I used to love those demo and shareware discs where you would get like 40 shareware games. Thats how I discovered things like Jazz Jackrabit, Hugo, Commander Keen and tons of other stuff.
Shareware discs were a drug back then. Here in Spain we had a magazine called
pcmanía that made really cool compilations of shareware games, encyclopedias, programs, etc.
Does anyone remember a martian roving simulator made in voxels (ala Novalogic's Voxelscape)?
Edit: Some games from those CDs.
In Search of Dr. Riptide
Night Raid
Depth Dwellers
Hexxagon
Kapture (tf is going on with the shoots accuracy in this game xD)
King Arthur's Kart (no idea how this thing works, but I guess reading would actually come handy).
Pickle Wars
Puztris (when you violate the license of Tetris and Tiny Toons at the same time you MAYBE do not want to put your addresses in the program
)
Sand Storm
Silver Pinball
Sky Roads (basically the Dark Souls of the endless runner genre)
Link to the disc:
https://archive.org/download/PCMCDS/PCMania CD27_2.nrg (It is in Spanish, but games are usually in English and it's fairly easy to navigate anyway).