If you’re thinking of buying Z now - the modern remake is a careless trash port FYI

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Elder millennial, here. One of the weird things about the 90s was cereal boxes marketed to little bastards like me at the time would often have some kind of toy included in it.

    PC gaming was kind of in its infancy and growing rapidly in popularity, so eventually the inevitable happed: a cereal company promoted their cereal by shoving a fucking CD into it, that little bastards like me lost their shit over, installed, and played the snot out of.

    Chex Quest.

    It was literally just Doom, except reskinned so the demons were boogers, and everything else was a fucking Chex cereal advertisement.

    AND IT WAS AMAZING! lol

    Best box of cereal my parents ever bought. Not a bargain bin, but I feel like “in a box of cereal” fits the spirit of the question.

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      1 year ago

      I got the original roller coaster tycoon from a cereal box! I got other games too, but that’s definitely the best (by far), and only one I remember.

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      That had to be wild to work on. You get brought into the kickoff meeting for what you assume is going to be some soulless marketing gimick, then they start laying it out.

      It had a plot, a decent amount of levels. There was a good amount of heart that went into that.