/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9686778
Almost impossible to get into as a young kid
>games receive no advertising
>insanely expensive hardware
>large degree of technical knowledge required
>incompatibilities likely
>no controller standard
>available controllers are poor quality
>reading the manual usually mandatory
>copy protection step just to start playing
If your dad was a nerd (ergo, computer-savvy & wealthy), then that circumvented most or all of these. All the PC gamers I knew as a young kid in the 90s had nerdy fathers, if not straight up programmers or computer engineers.

I played random shit I found on discount at K-Mart or shovelware on a "100 Games!" disk my stepdad brought home. Somehow, I found Tie Fighter, which was the best PC game I had ever played until Quake 2 was included with my Gateway PC in 1999.