[OT] Breakfastware

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This isn't exactly freeware but, if you are a parent, you probably go
through a mountain of breakfast cereal anyway. General Mills in Canada
is including a free computer game CD with each box of Honey Nut
Cheerios. The games are Rollercoaster Tycoon, Wheel of Fortune,
Stewart Little 2, Battleship, Monoply Tycoon and Jeopardy 2003. The
kicker is the disc label is shown on each box so you can collect them
all without buying 43,000 boxes. They are full games, not demos.
 
This isn't exactly freeware but, if you are a parent, you probably go
through a mountain of breakfast cereal anyway. General Mills in Canada
is including a free computer game CD with each box of Honey Nut
Cheerios. The games are Rollercoaster Tycoon, Wheel of Fortune,
Stewart Little 2, Battleship, Monoply Tycoon and Jeopardy 2003. The
kicker is the disc label is shown on each box so you can collect them
all without buying 43,000 boxes. They are full games, not demos.

I saw them the other day when my wife dragged me to the grocery store to
pick up a few items. What I noticed however, was that none of the games
included Windows XP on their list of supported operating systems. Kinda
like Blockbuster Video's recent special on W95 and DOS games...
 
This isn't exactly
freeware but, if you are a parent, you probably go through a mountain of
breakfast cereal anyway. General Mills in Canada is including a free
computer game CD with each box of Honey Nut Cheerios. The games are
Rollercoaster Tycoon, Wheel of Fortune, Stewart Little 2, Battleship,
Monoply Tycoon and Jeopardy 2003. The kicker is the disc label is shown
on each box so you can collect them all without buying 43,000 boxes. They
are full games, not demos.

I saw them the other day when my wife dragged me to the grocery store to
pick up a few items. What I noticed however, was that none of the games
included Windows XP on their list of supported operating systems. Kinda
like Blockbuster Video's recent special on W95 and DOS games...
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A new category? Cerealware?
 
This isn't exactly freeware but, if you are a parent, you probably go
through a mountain of breakfast cereal anyway. General Mills in Canada
is including a free computer game CD with each box of Honey Nut
Cheerios. The games are Rollercoaster Tycoon, Wheel of Fortune,
Stewart Little 2, Battleship, Monoply Tycoon and Jeopardy 2003. The
kicker is the disc label is shown on each box so you can collect them
all without buying 43,000 boxes. They are full games, not demos.

I saw them the other day when my wife dragged me to the grocery store to
pick up a few items. What I noticed however, was that none of the games
included Windows XP on their list of supported operating systems. Kinda
like Blockbuster Video's recent special on W95 and DOS games...
Click to expand...


I tried out the Rollercoaster Tycoon on my Windows 2000 machine (XP
sucks goats) and it worked perfectly - sound and all.
 
monkeyman said:
This isn't exactly freeware but, if you are a parent, you probably go
through a mountain of breakfast cereal anyway. General Mills in Canada
is including a free computer game CD with each box of Honey Nut
Cheerios. The games are Rollercoaster Tycoon, Wheel of Fortune,
Stewart Little 2, Battleship, Monoply Tycoon and Jeopardy 2003. The
kicker is the disc label is shown on each box so you can collect them
all without buying 43,000 boxes. They are full games, not demos.
Click to expand...
You can get some/most of those games at your local Dollar Store too - I
was in there the other day and they had a bunchg of older but stil lgood
PC games for $1
 
This isn't exactly freeware but, if you are a parent, you probably go
through a mountain of breakfast cereal anyway. General Mills in Canada
is including a free computer game CD with each box of Honey Nut
Cheerios. The games are Rollercoaster Tycoon, Wheel of Fortune,
Stewart Little 2, Battleship, Monoply Tycoon and Jeopardy 2003. The
kicker is the disc label is shown on each box so you can collect them
all without buying 43,000 boxes. They are full games, not demos.
Click to expand...

Yes, and they come with their own spyware as well. They have all been
banned from this computer, and relegated to a non networked computer.
 
You can get some/most of those games at your local Dollar Store too - I
was in there the other day and they had a bunchg of older but stil lgood
PC games for $1
Click to expand...

You have a pretty neat Dollar Store. The ones around here have no
software at all.
 
Yes, and they come with their own spyware as well. They have all been
banned from this computer, and relegated to a non networked computer.
Click to expand...

Install a bit slower next time. You are given the choice to decline
adding the "bonus" software.
 
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