Neapolitan newsstand collections of Commodore 64 games on Floppy Disk
Until early 1990s, on Italian newsstands it was possible to find magazines with floppy disks of Neapolitan and in general pirate origin, which tried to imitate the newsstand cassettes, offering both pirated games with altered names and pirated games with original names. Very often pirates try to save money, so the magazine was present on the Floppy itself and therefore everything was composed only by the floppy disk in a promotional cover. This made very difficult to understand what the disk contains, unless you try the diskette.
Among the many Neapolitan magazines with Floppy disks that appeared in newsstands, to remember are the ZIP Disk, Superfloppy 64 and M.A.S.H, Hit Parade 64 for Commodore (or simply Hit parade in some numbers, making confusion with the series on cassettes that had nothing to do).
The Neapolitan house Di.Erre, about 1992, decided to eliminate the residual stock of its magazines ZIP Disk and MASH, by creating a new magazine called TRIS 64, which contained 3 discs coming from 3 different magazines, which came often sold at an advantageous price: 10,000 lire for the first and second numbers and only 5000 lire from the third onwards.
Finally, there was also the magazine "New Games 64 per Commodore", also of Neapolitan origin and with two floppies of pirate games attached.
source: http://infogiochi.altervista.org/
