rolling demo

English

Noun

rolling demo (plural rolling demos)

1. (video games) A demonstration version that can be watched but is not interactive.
   • 1991 February, “Contents”, in Crash‎^[1], number 85:

     Trantor (US Gold)! Ocean Conqueror (Hewson)! Moron (Atlantis)! Master Brain (Powertape)! North and South - rolling demo (Infogrames)! And another selection of game busting pokes in Pokemania!

   • 2007, Simon Logan, Pretty Little Things to Fill Up the Void, page 141:

     The game's rolling demo flickered in front of her and she felt herself being drawn into the ghosts that it held in that LCD screen.

   • 2009, Andrew Rollings, Dave Morris, Game architecture and design:

     As we said, Grim Fandango is of exceptionally high quality — easily good enough that you could just sit through a rolling demo of the entire game, with every puzzle solved for you, and enjoy it as perfectly well as an animated movie.

See also

• attract mode