*This* is the thing that the download era, that the CD-ROM era missed. I got the shareware games. I got them on shovelware CDs full of thousands of titles with no context. I read about them on blogs I found with early search engines and then I'd go dig them out of the mess of CDs I had because it was faster than downloading them.
And, when I found one that lived up to it's hype, I'd play the hell out of it.
*then* I'd make copies on a dozen floppies and pass them out to a dozen friends.