Curious Artila Drakemoore Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Strange but suddenly I remembered an old demo disc that Spiderweb used to market their games on, I don't recall the exact year but it was in the mid 90s because it had Exile 1, 2 and 3 sharewhare demos on it. The title of the demo series was called "Games One Thousand" or something like that. It was packaged with a lot of PC games at retail centers at the time but I do not recall the publisher which packed this, or any concrete information on the disc and the contents any longer as I lost it a long time ago. The reason I ask this is mostly because the 2 disc demo series had many classic titles, lots of shareware and very little known RPGs which I'm interested in learning about again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Lazarus. Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 If I'm thinking of the same demo disc as you are, then I think it was called "Over 1000 Games." A google search reveals that it was published by nodtronics. The info I could find about this version sounded about right, but I couldn't find a screenshot of the disc or a list of the games on it, so I'm not sure if it's the right one. I first got hooked on Exile 3 from this disc. I was like 7 at the time and had no idea how to go about registering the game, so I would just replay the demo version over and over. Except I never figured out how to beat either of the 2 available plagues. Ah good times. Edit: I went and asked my sister for a second opinion, and she thinks the disc was called "1001 Games." It sounds kind of familiar to me, and she has a ridiculous memory for detail, so that's probably it. But I couldn't find it on google, so I'll post more info if I can find the original disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody RCCCL Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 I also learned of Spiderweb from one of these discs, though I think there were a few different ones around, one of the other game series I found, and still enjoy, from the same disc was Space Empires. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Earth Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 I have somewhere Mac-cd where's alot gamedemos and 1 of those is Exile 2: Crystal Soul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Celtic Minstrel Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 I got it on MacCubed. I still have the discs actually. It didn't have Exile 3, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 I was first introduced to SW by a little 2-disk deal called '100 shareware games for windows' or some such. It had E3 on it and a whole bunch of other stuff. Sadly, I lost the disks to a garage sale many years back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Quiconque Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Exile: Escape from the Pit came in one of those First Class style silver-folder-with-icon folders, including in old versions of Realmz. And compared to Realmz, it didn't look very good originally. Then there was Exile II, with the KPT Bryce splash screen that I think was a requirement circa 1995. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Ishad Nha Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 It is called 1000 Games for Windows. Disc is produced by Nodtronics and is all full at 685MB. I still have it on my PC. It has Exile 1 and Exile 2 but not Exile 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenderfoot Thahd Astinus Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Ah, shovelware. Shovelware was common practice in the nineties with few actual good games hiding in a pile of mediocrity. Luckily for RPG fans Exile was one of the good'uns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curious Artila Drakemoore Posted January 4, 2011 Author Share Posted January 4, 2011 Thanks for the info so far. I think I might have found it, though the installer is a 16-bit application. Time to see if I can get it to run properly in a vm workstation. And yeah, I understand. I remember a lot of the titles on the discs were junk but there were a few gems among it and I wouldn't mind checking into them again, seeing if anything was continued, or if the companies just shut down. Thankfully Spiderweb, Exile and it's successor have continued to survive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Arch-Mage Solberg Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 I got Exile 1 and 2 from a CD called 'Galaxy of Games' back in 1997. Post #502 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curious Artila Drakemoore Posted January 4, 2011 Author Share Posted January 4, 2011 Hmm. Well the one I found is indeed the one I was looking for, except it's the wrong volume. Though there's no mention of a volume number it doesn't have the same selection the one I had did though a few similar titles, no Exile. But it is the same overall release. The title is "Over 1000 Games The Complete Encyclopedia of Games" With a title logo of 2 gold spaceships orbiting each other. No mention of any company publishing the disc anywhere in the files or the main menu of the thing though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Rowen Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Like others have posted, I too found spiderweb games through a mac cd that had lots of other games on it too. I found Escape Velocity on that cd too for the first time and Realmz. I still have it in a box with my old mac performa that I played on back then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fledgling Fyora craziivan Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 I came across it by subscribing to Mac addict the magazine. There was 'shovelware' as was noted above. In those heaps was Exile III demo. I played that game for years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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