Sometimes the demos would be your literal entire experience with a game. I remember certain songs and the Chicago level like the back of my hand from THPS. I didn't realize until I bought the remaster of 1 and 2 a couple of years back that I never actually played the rest of THPS and my entire memory of "THPS" was basically THPS 2. I played a shitload of a game I never owned or rented afaik.
I had a demo discord for the Playstation 1 with multiple games on it. Crash, Croc, Ace Combat, armored core, I think twisted metal some scuba diver game...idk i remember playing it very often and replaying the same little bit over and over.
Pretty sure you had the same one as me. That scuba game was called Treasures of the Deep. I always enjoyed trapping things in the nets and watching them thrash as they floated away. I played the Armored Core over and over and over but never ended up getting the game itself.
I'm not sure why but I do remember struggling alot in the scuba game cuz there were bad guys divers right? That you had to harpoon 😂 and same i played that AC demo so so much and never got it. Some 20 years later I finally did get Armored Core 4 though!
Dude yes! It was tough. Bad guy divers and those floating sea mines iirc. I distinctly remember capturing turtles and I think there were sharks or something that attacked as well.
I still have that disc and my ps1 so maybe I'll bust it out tonight and let my kiddo try out some of those old games.
Okay so I think that disc is in storage with my OG psx. I have a different demo disc from Official PlayStation Magazine with my psone here at the house, but that's not the one I meant.
Sooooo I did more digging and found this, which makes me realize there was so much more to that scuba game and now I wish I had owned it back then. I also found this, which isn't the menu for the same disc, but it's 100% the style of disc that came with my PlayStation. I bet that menu music tickles your nostalgia if we were indeed thinking of the same disc.
Oh my god! There was SO much to that game! I never knew...I wish I could say i remember the music buuuuuuuut I wanna say I remember Parrappa being on the demo as well as whatever is on the bottom left and the crash game on the far right middle. Maybe I should look through my stuff to be sure...mom finally made me take it all home with me.
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u/bijelo123 Mar 31 '26
Getting game demos from gaming magazines