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Random question re multiple cds

purple_monkfishpurple_monkfish
edited January 2009 in General Chat
This stems from a conversation earlier as I installed NWN on it's 4 disks and mused "you don't get massive 7 cd games anymore" while fondly gazing up at the copy of Phantasmagoria I bought for £2 on Thursday from A charity shop.

Anyway, this got me thinking... what game has a dubious honour of being shipped with the MOST cds? Phantasmagoria is the highest I can think of at 7 cds... Gabriel Knight 2 at 6...
Now adventure gamer geeks, can you think of any more?

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  • EmilyEmily Telltale Alumni
    edited January 2009
    I think Phantasmagoria holds the record (at least, it does in my collection).

    Floppy disks, now that's another story. The King's Quest games were getting up to like ten or fifteen floppies before they switched over to CDs.
  • TelltaleToolTelltaleTool
    edited January 2009
    I think Dreamfall was on 4 CDs in the US.
  • ZootchZootch
    edited January 2009
    Red Alert 2 totaled to four cds after expansions
  • ShaggEShaggE
    edited January 2009
    Phantasmagoria holds the most that I know of as well. Probably because they stretched it out to seven just to fit the "one week" thing.

    Second place: Half Life 2 CD-ROM version weighs in at five discs.
  • David EDavid E Telltale Alumni
    edited January 2009
    Riven had 5. Beautifully illustrated cases, but still a pain to swap every time you moved around to a different island. My hard drive wasn't big enough to hold all of the game's content back when I played through it originally!
  • natlinxznatlinxz
    edited January 2009
    The game with the most disks that I played was, sadly, Final Fantasy 9. I really haven't played any computer games on floppy disk or CD-ROM, It's DVD-ROM for me!
  • DerwinDerwin
    edited January 2009
    Black Dahlia had 8 CDs. Great game, not so great ending.
  • ShaggEShaggE
    edited January 2009
    We've got 8 CDs, folks. 8 CDs! Can anybody top 8? Yes, you in the corner with the plate of Camembert cheese. Can you top 8? No? Anybody?
  • natlinxznatlinxz
    edited January 2009
    ShaggE wrote: »
    We've got 8 CDs, folks. 8 CDs! Can anybody top 8? Yes, you in the corner with the plate of Camembert cheese. Can you top 8? No? Anybody?

    my memorex dvd pack had 20, but that doesn't count.:)

    how about: Monkey Island? It was on 114 Disks apparently!
  • TomSupermanTomSuperman
    edited January 2009
    Phantasm the japanese version of Phantasmagoria also had 8 CDS.
  • EmilyEmily Telltale Alumni
    edited January 2009
    There was a Japanese version of Phantasmagoria?
  • ShaggEShaggE
    edited January 2009
    Aye, for the Sega Saturn. Probably extremely rare by now, what with Japan's views on game violence.

    Didn't know it was 8 CDs, though.
  • ZootchZootch
    edited January 2009
    I had a video editing program for Apple DOS called video toaster, apparently this was before file compression because it was on fourteen floppy discs
  • purple_monkfishpurple_monkfish
    edited January 2009
    I knew there had to be one with 8 cds!
  • LuigiHannLuigiHann
    edited January 2009
    natlinxz wrote: »
    how about: Monkey Island? It was on 114 Disks apparently!

    Only the floppy disc version ;)
  • LaserschwertLaserschwert
    edited January 2009
    Though not necessarily a game (to some it is) and not CDs, quoting from Wikipedia:
    Windows 95 has been released on both floppy disks and on CD-ROM, as some computer systems at the time did not include a CD-ROM drive. The retail floppy disk version of Windows 95 came on 13 DMF formatted floppy disks, while its OEM Service Release 2.1 doubled the floppy count to 26. Both versions exclude additional software that CD-ROM might have featured.

    The saddest thing: I remember installing that 26-disc-version of Win95 on my PC... it was a long day.
  • natlinxznatlinxz
    edited January 2009
    Laserschwert wrote: »
    Though not necessarily a game (to some it is) and not CDs, quoting from Wikipedia:


    The saddest thing: I remember installing that 26-disc-version of Win95 on my PC... it was a long day.

    I remember installing windows 98 on my laptop. The sad part? this was 2 years ago.:D
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