Problems only 90s gamers will understand

[moondoggie86]

My dad bought me Final Fantasy 8 when it was released on PS. I played every single day from the start for 4 months before he bought me a memory card.

Another 90's problems...cheats. When another player steals all your lives on the first level of Contra and you finish the game on one life. Life stealing player in question is my mother by the way

[Jan]

I don't know how to describe this. I had this dos thing where you had to change some values so you could play the game.

Ahhh! Was it EMM? Expanded Memory manager. (expanded or extended). I remember having to sometimes "activate" that or get the game to realise we have it on before it would play

Ah, the good ol' Autoexec.bat and Config.sys files.

I also remember using a tool called QEMM to try and free up base memory as several older games couldn't use extended or expanded memory.