What was it like owning demos back in the day? Tfw playing MediEvil

Kinda neat to see what a game was like. Most people I know got more enjoyment out of the little hidden bits, like that one demo disc that had the music video to Korn's Got The Life buried in there.

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Before demo CDs appeared on consoles, I used to buy magazines that came with CD-ROMs full of demos for PC. It was kind of a scam because it said "includes [x game] complete!" and it was also just a demo.
On principle demos are great because they let you test games for free. Most of my demo discs were kinda shitty though.
The one demo disc I actually remember enjoying was the Nights sampler on Saturn.
When I got my Saturn, I couldn't get it with any game because the shop I got it from just didn't have any Saturn games in stock, the system itself was hard to find here.
So it came with a Saturn demo CD (included Clockwork Knight, Die Hard Trilogy and others), and the Nights sampler.
Nights was actually more generous than most other demos, it let you play 2 levels, one with each character, and they were fun as hell. Nights is also an arcade kind of game so replaying the levels was fun.
Eventually I got the full game and it felt massive, I was used to play the same 2 levels over and over.

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Why?