>new kid moves into the neighborhood"Hey, man. Do you have Nintendo or Sega?">new kid grins"Oh no, my family just plays games on the computer">Kid is forever labeled the "poor kid"
never happened
I was the kid who only played on the computer and had lcd games instead of gameboy. Then i became the kid into old video games after i began quickly buying them off of other kids for cheap or free as soon as they were deemed valueless.
It was the contrary, poor kids pretended that they too had a PC at home, but when you visited it was always for repair because they accidentally poured Coke on the keyboard or some shit that proves they knew nothing about computers.
Kids who only had a computer were seen as weird, yes, but not necessarily poor. It was cumbersome having everyone reaching over to use different parts of a keyboard, something meant for typing, to awkwardly play a multiplayer game instead of just sitting on the couch and using a controller.They also never had any games everyone else at school was talking about. Having a computer instead of a system that hooks up to the TV just meant you weren't part of the video game conversations at school.
The poor kid at my school would shove food up his ass for money during lunchtime.
I never thought the kids who only had a computer were poor but rather that their parents were super strict and didn't allow video games. There is nothing cool or fun about playing a game with the machine your dad uses to keep track of finances and type stuff for work.
>no other kids on my street>other family with like 5 kids moves in next door>go over when they're playing in the yard>ask what vidya they have>"we don't have a tv">wtf>their mom comes out and tells me i'm not allowed to interact with them>leave
>>12548250My dad got me into games because he was obsessed with flight sims and when he bought new flight sticks and graphics cards, they usually came with free bundled "real" games which he let me play.
>>12547897Back in the 486/Pentium days some parents thought a $5K PC setup with laser printer, scanner, modem, 2x RAM, a good monitor etc was good value wheras a games console was a waste of money. You made do with what you had.
>>12547897What games were honestly worth playing on pc before Wolfenstein 3D/DooM? I guess British computers had loads of games for the Commodore, and a lot of brits have nostalgia for those games, but it doesn't seem like a lot of those titles had any real "star" power behind them besides that it was the only thing you could play on the damn thing. Please correct me if I'm wrong, I'm very uneducated on retro computer games
>>12548265jehovah's witness or Mormon?
>>12550643>What games were honestly worth playing on pc before Wolfenstein 3D/DooM?There are many!
>>12550643This is the MobyGames list of the 50 highest rated DOS titles released before 1992.
