What was your first (PC) computer, 286,386?
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The first time i was blown away by PC graphics was the Unreal intro on 3dfx. Just
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLBgaLOi7N4
Incredible for the time. First time seeing anything like it. I remember watching a tech demo for Unreal after it was released and still being blown away - first time things like mist, smoke, reflections and water had been used like that in a game
Totally agree was utterly amazing at the time, would love to see a modern true sequel to Unreal.
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Oldest PC I have used is a 286 at my uncle's house. Oldest computer I have used for any serious amount of time was a 386 DX 33 also at my uncles. Oldest computer I ever owned was a Commodore Amiga 500 with the RAM expansion. It was glorious and horrible at the same time. No HDD! And the floppies were DS/DD... 700 some odd KB. The horror. People forget how mind melting the Amiga was when it came out in 1985. SNES quality graphics a full 6 years before SNES. In the home. Amaze-balls.
Sadly the Amiga lived free and died hard in North America. It was impossible to find software post 1992 for the most part and even before that it was a niche machine that never really caught on. NES/SNES/Genesis (mega drive) were the things to have here. Nobody cared about gaming on computers until like Win 95 around here. People had such a lack of vision and they didn't know what they were missing (Like the Lucasfilm flight/space sims for example)
Unreal blew my mind utterly and completely. Sadly I got stuck half way through the game at a puzzle type thingy and gave up.
Games that have blown my mind, btw, in chronological order:
Super Mario Bros 3 (NES)
Wrath of the Demon (Amiga)
Street Fighter II (Arcade/SNES)
Donkey Kong Country (SNES
Super Mario 64 (N64)
Goldeneye (N64)
Incoming (PC)
Unreal (PC)
Halo (Xbox)
Far Cry (PC)
Hitman 2 (PC)
Crysis (PC)
Metro 2033 (PC)
Sadly the Amiga lived free and died hard in North America. It was impossible to find software post 1992 for the most part and even before that it was a niche machine that never really caught on. NES/SNES/Genesis (mega drive) were the things to have here. Nobody cared about gaming on computers until like Win 95 around here. People had such a lack of vision and they didn't know what they were missing (Like the Lucasfilm flight/space sims for example)
Unreal blew my mind utterly and completely. Sadly I got stuck half way through the game at a puzzle type thingy and gave up.
Games that have blown my mind, btw, in chronological order:
Super Mario Bros 3 (NES)
Wrath of the Demon (Amiga)
Street Fighter II (Arcade/SNES)
Donkey Kong Country (SNES
Super Mario 64 (N64)
Goldeneye (N64)
Incoming (PC)
Unreal (PC)
Halo (Xbox)
Far Cry (PC)
Hitman 2 (PC)
Crysis (PC)
Metro 2033 (PC)
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Amstrad cpc 464 if that counts. If not some IBM 286 machine that I didnt have much software for.
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Compaq Presario P90 (586). Think it had a 800mb HD, 8mb RAM and 1mb Video (Cirrus Logic). Came with Loderunner and Kings Quest 7 (great games!).
Got online around same time, initially Compuserve then AOL
Got online around same time, initially Compuserve then AOL
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First PC we had as a family was a Pentium 1 133MHz with 16MB of ram and a 2GB hard drive (I think).
First PC I built for myself at the age of 16 was an Athlon XP 3000 with 512MB Ram and a Geforce FX 5600 (I knew very little about GPUs back then). I remember being blown away by how well it could run C&C generals
First PC I built for myself at the age of 16 was an Athlon XP 3000 with 512MB Ram and a Geforce FX 5600 (I knew very little about GPUs back then). I remember being blown away by how well it could run C&C generals