• KISSmyOS@feddit.de
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    8 months ago

    For PC atleast, you could buy a magazine that came with a floppy disk containing patches.

    • dan@upvote.au
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      8 months ago

      Wow I completely forgot about this. Later on it was CDs with both patches and demos.

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        8 months ago

        Also later printings of the games themselves could be patched out of the box. Somebody buying day one versus a year later could get a slightly different version of the game.