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First post, by v0g0ns

Posted on 2008-03-18, 20:37

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Does someone know when was the CD-ROM first used as a mean to sell a game? I ask, because there's lots of old dos games I'd like to buy, but they are most likely sold in floppy disks, and I don't have a floppy disk drive anymore. So I'd liketo know which games I could buy that will come in a CD that I can install.

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Reply 1 of 10, by Dominus

Posted on 2008-03-18, 21:37

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it's easier if you look up the games you want to buy on moby games then going the other way round. It's not like every game company started to use CD-Roms at the same time.

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Reply 2 of 10, by Xian97

Posted on 2008-03-18, 21:37

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The first one I remember was Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/sherlock-ho … lting-detective
The 7th Guest was another early CD game.

Reply 3 of 10, by Mike 01Hawk

Posted on 2008-03-18, 23:26

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Xian97 wrote:
The first one I remember was Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/sherlock-ho … lting-detective
The 7th Guest was another early CD game.

Exactly what I was gonna say.... Sherlock Holmes... 😀

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Reply 4 of 10, by collector

Posted on 2008-03-19, 05:20

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KQ5 predates both. It gets a little difficult to date some of them because the first ones often had prior floppy releases. Many of the first CD-ROM games had CD audio tracks for sound, necessitating the games be distributed on CD.

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