Anyone remember this website's unruly counterpart, fuckedcompany.com?
The CD-ROM was the means to install large packages instead of 149 3 1/2 floppy disks and distribute SHOVELWARE like "encyclopedias" and shit point and click games.
I still have my original Age of Empires CD rom.
I get why CD and DVD reigned as media formats, but I personally was a much larger fan of zip disks. I really wish they'd taken off, instead.
They had a lot of issues with drive quality control. CD was already a very mature product and didn't have those same issues.
I had the exact opposite issue. All my zip disks lasted for years (decades I'm willing to be if I still had a computer with a drive). I have bought entire spindels of CD-R (not even getting started on the RW discs) that came 50-75% DOA.
It wasn't the disks themselves that had issues, it was the drives.
The Iomega "Click of Death" did them in, and the up-and-coming flash storage that killed CD/DVD/BR would have murdered them regardless.
I remember playing Riven, the sequel to Myst. It looked nice, and there were some neat animated sequences near the start, but as a game it was nearly unplayable. It was a series of indecipherable, tedious puzzles.
I remember Myst being well known at the time, but I wonder how many people actually beat it?
I remember trying that. Obtuse puzzles have never been my thing, and I didn't get far.
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