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.
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
I have so many fond memories of the Dark Cloud demo. I used to play it over and over, always trying to get as far as possible. The farthest I ever got was rebuilding Dran's windmill and encountering the giant toads. I remember the demo ending just as one of the toads was about to kill me. It was a bit traumatic, but it only made me love the game even more. The Jade Cocoon demo also had a big impact on my gaming childhood, with its unique gameplay and story. The opening cinematic of Jade Cocoon was my first introduction to the world of Ghibli, and that's no small feat.
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.
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.
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.
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, 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.
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🐟
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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 :)
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.
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.
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
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 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
I have so many fond memories of the Dark Cloud demo. I used to play it over and over, always trying to get as far as possible. The farthest I ever got was rebuilding Dran's windmill and encountering the giant toads. I remember the demo ending just as one of the toads was about to kill me. It was a bit traumatic, but it only made me love the game even more. The Jade Cocoon demo also had a big impact on my gaming childhood, with its unique gameplay and story. The opening cinematic of Jade Cocoon was my first introduction to the world of Ghibli, and that's no small feat.
I got a PS1 demo disc which contained "Z: Sooty Bolts" and played it over and over until the disc stopped working.
I miss gamesharks and cheats in general. They were a good way to have fun once you've completed the game.
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.
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
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.
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, 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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
Hey great video man, I’m sure you’ll blow up sometime, just gotta keep up the work !
I still got Demo One 😊
Wonder how the UK official Playstation magazine and official Xbox magazine demo discs compare.
Or if they're even any different.
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 :)
I have Vol.8. with my system. It was great. Had nearly all the ones on Vol.9.
Demo discs existed outside the USA and outside NTSC
Thank you
How old are you? You sound young.
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 🤌