Y'all remember Galaxy of Games?
It was a series of cheap shareware CDs that RomTech, later called eGames, that you could buy at retailers like Best Buy, Target, K-Mart, etc. Basically, they're a collection of people's Shareware games, often games made by single a single dev, many times several of one person's games.
I owned one of these. It's called Nothing But Action, and I realized that there's like, nothing about this game online. Even Mobygames doesn't have this listed in the Galaxy of Games series!!! I grew up on this, and played the fuck out of these games. Most of them are terrible. But they're SUPER interesting.
So I uploaded it to archive.org lol
It's made for like, Windows 95, so you'd need a way to play it today. But tbh it's worth looking into, this is a weird piece of history no one talks about anymore. The only shareware games people talk about today are like... Doom? Maybe a few others??? But there were THOUSANDS of these things, spun out in one person's basement, hoping to be the next Doom.
They were not the next Doom. But they're cool! Maybe I'll do a full obscure games talk about this, with some of the weirder stuff contained within.
Here's what the actual program looks like BTW, maybe this will jog some lost memories in some of you!
