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1. cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 11:07:51 JST cool_boy_mew
   Computer magazines included CDs that were fucking awesome. Shareware, demos, freewares and all sort of cool shit they had. My uncle had a bunch of these for his Mac, that's how I discovered cool shit like Snood
   
   There is a huge potential for similar magazines. There's decades upon decades of stuff around, freeware, demos, abandonware websites, flash archives, archive.org repository of stuff, etc. that they could have really interesting CD/DVDs full of stuff that the magazine actually covers, they could have DOSboxed stuff, PCEM images, etc. I dunno, but there's just so much stuff to uncover
   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 11:07:51 JST xianc78

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     @coolboymew Even better, we should bring back cereal box PC games.

     https://youchu.be/watch?v=RDsnisEIPW0

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 11:13:44 JST xianc78

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     @coolboymew I remember getting Operation through a General Mills cereal. Post did one for a Major League Baseball game demo (it was just a homerun contest). The only other cereal box game I remember was probably some Jumpstart game about a circus, but I think only my sister played that one and very briefly.

   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 11:13:45 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • xianc78
     @xianc78 that's how I got a bunch of games. I have no idea where they are today
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 11:25:14 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • xianc78
     @xianc78 Yeah, I have the Hasbro ones. Operation, Clue, some stupid Tonka game, Game of Life maybe or my friend had that one? Maybe others? Also some Cap'n Crunch game from years before that
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 11:25:14 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • xianc78
     @xianc78 checking the video list, I also had
     
     Timon & Pumbaa's Jungle Games
     Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
     Unsure if I got Roller Coaster Tycoon, I had pirated that years before that anyways
     And I think I had an Aladdin activity center bullshit I also got in cereals
     xianc78 likes this.
   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 11:27:37 JST xianc78

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     @coolboymew I'm actually surprised to hear that most people played RollerCoaster Tycoon through these promotions. My older brother got the actual boxed version of the game, years ago, however.