Worst Game for Disk Changing...

Przem0 in one of the other Threads, was saying how "Wings" was terrible for disk changed, so i decided to start a thread on this most noble of subjects.

There were a lot of games that had loads of disks "UFO: Enemy Unknown" and "Money Island 2", the latter of which had 12 disks!

But for me, its gotta be Mortal Kombat 2.
There was 2 disk changes to get into every fight, and if you were (un)lucky enough to pull of a Fatality, you had another disk change to view the fatality animation, and yet another to get back to the "You win" screen.

How patient we were....

Dragon's Lair 3
Almost every scene had a disk change.
It was worse when you died!!
You had to reload the original disk, then the save game disk and then the disk with the scene on.

monkey island was one of the worst, i also had a cricket management game that required you to change disks every time an over ended/ batsman was out - real nightmare!!macacd

hahaha. omg.
thats horrific :D

ahhh but the disks and disk changing all add to the nostalgia for me.

Those plastic disks with the flims metal sliding flap.

The clunk as it fell into the drive

memories

The clunk as it fell into the drive

memories

Oscgro

aww man. totally :D

Waxwork was always a ballache at a ten disker!!

Took ages if you were too cheap to splash out on another drive (had 2!!)

I was lucky.

A Power Computing double external drive meant pure luxury in the disk swapping department. :D 

I was lucky.

A Power Computing double external drive meant pure luxury in the disk swapping department. :D 

samsengir

You must have felt like a god! 

Didn't I just!

I'm sure I managed to change one of the externals to df0 as well to give the A500s internal a rest. It was so quite in comparison. :D

Wow this is an ancient thread but someone mentioned TMNT and that was by far the worst offender. Not because of the amount of diskettes but because it had the habit of reading (I'm guessing) 1 byte off of one disk then asking you to swap just to read 1 byte off the second disk and ask you to swap back.

I think there was 20+ disk changes every time you did something that required the game to load in the levels.

Which was pretty much anything. Loading the actual level was way more painful if I recall correctly, which I might not because it's been more than two decades and I only played it once. ;)

You'd just loaded a level and then accidentally walked over a sewer lid and the disk swapping started.

Then you had to climb out of the sewers and now you're up to like 40+ disk changes (not counting loading the level).

Then once you got out of the sewers you accidentally tapped the joystick in the wrong direction and rage quitting was a fact.

If you had an extra disk drive this wasn't a problem but the game was still terribad.

As for Monkey Island 2 that wasn't so bad even though it had 11 diskettes. Although 2 drives is recommended. If I recall it constantly needed disk 7(? It's been a long time) and one or two other disks depending on where you were.

It was fairly painless but of course it's a lot smoother with 3 disk drives (or 4) or a HDD.

I used to borrow my friends extra drives when playing games like that Until I got my first HDD and that sweet fast mem expansion.