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

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tripredacus:
I remember not being able to play or figure out how to play multiplayer games in the dial-up days. But still I would download multiplayer maps for Doom or Duke Nukem 3D and explore them. I remember some pretty amazing Duke Nukem 3D maps. One was of a Star Trek ship, another was some castle.

brazbit:
They weren't a pain at all (nor were they "early" PC games by the 90s, early 3D maybe) They were excuses to get the latest Rage 3D card or Sound Blaster. I loved figuring out new ways to get the most out of the hardware. DIP switches to individually set IRQ & DMA values, then feeding that information into each game. Running multiple config.sys and autoexec.bat configurations based on which programs and features I would want for that session. High Memory, Expanded Memory, RAM drives, TSRs and all that jazz. Being a PC gamer during that era lead to a career due to having to know virtually every aspect of each and every component in your machine and what worked and didn't work with what and why. No complaints here, it was the most fun, hands on, job skills training I could imagine.

undertakerprime:
I found PC games in the late 80's-early 90's to be more annoying. I didn't mind dealing with a DOS interface, but having to enter your sound card settings and installing from multiple floppies was time consuming and irritating, if you could get the game to work at all.

When I went to college in '94, my parents bought me a state-of-the-art computer with a new-fangled device called a CD-ROM drive, and it came with The 7th Guest. I used that computer more for gaming than for schoolwork, playing Doom I & II, Duke Nukem, Myst, Command & Conquer...
By that point, installation was pretty much automatic and I don't recall having any issues.

oldgamerz:

--- Quote from: brazbit on May 04, 2017, 12:34:47 am ---They weren't a pain at all (nor were they "early" PC games by the 90s, early 3D maybe) They were excuses to get the latest Rage 3D card or Sound Blaster. I loved figuring out new ways to get the most out of the hardware. DIP switches to individually set IRQ & DMA values, then feeding that information into each game. Running multiple config.sys and autoexec.bat configurations based on which programs and features I would want for that session. High Memory, Expanded Memory, RAM drives, TSRs and all that jazz. Being a PC gamer during that era lead to a career due to having to know virtually every aspect of each and every component in your machine and what worked and didn't work with what and why. No complaints here, it was the most fun, hands on, job skills training I could imagine.

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I'm impressed if what you said is you. There are probably over a multiple billion different ways, or possible. how to operate any computer by now. there is even a way to make entire song, or music with code. and even movies too.

oldgamerz:
I thought I bump this topic since, recent posts in the community have been about getting an old PC up and running. I think this topic has something worth looking over but that's just me.

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