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Did You Ever Get the PlayStation 1 Pizza Hut Demo Disc?

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The Pizza Hut demo disc was one of those things you didn't go looking for. It just showed up. Somebody's mom brought home a pizza and there it was, sitting on top of the box in a paper sleeve.

And for a lot of us, that disc got played more than the games we actually owned. Five demos. Final Fantasy VIII, Crash Team Racing, Ape Escape, Cool Boarders 4, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. Every one of them cut off right when you were getting into it. Timer runs out, back to the menu, start it again.

If you had a PlayStation 1 in 1999, there's a good chance this disc was in your rotation. Not because it was good. Because it was there.

This video goes back through the whole Pizza Hut demo disc, one demo at a time, to see how much of it actually holds up and how much of it was just the fact that we had nothing else to play.

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0:00 Intro
3:42 Context
5:28 Cool Boarders 4
7:30 Final Fantasy VIII
9:50 Crash Team Racing
11:46 Ape Escape
13:42 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
16:25 Wrap Up
19:19 Outro

20 Comments

@HiddenSaves Creator 2 months ago Pinned

Which demo did you play the most?

@MaticMarvel359 1 month ago

Man demo disc were so dope, it was a better time.

@DaFuzZ7 1 month ago

These demos were the BEST demo discs hands down. Every single game on them were bangers.

@NerdyWeaponX 1 month ago

I subbed a few months ago to the channel as you have this perfect balance between nostalgia, a calm voice I could listen to for hours and a perspective on games that I haven’t seen anywhere else and I just realised that your videos have become part of my evening/bedtime chill routine 😂

@RealXeroCool 1 month ago

I too have a demo disc I remember playing over and over and hearing you explain your story just makes me want to go back more and more

@Letrictox13 1 month ago (edited)

back when video games were magic. before DLC or needing online capabilities to play. before companies started being greedy. just put the disc in or cartridge and play. 90’s and 2000’s were peak times in society and gaming. great video as always !

@OnTheDownBeat 1 month ago

I live and grew up in Wisconsin. So the intro cutscene/commercial really connected with me as a kid. I seek it out from time to time to feel something again. lmao

@09167 1 month ago

Crazy how similar our experiences with this one demo disc were. Very vivid memories

@bleufalconer 1 month ago

@2:56 30+ years later and that start up still gives me chills!

@rtyuik7 1 month ago

i was also a Nintendo Kid growing up but my friend and his brother had a PlayStation...i dont think they had a 'Pizza Hut' demo disc, but they DID have a demo disc that included Thrashers: Skate And Destroy...it was basically Infinite Free Skate until you pressed Start, and then a timer would give you a few minutes to rack up points before a police officer started chasing you to end the session...we played that same demo-level so many times, i ended up learning all the lyrics to the One Song they included ("King of Rock" by Run-DMC)

@matt_shaboy 1 month ago

I got the one with the Metal Gear Solid demo. It was the introduction to my favorite series of all time...and to think I have a pizza resteraunt to thank for that! Not a gaming magazine review or recommendation from a friend, but Pizza Hut!

@JP-Hendrix 1 month ago

I remember the "Jampack" discs that my mom use to buy me everytime she would see one! I would play these over and over again... What a time it was! :)

@retrodork-n7k 1 month ago

I remember these and the old PS1 interactive discs. The games were fun and some of them has codes in them.

@CrystalDragonLD6 2 months ago (edited)

I remember back in the day when I got a PS1 and had 1 game for it, when I seen the ad for a pizza and a free demo disk I bagged my mom to get it for me. I had disk 1, 2 and 3 that I played to death, so much that I hade to get the CDs re surfaced. Thank you for sharing!! PS tomb raider 3 was my favorite demo with got my to be a really big fan!

@Big_Unc_Jay 1 month ago

I had a couple different ones from Pizza Hut I believe and yeah.. they were awesome. I played them a TON and still to this day bring them up to people and others remember them too. It’s just that they gave you demos of some really amazing titles. And considering us kids back then couldn’t hardly ever get past the first few levels in lots of games the demos were like the perfect format for us to just play them over and over and over.

@simplyphenomenal695 1 month ago

I wonder if anyone still has the winning disc and if it’s worth a lot ? So retro and nostalgic I love it !

@Trad_Plan854 1 month ago (edited)

I still have my copy of Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge and my Xbox. I remember there was a game demo I fell in love with on that disc. I had to get a copy of that one, too. I never got to play it, because my Xbox broke when I finally got a copy. Now it's so close to being repaired, I can almost hear Voodoo Vince again❤

@diamonddead8162 1 month ago

I had a demo with Firebugs, treasure planet, I can’t remember what else was in I wanna say Stuart little 2 was on it too

@MeinenNamenSagIchNicht 1 month ago

My Neighbor hat a PSX, I was a PC gamer back then. But DemoDiscs were the backbone for our gaming fascination back then. We had often no money to buy games. With demodiscs we were able to play and check out many more games. And we did not just play the games, we made experiments like you describes in the video.
Usually a Demodisk kept us busy playing for a month until the next one arrived in a Magazine.

Good Memories, thank you for for making me remember.