PC gaming problems of the 90s

All the problems listed was a actual "Fun" experience, and on the plus side it was a valued learning curve.
 
My only problem with gaming in the 90s was that it started too late.
 
McT said:
My only problem with gaming in the 90s was that it started too late.
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Maybe you started to late?

In those days, cause the internet sucked, developers actually made sure their games worked on release, not this update later if people complain mentality...
 
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@psion | Absolutely spot on, sire! My apologies. I should have worded my post accordingly.

It wasn't until around '97 that I had my introduction to computers and gaming. I haven't looked back since.
 
56k Modem in the 90's? Late 90's maybe, I got my first modem in '98 and that was an external 33.6k.

All the old problems meant you had to actually use your noggin to game in those days. Quake on 10Mb co-axial ring network, navigating command line , loading drivers and dos drivers , configuring soundcards , heck I remember having to load mouse drivers and it would be one of the items you sacrificed to play some games as it took up a huge chunk of base ram, or you could shove it into higher , maybe , if you had the right tool.

PCTOOLS :D
 
psion said:
LOL!!!!! I used to have like 50 games all shareware, chapter 1 ftw
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bought two disks from Toys r us both R49 , one had 50 shareware flight games the other other 130 "Arcade" games
 
One sound that annoyed me to hell and back is the my US Robotics modem when it started :twisted:
 
If you had the skills to customise the config.sys & autoexec.bat files to get stuff into high memory and free up as much conventional memory as possible, you were a God amongst men, especially when you could do it without the need to a "boot disk" just for games. Many friends and adults alike had boxes of games they could not start due to having 430K or less conventional memory available. The epademic was made worse when Creative released these huge boxes with SoundBlaster & CD-ROM kits with hordes of games, very little of which worked because of the lack of conventional memory when you needed after loading the CD-ROM drivers.

And then came Memmaker.exe for 386's and up, and we were Gods no more.

Edit: What else makes me nostalgic...? The first time you hear Prince of Persia via a sound card. Figuring out you can emulate IPX via the parallel cable connection service in Win95 and don't need a expensive LAN card to play network play with another mate. Being blown away by Decent's MIDI music via a secondhand AWE32.
 
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Kosmik said:
56k Modem in the 90's? Late 90's maybe, I got my first modem in '98 and that was an external 33.6k.
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Luxury. My first modem was in the very early 90's - a 1200 baud modem used to connect to FidoNet. I doubt anyone even knows what that is now. Pre email :)

One of the first games - Space Quest I. Was 2 or 3 x 360k disks and took about 2 months to finish!

Nowadays it's like 2 DVD's and take 10 hours to finish.
 
This was really a golden age of gaming. Went onto youtube the other day and watched a playthrough of Golden Axe, and it took the guy something like 20 minutes. I remember spending forever on it as a kid, that and all the classic Adventure Games by Lucasarts and Sierra. Awesome times. Also go a 56k modem in the late 90's, after having my 33 blown up during a JHB storm!
 
Shi said:
One sound that annoyed me to hell and back is the my US Robotics modem when it started :twisted:
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Noooooo...that was awesome,you could actually listen to the handshakes. From that I knew what speed it was connecting at
 
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