Get Off Mah Lawn, Kids

Well, those were the good ol' times, in their own special way :)

20 disks?!! The most I used was five for One Must Fall 2097!

I had to make a bootable disk just to play Aces of the Pacific and Dawn Patrol on my 486. Loved those days

i still remember the deep enjoyment when i passed from the standard tape loader to the turbo tape and i had not to stand this

Ahh.. those were the days.... I remember I had a dos game and my pc was a little bit too slow... don't remember the name of that racing game but I had a lot of fun with that (in my case) 2 fps racer xD

i remember boot disks that loaded only a minimal set of drivers and didn't start windows (3.1) so you could actually get the game exe to load. it all had to be loaded into system memory which was only 640 k, so it didn't matter if you had 8 M ram, your drivers and exe wouldn't go there. you even had to load a driver into system memory to be able to use the ram at all.

it's definitely easier now. of course back then it was easier to cheat -- you could get a tsr (terminate and stay resident) from a bbs that would let you search and lock memory locations, so if you had 5 missiles, search for 5, then fire a missile, then search for 4 and find a location that was 5 and is now 4, lock it for infinite missiles.

also, there was another form of cga which was yellow, orange, green and black. i believe the monuments of mars would even switch between the two palettes.

oh and at beginning it was a lot more socializable.

Remember playing atari and waiting for a game to load from casette. It took so long (and you could always have error) that we were going with friends outside to play :D while waiting.

Now you can't go out from computer for 5 min because there is always something happening

You still got off easy. When I started PC gaming, I had a TRS-80 CoCo II. Some programs loaded from cassette tapes and could take 10-15 minutes or more to load. I also had 5.25" floppy disk drive, who's disks held a whopping 90KB.

Back when internet was for the privileged.
Back when my video game library weighed a metric fuckton, yet only contained 100mb.
Back when my top of the line PC had a 1gb hard drive.
Back when Apogee was awesome (and still their own company)

I remember

Well, back in my time we used to craft games from our enemies bones :D

It was all sorts of fun trying to configure early multi-player games on Win 95 DOS mode when they needed XMS but your network card's point enabler (the TSR/program to get it working in DOS) wanted EMS. :/ IIRC, that one ran into base memory issues as well.

I had an Amiga 500, loved that :D

Damn you guru meditation! XD

Played my first video game in 1999 Golden Axe, then the first Mortal Combat, Sim City and Paperboy. :3 I could only play at school because my Dad didn't let me close to his computer saying "its strictly for work only"

my first pc was a ti99/4a, which had games (and other software) on cartridges. those were actually very easy to run -- just plug the cartridge in and turn it on (or hit the ctrl-alt-del style reset keys). the one exception was a game called adventure, which would start up and ask something like "WHERE IS THE DATABASE" and to this day i don't know what it wanted. maybe it came with a cassette for the tape drive but my secondhand cartridge didn't come with it?

i think i still have a ti99 brochure somewhere. it features bill cosby.

Good times.

Running a game and it asks you "what is the 8th word of the 27th page?" If you didn't answer correctly, the game would exit. That was anti-piracy back then.

I didn't own a PC until CD's where around. My friends had computers way before that and I remember the stacks of floppy discs they had for games

Well, im not as old as you, my first pc game was already installed, but i did not had the answers book, only knew 1 answer by hearth (game asked a question to start, otherwise you had to quit and open again), so sometimes it took a while to start playing. Maybe you remember my first pc game.

clicky

Earliest I remember for PC GAMING (since console gaming was a breeze) was praying your computer can actually handle certain games, realizing Carmegedon wasn't one of them, so you settle with Redneck Rampage, Duke Nukem 3D, and Road Rash. It was my brother's computer, I was 4 and I gamed on it more than he did. I also used his NES more than he did too. Man, I wish he had Doom and Wolfenstein... I would have had the best childhood ever then. Oh well, I got them in 2003 :p

"Hand coding memory", is that elaborate expression how they used to call it in your country, or you just came up with it?

I still remember the day I first loaded up Akalabeth....

• COMES ON A FLOPPY DISK!
• USES COLOR GRAPHICS!
• HAS 3D DUNGEONS!
• AN ENTIRE WORLD TO EXPLORE!
• MOST ADVANCED D&D GAME TO DATE!

Obviously you are still considered lucky, back in my day "computers" were just big slabs of rock that changed whenever the guy inside would etch out on screen whatever you requested.

Please, no... don't bring DOS4gw back in my memory ;_;

Run DISC
bbrrr brrrr brrr brrr
RETRY, IGNORE OR CANCEL
repeat...

window 95 on 85 floppy :D

That moment when you realised your ZX Spectrum's tapedeck was playing up, and the only way to make sure the play button stayed depressed during loading was to hold it down manually. Or that one dreaded moment when you THOUGHT your Amiga had finished loading (given the "Insert Next Disk" screen), only to hear the little brrt as you took it out. Goodnight sweet game.

Fun fact : I youtubed a spectrum loading screen just to feel the glorious nostalgia of the BRRRR-GAK... BRRR-GAAAARRKRKRKRKRKRK.
And now I feel old, but on the flip side, it makes me wonder what kind of absurdly awesome advances in gaming tech they'll come up with before my life is over. Seriously, I remember a time when the Bladerunner PC game had a 1gb install option, and I laughed, thinking it was a genuine joke, I mean, who would honestly have a whole GB spare for a single game?

One can only hope Spore 2 (creature stage only, if necessary), just so I can taste that glory before I die and leave a horrible exit-fart as I go-

It also makes me wonder how awestruck I would have been as a kid, to have played some of the games I missed. Never owned a C64, so I missed out on terrifying games like : Forbidden Forest. I mean, check out the deaths in the sequel

You remember me when I begin to play videogames in my first computer,my lovely blacky Spectrum 48k :P ..and one of my first games,Phantomas :D

(sorry if I have gramatical errors)