These two companies aren't related but since they're both shareware discs and has the same type of anecdote, I thought I'd put them together in the same page. My mom used to work in a store where, when the game magazines would expire, she could take the disc inside and the magazine could be returned. She then brought it home to me. This is how I played most PC games back in the day. Global Star Software and Imagitec Imagination Station were the ones that I have the most nostalgia for. I used to play demos day in and day out for which most of them had a lot of content for being a demo so they were either replayable a whole bunch or were long and feature rich. Most of the games featured from these two companies I still play to this day. Some of the games also lead me to get the full version whenever I could. Like Duke Nukem 3D and Shadow Warrior. Carmageddon was featured on one of these discs but I got the full version before owning a demo disc that contained it. Carmageddon will be featured on another page I plan on making. I used to go to school and brag about how many games I owned by counting each demo as a game on it's own and I felt like a badass haha. The Imagitec disc I never knew contained most of the games on disc. They would release the same disc under a different volume number and a different cover with a different password that gave you access to the encrypted games, to save production costs I guess. I only found out much much later that you can use another discs password to access a different list of games. Speaking of, the times when you explored a disc to find goodies, art, other games by the developer seems to have been lost to time. This was also a way I found about new games since the internet was something of a luxury in our town for some time. After a while we did have dial up at speeds of 28.6kbps and downloads at 1-2kbps.