One of my favorite pastimes as a kid was digging through the “1000s of Games” disc I had that was full of demos, shovelware, Doom mods, and tons of other garbage. Occasionally you’d find a diamond hidden in the turds.

There’s even a Youtuber who does “Shovel Diggers” as a show and it’s just that! Him and his community riffle around in old shareware collections looking for treasures, which he showcases.

But yeah, most of the content on those discs would have qualified more as viruses than games, if they even ran in the first place!