PC Nostalgia (Pick a moment in time)

Terence_303 · 12 Jun 2017 at 21:38

I personally miss the old school monitors and the ascetic I want to play them how they would have been intended on a crt, its like preserving what pc gaming was mixed with nostalgia for it.

vincent1989 · 12 Jun 2017 at 21:49

First pc that I built myself, aged 16, AMD skt 939 3500+, 1gb DDR2, an AMD radeon x1800xt 512mb all in a tidy antec sonata II. I remember playing an awful lot of BF2 at the time.

V F · 12 Jun 2017 at 21:50

Terence_303 said:
I personally miss the old school monitors and the ascetic I want to play them how they would have been intended on a crt, its like preserving what pc gaming was mixed with nostalgia for it.

My memory of CRT gaming is nearly gone. Except I remember the headaches from the slow flickering with the room lighting. More so in offices/college with florescent lights, pounding headaches.

Wizzfizz · 12 Jun 2017 at 22:08

Still use my CRT to game on

Quake 2 on Wireplay and Barrysworld, staying up most nights dueling.

Feek · 12 Jun 2017 at 22:15

My computing begins a long time before the PC was popular, we had a Commodore PET at school and I owned an Acorn Atom. I've posted pictures of it on these forums before.

I was never a massive gamer but one game did grab me and drag me in. I'd gone to visit a friend in Macclesfield, drove howevermanyhundreds of miles and he'd just got Theme Park.

Rather than go out for food and beer as we'd planned to do, we just totally lost the weekend playing Theme Park. That's a nice nostalgic moment for me.

V F · 12 Jun 2017 at 23:02

Feek said:
My computing begins a long time before the PC was popular, we had a Commodore PET at school and I owned an Acorn Atom. I've posted pictures of it on these forums before.

How about the Amstrad from the early/mid 80s? Cannot remember what it was called. I remember you had to insert disks for it to work. Lovely green glowing text.

a1ex2001 · 13 Jun 2017 at 06:48

Feek said:
My computing begins a long time before the PC was popular, we had a Commodore PET at school and I owned an Acorn Atom. I've posted pictures of it on these forums before.

I was never a massive gamer but one game did grab me and drag me in. I'd gone to visit a friend in Macclesfield, drove howevermanyhundreds of miles and he'd just got Theme Park.

Rather than go out for food and beer as we'd planned to do, we just totally lost the weekend playing Theme Park. That's a nice nostalgic moment for me.

We had a PET at home that my dad aquired from work with a few dodgy games, great memories! Moved from that to a twin floppy 086 IBM PC. With a Hercules green screen display, added a hard disk and prince of Persia with massive ghosting was on!

For me the golden era was the 486 dx2 andcearly pentium days great games networking in it's infancy oh and I was still at school!

JonnyT · 13 Jun 2017 at 07:27

V F said:
How about the Amstrad from the early/mid 80s? Cannot remember what it was called. I remember you had to insert disks for it to work. Lovely green glowing text.

CPC464 had the tape drive, CPC6128 had the 3" (not 3&1/2) single-sided floppy drive. Memories of Harrier Attack and Roland In Time...

Feek · 13 Jun 2017 at 07:53

V F said:
How about the Amstrad from the early/mid 80s? Cannot remember what it was called. I remember you had to insert disks for it to work. Lovely green glowing text.

That doesn't invoke any feelings of nostalgia for me whatsoever. I remember them, I remember them being junk!

Tone1979 · 13 Jun 2017 at 08:16

Terence_303 said:
I personally miss the old school monitors and the ascetic I want to play them how they would have been intended on a crt, its like preserving what pc gaming was mixed with nostalgia for it.

I was lucky enough for a friend to pick up an ex bank 21" Sony CRT monitor. It was one of the highest spec monitors at the time. At this time I also used to go to a mates house and we'd play CS together for days on end. Getting that monitor from my house to his house involved my dad giving me a lift to his place and at each end it took 2 of us to move the screen. It weighed something like 40kg and was so large that it was impossible to move on your own.

my entire gaming/home office setup with duel 24" screens, computer and desk probably doesn't weigh as much as that monitor.

I don't miss it.

TOne

Hades · 13 Jun 2017 at 09:53

Wizzfizz said:
Still use my CRT to game on

Quake 2 on Wireplay and Barrysworld, staying up most nights dueling.

Same. But I miss pressing the degauss button nowadays

Narj · 13 Jun 2017 at 11:12

Hades said:
Same. But I miss pressing the degauss button nowadays

I had a 19" iiyama and Degauss felt sooooooo good!

Kainz · 13 Jun 2017 at 12:01

V F said:
How about the Amstrad from the early/mid 80s? Cannot remember what it was called. I remember you had to insert disks for it to work. Lovely green glowing text.

The CPC was my first gaming computer experiences. Many great memories, and much time wasted gaming back then. Loading up Ikari Warriors via tape on the 464 took about 10mins or so? Only to receive a Read Error B right at the end!
I was the 464 Colour Monitor Master Race, that was envied by my green screen peasant friends. Then the 6128 came out with the floppy disks! It's a shame Alan Sugar's senseless direction killed Amstrad back then - the new CPC's were a total joke and never took off as the world had moved on.

Narj · 13 Jun 2017 at 13:57

Kainz said:
I was the 464 Colour Monitor Master Race, that was envied by my green screen peasant friends.

High five, brother!

So many great memories playing Turrican, Barbarian, Gauntlet, Dizzy, Cybernoid 2, Mr. Heli and so may more in glorious colour.

Loved my CPC464 (With 64K Ram Pack!).

I saved my pocket money for ages for a Multiface 2, Genius mouse set and OCP Art Studio.

Kainz · 13 Jun 2017 at 14:27

Barbarian was amazing (as was Maria!). I used to heavily play Matchday II, Barbarian, Ivan Stewarts Iron-man racing (if that was the correct title) and of course Target Renegade! I sold my CPC long ago for £10 - regret selling it and my older machines now :/

Roar87 · 13 Jun 2017 at 17:18

My favourite era was probably playing Counter Strike 1.3-1.6 on my Athlon XP 1700+ 256mb of RAM and a Geforce 2 MX 64mb graphics card. Especially when I got a Logitech MX500 mouse. 100fps @ 100hz on a CRT monitor with a 512k ADSL connection was about the best you could get at that time. Headshots for days.

I did enjoy the Quake 3/UT99/Age of Empires 2 era as well, I think I had Celeron 433 with 64mb of a RAM and a Voodoo 3 as my first PC, had it on a network at home with my Dads Pentium 2 450mhz, we lost way too many weekends to 8 hour games of AoE2.

Muban · 13 Jun 2017 at 18:57

2001 (pretty late on given how much earlier I had started gaming) by this time I was a proper grown up and should have been spending my time doing other more productive stuff instead

. This was the year that I was still playing Ultima Online and was also the year of Anarchy Online, Battletech 3025, LAN games (CS, UT) and my old faithful Diamond Supramax 56k modem.

Kainz said:
2. Being introduced to Ultima Online (MMO) thanks to Halfmad on this forum. When an old gaming friend introduced me to it I laughed at it's rubbish isometric visuals of the time but was curious as this was very popular going by the various UO newsgroups at the time. Got killed by a cat on my first day and after that was hopelessly engrossed in the world's lore and the game along with it's skills. I spent about 6-7yrs playing it on Europa and met so many amazing people - a lot of whom aren't with us anymore Watching the in-game elements change over the years, and yet its visuals (thanks to the playerbase) remain the same i.e dated was something I shall not forget.

Perhaps I ran into you in all those hours I spent on Europa. So much time getting my skills up and maintaining my titles. So many hours wasted at BB and going out sailing with my mates

Nothing has really compared to the fun I had playing UO. So many games might have been 'better' but none so much fun.

Haze · 13 Jun 2017 at 19:08

I am Still really missing the Disk World games

keep looking on GoG every now and then hoping maybe one day!!

Explosivo · 13 Jun 2017 at 19:12

Getting my first gpu (ati 9600 xt 256mb) and playing my first ever pc game (Far Cry) and being blown away.

Edit: infact scratch that, i'd go back to when Bf2 just came out.

Kainz · 13 Jun 2017 at 20:52

Muban said:
Perhaps I ran into you in all those hours I spent on Europa. So much time getting my skills up and maintaining my titles. So many hours wasted at BB and going out sailing with my mates Nothing has really compared to the fun I had playing UO. So many games might have been 'better' but none so much fun.

My chars were Kainz (swordsman/pally) , Austin Flowers (worst scribe/mage ever), Elvis Parsley (7x GM crafter gimp). We probably had encountered each other more times than we'd know given the time spent in that game. I still have a ton of Stratics skill printouts/guides and fiction stories before the site went to hell.