Big Bonus CD ROM???

dorkykatie · Post by **dorkykatie** » Wed May 09, 2012 12:20 pm

I had this cd-rom in the early 90's and remember a few games that were on it.
The Settlers
Jill if the Jungle
Blake Stone
Doom
Monster Bash
Jazz Jackrabbit
and a ton more. Did anyone else have this disk and remember the names of more games? There was one that was from Peter Pan and you had to build Wendy a house of sticks I think?

Post by **dosraider** » Thu May 10, 2012 12:40 am

Man, man o manometer ....
There were thousands if not ten thousands such compilation CDs ....
Filled with shareware, tryware, demo, freeware stuffs.

In those days it was cheaper to buy such CD as much peeps were on dial up, not to mention dial up wasn't really reliable when it came to downloading large files.
Also every PC related magazine had some 'cover' CD.

What I mean:
It will be sheer luck if someone remember this specific 'big bonus CD'.

You always can try to find it @
http://cd.textfiles.com/directory.html

Or take a look @
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13353

As for your 'Peter Pan' game, sounds as Peter Pan, a story painting adventure.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/peter ... -adventure

Good luck.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 11:28 am

Oh god yes, I remember this. And have been searching for it for years now.

I think it was called Big Bonus, then with the year 2000 printed below. The games I remember from it was that Peter pan game, also a sort of tower-defenders type game within the peter pan genre, where you sort of have to build a path through for your minion dudes. Also there was 'Zed' where you're this crazy scientist or something and you have a gun and have to get through this trippy world full of acid pools.

To this day I still search for it...

Post by **MrFlibble** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 8:59 am

eBay lists a CD called The Big Bonus Family Activities. Unfortunately, no image is provided by the seller.

Biggles · Post by **Biggles** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 2:36 am

Interestingly I have been looking for this one a couple of years now as well to dig up some childhood memories. When I was a kid, my cousin had it and back in the day I thought it was really cool. I thought the sidescrolling shooter was called Zeb. I was really annoyed at the fact that no matter how much digging, I couldn't fine any of the games on the web anywhere, and I can't remember the names of most of the ones I liked best.

Does anyone remember sidescrolling cave adventure game where the guy you play has to rescue a girl or something? I vividly remember that you had to collect candles to stay alive and sometimes you would dive underwater too. Every time you took a hit, there was this distinctive "Oh-o!" sound effect. Best I can remember it was called the great adventure of something.

sambro · Post by **sambro** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 6:55 pm

Biggles wrote:Interestingly I have been looking for this one a couple of years now as well to dig up some childhood memories. When I was a kid, my cousin had it and back in the day I thought it was really cool. I thought the sidescrolling shooter was called Zeb. I was really annoyed at the fact that no matter how much digging, I couldn't fine any of the games on the web anywhere, and I can't remember the names of most of the ones I liked best.

Does anyone remember sidescrolling cave adventure game where the guy you play has to rescue a girl or something? I vividly remember that you had to collect candles to stay alive and sometimes you would dive underwater too. Every time you took a hit, there was this distinctive "Oh-o!" sound effect. Best I can remember it was called the great adventure of something.

Yeah I remember this disk, and that game was called The adventures of Tom Sawyer or something like that.

Gormous · Post by **Gormous** » Mon May 27, 2013 6:07 pm

I still have the big bonus CD. if anyone really wants it i could try to make some copies of the cd or look into sharing the files on it? 'provided its legal?' since it is a relic and probably incompatible with newer pc's lol.

Zeb was my favourite, then Jazz Jack, then the Tom Sawyer adventure game thing..

If you look on youtube you can find Jazz Jack games.

Post by **MrFlibble** » Mon May 27, 2013 7:44 pm

Gormous wrote:I still have the big bonus CD. if anyone really wants it i could try to make some copies of the cd or look into sharing the files on it? 'provided its legal?' since it is a relic and probably incompatible with newer pc's lol.

Well, you could start by making an index of the CD's contents, it should be legal if there are only shareware versions on it (but sometimes those shovelware CDs contain illegal items anyway).

Archive.org's Shareware CD Archive doesn't seem to have it, so of you make an image of your CD and upload it there (provided that it indeed is legal) then probably it'd be a good thing.

As for potential "incompatibility with new PCs", the only possible problem is that the disc might have become unreadable because of its age.

Gormous · Post by **Gormous** » Mon May 27, 2013 9:02 pm

luckily i still have a PC with an optical drive, only just got a Win8 UltBook. Next week ill be home, dig out the disk and see if its still working. I also have other old game disks that might not be archived yet.

Thanks for your advice, i do hope the games are still compatible and readable.

Post by **dosraider** » Tue May 28, 2013 12:39 am

Gormous wrote:.... i do hope the games are still compatible and readable.

Compatibility:
dosgames -> dosbox
W9xgames -> VPC

Readability ...? Depends, creating an ISO shouldn't be a problem if the disks aren't scratched.
To create valid ISOs (or bin/cue image):
http://www.imgburn.com/

Post by **MrFlibble** » Tue May 28, 2013 6:45 pm

Gormous wrote:I also have other old game disks that might not be archived yet.

Thanks for your advice, i do hope the games are still compatible and readable.

If you have the time and the possibilities to upload large files, that would be awesome

If you have many of those, you might also try contacting Jason Scott or Hallfiry, they will probably be interested in some of your stuff. Especially if you have some old computer and\or gaming magazine cover CDs

Gormous · Post by **Gormous** » Sat Jul 06, 2013 4:10 pm

Found the BIG BONUS CD in a box we used when we moved house. Hardly any scratches so things are looking good. Also found some more multi game CD's. Ill try and get them working in the next couple days.

Gormous · Post by **Gormous** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 8:16 am

http: //www. youtube.com /watch?v=yAgv3yB07_g

Here is a video of the Zeb game.

Biggles · Post by **Biggles** » Sun Dec 08, 2013 1:16 pm

Did you ever get your Big Bonus CD to work Gormous?

Chemiux · Post by **Chemiux** » Mon Sep 28, 2015 9:05 am

Gormous please...

chemiux_bwomp · Post by **chemiux_bwomp** » Fri Oct 16, 2015 6:59 am

I think you are talking about this...
http://www.museumofplay.org/online-coll ... /109.10986

Biggles · Post by **Biggles** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 6:09 pm

Hey guys. I was just looking for this once again as it popped back into my mind. I think I have found it. It just went up on this website a few days ago and seems to be available to download. I will have a go!

archive.org/details/big-bonus

chemiux_bwomp · Post by **chemiux_bwomp** » Tue Mar 29, 2016 1:14 pm

Thanks Biggle!! you made my day man!

Protocube · Post by **Protocube** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 12:58 pm

Is it actually possible to start the files? it just gives me an error that it cant be played on my windows 10

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 1:57 pm

DOSBox or if win9x:compatibility mode, possibly with single core affinity setting?

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