

#Train simulator demo disk trial#
Aware that some captains were struggling with the formidable workload, Iron Wolf Studio have released an updated trial aimed at folk who’d rather focus on tactics than fiddle with technology. Altering course and speed, staffing the sonar room, updating the plot table, operating the Tactical Range Recorder, prepping and dropping the depth charges, aiming and firing the 5-inchers, making the cocoa, deworming the ship’s cat… the player was expected to do absolutely everything. In the first Destroyer demo your Fletcher-class sub stalker was chronically undermanned. Remind you that They Don’t Make Them Like That Anymore.

Help you forget an empty purse or wallet.Carefully curated mixtures of the old and new, the obscure and the rescure, they will, I hope… Tally-Ho Corner’s demo discs – of which this is the second – are my attempt to recreate the experience offered by ye olde periodical platters. Because in 2021 you rarely find yourself installing kite flying sims, apian Settlers clones, and puzzle games inspired by Underground Railroad quilts, out of boredom-tinged curiosity, there’s less chance of unlikely love affairs blossoming. Denied these monthly mix tapes, the gamer of today is, I reckon, less inclined to reconnoitre and genre-flit than their predecessor. Coup de grâced by broadband, the wafer of wonders* that once clung limpet-like to the front cover of almost every games mag is no more. A minute’s silence in memory of the demo disc, if you please.
