rolling demo

rolling demo

English

Noun

rolling demo (plural rolling demos)

1. (video games) A demonstration version that can be watched but is not interactive.
   • 1991, Contents (in Crash magazine, issue 85, February 1991)

     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.