Speaking of demos, does anyone remember the Club Kidsoft and Educational Resources demo discs?
These were filled with demos and movies about educational titles. Some of the demos were playable and were essentially crippled versions of the programs. The one that stands out in my mind is SimCity 2000. From memory, I recall that the game could only be played for 20 minutes at a time and that not all of the structures existed--one could build police stations but not hospitals, for example. I wound up getting the SimCity 2000 CD Collection not long after that. (This was back in 1995 when SC2K was at its peak).
There was a way to call in to Kidsoft and order the software over the phone. They'd supposedly give you a way to unlock a product from the CD. I never tried this mostly because Egghead Software was just a few miles from my house and to me a trip to Egghead Software was everyone else's trip to Toys R Us.
These were filled with demos and movies about educational titles. Some of the demos were playable and were essentially crippled versions of the programs. The one that stands out in my mind is SimCity 2000. From memory, I recall that the game could only be played for 20 minutes at a time and that not all of the structures existed--one could build police stations but not hospitals, for example. I wound up getting the SimCity 2000 CD Collection not long after that. (This was back in 1995 when SC2K was at its peak).
There was a way to call in to Kidsoft and order the software over the phone. They'd supposedly give you a way to unlock a product from the CD. I never tried this mostly because Egghead Software was just a few miles from my house and to me a trip to Egghead Software was everyone else's trip to Toys R Us.