Those who lived through it, describe the 90s as a PC gamer
No shitskins. Zero.
>>747471871Sounds like bs
I'm fine I can play a little longer.
>>747471610it didn't look anything like your aisloppa image, for one
>>747472353That's a real photo, shizo
>>747471610>fuck sake i need to run it in DOS>my 3Dfx card can do THIS?>buying games because they look cool and you're gambling on them being good, shit or not working at all
The internet was like two islands, one was USA, Europe, Canada, etc, the other was Japan. The world was beautiful, full of hope. The games were good. The future was limitless.
>>747472442>GOYIM, MY AI GENERATED SLOPPA IS REAL, SCHIZO!
>>747471610Remove the internet, remove any social media, downgrade your pc setup, download old games There you have it, you can experience it right now
>>747471610glorious midi
>>747471610this guy must have been rich
>>747471610Pizza shop across from the Comic Shop which also stocked Pen & Paper RPGs and had space in the back rooms for wargaming & painting. And the arcade & pool hall a couple doors down alongside a Mom & Pop computer store with two computers near the front to demo the games they were selling, and the used book store at the end of the block.Good times.
I used to kick my pentium PC a lot, my pentium 2, 3 and 4 too
>>747471610Mostly played strategy and puzzle games. Command & Conquer, Theme Hospital, Championship Manager 97, Myst, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Sim City 2000. I had a friend with a really good set up with voodoo graphics and 4 of us would huddle around his PC after school to play stuff like Quake
>>747472167No shit. CRT flicker sucks, but I kept playing.
>>747471610Cleaning up your mouse was a chore.Grime built up in the ball socket.
Dad installed a game on his computer and showed it to my brother and me when we were little goobers, we were blown away because we've never seen a computer game before, it was a nice feeling
>>747473175I still play Theme Hospital and the remake they did some years ago that I got for free on epic
>>747471610>all those big box games, of the entire C&C seriesI'm jealous.
I was a 90s gamer for like two whole months. Nobody had any internet, everyone had pirated gaems regardless.
I remember walking into a PC shop and the smell of new hardware was everywhere, was so awesome, the smell of the magical smoke
>>747471610Imagine owning PC games like you could own board games and such
It was a coinflip whether a new game would actually work on your pc and troubleshooting was torturous. But I had endless fun playing demo disks that came with magazines.
>>747472792Imagine being so mindbroken by AI, anything he sees is AI.
>>747472690this is trueboth western games and japanese games were doing good and pushing gaming further as a medium
>>747471610It was comfy maxxed. A golden period of constant technological development and wild west game design.>>747473767>It was a coinflip whether a new game would actually work on your pcThis was definitely a drawback since every dev was kind of doing their own thing, but I just accepted it when a game wouldn't work since I could always play different stuff on friends pc's, and that was part of the magic of pc gaming back then if you had an especially shitty computer, you'd always get introduced to interesting games you hadn't heard of yet.
>>747471610>playing demo discs and shareware versions of shit to absolute death because poor>getting a PhD in DOS memory management to be able to launch a game and have all the necessary drivers loaded>every other game having some kind of weird hoops you need to jump through to get any kind of sound working>being absolutely blown away by the OG Doom>constant envy for consoles and arcade machines because until around the time win95 and first 3d accelerator cards came around, they always had better graphics and smoother framerates>dad teaching me how to edit saves in XCOMThese are probably my biggest memories from early 90s PC vidya.
>>747471871True. Relating how extremely good that is to people that haven't experienced it is hard. Like asking to recreate it. And they don't deserve it.Everything was for like a higher class of people that was brought about by expecting it.Modern people are the exact opposite.
>>747471610Lost futures.
After school we would go to a games rental (they would rent out the whole box with manuals and discs) than to a copyshop to xero the manuals so we could bypass the protection once we returned the games. I remember having to copy dozens of pages regularly and having a really heavy bag due to all the fucking paper. Sometimes you had to disassemble the code wheel and remake it from copies, made 7yo me feel like a spy. As a PC gamer specifically it was great to have all the sims and strategy games but shit on the action sidescrolling side so it was nice to have home computer and console cucks in your friend group or family. Asking mom to drive 80kg of shit to your friend house or a lan back and forth came with the price of timed slavery usually. Naked woman pictures/videos access before everyone else was a major flex.
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>>747471610It was glorious. Games were all made by nerdy white and Asian men. If niggers were in a game they were based black men like Shadow Man. Kino was to be found everywhere. Games came on physical media in big colorful boxes. You could easily buy some game knowing absolutely nothing about it other than what you saw on the box and unknowingly start playing one of the GOATs. Women in games were designed to be as sexy as possible. Things were more innocent and identity politics were nowhere to be seen.
>>747472142It's true, faggot. Quake was the white and asian man's domain.
>>747474540>>dad teaching me how to edit saves in XCOMSCUM
floppy discs, many floppy discs
>>747471610I think the craziest thing everybody took for granted at the time is publications like magazines were made by and for hobbyists, and while they contained ads on specific ad pages, they were not adverts. They were informative, speculative, and worth reading because information was harder to obtain.It wasn't until the hobby exploded in popularity after console games like halo appeared that games journalism became unethical.
>>747471871^ This. They were 99.999% filtered by a general lack of interest and it was an incredible time.
>>747472806This. It's actually really easy, download a bunch of GOG games, download a strategy pdfs, unplug the internet.
>>747471610I think it's age dependent, I was a 5-15 during that decade and therefor poor and games were really expensive, we got nes like a year before we got snes. I had maybe 5 nes games and played 5 more at friends houses. Snes lasted longer so I think I had 8-10 games and probably played around 25 in total. After that we got pc and the games there were cheaper, after a year or so many games got special poortards editions for around 10 dollars/euros and later on you figured out how to pirate and cd burners became cheap and then we got DSL in the late 90s.
>>747473521it's not real, so
>>747473896shalom, yid!
>>747475478>>>>>asianJaps went full nationalist on their PC-98s and MSXes and once those died they renounced PCs altogether. They contributed absolutely nothing to DOS and Windows games.Unless you mean asian americans, but I struggle to recall a single asian-sounding name in any 90s American PC game's credits.
>>747476714>They contributed absolutely nothing to DOS and Windows games.false, retarded nigger who doesn't play videogames
>>747477202Name two Japanese DOS/Windows (not ports of console games) commerial games made between 1990 and 1999.
>>747471610It was kino.Fashy kino.
>>747476532inagine having no response to being called out for your mistake and seething about Jewsyou got raped hard lmao
>>747472806The world is still infested by subhuman niggers, kikes, faggots, etc...It ain't the same.
>>747477590tower of the sorcerer and pic related
>>747471610wtf I had this exact monitor, keyboard, and PC case for my first computerI had stereo speakers though
>>747477839i didn't make any mistakes, hymieoven yourself, ashtray resident
There was an incredible unwritten promise of amazing gaming worlds but it never happened. We got dull copy-pasted creatively bankrupt tedium and gambling mechanics instead.In terms of innovation, 1990-1999 were probably the most interesting years in my experience.
>>747478076>i didn't make any mistakesexcept for the one where you screamed "AI" at a real photo. you are pathetic vermin.
>>747472442Is it? Isn't the space to move the mouse way too small?
>>747471610Peak
>>747478518Nigga you take what you can
>>747472353can we get a ban in this underage retard
>sit in a lobby>manually call up friends on a corded phone to try to get them to join custom warcraft lobbies>no idea what a meta game or optimal playing strategy was>had tons of fun losing while discussing the latest episode of dragon ball z>update our myspace pages and try to flirt with our msn crushes
>>747478518this is my spaceyou have a problem
>>747472690Then those two islands shot themselves in the dicks
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>>747472142that pic almost certainly is from the early 2000's
>>747472167I completely forgot this used to be a thing.
>>747471610>describe the 90s! >wc3 box???????
>>747472792prove its AI slop>>747472442prove its not AI slop
>>747479525can't open my fingers that much if i do that one, only index finger guess side-effects of hitting walls when i was a teenager
>>747471610Restarting your computer because Windows 95/98 blue screened...again.
>>747471610no one was just a pc gamer like they are now. everyone had consoles too because pc lacked a ton of games. but it did have weird experimental stuff, the internet, fps and rts games, lan and ip connections, hacking, piracy, chatrooms. which consoles had none of. it was really exciting in its own unique way. and the internet itself was way better than it is now.
Download Amiberry and Amiga Vision for 16bit emulation with all the games and see for yourself.
>>747479627you know in the past. vidya didn't expire so you could have 90' video games into the 2000's?i find more annoying the ut2k4 huge box because that game come into the little box for me already
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>>747479764>no one was just a pc gamer stop projecting retard
>>747477590Ys I+II
>>747479896>trying to copy commandos from my cousin on floppy disks before we got internet
>>747479896I used to go to this local lan cafe in nyc to play WC3 with my 12 year old friends. There was a 16 year old daughter of the owner who would be in charge of the place sometimes with HUGE tits. I miss those days
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>>747471610not helping you write some faggy video essay, zoomer. you only have 16 subscribers anyway.
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>>747480027For me, it was SCBW tournaments. I miss that people used to be passionate about games without being absolutely degenerate autists. Nowadays I still play but I cannot engage with the communities at all
>>747480039That's 16 more than you tho
>>747480132This is the future we were promised but didn't deserve
>>747480206unreal tournament??
"I can't wait to play tomorrow too!"
>>747471610A lot of friction, a lot of jank, a lot of variety.
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>>747480257seems that way, not sure if 2k3 or 2k4i remember i played some leak but i dont remember which one was leaked either
>>747480293what is that at the start, BF1942? another lan staple.
>>747471871>>747475221>>747476134Its bad to tell lies on the internet
guys, LAN's still exist
>>747471610Here is the non-larp truth of what it was>mostly play demo discs from PC mags>the only 2 games you do have are an online fps and a blizzard game>You're really bad at both of those>emulate but nothing decent because there's tons of disinformation from retard pits like gamefaqs>get tricked into buying some boring point and click>get annoyed and go back to consoles until steam and wow are a thingAnd that's the whole of PC gaming in the 90s
>>747480446anon, I went to a recent lan and there were four or five people streaming directly to twitch... That should tell you enough
>>747480547I will never understand the appeal of point and clicks, it seems like the height of autism to me
thread themehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck0LO6b6OQc
>>747480446I miss playing cod zombies on lan with some old bros i had, yeah we were terrible and the only EE we could managed to do was the mob of the dead one (the easiest one btw) but it was a magical feeling to just fuck around late at night with no worries in the world...
>>747471610>seaNigger>year 97-99>only play arcade and a modchip'd ps1 with friends>Fuckton of computer rental shops near school with games too complicated for my monkey brain>sit once a computer tutorial class>"first you need to type D I R slash Double U.>huh? >go out and play arcade games on a nearby mall
>>747480547sounds like you were retarded because that wasn't the experience of myself or any of my family
>>747471610comfyI always loved the sounds of my dad's old pentium 2 booting upalso having to memories the directories to get to the games he had installed so i could play mystic towers and this one other game where you're both gorillas on skyscrapers who throw bananas at each other
>>747480649Not everything is a general, find a new website to shit up
>>747478518People weren't doing sweaty fps multiplayer back then. We made do with the space we had.I don't miss these. Ours was half the size with no draws.
>>747480562get new friends, or host your own LAN and make rules that forbids streaming
>>747480707You're a funny guy, try not to be a cunt your whole life
>>747479627I think its a real picture, not AIit is however some redditor's current "retro battlestation" not a photo from back in the day
>>747480689Half the pictures and webms in this thread aren't even from the 90s. >>747480415>>747480293>>747480206>>747480132>>747480027All 2000s. This is a retarded larp thread.
>>747472167>tfw got a gameboy for christman in 89>spend so long playing tetris on that dinky little screen that I went partially blind because of the omega-level eyestrain
>>747480761fair enough, I should do that and also ban games made after 2004 (not sure how I would enforce that though). Honestly streaming isn't horrible, I used to sneak off to my business school during university (they had these like team study pod rooms that students could use) and stream the original binding of Isaac to a buddy of mine 500 miles away and we would just chill and shoot the shit while it snowed outside. Those are some of my favorite gaming memories.
>>747480824how's that related to what i said dumb retardanyway what a surprise there's hardly any picfures of people playing videogames in the 90'swhats next? you'll be surprised theres no pictures of food in the 80's so food didn't exists?
>>747480649for me, it's the classic 1998 kpophttps://youtu.be/udTfbgydspY?si=_WJ2p7-MmR1r25aZ
>>747480661sounds based, i miss playing gears 2 horde mode on river
>>747480824wait till you discover phones and cameras wasn't a common thing in the 90's underage
>>747480985Bored of your shit thread already, clearly you haven't come here to discuss video games. Just bump bad and repetitive threads.
>>747480707seconding
>>747473767only if you had shit hardware, I don't remember ever having this problem, you either had the minimum requirements or not.>>747471610configuring the fucking soundcard was a pain in the ass, if you put the wrong parameters the computer would crash.I was worth it though, PC gaming was insanely ahead of cucksoles after the mid 90s.
>>747481061you are the one shitting the thread because you think your experience its the only one in the world because you were a dumb retard
>>747480547This more or less describes it.You had to lie cheat or steal to have a good computer and more than two games.And you were awful at them.You could frequently find second hand snes games for a fraction of what it cost to buy a new pc game.And you sucked at those too, but at least you didn't get ripped off.
>>747481137You are the dumb retard and you had the same exact experience except you never grew out of your diaper so /v/ has to be cursed by your severe mental retardation forever
>>747480547I had like 60 disks of game rips and pirated copies, we played RA on a modem, you are a mongoloid retard or just lieing.
Lean operating systems that consumed megabytes of RAM, did only what they needed to, and knew how to stay the hell out of the way.
>>747471610AI image>>747472167People forgot that CRTs absolutely destroyed eyesight since you're pointing the electron beam directly into your face.
Lots of shovelwareLots of edgy stuff you can't get on consolesLots of your computer not being beefy enoughEmulation was fucking sweetGameFAQs was THE place to find out what was going on with your esoteric gameMemory going from KB to MB to GBDiscs, Discs everywhere
>>747471610AYO POOKY, GET ON THE PHONE
>>747481341>I had 60 burned CDs of shitty games my uncle gave me that I didn't play that I had to hope were listed in my telephone book of cracks, I played RA on a modem with..... other 8 year olds and trust me I was a real pro at this meme game that's terrible for multiplayer, those were the days!!
>>747479896>this is what clinically social-online zoomers think LAN parties were like
>>747480293>Runeman, Rune multiplayer was fucking insane, it's a crime that we never had a game like that ever again...
>>747481441>Discs, Discs everywhereit wasn't that bad...what was the game with 11 disks? or i'm miss-remembering? i remember x-files was 7
>>747480446cucksoles killed LAN gaming with their central server bullshit.
>>747480356It's 2003.
>>747480741That looks like a super fucking comfy setup. Our 90s family PC was on a small wheeled trolley type desk not much wider than about 70cm
>>747471610>stealing pictures from Facebookgrim
>>747471610CRTs sucked but we didn't have anything else
>>747479627You're a sperg.
>>747479627>describe the 2026>WHY YOU HAVE CLOTHES FROM 2025?>WHY YOU HAVE A PHONE FROM 2025?>WHY ISN'T YOUR CAR FROM CURRENT YEAR?please kill yourself
I remember playing my first game online, it was some kind of pool/billiards game, might have been on DOS, and it had no chat function, but it did update whatever name you put in in real time. My friend and I thought it was the coolest shit being able to talk to each other by erasing and rewriting our names to say stuff to each other via the computer.
>>747481554I played Anno, Submarine titans, Z steel soldiers, HoMM 2, Hellfire, Brood war on lan with maps the 4 of us made, RA, Settler 2 and 3 I guess 1 on Amiga doesnt count as a PC game, Jazz Jack Rabbit CTF with 4 people and many I currently cant remember. You are a salty ass faggot tourist, watch your tone when replying to me.
More than 2/3 of this thread is a single person very obviously samefagging. This is what /v/ is now.
>>747471610>Dail-up>Mom hoarding the mailed AOL discs>Dad gave zero fucks about the PC>Printers sounding like you were summoning a daemon from the 7th circle of hell>having to reprint things because you fucked up taking the perforated edges off>Doom, Wolfenstein, on 95>F-14 Tomcat at my uncle's house on a green Macintosh>Found out how to emulate Pokemon Red on my PC >Waiting 5 minutes to load up 1 picture of boobs>Learned how to make your own web pages making hyperlinks or tricking your friends to click on porn to get them in trouble>The move from green to color graphics then 2D to early 3d>Install Wizard and seeing cool art the devs put in as you installed your games>Occasional games having the midi tool to let you mess around with synths>playing early web browser games that AOL would charge you 99 cents an hour>Your family PC being dogshit and not knowing this so games you bought ran like slideshows>Mom buying pic rel
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>>747482361are ids only for threads? just wondering or for the whole website and always the same?
>>747471610My family had a CGA monitor until 19964 color Bard's Tale, Quest for Glory and King's Quest 4. Not just any 4 colors, but black, white, and two of the most eye gouging ones visible to the human eye. Oh yeah there were a bunch of god awful ASCII games. I remember a moon landing one and one where your icon was falling down a pit and you had to collect items while avoiding crashing into the sidesNethack would have been right up my alley but I never discovered it. God I would have played little elseI had more fun with my NES generally speaking. I got to play real PC games the last half of the 90s. Doom, Ultima 7/SI, RotK 3 and 4. Plus my older games but this time with 16 color palettes
i didnt have internet until the late 90s, even then i was earlier than most in my countrypre-internet 90s:>relied on magazines for information on new releases, the journos back then weren't colossal faggots so you tended to get reliable info for the most part>magazines came with demo discs, filled with demos for upcoming games, this was the best way to find that game you actually want to buy (or get for christmas/birthday)>if you wanted a guide to get through a specific part of a game, you had to buy the guidebook (if the game had one), otherwise you'd have to ask your friends for help, or hope that the latest issue of a magazine has some tips in itpost-internet 90s:>still relied on magazines for the most part because the internet was kinda shit, you had terrible search engines that wouldn't help you find anything too specific, and internet connections were too slow to download full demos or games>it was great being able to chat with gamers across the world and share your opinions with them>instead of sending a letter to a magazine to comment on some shit you saw in the last issue that you had an opinion on, you can now email them! the future is now!
>>747482361>that last postwe live in a society
>Going on some FTP site, or exploring someone's directory via mIRC>Find a bunch of files that have names that correspond to NES games I recognize>"What the hell are .nes files?">mfw I found out what NESticle and emulation was
>>747471610I had several big box versions of Diablo, Diablo II, Lord of Destruction, and then the Battle Chest, all mint condition. I also had a huge Baldur's Gate big box collection with all the original releases and maps. I threw it all in the trash because I converted to Christianity and realized they are idols in my house having images of demons. They are sitting in a dump somewhere.
>>747482467>and internet connections were too slow to download full demos or gamesmeanwhile i was trying to download kof99 for 4 hours a saturday morning till some retard called my house and my internet went out
>>747481658Some singular games got pretty bad. I feel like by the time DVDs were a thing digital distribution was picking up and publishers were still using CDs because not everyone upgraded to a DVD drive. An individual game was usually not bad, but Baldur's Gate was a trip with its 5 discs in 98. It was never just one game though, just the fact you had a bunch of discs which were either burned copies or stored in those disc holders where everyone tossed the original jewel cases, but even before CDs you'd get a handful of floppies.
>>747471610It was great. I miss the 90s.
>>747482467>the journos back then weren't colossal faggotsYes they were, they were 100x worse than they are now and didn't even play the games most of the time, you were just too stupid to know any better.
>>747482482>>Going on some FTP site, or exploring someone's directory via mIRCi was doing the same for music concerts
>>747471610Games were fun because they were designed to be played for enjoyment rather than designed to keep you attached to drive up player login metrics. Bad games existed, but there were so many gems that people still dig up games that they never got to play or never heard of. It was a time where you could go to the store and buy a game and end up with a local gem or a very rare game that nobody had heard about and have a really good time.And online play was good. Internet wasn't in every country and every low income household. The people who joined lobbies weren't third-worlders seeking social credit or depressed burger flippers who were too afraid to pull the trigger or angry faggots seeking social approval through twitter moments. Your lobbies were full of people who liked playing games and wanted to play a game with you. My first "nationalist conflict" with other people wasn't even in the 90s, it was in the early 00s in some Graal Online server where Canadians declared war on Americans.Shareware was so prolific that you always had hundreds or thousands of games to sample at any given moment, some of which allowed online play. It was also common for multiplayer games to have pass/spawn style multiplayer in which you could buy a game, install it on your friends PCs, and they could also connect online to play as long as it was with you. It was normal to share your PC games with friends so you could all play together.tl;dr games were actually meant to be played, there were a lot of them, and the majority of people online were friendly and wanted to play.
>>747479180ironic zoomoidal nigger, i'm old enough to be your dad, i've been on this site since before you were even fucking born
>>747482431IDs are always thread only. Hiroshimoot hates them. Abib fears them. The quality of this website will keep going lower and lower until every single indian rapist will start using 4chan without the adblocker.
>>747482648I was going to call this post AI generated, but it is so inaccurate that's impossible.
>>747482551never got original games on floppys. my first original game for pc was C&C>baldurs gatei was thinking about that too but wasn't sure how many disks were
>>747478359at an aisloppa image*now die, kike
>>747480027That looks like some dystopic recreational compound. Where was this, Megacity One? Cybercity Oedo?
>>747482747oh. then i see no reason to not add themworst thing i do is double-reply sometimes my brain is just slow
>>747482721>old enough to be your dadholy shit them get into the asylum fuck sake what are you doing here at 70 years old
>>747480547>>747480824Retard.
Damn OP, you got me thinking about so many games... Thanks for the nostalgia trip today. Just got duck station up and running so this weekend will be packed with old games.
>>747482936NTA no one cared how old you are here, unless you were underageb&, until normalfags and tourists started showing up bringing their weird you're X you should be Y!. We used to get old fags who could give some good insight into things and behaviors and information that's good is welcome regardless of age.tl;dr stop being a fag we're all anon
>>747483158i'm not the retard bringing up "i could be your dad" bullshit here
>>747483158>We used to get old fags who could give some good insight into things and behaviors and informationAnd you'll never be one of them esl-kun
>>747483103>trying to play one of those SWAT games without a good GPU and everyone being spike monsters and the game moving at 1fps
>>747483215oldfag and old fag are two different things.
>>747471610Early 90s:I'm a babb and only play whatever Dad installed for me (The Incredible Machine)Late 90s:No internet outside of dialup, no torrents or anythingMy main way of getting games is borrowing from a friend who has a gamer dadMy favorites are FIFA 98 and AoE2. My friend gets Unreal Tournament, but it needs a beast of a machine (200+MHz, 3dfx Voodoo2) which I don't have
>>747483458>dad scolds me for buying a banshee to play unreal16.000pts i saved
>>747482567looks like supreme commander
>>747471610played the same games over and over since >you either had the freeware versions>found a pirated CD or floppy on some local market>everybody shared their games with friends to at least get some more variety>closest experience you got to online play was the school computer class after hours and playing shit like Quake 2 or HL1 deathmatch>game reviews were unreliable so finding new games either came with demo disks or leap or faiths. Ended up with real stinkers on the last one like a shitty ass Die Hard license gameTo install BG2 I had to delete almost everything on my hard drive except the windos OS install. As it was a cool 2gb on something like four CDs. Lost count on how many Half life 1 playthroughs I did after round 15
>>747483689i remember buying pirate copies of games to a co-worker of my motherwell for 10% of the real price of the game it was a good way to get more games before we got internet
>>747483689>>game reviews were unreliable so finding new games either came with demo disks or leap or faiths. Ended up with real stinkers on the last one like a shitty ass Die Hard license gamefor me, it was "omg look at these shitty 200x200 pixel screenshots on the back of the box! and the flavor test! Time to buy it!"For example, on the back of broodwar's box there are images that are physically impossible in the actual game; however, the new tilesets looked nice
>>747471610I remember my dad got cable internet as soon as it was available in the late 90s. A grade-schooler shouldn't be allowed such power but I mostly used it to play Starcraft
>>747471610If you were a ruralfag, it was suffering. The nearest city didn't really have a computer shop, so you had to get obscenely lucky to get a real game instead of shareware. There was a software shop at the mall, but they only really had "real" software and not many games. They only had a rack of disks and each shareware game was 5 bucks (a ripoff, yeah, but it is what it is). I remember finding X-Com: UFO Defense at a Wal-Mart and went fucking apeshit. I begged my mom to get it for me. It remains one of the highlights of my vidya youth. Things got easier around when Quake 2 came out.
>>747483689>Reviews were unreliable Nigga you could actually trust PCGamer. They were a TITAN of the industry and their word was gospel.
>>747483770a classmates older brother had a CD burner and made a little side buck selling pirated copies of games he had. I got a Opposing Force copy from him that always crashed when entering the pit worm level post biodome. On the upside that was the first time I learned how to use a games console to skip the level and start at the next one that was not corrupted kek
>>747477961Then your issue is with the world and not the 90s PC gaming setup.
>>747483958>beg my mother to buy me carmageddon 2>convince her>store retard goes and tell her the game is about running over pregnant women and old people>my mother says nope>ask my cousin for a copy for my birtheday 5 months later
>>747483994not any available where I lived. They were a niche upon niche and when one physical copy appeared, after a classmates father had a foreign trip and bought one back, it got passed around and read into literal shreds. The demo disk did not last long either
>>747484121>birthedaytime for some tenchu
Games tasted like fresh fruit from your local farmThey had that "Thing"
>>747483818well you at least had the official boxes. pirated CD and floppies were literally just "SC:BW" scribbled on with a marker that sometimes had some photocopied cover on the case
>>747479956KINo
>>747471610I'm using one of those old intellipoints right now. Best mouse ever made.
>>747471871Not quite 0 but socioeconomic factors meant that they were basically white anyway since you had to be middle or upper class to have a PC at home or you were in college so you weren't completely retarded (and admissions standards were higher then). The best to imagine 90's internet is to imagine that everyone was nerdy, white, or asian. That's basically true. It was a nerd's paradise.
>>747471871The NBA games existed in the 90s you know
i was going to smugpost about bitmap shades being a meme to this day while most people had no idea what the source was, but actually Xenon 2 was from 1989 so technically off topic.
>>747481413>People forgot that CRTs absolutely destroyed eyesight since you're pointing the electron beam directly into your face.Never have needed glasses so far (at over 40 years old now) even though I stuck with CRTs longer than most.
>>747485687did your father use glasses?mine did so i ended needing them toodoesn't help i did some pretty fucked up things with my body as a kid
>>747481413I have perfect eyesight despite being glued to a CRT for a decade. Its just genes.
>>747477590SimTower and lots of coomer gamesyou are correct though, japs were mostly irrelevant
My mother took one look at Doom and had a complete and total meltdown.
>Secret of Monkey Island>Stuck in the first town, never realized you could walk to the right from the lookout to access the rest of the island>Wander around for hours, still enjoying being aimless>Dad for some reason comes home from work one day with a printed text walkthrough>No idea how he got the idea to search if such a thing existed onlineWe might've had dial-up at home at the time, but GameFAQs was not ubiquitous. Thanks Pa, what a thoughtful gesture
>>747486216no, he's wrong, the japanese did make dos and especially windows software in the 90s, his retarded nigger claim is that they didn't, which is patently and demonstrably false, he is a lying niggoid
>>747486467Was she doing this the whole time
>Religious parents being against Doom when it's all about being a good Christian and massacring literal demons from hell while protecting innocentsWhy are boomers so retarded?
>>747486467Kek my mother took a look at some Daedric guy from Oblivion and forced my brother to uninstall the game. She brought out the holy water and everything.
>>747485816He did eventually need glasses due to aging (afaik pretty much everyone needs glasses or surgery eventually) and the same fate will await me too since for some years already I've noticed I can't focus my eyes very close up like I used to, though so far I can still live with it.Anyways I don't think it was ever proven that CRTs cause permanent eye damage. There's lead in the front glass which blocks all x-rays. The flicker can cause short-term eyestrain and headaches but that in itself isn't going to lead to permanent issues, and some people are more sensitive to it others anyway. (I really hated looking at 60Hz and especially 50Hz screens after I got used to 70Hz on PC right from the beginning...)
My dad is directly responsible for me playing video games. We used to play action half life and modded DBZ from some kind of source gold game I forget which. He's old now and really, really fucking loves fallout 4 for some godforsaken reason, but he's earned it. Godspeed playing trash dad.
>>747487940my father eyesight got better after 60 somehow
>>747471610In the early days of 3d PC gaming, graphics drivers were all over the place as was the hardware itself. You never knew if a particular game was going to run properly or not or if updating your driver was going to then break your favorite game which was already running perfectly. Probably my favorite part of 90s multiplayer gaming was the fact that dedicated servers basically didn't exist. So anyone could host a game server and you would eventually find your favorite place to play and make friends with the regulars on that server. This was really prominent with games like Quake and Half Life.
>>747483275True for the 3d games but swat 2 was a strategy 2d game.
>>747488664thats why i said "one of those SWAT games"i dont remember which one, i only remember the first mission was in a mansion
>>747488859Swat 3? Also a very good game
>>747471610>describe the 90s as a PC gamerIt was great. It was way easier to get real friends as a gamer since multiplayer was played in LAN so you had people play in the same spot as you. Multiplayer died with online play for me personally. I wish we could go back to the LAN days of MechWarrior 2 and Quake 2.
i kind of want to build a windows 95 pentium 1 rig and get a soundblaster, a roland sound canvas, a joystick, a CD-ROM drive, the works and figure out how to use an old-school compiler and code my own homebrew.
>shitty house pc in dad's office>play shitty games from random magazines, pic related>once in a while, older cousin that knew DOS would install a game from a floppy disk>one day, convince my dad to get unreal tournament>install, it crashes pcThe 2000s were much easier
>>747489085checked. i was wrong sorry anonit was rainbow sixhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvAVq2w5I4s&list=PLMnFiCK45u-CfoZ5E-nmne9yjbMa2zrMe
>>747475271Even DRM had sovl...
>>747489395>pc in my bedroom>wake up and go shower>was trying to download some shit>see my mother in my room>500 pops-in of porn in the screeni dont remember if that was in the 90 or the 2000. most likely the 2000
>games running at 10 fps or on a screen the size of a postage stamp was common because PC strength went up exponentially each year>Unless you were rich and spending thousands each year on a new PC, you'd have to deal with your 2 or 3 year old once top of the line PC chugging on new gamesIt was good but also had its fair share of shit
>>747488096Well high blood sugar levels or high blood pressure can cause changes in vision so improving those conditions could possibly improve eyesight without reversing aging of the lenses. There are some other conditions as well which could affect it separately from lens aging. But aging and stiffening of the lenses itself is sadly inavoidable and everyone will need glasses or surgery eventually. (it'll be reading glasses only first)
>>747481212You have contributed nothing to the thread but projections of your own misery. Fuck off and kill yourself, you dysfunctional autist.
what was the 90s like for a Yugoslavian PC gamer?
>>747480415>90s>CS
>>747471610The grey rain curtain of this world rolls back and all turns to silver glass. And then you see it. White shores, and beyond. A far green country, under a swift sunrise.
>>747490771dodging bullets and playing HoMM2 if you made it
>>747490940wait till you learn the first version of CS was a mod for half life. just like Dod and TFand some dragon ball mod too
>>747471610There was this dude trying to bully me in middle-school, but in the end we became friends and he would burn games on CDs and gift them to me, even (poorly) drawing the original cover with a pen on the case. Overall the 90s and early 00s were pretty cool because each time I tried a game it was different and I had to "figure it out"
>>747471610Constant excitement, amazement and fun beyond our wildest imagination. It was like reading books and watching movies combined and YOU were there. Starting mission 1 of the NOD campaign and hearing Act on Instinct for the first time as my buggy massacred people blew my mind. Rocket jumping in a fully 3D Quake was like...electricity to pre-industrial people.
My first PC gaming memories were in school in the 90s in Tennessee. We had dogshit computers, MAC 2s and shit. Oregon Trail was based as fuck, my 6th grade history teacher used to let us play it as part of the class. Maybe around 96-97 my mom got us a big ass black IBM tower from RadioShack that I remember was 3800 USD at the time, expensive as fuck.Played a lot of games on that thing but Redneck Rampage was my favorite. Shoutout to the MSN Gaming Zone if anyone wants to play some Xwing vs. Tie Fighter or some no force sabers only Jedi Knight duels
>>747492505https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRUxpKu-Amo
>>747492261Team fortress was a mod for quake later ported to half life you poser.
>>747492614based
>>747492714i didnt play that one
.mid start playing
>>747489454Another good game.
>>747493518god i just want to die already so i can go to the afterlife and have sex with unlimited different furry girls for all eternity
>>747471610>Microsoft IntelliMouse ExplorerI cannot handle this harddrug that is nostalgia
>>747493518>Dude still uses his Amiga to animate sexy furry babes in 2026You will never be as based as Eric Schwarz
>>747480132https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP3rDP02lE0
As an Amiga gamer I spent most of the 90s looking down on PC gamers before getting my own PC in 1997.
>>747486467>tfw she called over the other moms from the neighbourhood to show them what you're playing
>>747481585Makes me wonder why not? It was fast, brutal and easy to pick up and play also it had vikings and monsters and that's rad as hell. If I ever become rich I'm funding my own Rune-clone.
>Dad buys an IBM Aptiva in 1995, replacing the old 386. Pentium 75 bitches!>IBM is at that point cucked and it comes preloaded with Windows '95>This is the shit.>You obtain a pirated Doom II copy, cause you're broke and fucking paying for anything>It comes on a whopping five 3.5-inch floppy disks.>Installing takes forever and the floppy drive makes a racket.>the first level loads up and is seared into your brain forever.
>>747494853*Also my first PC had a S3 Trio64V2 graphics card, and I added a Voodoo2 3D accelerator the following year. I remember thay having to daisy-chain the two cards with a cable outside the box made me feel like I'm doing advanced computing in some server room.
>>7474718711999 san antonio spurs having a starcraft lan party after winning the championship
>>747496154>tfw there's a non-zero chance my brother and I got dumpstered by Tim Duncan and David Robinson on b.net in 1999 on 2v2s
>>747496154shit, that's a nostalgia bomb, my syadmin dad brought me a couple of retired netgear switches from his workplace that I'd use for neighborhood LAN parties well intk the 2000s. dinky little blue things like that one
>>747495264https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qURei6svd90same except i played it on my dad's Mac
>>747471610Big boxes
>>747497142i kinda miss cereal boxes for gamesmostly it's the manuals and fold-outs and maps and shit
>>747495264ai image
>>747498067I tried to find my IBM Aptiva image, but I got tired of searching for it.
>>747471610I especially enjoyed IRQ conflicts with my soundcard and not knowing how o fix them, so sometimes my PC had sound and sometimes i didn't, it just depended on how it felt upon each boot.
yes
>>747471610>Spoonfeed me
>>747472142you have no idea just how bad its gotten
>Oh man, okay how the fuck can I get the HIMEM released so I can run the talkie version of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. Its going to take some fucking around in DOS most likely. >Sound blaster 'compatible" should work for this? Right? Right?!
>When the big card to have was the sound card and not the graphic card.
>>747480902did u get your full sight back?
>>747499828>1999>need an Elite graphics card>All the good stuff arrives in america first>Import a Voodoo3500 from the US to Europe>fucking drives issues >call the european Voodoo importer. They don't have one yet, can't do shit for me>fuck it, I'll troubleshoot it myself>somehow my 16yo brain solves what the fuck is wrong>Half-Life never looked better>proceed to fire up Team Fortress Classic mod and deliver death and destruction on a never before seen scale.
>>747471610My 90s pc gaming experience was drawing spiderwebs on ms paint ('95) and filling each gap in with a different colour.
>>747497652Nothing is spared. This is the first time in history when the past really used to be better.
>>747479896Almost rage-baited me with this faggot shit. Valiant effort.
>>747471871There were skins, but only you could see them and you had to download them yourself.
>>747478518Bro I literally had my mouse and keyboard both on a keyboard tray for like 10 years.
>>747480741>People weren't doing sweaty fps multiplayer back then.I competed in CAL-M on a desk almost identical to this.
>>747499828also, I remember as a kid that getting a new soundcards was as exciting as getting a new GPU, some cards had amazing features, and being able to play games and listen to music at the same time was super cool.
>>747471610LAN parties were hella fun, playing FPS and RTS and Diablo (while drinking a beer) together in the same room.
>>747471610I played a lot of Command and Conquer (superficially Red Alert), Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 and 2 and Star Wars Jedi Knight
>>747500771This is really depressing. The internet used to be so much fun. Now I have to use 50 methods to login to any account because some jeet is trying to scam me.
>>747500809god, I hated this game and that other one "big red racing" or something, turns out that a lot of people actually liked them.For me it was that mario kart clone, wacky racers and NFS, P.O.D., Megarace 2, Carmaggeddon and a few others.
>>747500998>when graphics cards didn't have fans and cpus had heat sinks instead of fans
>the goodI was the target audience>the badAffording a computer back when Moore's law wasn't dead was really fucking expensive. No internet since I lived in America and wasn't in a major metropolitan center. You couldn't even get DSL here until like 2004. Had to go pay money to be in an internet cafe to play UT. Which wasn't cheap either I used to have to flirt with fagfags to use their left over time.
>>747480741where can I find a desk like this nowadays? everything is just shitty metal pipes and mdf wood
>>747472142This might sound crazy but black people don't fit in to the "shitskin" territory. We're talking about no Mexicans, no Indians, No Southeast Asians, no Brazilians (or any South Americans for that matter).Black people have always been welcome in online gaming spaces.
>>747504804you cannot, everything is shit now
It was crazy playing Red Alert with my cousin on the other side of the country.
>>747478518No, but having the wire wedged between those boxes and the right speaker would make it annoying as shit to move around. Obviously the boxes were placed there just for the photo though.Also the keyboard probably isn't glued to that part of the desk.
>>747471610I was playing freddy fish
>>747471610I would invite my neighborhood friends over and two of us would sit at the keyboard, one would use the mouse, and another a joystick and we'd spend hours playing freeware/shareware games I would spend all day looking for and downloading.
>>747471610PC gaming in the 90s was gigacringeyou had to hide the fact you played computer games, console gaming was different, most kids had super nintendo, sega genisis
>>747506151not here, most gamer kids in my class had both in the second half of the 90s. That only started catching on in the 00s.
>>747480741quake was probably the most sweatlord gaming of all time
>>747480372yes on the Kharkov map (soviet spawn)
Playing a shitton of simulator games.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yr_fkKs_QM
>>747471610AGP used to mean something else.
>>747472142Back in the 90s/early 2000s, the only people on the internet that had any crossover were Americans, Europeans (actual), and the Japanese. It was literal fucking heaven.
>>747478518it’s real, as far as i can tell, too many little text details. it’s def staged though
>>747475578Slavs aren't White.
>>747506823Ironically it was the slot you wanted that made everything better, as opposed to the slot you were left with after you realize you fucked up big time.
>>747471610the only thing I really miss about it is lan parties. after we'd get done playing hours of doom, quake, and counter-strike we'd end the night with a giant game of ookie cookie
>>747506860This isn't really true. The amount of eastern europeans and former soviet/warsaw pact country devs kept a large percentage of the hacking scene alive. Everyone who was part of it knew that somewhere Yuri was going to come home from his computer job now that the wall fell and make a cracktro to go with PROPERing some release. There were plenty of slavs on the Internet back in the day and mostly they were based. Also there were plenty o Indians but they were basically grandfathered into the white nerdy american/asian space because they were all desi indians from America who had parents and uncles and brothers that were all either involved in tech, engineers, or physicians, which is why they could afford to get gaming hardware like the rest of us.
>>747471610Playing games at 10-15fps and because we didn't have graphics cards I played ghost recon with all the environment textures being white.
>>747471871Shitskin sandnigger here.I learned about 4chan in an mirc chatroom in 2007 kek.And been on the internet since 2001.It was comfy, wild and unimaginably slowWe were still using modems and phone lines up to 2009.Piracy was kino with keygens and cracked exe shit, later on I would download ripped games because it was much smallerTptp, toed and similar rippersMany games had dialogues and cutscenes and music removed but the games were like 800 mb compared to 15 gb original release.YouTube, metacafe and similar sites had outright porn and gore on it And screamers were everywhereThe internet was the wild west, people made shit for fun before the Jews figured out you can make money from it.Digg and later on reddit was full of dark web shit it was crazy.LAN night with my friends were the best We played in internet cafes instead of lugging our PCsSoldier of fortune, Delta force, diablo 2, red alert 2, outwars, MechWarrior, midtown madness 2 gold rush, need for speed 2, mig 29 custom maps, fifa 98 indoor 5 players matches.Single player gems like oni, urban chaos, Max Payne 1, hexen, duke nukem, MDKShit was kino like you wouldn't believe.I remember when PS2 appeared in my town and my first game on it was godhandI still play it to this day .It was magical because it wasn't as accessible or easy to set up, setting LAN games was black magic before hamachi We had to work out network settings and shit.Myths about secret areas and cheat codes , early game forums.
>>747500771>8 years agoIts only gotten worse
>>747488615>dedicated servers basically didn't existIt's more like the opposite. Back then they existed, today they don't and everything is consoley P2P crap instead with matchmaking via some corporate service only (well for some games dedicated servers do exist but the corpos aren't giving you the software required to run one)
>>747479581I'd say much later than that, it's somebody's "retro" setup judging by the yellowing on the mouse and monitor, the image quality, and even the IMG_ filename which usually means it was taken on an iPhone. I don't remember that style of minimalist white desk being common until 2010-ish either, '90s computer desks were usually either wannabe CEO looking dark wood paneling or curvy cheap-looking white wood and black metal with multiple tiers for monitor, keyboard, etc. Pic is my setup from 2004-5ish but the desk would've been several years old at that point and is a good example of a typical late '90s/early '00s desk.
>>747471610Lots of exclusive games that had their own vibe. Many games were slower paced compared to console games which were mainly action focused.Not to say there weren't action games on the PC, but they tended to be FPS's.
>>747479956Great games but they were from 87.
There were way less games in general (there was still tons of slop don't get me wrong) and everyone sorta had the same core set of games. Everyone had Starcraft, Doom games, Quake, Half-Life etc. The rate of graphical progress was insane, went from simple 2d shit at the start of the decade to fully 3d games at the end. One of the worst things about modern games is there's not really a core set of games everyone in your social circle can play, there's so many games for specific niches in interests. LAN parties were cool as shit, everyone would lug their computers one kid's house and we'd be playing huge CS matches or Half-Life deatchmatch or Starcraft FFAs.
>>747510262in the 90's OFFICIAL dedicated servers weren't really a thing people made unofficial servers, and you needed something like qspy to find them or finding the IP address on an IRC or something, but around the turn of the century that changed and there were official dedicated servers that were set up and maintained by the developers/publishers, and there were in game server browsers to find a mix of official servers and unofficial community servers (the real golden era from like 1999-2009), there were still some games without the in game server browsers so qspy became gamespy and was used for things like Q3 and Battlefront where there still weren't official dedicated servers.2009 is when they moved to peer to peer.
>>747512146Revival XanaduLord Monarch FirstSorcerian ForeverVantage MasterBrandish 4The Legend of Heroes V: Cagesong of the Ocean
>>747512390Yes, exactly, but these community-hosted servers were still called "dedicated servers". The command line arg in Quake 1 to start one was even "-dedicated", in Quake 2 you used "+set dedicated 1". This was in contrast to what were called "listen servers" (again Q1 command line arg was "-listen") where somebody was playing the game locally at the same time as they were hosting a server and accepting connections from others on the same computer, which gave them an advantage due to zero ping and could also cause extra issues for the other players because some of the server computer's CPU cycles were now being used to render the game, play sound, etc. instead of it being wholly dedicated to accepting client connections and simulating the game world only.
>>747514167>The command line arg in Quake 1 to start one was even "-dedicated"I wouldn't be surprised if that was actually the origin of the term or at least where it became standard, so much shit in gaming descends from Quake to this day and it always irritates me that people skip from Doom right to Half Life in their retrospective shit nowadays. (Especially given that Half Life was basically a really elaborate Quake mod, arguably.)
>>747514167I know, I'm just saying I understood what the other poster was referring to and there is a difference.Official vs Community Hosted.Both are dedicated servers though.
90sUnrealstill the best:https://www.dsogaming.com/news/unreal-revived-brings-a-major-upgrade-with-a-dx12-renderer-vr-and-widescreen-support/
>>747472442yellow'd mouse is a dead give away of being ai
>>747471610>Holy shit this is rad I must be a l33t haxx0r to use this computer thing
>>747471610No trannies on image boards or the internet at large, it was great.Except the connection, a single image through AOL took AGES.
>>747501437>that picThe GPU market back then was a very different beast compared to what it was today. Nvidia used to have strippers at their "private" events to pull in a bigger male market. And now nvidia is pretty much telling gamers that they dont need us anymore and if we cant pay the huge gpu prices we should just fuck off.
>>747515586I think it is, the first time I saw the terms "dedicated server" and "listen server" used was in Quake 1 docs. I guess in theory id could have adopted the terminology from somewhere else, but where?As an aside, QuakeWorld removed support for listen servers completely and split the client and server to separate binaries (qwcl, qwsv). Then Quake 2 moved everything back into one binary and restored listen servers.Another aside, listen servers aren't the same thing as old Doom-style multiplayer where every player fully simulates the game world, running the game in lockstep, and everyone is just passing game inputs to each other checking for desyncs occasionally based on player coordinates or such. (there's probably a surprisingly large number of games which use this approach in p2p matchmaking even if it's not appropriate at all lol)
>>747471610go download exodos and play some games lil nigga
Played tons of random share/freeware games on DOS and Win3.11, some random games actually bought from a store, some games given on copied floppies from older cousins. Later more of the same on Win95. Played multiplayer games like Liero, Cyberdogs, Scorched Earth and cave fliers with my friends and sometimes my dad.It was pretty based>>747483958>X-Com: UFO DefenseSimilar experience my parents were letting me pick a new game at the supermarket and I asked them to buy it based on the european cover art because it looked bad ass, accidentally picked GOTYAY based on full retard criteria.
>>747519658>GOTYAYWhat does the AY stand for
my earliest memory is plugging in a joystick so i could play asteroids on windows 95discovering that serial ports cannot be hotplugged, and that for some reason, i had to reinstall the drivers for it every single time it was plugged in and do a full ass reboot, just to play asteroids for 10 minutes
It was mostly glorious. The western internet was young, and trolling was a respectable art form that required creativity. "Ragebaiting" or flaming as it was called was banned on sight. And trolling was kept to a minimum. You could actually have comfy discussions of games without tribalistic retards ruining discussions. Like, you could talk about the merits of Fallout 1 & 2 without some retarded fight over which is better ruining everything. I will say there were plenty of normies on the internet, but they were self contained to chat rooms and music websites. The rest was pure nerdom. The biggest downside is that culture was largely this vague sort of liberalism. You definitely had racist parts of the internet like the various alt.flame groups on usenet, but most places were smug "black people good, white people evil" and if you disagree with that you got banned. Still, it was such a better time. Oh, and there were also insane "that kid" rumors everywhere. Like "if you beat super mario world in under 2 minutes your SNES will load a copy of Doom" rumors. And Metallica was also everywhere.
>>747472353Lmao this anon is fucked up
>>747506151It is called gatekeeping.
>>747471610One of my great gaming memories is playing Day of the Tentacle with my little brother. There were two computers in our house growing up, both absolute shitboxes and only one that was connected to 56k internet. The offline one was on the bottom floor of the house while the online one was on the top floor next to my parents's room.Our mum wouldn't let the internet be on because she didn't really understand it and was worried about getting a huge bill or something. I somehow worked out that there are guides/walkthroughs for games on the internet after being stuck in DotT for a couple of days. Both I and my brother (who was four years younger but a super smart kid) just couldn't work out what the fuck to do. We got desperate because we loved the game so much and wanted to know what happened to all the characters, so I secretely logged onto the internet when my mum was at the shops and found a walkthrough and copy pasted it into notepad or something. I thought I'd solved the problem until I realised that I had to get the guide from upstairs to downstairs where we were playing the game. Mum had come home so I had disconnected the internet and turned off the monitor so that she wouldn't suspect anything. Then, suddenly the solution came to me: my little brother had an ludicrously good memory, so I sent him upstairs to read the guide and then come down and tell me what he'd read. We finally got past the part we had been stuck on for what felt like an eternity. Every time we had trouble from then on I would send him upstairs to read the guide. He didn't make a single mistake in his recollections of what he'd read and we didn't ever get stuck in the game again. We completed the game together and hugged each other. It really felt like we'd worked as a team to manufacture an ingenious solution to our problem.My brother passed away two weeks ago. I lost my best friend and miss him so much every day. It's the small memories like this that I'll cherish.
>>747492431>drawing the original covercute
>>747523227Did his head explode from you making him memorize everything for you?
>>747471610Adventure games, adventure games, and shitty early 3D when it didn't have id's marque.
Fuck the Zoombinis Pizza challenge, that fat retard would cheat constantly
>>747473767i had this problem too. the demo disks were godlike but i was a poorfag using weird third party graphics cards so nothing ever worked right for me.
>>747471610I literally only played Blizzard games, aside from Age of Empires.
>>747486701It was because they were ex-hippies before they became hardcore Christians. Their whole youths revolved around a Beatles-styled "love and peace maaaan" counter culture which they brought into culture after they left that all behind. They couldn't imagine kids wanting war and violence, they were supposed to want to play acoustic guitar and sing about peace. Funny enough that's also why Boomers hate all those old cowboy shows they grew up with: too violent and imperialistic for them.
>>747471610It was like 2 bags of sand
>>747523351Thanks for the laugh, anon. I needed that.
>>747477590>DOSZeliardPower DoLLS>WindowsHanamaru KoumutenTo Heart
>>747471610Glorious
>>747524352I can't speak for any other boomers, but my parents (born '46 and '47), who were full-on San Francisco hippie movement types, just chilled out and eventually became somewhere between center-left and even somewhat right on some issues. (My dad fucking hates the tranny and woke shit in particular and has also gotten pretty fucking racist about blacks and arabs.) They also fucking love old cowboy shows and binge watch all of Hopalong Cassidy on an annual basis but my mom makes them skip a few with violence toward women and also the one where they go to Saudi Arabia or something because she fucking hates arabs too and can't even handle people pretending to be them on a Hollywood backlot kek.
>>747473767Oh shit I remember this. We'd go buy computer games like three times a year when my Dad was in town (parents were seperated) and the game my brother bought would work perfectly while mine didn't WITHOUT FUCKING FAIL. It was ridiculous.I distinctly remember one time I chose such a cool looking game (I think it was Mech Warrior, or some other mech game) that my brother was more excited about playing my game than even the one he had chosen.We got home and Dad installed brother's game, booted it up and it all worked fine. Usually we'd play for a bit and then install mine, but this time my brother was so excited about my game that we asked Dad to install my game to. I remember him clicking on the .exe and saying over and over in my head 'please work, please work, please work.'Lo and behold it did'nt work, and both my brother and I were super bummed out lmao
>>747525008That's so based. Usually you can tell a lot about a boomer's character by their attitude towards old cowboy shows.
>>747486701the mere existence of demons in media is seen as worshiping them or at least endorsing them.I had to have this discussion with neighbors who had kids I played with that though Diablo does have the devil, your goal is not to worship him, you were going to kill him.They were more okay with it once they understood the whole goal of the games was to oppose and kill Satan and demons and fighting to protect a Church. I had one friend who was homeschooled and his parents were very devout Christians but they let him play Wolfenstein and Doom because the enemies were Nazis and Demons, that made sense to them.
