PC gaming was hard in the 90s

[Dohc-WP]

and...remember when graphics cards were PCI and not PCIe?

Cleaned out an old drawer of odds and ends and saw one of these in the drawer



Took me a while to remember how excited I was to stick this in my Pentium 133

if you had a pci graphics card u where rich

Vesa was for all the middle class folk who could afford pci cards to game

[Mister 44]

Never actually had internet back then, so got my patches off the PC Format or New Age Gaming discs.

And sometimes you would try and get a game just because you already had the patches

[Mister 44]

pfft junior

try having an amd 386 dx 40 with 8 megs ram , sounblaster 16, dual speed cd drive and a 40mb mfm hard drive with dos 6.22 and windows 3.11

starfield simulation was the most amazing screensaver back then

You had a soundblaster? Lucky bastard. I had to split the wires on my 286's internal speaker and attach to a 3.5mm jack which I plugged into my music center's aux input. It was magical.

[DieGrootHammer]

Speaking of graphic cards, I'm just gonna leave this here...



I remember getting this and thinking how amazing it was

[PsychoFish]

Speaking of graphic cards, I'm just gonna leave this here...



I remember getting this and thinking how amazing it was

I felt like a king when I got my Riva TNT2, then my mate got a Voodoo 3, made me very sad

[Snoopimaru]

And trying to LAN a game where everybody was on different versions, so someone always had to uninstall or re-install depending on whether you had the patches available or not.

[Dohc-WP]

I felt like a king when I got my Riva TNT2, then my mate got a Voodoo 3, made me very sad

when my some of my friends rocked 12mb voodoo's (showing how pretty tomb raider looked in 3dfx i had an ati 4mb ragePro pci

[MetalSoup]

I felt like a king when I got my Riva TNT2, then my mate got a Voodoo 3, made me very sad

I had this thing:

[TBlaar]

I had a Voodoo3 3000, that thing was the shizzz!!!! Now my phone is better than that thing

[matt]

Hmmmm...Doom multiplayer over a IPX/SPX network the joys of days gone by

LOL we used to get our computer science teacher to let us play Doom in our Friday class. At least when someone hadn't stolen all the boot disks and mouse balls.