Digging Through Playstation Demos

Today, I went through my massive pile of Playstation demo discs and it brought back a lot of memories... of games I liked but not enough to buy. I'm not going to list them all but here are a few.

Future Cop LAPD by EA

A 3/4 overhead view action game where you control a police mech. It's similar to EA's "Strike" series.

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Running Wild by Blue Shift/989

A cartoon-ish racing game where you control animals. Kind of like Mario Kart except on foot.

http://www.azstarnet.com/public/star...9/sp032207.jpg

Destrega by Omega Force/Koei

Fighting game where the combat is mostly from shooting projectiles from far away.

http://www.gamepage.co.uk/images/Des...estrega007.jpg


Codename: Tenka by Psygnosis

Sci-fi FPS with old-school controls(no looking up and down)

http://playstation.hotgames.com/games/tenka/tscrn01.gif


N2O by Gremlin/Fox

A modern Tempest clone.

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Invasion From Beyond by King of the Jungle/GT

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A space shooter with a 1950's B-movie feel where you defend a village from UFOs.


Blasto by Sony

A cartoony platform game with the voice of Phil Hartman. Sony hyped this game big-time before its release but it didn't live up to it. Still, it's decent.

http://www.gamesdomain.com/playstati...s/blasto03.jpg


Anyone else like these games or remember good Playstation demos that just weren't quite good enough to buy the full game?

I remember being underwhelmed by the Rage Racer demo, and amazed by a Bushido Blade demo, which let you play as every character in the game.

N2O? Almost?

ALMOST!?!?!?

I had Running Wild for a little bit after getting it for $9.99 new... was fun multiplayer, but nothing special.

Yep, N2O is an almost-buy for me.

And Rage Racer is quite good but unfortunately it only has digital control which is hard to go back to now for racing games.

I bought N20 because I thought it looked fun, and a lot like Tempest. I soon found out that its not fun, and a HUGE Tempest ripoff. But Tempest is fun and challanging, N2O is sluggish and boring, and looks like blurry ass, even for PS standards.

No no, you see, it should be in your collection, and you should have logged many enjoyable hours with it.

EB sells it for like $5 used. Worth it for the music alone, even if owning Vegas covers pretty much every track on it (though the three remixes are pretty damn good).

I always wanted to play Future Cop (if only to see to strike series influence) and Invasion from Beyond. I never really did care much for those other games, especially Blasto, bleh.

blasto is utter dick......its sooooo horrible. i believe dry dock prison sex would be better.

i loved the thousand arms demo but never bought the game :(

Dry dock prison sex... I pray to God you aren't speaking from experience...

I would buy n2o just for the Crystal Method tracks...

Future Cop - never played it, thought it was an on rails shooter, not like the Strike games. May have to track it down and give it a play then one of these days.

Running Wild - interesting premise is the only reason I remember it, but otherwise, mediocre racer.

Destrega - forgettable fighter.

Codename: Tenka - average console FPS, nothing special, nothing really offensive.

N2O - never even botherd with it, odd because I am a Tempest fan.

Blasto - horrible platform shooter, series died a quick death after Phil did :( (<---for Phil, BTW, not the game)

I used to love playing the Intelligent Qube demo. I still don't know why I never bothered to purchase the full game...

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I used to love playing the Intelligent Qube demo. I still don't know why I never bothered to purchase the full game...

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Same here. I really want this game, but I don't feel like paying over $40 for it at funco.

I had the XI demo I got from Japan when my grandfather brought me back some Japanese PSX games. I had no idea how to play it though, so I never got Devil Dice...

*Has every game mentioned*

Only one I'd buy is IQ. The rest were more fun as demo's IMO...

N20 was pretty fun.... great soundtrack to boot.

traded it in about 5 months after i bought it. got my first copy of tactics with it. so i think it was a wise decision.

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Originally posted by piku
No no, you see, it should be in your collection, and you should have logged many enjoyable hours with it.

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Hi. I'll be his agreement partner, because this game kicks ass is quite the addictive one. I bought mine for $10 and while it took me a very long time before I actually sat down and played it (I kept trying it out and wasn't very impressed, and finally decided to sit down and really play it because I hadn't given it more then a couple minutes), once I did I loved it. Oh dear God did I love it.

Another demo that I found almost worth buying the game for was Xena: Warrior Princess. It's a decent beat 'em up but what makes the game fun is the throwing disc. You follow it in the air and can steer it to hit enemies. I wish more action games had something like it.

http://www.gamesdomain.com/playstati...iews/xena2.jpg

im going to pretend you did say that.

I remember Next Generation hyping the shit out of Blasto as the game being crafted by Sony to kill Nintendo and Mario. We all know how that turned out. I bought N2O for $2.99 new a month or so ago and still have yet to see what's so special about it.

future cop was good shit...it's sooo not ea...

There was this one game where you drive a police car in the future and shoot criminal cars. Game was fast too, just like Invasion From Beyond. I liked that Duke Nukem 3D demo allright. I liked Spyro, Parappa, Bust a Groove, and Devil Dice, but never bought them.

I think the game you are talking about it Crime Killer or something to that effect from Interplay. I don't want to go digging through my gamefans to see if I'm right.