What was an aspect of retro gaming when you were a kid, that just completely passed you by?For me it was the cyan and magenta CGA graphics. We didn't have an IBM pc so I didn't even know this palette existed until seeing screenshots online in the 2000s.
I was born in 1999 so everything I guess
>>12570624I played a shit ton of retro games as a kid (a lot of it was thanks to my dad and grandfather) so there would be a lot of things, I guess being PAL it was the speed difference? I never actually knew or felt like the game was playing slow until I grew up and got back into those old games and consoles I loved and realised how sluggish they felt.
i didn't know tons of dos games had FM music/effects because i was a poorfag and mostly used the pc speaker. it's so weird to me watching videos of dos games and all have fm soundtracks i've never heard before
Glide, Voodoo, 3DFx as a whole. Pretty much missed out on that entire era.I went from playing games in software 3D on a PC made in 1994 directly to D3D/OpenGL-supported games on a PC made at the end of 2000. Seeing footage of some of the early Win9x and even a couple DOS games I've played as a kid running in glide mode several years later was a bizarre experience for me.
>>12571081same. became a pc fag in late 99, it was only consoles and handelds before. Tbh I might have just missed the most interesting era of PC hardware by a hair. By 2000, things started to get standardised very quickly and by the time XP rolled around, the soul era of PC was essentially over. From the Hardware and OS perspective at least. Games became soulless with the advent of 7th gen consoles. but everyone knows that.
>>12570624Went from 8 bit to pc then to 32 bit so missed 16 bit at the time. I only discovered it towards the end of 32 bit. I was trying to buy 16 bit just everyone had dumped it.
As a kid/teen I got to experience a bit of everything honestly, computers: 086, 486, P3; and consoles and handhelds a bit of everything. I bought a lot of consoles used that I would then sell to get another one and so on. There are two things I missed out on though: computers that weren't IBM compatible, and arcades. Neither have those were really available where I lived.
>>12571125>computers that weren't IBM compatiblethat reminds me of a time when i was 14 in 2004 and an older friend of my mum/parents visited and, knowing i was "into computers", dropped off a 286 tower and a boxed Commodore 64.while yes i was into computers and mostly used older cheap/second hand machines not much newer than those, i didn't really have any experience with anything older than a 386, and nothing non-pc. i still feel bad throwing out that C64 knowing now what it could do, but in my defence while it was boxed, it was literally just the machine and the box, no power supply, not joystick, no floppy drive not tape drive no software etc. so it wasn't something i could even try out without some investment and the box didn't exactly suggest it was a pretty sweet gaming machine
>>12571157Eh, don't kick yourself over it. I was given one of those rare XT-286-es as a kid, back circa 1993 (I think, it's been so long since then), and I had no idea what I got, until a couple of years ago when I chanced upon some YT clips about them.
>>12570624Super Nintendo. I knew it existed, but I literally knew no one who had it. Plenty of people had Mega Drives, so that was the face of 16-bit console gaming to me.
>>12571157C-64's while you do have to pay more for them now, aren't exactly rare, so holding onto it wouldn't have made you rich or anything. And if you really want to experience it, it isn't hard to get hold of one.
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we were stuck on a Tandy until the late 90s so I missed most of the early vga era of dos/windows games
>>12571081This. I knew of the Voodoo, but we were kinda poor, and so my first 3D accelerated card ended up being a cheap shitty Intel GPU, I believe the first one they made before moving onto integrated graphics, and my cousin's PC, which I also played some 3D games on, had a similarly shitty integrated ATI Rage chip. Those were barely good enough to play FF7 and that was about it. I didn't get a proper GPU until around 2002.
>>12570624The only PC games I played my whole life until about 2010 were Carmen Sandiego, Math Circus, Stickdeath and random flash games, and Diablo 2. I missed everything that wasn't a Nintendo or Sony console.
>>12571081I mainly knew of Voodoo because of the meme boxart
>>12570624Our ancient family pc back in the 90s had a CGA-compatible card, so I always associated it with those 4 colors. What I didn't know is that it was capable of displaying up to 16 colors if the screen resolution was 160x100. I also didn't know that some CGA cards had composite out and (very few) early PC games had a composite color support.
