/vr/ - Retro Games

First PC was in 1991, and was gaming from the start. I had no consoles or anything before that.

386DX 25 MHz, 4 MB RAM, 80 MB HDD, Paradise VGA 1 MB card, dual floppies. No sound card until we got an SB16 in about 1995.

I lived in Saudi at the time so pretty much all the games we had were pirated. Played loads of stuff like Prince of Persia, Commander Keen, Monkey Island, Indianapolis 500, Space Quest IV, SC2000, Wolf3D, Doom 2, etc.

Pic related is Dyna Blaster - it seems to be less well-known on the PC, but Hudson actually made a pretty faithful port of the PC Engine Bomberman for DOS. It's one of my all-time favourite multiplayer games, probably since I had been playing it since the start of my gaming career, and I played so many other variations over the years thanks to emulation.

Not really a game, but I also played the Car & Driver simulation (1992) to death. It may have been my first experience with textured polygons.

We didn't get another PC until about 1998, so got behind the times for quite a while. It never had a CD-ROM drive! I still have the original PC now (upgraded to 12 MB RAM with some SIMMs I pulled out of a dumped Wang), and got it working again recently after a cap burnt out on the HDD.

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I had that piece of shit for a while, probably around the time I first got into emulators in the early 2000s. The main six buttons crapped out pretty quickly.