CD-ROM

[SenorDingDong]

Massively over-sized box with a cd jewel case rattling around inside

[Launchpad]

[Launchpad]

The amount of possibility contained within this artwork

[manches]

[manches]

this was such a weird game

never learned how to get into the stonecutters

or really understood what the kind of objective was

really fun exploring the town though, and they put effort into putting some original classic-era Simpsons jokes in there as well. Nice curio

[GoFasterStripes]

You just unlocked a really, really deeply lost childhood memory in me of getting a tape for some kind of game system out of one of those boxes with the plastic insert that had the tape in. Jesus, that’s thrown me a bit.

[1101010]

My dad always pronounces it ‘CD-ROAM’. I have no idea why.

[1101010]

This sort of thing?

With the 5.25" disc section too.

[Mistersteve]

Fucking nostalgia waves, lads.

[LilWoodyToodelly]

[1101010]

Mainly looking at that I’m left thinking, “People actually went into shops and bought Doom II” because I just sort of recall it as being one of those games people had from somewhere but I never really knew where.

[shrewbie]

When in cd-rom do as the cd-romans do

[Bamnan]

probably got it off some usenet forums or something, did seem like everybody had Doom/Doom 2 in the 90s

[Avery]

I mean i had it on a series of broken up floppies

[1101010]

Yeah maybe that’s why it seems odd. I think CD-ROM as standard was a couple of years after.

[Shoebox1976uk]

Hi!

[sheeldz]

[daggers]

vibing this thread big time but also shout out to the 3.5" floppy

[sheeldz]

This has reminded me that Red Alert came with two discs; Allied and Soviet.

[sheeldz]

When I moved into my desk here at my new job, in the drawer there wasn’t just a floppy dics, but a Floppy Disc Drive Lock. Like a floppy disc shaped thing that had a padlock on it, to stop folk loading 1.44Mb code off it.

My current work laptop doesn’t even support DVDs or USB drives.