Man i really miss the "demo scene" of older consoles.

For a moment I thought you were talking about scene demos (the warez scene).

Modern games don't have demos because everyone would see how shitty they really are.

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I miss demos too. They just seem to have died a death outside of niche games and the obligatory demo of FIFA etc.

I can't remember where I read it, but apparently games with demos have lower sales numbers than games without, and that's why it's not done anymore.

>>3465008
Those PS1 demo discs always had the best music.

>>3465289
>I can't remember where I read it, but apparently games with demos have lower sales numbers than games without
What?

Anyways, I did like the approach to demo disc that PC/ PS1 games (especially) had. Like having a playable expo beta build at your fingertips (for the most part).

>>3465242
>For a moment I thought you were talking about scene demos (the warez scene).

OP is a retard misusing terms he thinks are cool

>>3465242
Early 7th gen was cool because you could download demos but they don't that anymore

>>3465008
>>3465275

How do new demos not compete? Xbox 360 has over 300 downloadable demos for boxed games and every single arcade and indie game has a playable demo as well. Being able to try out so many games all at my fingertips any time is one of the best things about that console.

>>3465582
That adds up to over 4000 demos available on just that one system.

TFW you can still hear Demo One background music in your head, hear the sound it made when you selected a game, remember exactly how long that loading time took before you found yourself in Crash or Tekken...

TFW it takes you straight back to the summer of 1996, and you probably played that one fucking demo disc more than you ever played anything else in your whole life. You had endless hours of fun content with just Jun and Paul, Gare D'Europa and that one backing track, that one level of Crash Bandicoot, that one circuit on Monster Trucks where you could go out of bounds and just drive off into the mysterious distance...

Hold me /vr/, I don't want my apartment or my car or my job. I want July 1996 and a pair of Puma sweatpants.

>>3465723
It must be sad to be a grown man spending his days wishing he was still a child.

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>>3465727
Must be sadder still to be as jaded as you m8

>>3465742
I'm not jaded in any way though. I loved games when I was young, but I love games even more now. And what's better I can go back and play virtually anything I played when I was a kid any time I want now. The future fucking rocks.

>>3465582
Yeah, but in the 90's about every PC game had a playable demo. I used to buy a magazine that would come out every 3 months, with each time between 70 and 100 playable PC game demos (+ tons of other stuff). It was heavens. Nowadays on Steam the percentage of games with a demo is rather small.

>>3465275
That your collection? Would you happen to have a playable demo of Powerslave/Exhumed PS1 version? I know it exists, at least in Europe, but can't find the CD.

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>>3465761
Not the same anon but I have an exhumed demo from official playstation magazine uk.