#Dokiouki

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Release: DemoDemo PlayStation Volume 10, 1995 September (PCPX-96014)

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Buckle in, because this is the first of at least a dozen DemoDemo discs that I have to upload to this blog. As the naming convention might indicate, DemoDemo is something of a cousin to the PlayPlay series of demo discs I’ve released previously, which began life on the PS1. Like the PlayPlay discs, DemoDemo discs were demo compilation discs (albeit solely for the PS1), but given to retailers to use as kiosk content. New discs would arrive every month, bringing with it a new batch of demos to play and preview movies for customers to check out, among other things.

Volume 10 here is notable in that addition to containing the usual sort of content you’d expect from something like this, it also has a little in-progress game called Controller-kun no Tabi, a rudimentary polygonal forced scrolling shooter in the vein of something like Star Fox, but starring a PlayStation controller instead. While nothing to write home about gameplay-wise, it was actually meant to be developed further based on player feedback that was mailed in to the development team, something that I believe was also seen with PlayStation Underground in the West with a wholly separate game altogether. As far as I can tell, however, development never progressed past this disc, making it more a tangential historical curiosity than something you can actually track over time like the Western counterpart. Still, with very little information on it whatsoever even in Japanese, I’m glad I got to have it preserved so it didn’t disappear into complete obscurity. 

Beyond that, the most notable demo on here is arguably the one for Twilight Syndrome, which I believe might be a standalone story not present in the retail game, at least assuming it’s the same as the standalone demo disc for the game that also exists. The handful of commercials you can view are also worth checking out, especially this Darkstalkers one that’s musically going for something I can’t even begin to describe and needs to be seen to be believed.

Anyway, here’s the full breakdown of stuff you can expect to find on this disc:

DemoDemo PlayStation Volume 10, 1995 September PCPX-96014

Demo PlayStation:   Playable Demos (Silver disc icons, left to right, top to bottom):   -Hermie Hopperhead: Scrap Panic   -Shin Nihon Pro Wrestling: Toukon Retsuden   -Power Serve 3D Tennis   -King of Bowling   -Twilight Syndrome   -Puzzler Kanshuu: Oo-chan no Oekaki Logic   -Hyper Formation Soccer   -V-Tennis

  Movies (Green disc icons, left to right, top to bottom):   -Beyond the Beyond   -Street Fighter II Movie   -Gouketsuji Ichizoku 2: Chotto Dake Saikyou Densetsu/Power Instinct 2   -Dokiouki   -Moero! Pro Yakyuu '95: Double Header   -Team 47 Goman   -Universal Ki Kanzen Kaiseki: PachiSlo Simulator   -Tokimeki Memorial: Forever with You   -Detana Twinbee: Yahho! Deluxe Pack   -Suikoden   -Eisei Meijin   -Houma Hunter Lime Special Collection Vol. 2   -Hissatsu Pachinko Station

Request PlayStation:   -Playable in-progress version of Controller-kun no Tabi, a game that was intended to be developed based on player feedback but seemingly never progressed past this stage.

News PlayStation:   -Commercials for Arc the Lad, Mobile Suit Gundam, and Darkstalkers

Have fun!

-Pepsi

[demoban]

Release: DemoDemo PlayStation Volume 12, 1995 November (PCPX-96018)

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This volume of DemoDemo PlayStation is still pretty short on notable titles, but it’s not without at least a few quirky standouts by way of demos for Tokyo Insect Zoo and Namco Museum Volume 1, although you can only fool around with Rally X in the latter. There’s also a decent amount of coverage for Western games that you’ve probably heard of, although the most notable titles of the bunch are relegated to video clips. Still, not the worst demo disc I’ve uploaded to the blog, so without further ado, here’s the full content listing:

DemoDemo PlayStation Volume 12, 1995 November PCPX-96018

Demo PlayStation:   Playable Demos (Silver disc icons, left to right, top to bottom):   -Sengoku Cyber: Fujimaru Jigoku-hen   -Namco Museum Vol. 1   -TIZ: Tokyo Insect Zoo   -Perfect Golf   -Total Eclipse Turbo   -Dokiouki   -Stahlfeder: Tetsukou Hikuudan   -The Oni Taiji: Mezamase! Nidai-me Momotarou   -BreakThru

  Movies (Green disc icons, left to right, top to bottom):   -Two-Tenkaku   -Alone in the Dark 2   -Night Head: The Labyrinth   -Galaxy Fight   -PD Ultraman Invader   -Death Mask   -Classic Road   -Striker: World Cup Premium Stage   -The Snowman   -Tokyo Dungeon   -J.B. Harold: Blue Chicago Blues   -Ninkuu   -Bakushou! All Yoshimoto Quiz Ou Ketteisen DX   -Sento Monogatari Sono I   -Senryaku Shogi

Request PlayStation:   Playable Demos (First row, silver disc icons):   -Destruction Derby   -ESPN Extreme Games

  Movies (Second row, green disc icons)   -Warhawk   -Wipeout   -Twisted Metal

-Pepsi