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What game did you find in a bargain bin that turned out to be awesome? For me it was Z by Bitmap Brothers which I got at Zellers for $0.47 (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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If you're thinking of buying Z now - the modern remake is a careless trash port FYI

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

When I grew up AoE was put in cornflakes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

/r/nocontext

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Cornflakes is cereal. AoE is Age of Empires, you might have heard about it. The comment I replied to was talking about games being released in cereal boxes. Where is the context lacking?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

…if you read that comment without context, it sounds funny? It did to me, anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Ah, I see.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Hey that was me, too! Definitely worth $4 for that game, and a free box of cereal, lol.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Gonna vouch for Chex quest. That game was SOLID! 😂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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.