![]() ![]() They are part of a new trend where developers give away a free sample of their game to build up buzz about the full version of the game. ![]() These are not “demos.” They are a separate game Many of them are labeled “prologues.” And these are not junky trash games look like someone’s hobby project. Nothing is newĪlmost 30 years later a strange new phenomenon is spreading across Steam: free games. Doom, Heretic, Quake, Rune, Duke Nukem 3D, GTA (the first one), all great demos and I even bought some of them. I would say a good 75% of my childhood gaming time was spent on free demos. The catch was it was just the first chapter of the game and if you wanted the others you would have to call in and mail in the order form to get the full thing. Under the license, you could legally make as many copies of this game and give it to as many people as you wanted. But here was an amazing game and it was free. At the time I was playing Super Nintendo games which were so expensive I could only expect to get one for my birthday and one at Christmas. I installed the game and it was a free copy of the (at the time) revolutionary game Wolfenstein 3D. He said a colleague gave it to him because he thought I would like it. One night when I was 12 my dad came home from work and handed me a 3 ¼ inch floppy disk that had a the words “Wolf 3D” scrawled across it in red ball point pen. ![]()
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