i got a ps1 as a teen and was poor did not get a lot of game's i would ask m buddy's to lone me games demo's was my go to i had a stack i would take them out of the mags at borders/ the mall & 711 to lol now i own every game i can get my hands on lol pizza hut was my fav !!!!!!!!
Pizza Hut Demo Disc was a big impacter on a very young me. I would regularly acquire these discs because I was very poor and only could acquire actual new games at Christmas. My mom was crafty though and traded some drugs and my old Sega for a stolen PS1. Stolen from a Walmart truck, not a person. Good times.
Bro nakeyjakey’s video on Pizza Hut demo discs lives in my head rent free I did have cable tv and a mall nearby but having Pizza Hut on a Friday night with some ps1 demos was epic sadly that era is long gone.
I don't know why, but this just makes my heart so warm.
There's something so beautiful about a mother selling drugs to get her kid a PS1 and not her own fix.
Your mom ruined several lives for videogames
I would play the demo discs still even though I owned all the games on them
Used to regularly get the Official PlayStation Magazine in the UK, but what stood out to me most over time were the Net Yaroze games you'd sometimes see. it blew my mind that bedroom coders could make games for the system, albeit games with a bunch of compromises like no CD access so the entire game had to fit in RAM. Was definitely a cool time for demos!
Disc 42 had all of them, rocks N gems was always my favourite Yaroze game
@@2097xl Need to take another look at that, and some others! The one I think I played most was Opera Of Destruction.
That was my first thought too. It was my first introduction to indie games and I still remember some of the yaroze games!
PS1 demo discs having their own individual personalities is one of the reasons why the PS1 is my favorite console. In an era where new games came maybe 2x a year they were treasured items for a kid and got a lot of mileage. Probably played the Syphon Filter demo on the Toys R Us disc the most.
I'm slowly working on a full collection, so far I've completed the US OPM set (112). Wish I had cut myself off and not go for the PS2 discs
We used to pour more hours into Playstation demo disc than actual AAA games being made these days.
We had it all brother. I miss the old days. The Resident Evil 2 demo, the RE3 Demo and there were so many. I wish we still had GameShark an stuff like that too.
That Legend of Dragoon demo was my first PS1 demo I ever played. That was in the creek blew my mind as a kid.
I got a PS1 demo disc which contained "Z: Sooty Bolts" and played it over and over until the disc stopped working.
I don't remember what video it was that you popped up in my feed, but im loving the topics in your videos and presentation. Good shit man
That first pizza hut demo stands out to me. My friends older brother had a PS and one of my first experiences with it was the MGS demo. When he wasn't around we would totally execute our own stealth mission and try to play without him knowing.
My favorite disc was pizza hut 1. metal gear solid, gran Turismo, crash 3, tomb raider 3, medieval. Whaat an absolute masterpiece
I remember PC magazine demo discs too. Not just demos and trailers but patches, applications, mods, Unreal Tournament levels, wallpapers... some were DVDs and had thousands of items on them. Pretty essential back then on a 56 connection.
I was definitely more of a console gamer at the time, but PC Gamer magazine had some awesome demo discs. I still remember playing games like Diablo, Daggerfall, and Mech Warrior 2 on some of those discs. Such great memories.
Interactive Sampler CD 6 is actually one my cousin had and I remember playing Crash 2 on it and it made me ask for a PS1 for Christmas. When my parents finally bought it, we had Interactive Sampler CD 7, which had Blasto, Tomb Raider 2, Einhander, Gex 2, Tekken 3, and Tomba. That was a really fun time. I eventually did get Crash 2 a couple of years later after getting CTR first. To this day, Crash 2 is my favorite. So much so that I even play it in Japanese. It's not that much different, but it gives me an excuse to play it twice a year. Thanks for taking me down memory lane!
You helped me find the specific demo disk I've been looking years for! We got the Interactive Sampler Vol 4 with our Playstation for Christmas 97. Thank you! Definitely liked and subbed.
In PAL region we had some good ones too. Still remember old Demo Disc 1 with Tekken 1 ( not even a demo just a video of one match) and tech demo of T-Rex. One of my favs was Demo for Medievil (whitch were few that had different atages or even a boss fight) and Nightmare Creatures.
I have Vol.8. with my system. It was great. Had nearly all the ones on Vol.9.
For me the greatest of all time is 'Demo1'. 🤩The one that came packed in with the console and had demo's of tekken and crash bandicoot and you could play around with the Dinosaur 🦖and Manta Ray🐟
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My uncle is a big gamer and was at the time of the ps1 we got all the demo discs from him I remember playing a bunch of games through demos good memories
The last CD sampler released for the PSone had the best music and UI, it felt like a proper sendoff to such a legendary console.
I miss gamesharks and cheats in general. They were a good way to have fun once you've completed the game.
I remember that my school year group was once taken on a trip to Pizza Hut and we all got a PS1 demo disc. It was the best school trip ever. From your video, I would assume that it was the 1998 disc because I remember having demos of MediEvil and I don't remember the demos on the 1999 discs. I also had 'a' Gran Turismo and 'a' Tomb Raider game, but I didn't remember which which number in the series they. The funny thing is, if it was the 1998 disc, it meant I held onto the disc for a year hoping my parents would eventually get me a PS1. I'd been asking for several years, but they didn't get me one until 1999. Other demo games I remember having were: Spyro the Dragon (I played the main hub world to death), Tombi, Kula World, and Tekken 3. It's funny how memory plays tricks on you because Eddy and Xiaoyu are my favourite Tekken characters, and I just realised now that that's because they were the only two characters on the demo, so the only characters I'd played for years! 😅
Here in the EU/UK we didn't get the sampler discs with our PS1, we got Demo One discs which had different style and IIRC there were 6 versions of them.
PS1 magazine demo discs were pretty much 'third-gen' by that point. In the UK, we had magazine demo cassettes for the 8-bit micros (ZX Spectrum, C64, Amstrad etc.), and then demo discs (floppies) for the 16-bit Amiga and Atari ST.
We got a new neighbour when I was a kid. Really nice dude who became friends with my parents and one day gave me a box with 30+ demo discs for my (for me) new PlayStation. Awesome memory and helped me so much deciding on which games to spend my allowance and garden work money.
This was what made a 4/5 year old me mindblown and I begged for a PlayStation. I got a PSone for Christmas in 2000.
Interactive CD Sampler Pack Volume 9
A demo disk packaged with the PlayStation console in January 1999. It contains the following playable game demos:
- Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped (titled 'Crash Bandicoot Warped')
- MediEvil
- Spyro the Dragon
- Gran Turismo
- A Bug's Life
- Cool Boarders 3
- NFL GameDay '99
- Rally Cross 2
- Tomb Raider 3
- Wild 9
- Bust-A-Move 4
- Metal Gear Solid
- NHL Face Off '99
- Brave Fencer Musashi
It contains the following game videos:
- Twisted Metal 3
- Rugrats
Super minor detail and fun fact: OPM actually transitioned into the PS2 demo discs. For a few months, they would include a PS1 disc in one issue, then a PS2 disc in the next, then back to PS1 the month after that, and so on. I think it continued like that for about 5 or 6 months until it was exclusively PS2 demo discs after that. I remember because I was a crazy huge fan of the magazine and those demo discs. I had a couple of games, but tons of demos lol
I remember getting a demo disc that had the full version of one of the re on ps1 in the 90s. But you only got 2 hours game play each time. Me and my brother were speed running that before speed running was even a thing. Was a challenge, but was just about possible
The demo disk era was awesome because it fit the cultural zeitgeist at the time
Rock and metal Music magazines came with disks showcasing new songs by all the bands that got albums reviewed in that respective issue
CD samplers for more EDM/techno/house-ccentric music producer/DJ rags infiltrated many a new to the club scene selectors
Even the erm…more ‘cultured gentlemen’ top shelfers came with VHS tapes and later on DVD’s😅
Everything was tangible
The magazines were weighty, every review was a spread, the editors understood the overall culture of the mid to late 90’s demographic and how they heavily crossed over.
At risk of sounding like a cantankerous 40 year old
This really was the era to end all eras in terms of how people got a bang for their buck with their media catalog
Stone cold was stunnering everything with fingernails
Rap music and alternative music finally began to coexist (with varying degrees of success)
You could have as much fun staying in on a Friday night as you could going missing over the weekend
Puff was still illegal but it was an acceptable social past time behind closed doors with a takeaway, a korn record, Sonys grey box and pals to play on it with
If you was there
You miss it every now and then 🤘🏻
And those demo disks where the hype man for every incoming birthday, Christmas and paper round pay day for years
My father brought every copy of the official PlayStation Magazine from issue 1. As a result, he had a lot of demo discs that I got after he was done with them. At one point, I think I had more demo discs than actual games.
The UK demos had some really cool menu systems with some great music.
Your dad sounds cool dude
UK OPM demo discs often had psytrance as BGM, which was a very niche music genre in the UK at the time
When I got PS1 in 1995, and I had an awesome demo disc in it
Demo discs existed outside the USA and outside NTSC
I also got interactive disc 6! I'll never forget Bloody Roar and Parappa from that set. Could not figure out Parappa for the life of me (have since beaten it multiple times) and the novelty of transforming your character in Bloody Roar blew my mind.
Interactive no 9 was my favorite. I remember me and my friend would play it so much as if it was a full game. Especially the MGS demo. Wish I could have gotten the Pizza Hut ones but they didn’t deliver to the hood lol. But demo discs saved me a lot of boredom since we didn’t have much money when I was a kid
Hi! Just a few corrections, specifically regarding the OPM demos.
I own a majority of them physically. There ARE 52 OPM demo discs in total, from the magazine's inception to it's end, BUT there are NOT 52 PS1 demos! Before and after the release of the PS2, they began to transition their demo discs from featuring PS1 games to PS2 games, and around the time they reached 50 (Specific numbers below), the games featured were all for the PS2! Every disc made past that was for the PS2 exclusively. So, the actual number of OPM Playstation ONE demos is 49! Also, your estimate of some demos featuring as little as two demos per disc at times is very wrong- each disc had AT LEAST 4+ demos, and they also featured many video trailers and gameplay demo videos, too! (Plus one disc that has an anti-smoking ad on it, One that has trailers for some final fantasy movie... stuff like that.) I'll share more data below about the OPM discs that were made, I got all this info from google in just a few minutes, so it's disappointing to see something so simple to find misrepresented here. It's a small gripe, but I think presenting accurate info is very important!! (ALL OF THIS DATA IS CENTRIC TO THE U.S. OPM MAGAZINE DEMOS, THIS DOES NOT APPLY FOR OTHER REGIONS)
OPM published a total of 112 demos in its time, consisting of PS1 and PS2 games! (Although the magazine did live on around the PS3, PS3 demos were not made. It was a different time! That's partially why OPM died out, too, but that's a whole other thing.)
The total amount of PS1 demo discs was 49, while the other 63 were for the PS2!
I'd also just like to point out some more fun information about them. They had unique themes every year, and the intros showed a continuous "storyline" between each menu! (nothing too deep, just used like.. the same flying car. Except some of them didn't. It was weird and cool.) I'm not sure if that storyline continued into the PS2 discs, but it's just a cool detail... As I said before, each disc had PLAYABLE and NON-PLAYABLE demos, and I don't believe they ever had less than four playable demos on each, unless I'm misremembering. But, even the more unique discs that put more focus onto the videos had plenty of playable things, too. Also, lots of the playable demos were repeated across multiple discs, just at different stages in development/with different demos. Metal Gear Solid has quite a few playable and non-playable ones and it's really interesting to see how the game and how it was presented changed over a few years, before and after release!! I would highly recommend taking a peek at the OPM demos and other PS1 demos yourself, either thru emulation or videos or by buying them urselfff... The OPM discs are fairly cheap, they just don't pop up online a lot. I got mine in a big binder full of them, minus a few that I still need to find, so if you ever see a big bundle for sale, definitely grab it!! They're a super cool and important piece of history : ) I appreciate that you made a video on them even though I'm sort of peeved about the shoddy research.
man i used to have sampler 9 back when i got my first ps1 in august of 99 man the memories what a solid disc
OPM, PSU, Underground Jampack, Pizza Hut, the samplers that came with the console and the Toys R Us demo discs were the primary way I got to experience games. I had a small stack of games but spent more time on those demos.
Got fond memories of one of those demo discs. Might be mixing 2 up as it has been 25/26 years but it had Rival School, Klonoa, This game where you played as a beach ball navigating platforms and a pool game. This was a UK magazine/disc so doubtful the same was available in other regions.
I used to have so many of these discs. Now i only have a few left i wonder where they all went
Man, the amount of money I spent on those sealed thick video game magazines JUST so I could play the demo discs. lol. They definitely inflated the price of them knowing they'd sell.
Playstation Demo discs also had a huge inpact on me.
I only had 2 and cant remember all games but I know they had a lasting impact. Ill list what I remember, if anyone can point their actual name to me, would be nice:
Disc A:
-Menu: it was some sort of Space or Underwater (one of these tw), you were cycling though some Spheres that represented a game.
Games I remember:
-Tekken 3 (could play only with Xiaoyu abd Eddy)
-Spyro 1(the first overwolrd and I think it may also have level 1)
-Medevil (level 1 i think)
-Tomba
Disc B:
-The 3D Isometric Final Fantasy Fighting Game)
-Street Fither Alpha (dont know the number, the one with Final Fight character that has swords)
I wish I could find a copy of that FF fighting game. The first disc you mention sounds quite similar to one of the Best Buy demo discs, but I'd have to find my game box and pull them out to check.
Disc A sounds like Demo One version 7
Awesome video thanks. I don't recall exactly which it was, but there was a demo disc that had road and track presents the need for speed. It's still my favorite need for speed to this day. I was so blown away by it.
As a kid growing up in the late 2000s/early 2010s i mostly downloaded demos but i had a few demo discs from the xbox magazine that they still had in a grocery store magazine stand
I think the last one i got was from 2011 and it was issue 124 the game was wwe all stars
Just checked my shelf and it seems i have PlayStation Underground Vol Number 2, with ff7, bushido blade, saga frontier, ff tactics and other content, such a packed disk.
I'm biased, but I really loved Interactive CD Sampler 7, and I probably played Tomba! and Gran Turismo too many times, lol. Got that with my PS1 in 1998, along with my copy of Parasite Eve. That game also had a sampler disc, albeit limited to 1 demo and 3 videos, but I played that Xenogears demo so many times. I eventually found a copy of the game in a pawn shop a year later, and scooped it up so quickly.
Hey great video man, I’m sure you’ll blow up sometime, just gotta keep up the work !
Man, I wish the game industry would get back to that 00's era vibe. When mag's had creative demo discs. Where they dove into game development as well. I miss seeing the behind the scenes stuff, seeing the devs process of putting ideas together & finding out what works & what doesn't through an active play testing process. I think it would be beneficial if we got to see glimpses of gameplay more and cut it out with all of this "radio silence route" that game companies now do. It feels like they're creating a sorta reverse psychology effect around games because they just are not approaching how to handle these long spaces in between games. The entire game industry needs to find better ways to approach & do these things. It will benefit gaming as a whole. The companies & the customers will be in a better place. If they want to keep making $$$ they gotta improve things.
I got a demo disc with Spyro 1 on it at the checkout at Best Buy, and that convinced me to buy Spyro next. I even went back and played it a few times after I got the game to compare and contrast what changes they made. I borrowed a demo disc from a friend at school that had FF8. If I remember correctly, it went as far as the fight against the giant mechanical crab. Probably contributed to my dislike of the Rust mascot. I still say FFT is the best FF from that generation, and I completely agree with just starting over whenever with any game because if it's fun, why not. Although, I definitely had more demos for PC games from that time and even burned remix CD's that had just my favorites that I installed on the school computers. Those were awesome times.
Playstation magazine was great , my older cousin would always get the newest issue just for the demo disc. Walking with him to our local Albertsons and the anticipation of waiting to pop in the newest demo made some of my favorite childhood memories 🔥💯🤘
Shame you didn't talk more about the menus of the demo disc as they were all unique and some of them went hard on the presentation.
And each magazine had its own style of menus.
I grew up with the UK PS magazine and its euro demo disc which has a different style than its USA counterpart.
Wonder how the UK official Playstation magazine and official Xbox magazine demo discs compare.
Or if they're even any different.
I still got Demo One 😊
Is Demo 1, the one with battle arena toshiden, Tekken, ridge racer and kileak the DNA Imperative?
I've been looking for a Japanese Sword fighting demo game for ps1 for years on end and i still can't find it. Hopefully I'll play it again one day. Love the demo discs 👍 I remember playing Jet Moto demo over and over again with Bon Jovi on the stereo
Is the game you're thinking of Bushido Blade? That's an awesome game.
@@GreyMatterShades I don't think so. But I'm going to check it out. Thanks!!!
@@josh2838almost certainly will have been Bushido Blade (or Bushido Blade 2!) but could also have been Tenchu: Stealth Assassins?
I think I still have our Demo Disc 1 from when the PS1 first came out. It was a launch day console I think. I should look into digitally collecting these. It would be fun to add to the library
In Europe we had a whole slew of Demo One discs, i'm amazed these were not known in America, were really good demo discs
I thought I recognized this voice immediately subscribed. Thank you for all your content.
I used to play the heck out of the demo discs when I was 9 years old. I liked the one that had like 14 Net Yaroze games (yes, the same disc that has Metal Gear Solid demo on it). 52 and 54 were my favs because of Spyro 2, Toy Story 2 and Worms Armageddon alone. I wanted Spyro 2 and Toy Story 2 so bad that my parents offered me a pirated copy of it instead, yes the ones with the cracktros.
I still have my original demo discs on ps1 and plenty I have on ps2 due to buying gaming magazine's back than, and others i got for free in buying stuff like pizza hut, also foods it would come with a free ps1 demo discs. My holy grail of demo disc I have for me is the demo discs I got from Sony when you brought a new ps1 ps2 console, you would send your details address and they would send you a special limited edition demo disc, I still have them with the Sony thank you letter.
i played the shit outta the Tony Hawk Proskater demo
Skelos Badlands is my favorite Spyro level just because I played the demo so much
Final Fantasy 8 was my first FF as well, and I discovered it when I got Brave Fencer Musashi, it included a demo disk for it and it made me a proper FF fan (:
I remember a soul Calibur demo with 3 characters. You could fight 2 players and me and my friend played it all night. Trying different characters and stuff. Such a fun night and we payed nothing for the demo because we took it from a magazine at Walmart. Lol
Demo discs are a lost art these days. I had many from the PSU and OPM and interactive samplers.
Hope to see you showcase demo discs for other platforms, like XBox, Dreamcast and sometimes Nintendo as well.
I actually did stream every OPM and PlayStation Underground Disc on Twitch recently. :D LOVE my demo discs!
There actually was ONE PS Underground Disc for the PS2 labelled Issue 5.1. Afterward, though, the OPM discs felt more like Underground discs so they probably didn't feel like they needed to do the separate thing anymore.
I used to save my pocket money and buy the PlayStation magazine for the demo. Then after a while i would just steal the demo and buy sweets
I remember a jam pack demo disc that introduced me to Dave Mirra BMX and Sublime
MGS1, Tony Hawk 1, Tomba!, was my favorite demo discs.
Does the DMC demo disk that came with metal gear 2 count. I played it about 30 times and just couldn't believe how fun it was.
I’ve downloaded at least 7 demo discs on top of the 200 full versions I liked the presentation of the discs and secrets 😊
Opm and the demo disks were an awesome time to be alive !!!
1:48 what ps1 shooter game is this?
Raystorm
@@themexicanwolverine Thanks for the name, I've played most of the popular shooters, Ikaruga, Radiant Silvergun, and all Dreamcast shooters, never came across this game even tho it came out on PAL which is rare, also this was made by Taito, I've played a few games from them on the ps1 and ps2 era like Puzzle Boble, going to to play this.
its so sad how everything is fucking copyright nowadays so much media and other stuff that doesn't get shown are just lost because of copyright laws that are complete bullshit. My favorite Demo disc was interactive demo disc 3 i believe it had crash bandicoot,twitsted metal,bushido blade,tomb raider, ridge racer, and 2Xtreme. i think Demos are very important and they should be mandetory especially in todays industry way to many broken games being released without the proper testing. Great Video made me very Nostalgic and well made look forward to what you do next :)
Does anyone remember the dollar tree( or store) sold the die-cast cars with the demo to drive that car in need for speed 2( i believing was #2)?
Jampack. Those were the..jam
The one with mat hoffmans BMX demo
You don't have to reset ps1with paying demos, all you have to do is press all shoulder buttons and start + select at the same time and you will be taken back to the menu ❤ same with all resident evil games cos they don't have a quit game option.
I remembered bloody roar 2 and tekken 3 demo run smoother than the release.
If Pizza Hut put a demo disc of PS1 games with their pizzas now, it would actually be better than the pizza.
To this day the best thing on a demo disk was the tiny tank intro "Tinky tanky clinky clanky what the *BEEP* is that?!"
FF8 was my first FF too:)
PlayStation1 is magic games era. Still have 700 ps1 games
Tomba! I think was my first PS1 demo disc I played
Thank you
I think the last Metal Gear Solid demo on the OPM discs $49 I think, was actually in japanese. Think they put the wrong demo on there, lol
The demo disc era was pretty special and exciting. Gaming today blows compared to the 90s, even if the games look more impressive visually
The NetYaroze games were the coolest stuff.
I played the MGS and Resi 2 demos to death.
I played so much Tony Hawk off of the Pizza Hut demo disc. 😊
PlayStation Magazine with the MGS3 Demo.
I still have 3 of the 4 McDonald's ps1 demo disks (UK)
The best demo was the one that erased your memory card!
I have interactive cd vol 4 and 9
13:22 cracked me up
i have about 7 of them the toys rus one too
Obviously its FF7 and Tobal #1
Feel sad for todays gamers. Still have about 40 demodiscs available for my Psone. Play on it daily. Pop in the disc. Takes 3 min ATMOST then youre playing. No fking downloads, patches or broken shit. Im so glad i stopped with xbone.
best Dreamcast Demo Disc??^^
How old are you? You sound young.
What's up with UA-cam lately? I get a commercial every 2 min.
This video is ruined by the horrendous upscaled video. If you're doing a retrospective video about older games. Show them in their native resolution or at least 1x res if you're using an emulator. There's nothing nostalgic about this video
6:11 what game is that i had that on ps1 and never knew what game it was.
i got a ps1 as a teen and was poor did not get a lot of game's i would ask m buddy's to lone me games demo's was my go to i had a stack i would take them out of the mags at borders/ the mall & 711 to lol now i own every game i can get my hands on lol pizza hut was my fav !!!!!!!!
I had PS Underground Jampack 98 🤌