anyone miss the Shareware days of Apogee,Id,blue disk Ect ?

[Stella+KDE]

I miss being able to get a 3 level shareware game for $5.00, i used to love the fact i could go to a compter store or even a dillions grocery store and get these kinds of games.

 

shoot i even miss the old BBS that they had setup at Apogee and Id where you could download a trial game and those colorful Ascii catalogs advertising the new games that had coming out.

 

Anyone else miss these or are you glad they are gone ?

 

just Curious.

 

Cheers

[joeybastard]

I do. My college bookstore had 100's of shareware games on floppies for .99 each. I'd buy a pack of smokes and grab a game for $4.25 just about every day

 

Some of thos games were really great, some were terrible but at .99, I didn't care. I wish I had saved all of those games somewhere

[Atariman]

I definately miss the days of shareware - I always had fun looking through this one catalog (I've long since forgotten the name of it) that had probably a good 50-100 titles in each issue that you could order.

 

The last shareware game I remember my friend or I getting was Monster Bash (from the catalog) and I think the last shareware I found in a store was probably hocus pocus at Value City...

[Stella+KDE]

yeah, I got smart one day and backed up all of mine to a CD/R since i knew the original floppies would someday fail and a few of them did not make it sadly my full version of monster bash is no more as well as my full copy of Bards Tale I and a few others.

 

But the other 60 or so survived lucky for me.

 

Cheers

[joeybastard]

I had them all on my trusty old 486 that I eventually gave to a friend. He reformatted the HD and they were all gone. I can't remember what I did with the floppies but I doubt I saved them.

[Stella+KDE]

well if you ever want a title just give me a name and i will see what i have and if i have i will Email it to you , so you can play it again.

 

Cheers

[KaineMaxwell]

That's how I got introduced to classics like Apogee's Raptor and Id's Doom.

[Stella+KDE]

i am just happy since before Doom3 came,Id made a Nice Modern version of Doom ,Doomii ,Doom CE , Doom Final Doom for a whole $9.95.

 

so i don't have to boot to Dos to play the those and it even supports custom wads, now that is big bonus in my book.

 

Wish apogee would do that with some or thier games like moster Bash seris or Secret Agent seris i would definatly buy those for like 9.95 as well

but probably won't happen

 

Cheers

[Radio F Software]

Man I remember a LONG time ago when I had a Windows 3.1 my mom surprized me with a Game Empire CD with like 1000 Shareware games. Though I never bought any games, I loved that CD to death. I still have it. I still play it.

 

I also own a few of those Multi Game CDs they sell nowadays. I have a second 1000 shareware game CD I got for $10 but it is pretty new.

[egdinger]

I have that game empire cd, bought it from a friend for $.50, best thing I ever did.

[KaineMaxwell]

i am just happy since before Doom3 came,Id made a Nice Modern version of Doom ,Doomii ,Doom CE , Doom Final Doom for a whole $9.95.

Cheers

 

When did this coming out??

[2600Lives]

Anyone ever frequent Dollar stores? Several around here have some computer games for a buck a piece. I got a disc with like 20 old RPG's on it for a buck, and just today, picked up two discs, both space shooters. Cool stuff man. And you can even get some DVD's, too. Picked up 3 of the Max Fleischer Superman cartoon DVD's for a buck each about 3 months ago. Damn cool stuff.

[Stella+KDE]

@KaineMaxwell, they came out a couple of months before doom3, i got mine at the Evil best buy store.

 

i Also messed up on the names, the names they are as follows:

 

1 Doom CE

2 Doom II CE

3 Final Doom CE

 

4 Doom Builder (not part of the cd, but worth mentioning, great windows based doom wad Editor.)

 

Cheers

[FireTiger]

I still have meny of those games and the regastrations for some of them, my problem is all the games I have on 5.25' floppy disk that I can't do anything with...games like (from memory, names may be slightly mangled)

 

 

war eagles,

Marble Maddness

Compleate Kroz Adventure (Kroz 1-7)

Muppet adventures

Oils Well

original Oregan Trail

Curse of the Catacombs

Spot, the computer Game (7-up othello kinda)

Lemmings

Mainiac Mansion

Monkey Island (whatever the first was named)

original Sim City...

[KaineMaxwell]

Thanks Stella, how much was it anyhow?

[joeybastard]

Man I remember a LONG time ago when I had a Windows 3.1 my mom surprized me with a Game Empire CD with like 1000 Shareware games. Though I never bought any games, I loved that CD to death. I still have it. I still play it.

 

I also own a few of those Multi Game CDs they sell nowadays. I have a second 1000 shareware game CD I got for $10 but it is pretty new.

 

I had that one too! That I think I still have that lying around. I'll have to fie it up on my spare box.

 

There was a Tetris-like game on there(can't remember the name) with an old man with a beard in the beginning that was super good. It also Oil Panic, one of my all time favorite puzzle games.

[maibock]

I still have meny of those games and the regastrations for some of them, my problem is all the games I have on 5.25' floppy disk that I can't do anything with...games like (from memory, names may be slightly mangled)

 

 

war eagles,

Marble Maddness

Compleate Kroz Adventure (Kroz 1-7)

Muppet adventures

Oils Well

original Oregan Trail

Curse of the Catacombs

Spot, the computer Game (7-up othello kinda)

Lemmings

Mainiac Mansion

Monkey Island (whatever the first was named)

original Sim City...

 

Nice collection I'd like to play a few of those - I should break out my 386 which has not only a 3.5" drive but also the 5.25" and send it to you

 

.

[joeybastard]

Fellow shareware junkies might want to check out this page

 

http://www.dosgames.com/

 

[Stella+KDE]

@KaineMaxwell

 

 

I got it best buy look for "Doom Collectors Edition" it is $9.95 plus tax

 

Cheers

[keilbaca]

Does anyone have the full version to Raptor? I have the shareware and I can't seem to find a place to buy the full version... I really really like this game...

[FireTiger]

I still have meny of those games and the regastrations for some of them, my problem is all the games I have on 5.25' floppy disk that I can't do anything with...games like (from memory, names may be slightly mangled)

 

 

war eagles,

Marble Maddness

Compleate Kroz Adventure (Kroz 1-7)

Muppet adventures

Oils Well

original Oregan Trail

Curse of the Catacombs

Spot, the computer Game (7-up othello kinda)

Lemmings

Mainiac Mansion

Monkey Island (whatever the first was named)

original Sim City...

 

Nice collection I'd like to play a few of those - I should break out my 386 which has not only a 3.5" drive but also the 5.25" and send it to you

 

.

 

Cool... ...I really need a Dos dedicated machine with a 5.25 inch drive on it. I have *sooo* much room for it next to my Pentuim 2 and Pentium 4 computers.

 

Those are only a few of the games form two large disk holders I have...

so if you do actually set up that machine I would love to get 3.5 inch floppies of all of these (of corse on one could stop you from making copies yourself)... I could pay postage both way but would need back the big disk, and the new little disk of course.

 

Anyone have an old external 5.25 floppy disk drive?

[keilbaca]

My brother does, and suprisingly, he has it hooked up to his AMD Athlon XP 2000+ computer

[Radio F Software]

Man I remember a LONG time ago when I had a Windows 3.1 my mom surprized me with a Game Empire CD with like 1000 Shareware games. Though I never bought any games, I loved that CD to death. I still have it. I still play it.

 

I also own a few of those Multi Game CDs they sell nowadays. I have a second 1000 shareware game CD I got for $10 but it is pretty new.

 

I had that one too! That I think I still have that lying around. I'll have to fie it up on my spare box.

 

There was a Tetris-like game on there(can't remember the name) with an old man with a beard in the beginning that was super good. It also Oil Panic, one of my all time favorite puzzle games.

 

OMFG! That was my FAVORITE game off that! I still plat it! It's called "Nyet III"

[Radio F Software]

Hey bro, I found the files on this laptop! AA says the filesize is too big, so if you could PM me your eMail address I can send it to ya dude, for old time's sake!

[maibock]

I still have meny of those games and the regastrations for some of them, my problem is all the games I have on 5.25' floppy disk that I can't do anything with...games like (from memory, names may be slightly mangled)

 

 

war eagles,

Marble Maddness

Compleate Kroz Adventure (Kroz 1-7)

Muppet adventures

Oils Well

original Oregan Trail

Curse of the Catacombs

Spot, the computer Game (7-up othello kinda)

Lemmings

Mainiac Mansion

Monkey Island (whatever the first was named)

original Sim City...

 

Nice collection I'd like to play a few of those - I should break out my 386 which has not only a 3.5" drive but also the 5.25" and send it to you

 

.

 

Cool... ...I really need a Dos dedicated machine with a 5.25 inch drive on it. I have *sooo* much room for it next to my Pentuim 2 and Pentium 4 computers.

 

Those are only a few of the games form two large disk holders I have...

so if you do actually set up that machine I would love to get 3.5 inch floppies of all of these (of corse on one could stop you from making copies yourself)... I could pay postage both way but would need back the big disk, and the new little disk of course.

 

Anyone have an old external 5.25 floppy disk drive?

 

Deal! I'll try to get it running this weekend - I've been meaning to see what I have on there for a few years now.. This will be good motivation

 

No need for return shipping costs, I'll ship them back from work..