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Revisiting Jill of the Jungle, the last game Tim Sweeney designed (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] [S] 44 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (9 children)

I remember playing Jill of the Jungle in early 1997, it was on one of those "100 in 1" pirate CD that were common around the time the CD-ROM was introduced (became somewhat common in my region).

That same pirate compilation had Commander Keen, Dune 2 and many other games.

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  • [–] 25 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Shareware was big back then. Chances are good that your copy was actually legal.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I had a bunch of those myself back then, dozens of great shareware games on each disc. Sure beat trying to download something on slow slow dialup.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago*

    Dune 2 at least wasn't shareware.

    Maybe had a demo though. There were a few discs that had shareware and playable demos.

    Doesn't sound like what they had, though. Especially if it had episodes 2 and 3, etc.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Did you enjoy Jill back then?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    100 sounds low, they tended to be 300-600 per CD, and all shareware not pirated, so perfectly legal and encouraged. I had multiple such disks as a kid… the jank in how to get the games working (dos and win3.1, mostly) was what got me to learn to use computers back in the day.

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