Post by trog @ 01:02pm 14/09/11 | 11 Comments
Those who remember that far back will recall that this was the Wing Commander game that featured some amazingly-produced full motion video instead of animated cutscenes, and starred a slightly pudgy Mark Hamill as Colonel Blair. If memory serves it was one of the first games to come on multiple CD-ROMs, due to the huge volume of video content (over three hours). You can pick it up now from GOG!
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Posted 01:21pm 14/9/11
This looks like the last of the latest batch of EA classics though so no Syndicate or System Shock (yet). :(
Posted 01:25pm 14/9/11
Edit: Also, FWIW, The 7th Guest was the first multi-CD games I can remember, being two CDs - but what's distinctive about that is that it was also one of the first CD games period - ie, one of the first games to use such a large volume of data used so much data, it couldn't even fit on a single disc!
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Posted 07:57pm 14/9/11
And Rebel Alliance? (I think it was called)
Posted 08:10pm 14/9/11
I think my first CD game was Magic Carpet.
Posted 08:24pm 14/9/11
4 CDs would be a maximum of 2800MB. There are demos that big these days.
Posted 08:46pm 14/9/11
Yeah by GOG standards it's one of the larger ones heh, and well ahead of it's time for content volume.
Largest number of discs I've seen was Baldur's Gate with five discs in '98, six if you got the bundle with ToSC.
UT2004 was released on six discs as well apparently. By that stage In the CD era the content could usually be installed to the hard drive though.
Most painful was this one back in the 80's, 4 floppies with a 5th as a dedicated save game disk!
Posted 08:58pm 14/9/11
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Posted 09:41am 15/9/11
I remember when I first got it on my 486 it used to take like 10 minutes to load a mission too