Games Sampler 2 - Windows 95 (Intro, tour, and some secrets)

Game Sampler 2 for Windows 95 is a demo disc developed by Monolith for Microsoft back in 1996. It begins with an opening sequence showing something that looks like the Duke3D symbol, on fire flying through space. As it continues, some dudes in ships and some aliens in ships fight it out.Eventually, after lots of com screaming and cheering, it's time to let the mothership have it!

You are then brought, to what I am lead to believe, Station X. Where you can walk around and look at a few things, check the scenery, finds secrets, throw them Duke3D coins, and of course play the old demos.

Even though I poke fun at the ridiculousness of the entire experience, I actually had a lot of fun playing this when I was a kid. Being nine years old I of course was very limited to what was available to play, and this came free with our PC. So being able to roam around on a spaceship and play demos of various games was rather cool back then.

Although, while nostalgia rushes through me while playing this, it is rather unplayable for the most part. Considering i'm using Windows 7 and this is 95, I am surprised it even works at all. Screen flickers, crashes, extreme fps drops, and the worst part of all...the demos don't work. But whatever, I had a lot of fun looking at this again for the first time in probably 15 years, so it was well worth the problems. And of course the best part is I get to share it with everyone! :)

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[THE GAME DEMOS]
Hellbender
Monster Truck Madness
Deathdrome
Free Enterprise
Fire Fight
Decathlon
Captain Quazar
War Wind
Flight Unlimited
Ravage D.C.X.
Hold Onto Your Nuts!
Road Rash
Diablo
The Neverhood
You Don't Know Jack
Drowned God

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[LINKS]
http://www.theocx.com/

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[deathvomit]

I spent too long playing the demos on here, thanks for the nostalgia

[MacHelper44]

do you know were i could download this i miss all these games on this disc please tell me

[CaveShinobi]

Please tell me you still have that and can put it up for download. I don't know where my disk is and it'd be so damn great to run it once again on my comp :D

[Vesania83]

the music is so much nicer on this sampler. specially from 03:45

[Raiyne123]

@Raiyne123 Oh I realised it is Deathdrome! :)

[Raiyne123]

I certainly remember the coin, Monster Truck Madness and You Don't Know Jack... but there was also this futuristic sci-fi shooter game where you controlled a coloured car in 3rd person in an arena styled deathmatch. Does anyone remember the name of that game?

[ecuador78]

fuck, I only had game sampler 1.. wud be soo cool to have this as a child