you would be lucky for a game to fit on a cd anymore

The Egypt one

IMO this was peak consumerism. They literally wanted to give you more so you chose them instead of trying to trick you.

The games weren’t that great, but they were based on solid game mechanics (cause it was old board games), just a little bit of extra fun for those who wanted to try it.

Chex Quest HD is on steam for free

Convincing my mom to buy a box of cereal was a lot easier than convincing her to buy a copy of Roller Coaster Tycoon

Games on CDs? When I was a kid cereal boxes had DIY finger puppets printed on the back.

What do you mean "weren't that great"? I got the Star Wars : Pod Racer demo in a cereal box and that was a peak gaming experience for 6-yo me

Wait, is that the full version of RollerCoaster Tycoon?

They used to deliver the hyperobsessions right to your house. The Matrix was right about 1999 being the peak of American civilization.

What's with the random picture of Roller Coaster Tycoon.

Its not random. It was one that was included. You can even see the General Mills (cereal maker) branding on the disc.

2600hz whistle?

I literally got the entire movie "a bugs life" in a cereal box on DVD.

Thats how i found lego rock raiders, GREAT game

If they did it today they would be filled to the brim with malware

I got a (demo) for a spider man game that was pretty good for the time.

I had a MacRonald's computer game

Now when I buy cereal, I barely even get cereal.

Honestly, same

Free cereal shaped USB drives?

Most indie games are pretty tiny still. The only reason games are so huge now are usually because of audio (I think one of the CODs shipped with every language's audio and was over 100 gigs) and sometimes big textures. Most devs don't really care about size any more and treat storage as basically infinite, but with some actual work you could get a lot of games to fit on a CD.

I would love for them to come with Shareware CDs like you got in the 90s from magazines. Might encourage more Devs to make demos.

The copy of Roller Coaster tycoon I played as a kid literally came out of one of those boxes, there were some legit great ones on offer.

Anyone else remember Mott's Mindquest?

Don't worry. You'll be charged twice as much for it.

As is expected.

it's the standard procedure with computers, the hardware is improved and thus software bloats up to use all the new resources to render glossy semi-transparent buttons

https://openrct2.io/

gonna leave this phenomenal QOL improvement mod for RCT/RCT2 here

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