Installer Porn!

[Frezzato]

I know the installer for Heavy Rain has origami. There's a piece of paper in the case. It's pretty sweet.

Weird, I don't remember ever seeing that. I just checked my case and found the paper square. I must have assumed it was nothing and shoved it back into the instruction booklet. I might make a color photocopy of it and try it out.

 

[deedoubleyou]

The C&C one, in case anyone was interested or feeling nostalgic;

 

[Flatfrog]

I enjoyed the first Circle of Blood (Broken Sword) game's installer which let you play a simple block breaker game while you waited. I definitely was not expecting it so I got quite a kick out of it. Back in the day when I first got it, you could get a couple of games of it in while you were waiting, but now, you don't even see it because the game installs too fast which makes me sad.

I'd put in a screen shot but the version I had was disc based and I no longer have a CD drive and I haven't been able to google one.

Adobe Director (back when it was Macromedia Director) used to come with a built-in block-breaker game you could use as a loading screen for Shockwave games - I think it might even still have it, although sadly it's not the great software it once was. (The company I work for is one of the few that still uses it almost exclusively to create software, but it's pretty painful these days)

 

[teebeeohh]

if you install them today, the installers that told you story bits are so funny because most tied textboxes to install progress so on a modern system all you see is the worlds fastest slideshow.
and c&c, the way the game as an rts could break the fourth wall because it established you as part of the universe was great. and it was cool walking through a GDI HQ in renegade and all the battle interfaces for the commanders looked like the original c&c

 

[EHKOS]

Not really an installer, but I had a trainer for Prototype so I could feel invincible. It loaded up with a well done Alucard menu. There wasn't a border and there was a big blood splash for the background. He was holding both guns down with his arms up and the trainer options around him. I thought that was pretty cool for the equivalent of a PC Gameshark.

Oh my gosh, I just got a flashback of the PS1 GS where it was a cartridge you actually had to plug into the back.