Were Early PC Games Fun To Play( Back IN) the 1990's Or A Complete Pain?

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Warmsignal:
We had a Macintosh something or another and it couldn't handle anything worthwhile. Later on we had a Presario and it was also pretty lame. A lot of DOS games just wouldn't run correctly, and the newer games it struggled to play with choppy frame rates, like the very first Lego PC game. It seems like PCs in the 90s had obsolete hardware right out of the box, and as you say, unless you were willing to fork over thousands of dollars, you weren't going to get a PC that could play games very well. Not to mention if you installed maybe 3 or 4 substantial games on your PC, that HDD was full. Unlike today, where you can have a decent enough PC for well under a grand and you have nearly infinite disc space.

guilty0fbeing:
I had no issue with PC games back in the day, even on a basic computer. I wish I could play Dark Earth again. I have so much nostalgia for it, but I would have no idea how to play it these days.

thewelshman:
My first PC was given to my by my brother in 1999. It had a Pentium I processor, with a 4GB graphics card, 32mb of RAM and a 4GB HD. I was so proud when I upgraded it with a Voodoo 3-3000 Graphics card, a 128MB stick of RAM, and a 10GB HD. All of this in order to play EverQuest easier. He also a download of Fallout II that I used as my buffer game when I needed a break from EQ. Before I had that PC, I played on my friend's PC, which was mostly Warcraft II, and Diablo. I also played a racing game on my Aunt's PC that ran Windows 3.1 called MegaRace. To anyone who ever played that game, I still hate Lance Boyle a little bit.

I never really had access to PC games until my 20s when PCs got cheaper to build, and the internet was more accessible. Of course, I owe that PC my life since it started me down the path of I.T.

badATchaos:
I also remember having a 1992 machitosh. I believe it had OS7, but I could be wrong. I played a lot of Chess Master 2000 on there. It also had backwards compatibility with Apple 2 software, on which I played the original Oregon Trail. I always had a hard time as a kid trying to figure out how to get it into that mode. I would just keep popping the diskette in and out until it booted the software. Retrospectively I'm not certain what I was doing wrong as that very machine works fine today.

bikingjahuty:

--- Quote from: badATchaos on April 17, 2017, 02:19:35 am ---I also remember having a 1992 machitosh. I believe it had OS7, but I could be wrong. I played a lot of Chess Master 2000 on there. It also had backwards compatibility with Apple 2 software, on which I played the original Oregon Trail. I always had a hard time as a kid trying to figure out how to get it into that mode. I would just keep popping the diskette in and out until it booted the software. Retrospectively I'm not certain what I was doing wrong as that very machine works fine today.

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My elementary school had Apple II PCs until I was in about 3rd grade. Played a ton of Oregon Trail on those. I actually installed an Apple II plugin in Firefox and was playing it via my browser several months ago. Still a pretty fun game!

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