Computer Bild Spiele: Reconstructed Game List

I reconstructed a public, best-effort game list for the Computer Bild Spiele cover discs from the cbs-2000-09 Internet Archive set. The March 2026 release linked below applies stricter rules about what counts as a game.

Browse the live archive:

• computerbildspiele.p0s.eu ↗

To explore the records, browse the game catalog ↗ and issue catalog ↗ , then read the methodology ↗ for the reconstruction and match rules. The archive is unofficial and is not affiliated with the magazine publisher.

Downloads from the March 2026 snapshot:

• Clustered master game list ↗
• Issue-to-game mapping ↗
• Excluded non-game/media titles ↗
• Enriched master table ↗
• Match demotions audit ↗
• Source repo ↗

What This Dataset Is

This project tries to answer a simple question: what games actually appeared on Computer Bild Spiele cover discs?

That sounds easier than it is. The raw material is messy. Early issues can sometimes be helped by structured web sources, but later issues depend heavily on disc-local metadata, OCR, manifest paths, and executable names. That means the extraction layer naturally picks up real games alongside a lot of disc junk: installers, codecs, utilities, editors, walkthrough media, menu labels, and OCR damage.

So the public dataset is not a raw dump. It is a reconstruction layer on top of the raw extraction. The goal is not “keep every string.” The goal is “publish the strongest public game list without pretending uncertain rows are certain.”

Raw extraction and canonical identification are separate steps. An unmatched or ambiguous record remains an unresolved identification, not a confirmed game identity. Follow its source and issue evidence before drawing a conclusion.