Toys R Us selling Wii demo disc @ Gaming Target

Written by John Scalzo on May 04, 2009

News: Five Activision demos for $8.

Travel back in time with me to the days of the early to mid 2000s. George W. Bush was in the White House. The Jesus Christ Chainsaw Massacre was in theaters. Britney Spears was on the radio. And game companies sold demo discs in stores.

Well, if Toys R Us has their way it looks like we may get a repeat of that last one as they've just posted the Activision Demo Action Pack for sale on their website for $7.99. The demo disc includes five Activision games (Big League Sports, Dancing With the Stars: We Dance!, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Monkey Mischief! Party Time, and Shrek's Carnival Craze) along with trailers of other games.

It looks the disc has been available as a promotional giveaway since February according to this guest opinion piece from the Nogales (AZ) International newspaper. It's unknown if Toys R Us received special permission to sell the disc as the front is stamped "Demo Disc Not For Resale".

While Nintendo has never released an official demo disc series for any of its consoles, Sony released the Jampack series from 1997 to 2006 while Microsoft released Xbox Exhibition discs from 2002 to 2004. The Official Xbox Magazine continues to include a demo disc with each issue of the magazine to this day.

We'll have more soon.