I went from a 086 which iirc played things like Blockout and Sokoban to a 486 and then a P3 500mhz

An AMD 386 DX (later got the FPU addon, or math coprocessor, as it was called then). As for games, my uncle gave me a bunch of floppies with pirated copies: Sherman M4, Narcopolice and Loom.

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Quake. And Escom Pentium 75 with 16Mb Ram, 1Gb HDD, and a 14 inch CRT.

Maybe 18 months later we added a Canopus Pure3D 4Mb, which was a slightly fancy Voodoo 1. Shit blew my mind going from quake.exe to glquake.exe

Same when we got a modem (external Pace 56K) about a year afte buying the PC. Figuring out muliplayer on quake, then moving to quakeworld (with client side movement) was incredible. Before that I'd got all my stuff from magazine coverdisks and spent hours just running around these empty multiplayer levels people had made, or sometimes playing them against reaperbots.

Was a fucking amazing time to be getting into PCs and gaming.

Some sort of 386, it had a super heavy case and it was fairly quiet.

I had all the cool games because my cousin was a raging pirate, no idea where he got it from back then!

Probably the comfiest days of my life, except the monitor probably ruined my eyes, that thing was vicious with the filter screen for eye protection!

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>>12340793
>your first PC
I was about 4 years old so my memory isn't that clear, but for some reason I've always remembered this GUI that came with our Packard Bell Windows 95 PC

>>12340873
I remember my HP Windows 95 PC also had a custom GUI, but I cannot remember for the life of me what it was called. I think it was a kids thing only, because it looked like a bunch of comic book drawings. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

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>>12340793

Got my first Pentium60(500ZE-60) in February of 1995 - it was an "edge fag" model from Vobis. A few weeks later I got DoomII and have been mesmerized by it ever since.
Sold it in 1998 and re-bought the same model in 2024 in near pristine condition. Also bought similar models by Escom and PackardBell.

>>12340834

Very nice case.
Loved Quake on LAN - not a fan of 3dfx but they were legendary and every cent I spent on V2s was worth it.

>>12340793
Gateway PC, Windows 95. P5-120. Played quake and worms.

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>>12340793
I remember first interacting with my cousin's Tandy 1000 8086 equivalent. It had 4x4 offroad, Alley Cat, Jordan vs. Bird, etc. That early interaction made me comfortable with DOS.

My first computer I had was a 286-12Mhz and I'd play any and every VGA capable game I could get a hold of. Immediately getting a SoundBlaster (2.0) to enjoy Wing Commander 2, Wolf3D, and Sierra adventure games. Just under a year, my uncle upgraded it to a 386DX-40 which was just perfect for the games that interested me. The computer was not any name brand, but just custom built, ultimately ending out as a 486DX4-100.

>>12340793
No idea, it wasn't a family computer. The games i recall playing was a point and click games with witches and frogs. It was cartoons and intended for children. Another game was this Spiderman scene creator. Another was some circus game with a bunch of mini games and an owl that ran the circus. Lenny's circus? Kenny's circus? Idk. And another point and click game with a skinny lion. It was a math and spelling game. Then there's was the quake demo, PC gamer cd with coconut monkey and more demos. If anyone knows the names of the games I've mentioned id greatly appreciate it.

My friend had a 286. We played all the early Sierra adventures. Kings Quest 1-3, Leisure Suit Larry 1 & 2. Space Quest. Fucking Police Quest. His older brother had all the hint books but wouldn't let us have them. He'd give us like one hint every 3 days of us being hopelessly stuck and begging for answers. In retrospect I'm grateful for that as it made the games last a hell of a lot longer and I was still young enough to enjoy wandering around all day trying everything I could think of.

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some beige tower that ran windows 3.1 and i think it came with picrel. i remember playing games like skifree, fuji golf, and rodent's revenge

My first "real" computer other than a hand-me-down Tandy was an Acer with a 200MHZ AMD K6, 16MB of EDO RAM, and a whopping 2GB hard drive running Windows 95. It came with a bunch of early learning games and a side scroller called Hunter Hunted, which I thought was the best game ever. Then I realized the disc had demos for other Sierra games, and those games came with demos, and it went from there.

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I remember my old family computer had only 24mb of ram so even at the time I was limited in what modern games ran on it, this being one of them. I downloaded a demo of this (parents were reluctant to spend money on games) and remember liking it

>>12340793
pentium2 266mmx with a matrox 3d card. played all the usual fps games online with a very early isdn connection. i used to create a lot of seethe for being a lpb. BTwireplay ftw.
some weirder games that i liked:
dink smallwood
take no prisoners/mageslayer
hexplore
meatpuppet

>>12341601
hunter hunted looks cool, i didnt know of it, looks a bit like abuse.

>>12340793
My first PC was a Gateway running Windows 98. That Christmas I got a joystick and a compilation of Star Wars flight sims that had X-Wing, Tie Fighter, and X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter. Loved those games so much. Some other early PC games I played a lot were Sim Tower and Risk.

First ever was a piece of shit Packard Bell with a Cyrix MII-300 75hz, built in SIS graphics chip and sound.
it struggled with Quake but was fine for other DOS shit which was what I was primarily playing at the time so it wasn't a huge deal. upgrading to a K6 233 was a massive upgrade.

a packard bell windows 95 machine that came with G-NOME, lil Howie's fun house, encarta 97 w/ that maze dungeon crawler game

but the first great game I played on would have been the original age of empires that my best friend at the time gave me and I guess copied the key for too? he was the first person I met with a cd burner as well, this was sometime in the late 90s

the first PC i owned, rahter than just playing on my dad's, was a cheap eMachine with Me installed on it.

when I *could* play games(Me was absolute garbage, multiple bluescreens a day) i was pirating a wide range of things to play. i remembe spending a lot of time playing fallout 2 and diablo 2, and having my first experiences with SNES games outside of smw(i grew up with a genesis) using zsnes.

I had a Macintosh, eat shit fags

>>12340793
Couldn't tell you what kind the first one we had was but but was a lot of Sim Farm.
Eventually we got a Compaq, I don't remember the specs but it was in a series 2 case. Shannara, Diablo 1, Starcraft... eventually we got a Dell of some kind and I played a lot of CS, Tribes 1 and Operation Flashpoint.

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>>12340793
The first wintel computer my family got that I was interested in was an IBM Aptiva. I mostly played Diablo 2 online with it's built-in 56k modem. I don't have it anymore, but I still have it's CPU for some reason.

I had others before that, an Amstrad PCW 8256 which I still have (not IBM compatible), and an Osbourne 486 PC.

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i was too young to remember the pc specs but it had to have been a 286 or 386. i do remember windows 3.1. and this was probably the first game i played on it.

>>12340793
The only thing I can recall about "my first PC" was that it was a beige box like everybody else had in the mid-to-late 90s and it only had a 2GB HDD. I remember that because I could only have one big game like Baldur's Gate 2 or Diablo 2 installed at a time. I can vividly remember uninstalling and reinstalling those games several times each and having to juggle all the different discs.

>>12342836

K6-2 was a game changer but the Pii + BX chipset was, rightfully, the gold standard.
Many folks went with a K6-2 / Voodoo2 + AMD patch when playing Quake II.
Still have a rig with a standard K6-200 on a highly integrated late era S7-board.

>>12340793
an all-in-one with a pentium II, I had other before it but I was too small and didnt know what a cpu was.
Played a lot of ms-dos games, to name a few: bubble pop, inner worlds, homm2, jazz jackrabbit or drod: webfoot. There are a lot that to this day where I only have the memory and dont know their names.

>>12340793
I can't tell my first pc what it was but I'm sure was a piece of shit brought from my father's job at the bank they let him keep the old PC but I remember that I played Empire earth and starcraft on it other than Age of empire but I can't tell my very first pc game but for sure was a RTS, while first game i ever played I remember and i'm sure it was "sonic" on Mega Drive.

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I remember my cousin had a Packard Bell identical to this one circa 1995 (except his was a 486). It was the first PC I used that was fully multimedia-capable. It came with a lot of cool shit, including the Best of Windows Entertainment Pack, Mega Race, 3D Dinosaur and 3D Body Adventure, and the Encarta 97 encyclopedia. He also had some interactive books/games that I remember fondly (one was called Ruff's Bone). I know Packard Bell was kinda low-end entry-level shit, but shit was fun regardless.

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The first PC I had access to looked like this piece of shit, only it had a 100mhz 484 overdrive processor.

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>>12343886
then my parents dropped around 2grand for a Dell with a Pentium II 400mhz, 128mb, soundblaster16 and an Obsidian Voodoo2sli

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>>12343108
I've been tempted to get a super socket 7 board for the K6-2, but I already have a 450Mhz PII + 440BX computer that captures my nostalgia for that period.
I think if I was going to get another old computer it'd be a VLB 486DX2 machine, or something weird like a NEC PC-9801.

>>12343878
>Encarta 97 encyclopedia
Gonna download this and DK Castle Explorer now to get my primary school software fix.
>>12343893
What kind of games did you play on this beast?

I would screw around on my dad's Atari ST but that doesn't count and I was too young to know my family computer specs at the time

>>12343893
I have a similar tower sitting in storage somewhere in my folks' home, though it's a Pentium III. I think last I touched it, it has a Geforce 4 MX of some kind and a Sound Blaster Live. I made the mistake of putting a 5400 RPM drive on it, though.

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>>12343893
had a dell P3 tower in the late 90s as the family PC just like this anon posted

but we had this 486 beast around 94-95
gateway 2000 4dx2-66v with the branded vivitron monitor, not my pic btw

>>12345943
as for games, played a lot of shareware compilations like game empire / galaxy of games, learning company edutainment, SC2K, Chex Quest

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>>12340793
this absolute banger

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>>12340793
I played Shadow Man, Jazz Jackrabbit, Half Life, GTA 3, The Sims 1, Clive Barker's Undying, KISS Psycho Circus, Gunman Chronicles, one of the Abe games, Earth's Special Forces, The Neverhood, Archangel, Crusaders of Might and Magic, Megaman X4 on my first PC when I was like 8 up until I was around 12. It was windows 2000, I believe. That's when we got a new PC and I was able to play more modern stuff that's not retro.

>>12344784

I like 486 systems the best but some can be a pain in the ass to set up properly.

>>12343886

I have a similar one - a "PackMate" with a P60@66mhz.

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I was 6 years old, my sister had a 286 but it was basically the family computer as my parents paid like half of it, can't remember the specs, 16MB RAM maybe? It was upgraded to a 486 at some point. DOSSHELL at first, then Win3.x.
We used to play stuff like Arctic Adventure/Monuments of Mars/Pharaoh's Tomb, Blockout, EGA Four, CKeen 1 and 4, Prince of Persia, Crusher, Xenon2, SimCity. I also had Adibou (picrel) as I was a wee lad.
My dad was in the army and apparentyl got all this shareware and pirated games via IT colleagues.

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IBM Aptiva 75mhz, 16mb ram. Yup, it's gaming time.

>>12346695
Love those custom shells PCs used to come with. Shame they went extinct around the time of Windows 98.

>>12346536
I'm familiar with changing jumpers to resolve IRQ and I/O conflicts with non-PNP devices. I assume that'd be the biggest issue when putting a 486 computer together?

I remember having that chess game where the pieces like cut each others arms and heads off. One of his friends complained about it cause it was too violent for his kids and my dad called him a pussy.
My dad had floppy with bootleg games on dos he’d let us play when we came to work with him. I mainly remember donkey Kong, pac man and my favorite space invaders.
Our first home computer came with myst which had real people in the game. Crazy. And after that I remember playing the puzzle game obsidian and one of my personal favorites interstate 76.

>>12346578
>>12347505
Crazy how these games went around to the point pretty much everyone had them. Despite its problems, shareware was fucking magical.

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>>12340793
It was a Gateway EV700 . It was alright. I used it mainly to play flashgames, but I was a kid so yeah

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>>12347562
pour one out for my homie... the skin-colored computer desk with fuck all space for a mouse.

>>12340793
First PC that I actively gamed on was
>Pentium 166 mmx
>32mb ram
>Canopus Pure 3D 6mb

Played
>Quake
>Quake 2
>Unreal
>Blood
>Resident Evil
>Interstate 76
>Nightmare Creatures
>Star Wars Shadows of the Empire
>C&C Red Alert
>Star Wars Rogue Squadron
>Starcraft
>Need For Speed 2
>Motoracer

>>12347562
oh wow! we had a desktop that looked exactly like this one. a Gateway 300 or 400 or something

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>>12340793
In late 2001 or early 2002 it was a...

Athlon Thunderbird 1400
Hercules 3D Prophet 4500
64MB RAM
4GB 7200RPM HD
Viewsonic A90 (1600x1200 60Hz eyerapemaxxing)

First game played and installed would have most likely been either Brood War or Deus Ex, possibly Unreal Tournament or Diablo 2 as well.

>>12347562
My dad used to buy and sell computers, and I recall he used to get a whole bunch of these at times. I could be misremembering, but I think some of them even came with Voodoo 3 cards.

>>12347592
I remember these things.
We have truly improved.

>>12348816
We need to go back.

Way too young to know what computer it was, but it ran DOS and I played a lot of Treasure Mountain, The Island of Dr. Brain, and later on Catacombs and Space Quest.

>>12350478
No. They sucked.
If you went back you would find it sucked.
Then you would somehow end up altering time in a way you had not expected and suddenly Sega still make consoles.

>>12350516
I concur. The idea is nice, but they were often really cheaply made and would fall the fuck apart sooner or later, especially the part where you put the keyboard.

>>12350516
>>12351080
Exactly, they're great when they aren't cheaply made.

>>12353227
The issue much of the time, at least with the sliding keyboard shelf, is that you tend to push down on it, and when fully extended all that stress goes down on a very small area, so eventually it gives. It's probably ok for like a home office that is used sparingly and for short bursts, but not for long-term use.

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Something with Win 3.1, probably 4 mb of ram. Wheel of Fortune made some crazy sounds out of the back.

>>12342910
Fuck yeah crystal caves.

>>12353869
Fuck yeah secret agent.

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>>12340793

Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, one of my first PC games.

My dad randomly brought it home from work one day on a floppy disk. Still a really cool game to this day.

This thread reminds me that I need to get back to working on my DOS and Windows 3.x/9x games pack. Kinda difficult to curate one without bloating the fuck out of the file size, though.

>>12354154
What games so far?

>>12354171
Too many to list atm. For DOS, I've got most of the usual popular titles you'd expect along with less celebrated but still exemplary games, and then a bunch of REALLY old ones just for shits and giggles and because they're like a hundred kb at most lol. On Windows, it's mostly early windows 3.x and 95 games, most of which are small windowed applications (think Windows entertainment pack), but also a lot of good shit from Maxis and others. I'll post some pics when I get back home.

>>12354201
>a hundred kb at most
I love games that will easily fit on a floppy

>>12344813
Quake, Unreal and UltraHLE. Yeah, I was out beating Mario64 and Zelda OoT on my tower, cause I didn't have anything left to also own an N64.

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Don't remember much about the PC but I do remember being really bad at this

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>>12354171
Here's what I have for DOS so far. I'm still missing some of the popular and acclaimed titles, but I'm working towards that. The folders named 1981 and 1982 have very primitive games from those years, and I've made sure to include only ones that actually work, since most games of that era only run properly on a 4.77 MHz 8088. I'm aiming for a 2GB limit.

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And here are the Windows games. Some of you will have seen this before, as I released this pack here some time ago. So far it's mostly relatively basic games, as I've been avoiding adding games that absolutely require the CD (i.e. where there's no available workaround or crack, or where Redbook audio is used), but I'm toying with the idea of installing some anyway and making a companion pack with the necessary images.

>>12341398
Whys it so tall (and ugly)?

>>12340873
This looks just like a modern coomlectors shelf with all the wasted room space lol

>>12340793
My first PC was a 486DX with 15" monitor. I don't remember the RAM, but do remember that the PC itself was an average bone-stock HP with a 20Gb HD.

My first game (besides solitaire) was a demo disc that came with a magazine. It had demos for MDK and Scarab on it, and I played the hell out of both. I ended up getting MDK for the playstation (that was my first Playstaiton game) because the controls were a lot easier than the keyboard controls for the PC version.

>>12340873
Besides shitposting, to actually add to the conversation I also had a Packard Bell Windows 95. This was a side-app that let you go around a room and try out the different games/software. I remember you could get to Comix Zone from here. This was probably to help out people not used to using the Windows GUI/folder structure.

>>12355508
Good stuff

>>12355508
>>12355520
Why the 2gb limit specifically?

>>12356081
FAT16 maybe

>>12356085
Ah, of course. That should've been obvious.

>>12356081
That's only for the DOS games, which are on a separate drive. The Windows installation has 16GB to work with, though I don't plan to go anywhere near that.

>>12346861

You're right - but there's way more hairy issues arising when one goes above 33mhz bus clock and is, or trying to, use the best timings(in the BIOS) - lots of sram ICs and even ram-modules necessary.... some parts that work in one setup at a certain speed won't work in the other.

On a more positive note.... it's part of the thrill of putting together a "486-beast" that's eating DoomII alive.

>>12347505

"Battle Chess"

>>12356113
I need to replay some old games on some of my older systems again. I have a 486 laptop with Dos on it. Only problem is it only has the PC beeper, no sound chip of any kind. But I have a Pentium 3 Win98 machine as well

>>12356261
How old is that think? I'd have thought 486 laptops would have at least some kind of shitty SB clone, unless it's a really early one, but maybe I'm ignorant of how uncommon sound hardware actually was on laptops in the early 90's.

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>>12356758
Looks like around 1994. Mine is a Compaq Contura 410C.
https://www.macdat.net/laptops/compaq/contura_400_series.php

>>12356758
>>12356778
I forgot I also have a Toshiba Satellite 4010CDT.
That has a Yamaha OPL3-SA3 with SB and Windows sound compatibility. I really should use it. Even has a 60GB HDD in it. I was testing some old zip drives with it last summer.

>>12356801
This looks pretty decent. Seems like it'd be well-suited for both early Windows games as well as later DirectDraw games like Starcraft. DOS compatibility will probably be quite nice, too, thanks to the Yamaha chip.

>>12356098
You are forgiven.

>>12356939
Sanctimonious death.

>>12340793
Lol just run a virtual machine on your pc retard

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Pic related running Win98 SE. Not sure what processor it actually had in it. Had some kind of graphics card in it as well since I remember playing a few 3D games besides the classic shit Like RCT1 and 2, Simcity 2k, had the OG Doom at one point, there was also both a 3d Hotwheels game and Nuclear Strike. Also some shit called Ground Control, but I barely remember that game. Also played the shit out of SimSafari and Amazons and Aliens.

>>12340793
Wheel of Fortune and a flight simulator
I think it was a 286
Also why no Mac stuff? Dark Castle is great and if you can find an emulator that will do pointer lock you can play it on an emulated Mac like at https://infinitemac.org/

>>12340793
Ski free, chip's challenge, I also drew a lot on MS paint. I played a lot of demos. The first full PC game I wanted was Starcraft.

>>12357246
Oh, it's nothing against Macs, just wanted to keep the thread focused and free of shitflinging from either side.

>>12340793
First and only game for a long time was lego island. Had dial up for a while so I also played a few shockwave games downloaded to shockwave layer like the lenny loosejocks games, a coca cola hockey game and a king of the hill mini gold game that I actually remember being pretty fun

>>12357098
>and Nuclear Strike
It's a shame we never got Soviet Strike on PC. Also a shame that the strike series ended with Nuclear Strike.

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>>12340873
>Packard Bell
My mom payed like $2000 for this win95 PC back in the day and I remember playing the shit out of Spiderman Cartoon Maker & The Journeyman Project that was bundled with it. I miss that old computer wish I still had the CRT monitor had such an aesthetic vibe and would crash all the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loD1v-rrO1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed5ycZZgjPU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UN3S6q3TWs

>>12358682
>Spider-Man Cartoon Maker
>Journeyman Project
I think we got the exact same bundle or something

>>12358682
This looks neat. I might look for it and add it to my pack.

>>12340793
Some type of Dell PC in 2002. I played Metal Gear Solid and emulated games. I also played flash games. I mainly played on consoles. Wouldn't have a gaming PC until 2024.

>>12355246
Funny

bump

>>12358703
I think I had it too. Came with some Crayola Art thing and a really cool mini-golf.

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>>12357098
Your monitor, Sir.

>>12347592
Pardon my zoomerisms but what's the black box thing on the bottom shelf?

...and where the fuck could you rest your legs with those shelves in the way?

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>>12361308
I could be wrong, but I think that's a battery backup thing, like pic related.

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>>12361304
>degauss
>degauss
>degauss

>>12357481
>first PC
Virtual PC on a Mac running Windows 98. Yes, it was horrible. First game I attempted to play was df2: Jedi knight. Didn’t go very well.

>>12361979
I thought it was a floppy disk caddy...

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>>12362409
Looks too tall and narrow. Besides, they usually looked like this.

>>12340793
1) 486 dx2: Ultima 8, SC2k, Doom, Relentless, C&C, Indy Car Racing, Nascar Racing, Stunts
2) HP Pavilion with a Pentium 166: Quake, C&C RA, The Dig, Diablo, Duke Nukem 3D
3) Slot 1 Pentium 3 800: Diablo 2, Quake 2, C&C Tiberium Sun, C&C RA2, NFS, Homeworld, Starcraft, Half-Life
4) AMD Athlon 64 FX: Quake 3, Half-Life 2
Of course I played a lot more games than that, but those come to mind instantly when I recall the good ol' days

>>12340793
Some Dune game for DOS when I was 6. I didn't know the first thing about Dune, and there was a lot of reading, so I didn't make it very far. Next game I really got into was Diablo when I was about 12. Boy did I get into it. I played online a bunch with people who played legit, so no duped items like Godly Plate of the Whale, just stuff you or your buds found and traded around.

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After our school updated their computer lab sometime in 1997, me and a buddy discovered several computers had been thrown in the dumpsters behind the gym. Managed to score a complete pizza-box mac, color monitor, 3 keyboards, and a coffin sized box stuffed with floppys and like 10 mouses lol. Being a poor kid with only a fuckin NES it was a pretty exciting day.

IIRC not many games were among the disks but I remember playing the hell out of Simant, Simcity, Sam & Max, Spin Doctor, Maze Wars, Monkeys Island and Crystal Quest.

>>12362506
Which of these would you say was the biggest, most noticeable jump?

>>12362726
Nice

>>12362726
I assume you don't still have them?

>>12340873
Hey I had this too! It was a Packard Bell Windows 95, it was packaged with Echo the Dolphin and Comix Zone. Might have come with SimCity Classic too, I can't remember if it was packaged or had a CD. I remember there were different rooms of the house to explore.

Loved Microsoft Encyclopedia Encarta and Mind Maze too.

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>>12363892
>Might have come with SimCity Classic too
Or SimCopter

>>12363896
Was this one any good?

>>12364359
ran like shit on contemporary hardware and was janky. But I had some fun with this game

>>12362932
The absolute game changer was adding a Voodoo 1 (Diamond Monster) to the Pentium 166. But as a whole, the jump from 166 MHz to 800 MHz (which also had a Voodoo 3 AGP card) was quite noticeable. By that time, games were taking full advantage of 3D, so it was a completely different era.
Nevertheless, I'm still very fond of the DOS era, making menus in autoexec.bat and config.sys, squeezing every byte of memory to be able to run games, connecting to the internet using a 14.4 kbps dial-up modem, etc. Technology was evolving like crazy back then. Around every semester things would change/improve significantly.

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My first PC was Compaq Presario 7973.
The games that were first installed there was Heretic 2 and Doom 2 and both scared kid me shitless.

Soon after I learned about the existance of emulators with my first being Rew, a GBC emulator.

Also enjoyed a lot of windows games like Lander.

>>12365027
kinda glad i was too poor to build top end PCs back then, you could spend $3-4000 on a new PC and it'd be unable to play the new games at high settings only 2 years later

>>12365036
That's something a lot of people don't seem to remember
You'd get an absolute top end 66 MHz Pentium machine to play Doom in 1993 and 3 years later you wouldn't even get 20 FPS playing Quake

>>12365341
And this was the case for years, too. Just look at what the tip toppity top end rig you could reasonably put together in late 1996 (when the N64 released) would be: a 200 MHz Pentium with a Voodoo card and around 128 MB of RAM (the Pentium Pro was around, but it would've been well out of reach for most people, and it had issues running 16-bit applications anyway). This would have cost thousands, would've already been struggling to run 1998's high-end games unless you played at lower settings, and by 1999 even low settings wouldn't save you on something like Quake III. Technology was just moving too damn fast back then.

>>12365341
>>12365509
Late 90s you were doing upgrades every 6 months to keep up.

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>>12364359
>>12363896
>they don't know about the gay orgy cheatcode in Simcopter

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>>12365509
while many new games where out of reach for my modest pentium I never ran out of good games

>>12364359
I thought it was cool as fuck to fly around in cities I made in SimCity 2000. It feels like playing a proto-GTA3, especially with the in-game radio present. The other anon is right to call it janky; there are tons of bugs and a lot of them will either drain your points away (rescue missions where sims get stuck inside buildings) or crash your game (which becomes more common the faster your PC is).
>>12366160
It wasn't a cheatcode it was an easter egg that some faggot Maxis employee put in the 1.0 version of the game that only activated on Friday the 13th or his faggot boyfriend's birthday. It was caught and patched out shortly after it hit the shelves, so not too many people know about it. I didn't play SimCopter until sometime around '99, so when I heard about the 'himbo bug' I personally dismissed it as an urban legend up until LGR made a video about it 10 years ago.

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>>12366367
gonna need a pic or clip of this lol