My Baldur's Gate+TOSC is 6 discs. I think Under a Killing Moon may have been 7.

It's not that simple, actually.

In Germany the so called "Gold Games" collections were all the rave during the 90s. They always had around 20 discs. (Well, they also had a lot of games). But it made storage a nightmare. I still have some of those discs, as they had some really hard to get classics.

Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2 was released on 19! Discs (okay, not CDs, but Discs *gg*)

http://www.thelegacy.de/Museum/4708/

GK2 has 6 discs.even though I only played it in my cousin's house when I was 6,and it gave me nightmares for several weaks.but it's a pretty good game

I believe nowadays, disc means a flat circular object (this includes CDs, DVDs, LPs, etc.), wheras disk is short for diskette.

EDIT: bazilisek's link tells me that my explanation is just the British usage. :P
Even if the spelling disk hadn't already existed, the diminutive form of disc would still have been diskette because 'discette' would be a very confusing spelling in English.

No it isn't. The word diskette is an American invention to describe the fact that the 3.5" discs that were coming in at the time were smaller. The spelling just got carried over, and UK versions of Windows are still in US English (thereby also spelling disc as disk), but the correct UK spelling of disc is still disc.

Edit: Just noticed your edit. Disc isn't the diminutive form, diskette is.

First, read my edit above. ;)

Second, read bazilisek's link.

Third, in the UK disk is used, but only as a shortening of diskette (and in American software where they like to call most things disks).
I never said disc was the diminutive form, re-read my post. :P

Indeed. I'm aware of disk being used as a shortening of diskette, and I'm aware that it is still used, even though the term diskette itself has fallen out of use. The term hard disk has been carried over from US as is, but the use of the word "disk" to refer to CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs, Blurays etc. is wrong in UK English.

I think we're cross-editing one another here somehow.

the silliest examples are those games that were released on a single DVD in Europe and several CD-ROMs in the US. GRAW came on 4 CDs and only contained 1 or 2 languages (English and Spanish, i think) whereas the European DVD release was fully EFIGS multilingual.

supposedly, that was due to a higher rate of DVD drive adoption in Europe at the time.

I' ve heard the same thing (but I didn't want to bring it up, as I wanted to avoid another US vs Europe debate).

I never disagreed with you there... >.>

In fact, you seem to be more or less stating what I originally said, which was that (in the UK) disc means flat circular object (and all media that take on that form) and disk means diskette. :P

Yeah, you appear to have replied to the most recent version of my post though and I think this was the most recent version of yours.

the x-files was 7 cds , ring 1 or 2 was also like atleast 6 cds.
black dahlia probably is the biggest with 8 cds (thats some disc swapping)

well actually there is x-plane a flight simulator that is like 50-55gb.
i dunno if that was ever released on cd first but still thats alot of cds/dvds

Thank you both for explaining the disk/disc difference.

In french it's "disquette" / "disque compact (CD) -> disque".

But...
...aren't floppy disks flat circular objects in a nearly flat square box?