90s gamers and the problems they faced

As a PC gamer from the late 80's till present, my biggest issue in those days were getting 10 or more of these

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home from school without it being damaged.
Sticking it inside our maths handbooks (very thick, 8 floppy capacity) usually worked.
 
Gosh that brings back memories, Contra / double dragon / Mortal Kombat etc, spent hours on my "TV Games"

Then the Playstation, Crash bandicoot / spyro / Medieval / Demo Discs, had endless problems with those dam memory cards.

Also had a cheat file where all my codes were kept, when I discovered the first cheatbook database on PC my mind was blown.
 
Don't get me started on PC games, and playing with Highmem and EMS386 settings inn config.sys and autoexec.bat files just to get enough memory to play your games.

Some times this resulted in different boot menus depending on what you want to do with your PC. Play Doom, boot PC into one config, Go into Windows 3.1 boot another, Use Wordperfect (MS Word did not exist back then) select another option.....

Those are the days I do not want back, at least they taught me about PC's.
 
Lol Final Fantasy 8.
Oh wow this game is getting so intense!!!
Please Inset Disc 4...
wait... what disc 4?
FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU!!!

Also blowing in to Cartridges... oh the joy when it worked again.
Though blowing did nothing when I got a weird burny smell coming from a Cartridge my cousins lent me.
 
Great read. I am so happy that the 5 item articles are gone. Good going!

I had many of the problems listed on the story, but I remember someone "taking" my FF8 disc 4, thinking that it would enable them to play the game.

I burgled it back pretty soon and never spoke to him again. It would've been a mission to get the last disc replaced in a conventional way.
 
Any game you had to backup over multiple stiffy discs using the Dos command line version of RAR...... Only to have disc 9 of 10 have a bad sector on it....... Fun times......
 
Toxin said:
Any game you had to backup over multiple stiffy discs using the Dos command line version of RAR...... Only to have disc 9 of 10 have a bad sector on it....... Fun times......
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RAR? ARJ was the de facto compression standard of DOS days... Ah, the dreaded CRC error on the second to last disc! How was it that the second to last disc always failed? Not the first, not the last, but the SECOND TO LAST.
 
Those were the days where you were taught abstract thinking and troubleshooting and often developed a love for all things technological.

I think that magic is mostly gone these days.
 
Lycanthrope said:
Those were the days where you were taught abstract thinking and troubleshooting and often developed a love for all things technological.

I think that magic is mostly gone these days.
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Amen to that. Although Raspberry Pi, Adruino and Android still make my inner geek do backflips while the outer corporate drone won't allow the kid time to play.
 
FarligOpptreden said:
RAR? ARJ was the de facto compression standard of DOS days... Ah, the dreaded CRC error on the second to last disc! How was it that the second to last disc always failed? Not the first, not the last, but the SECOND TO LAST.
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Oh wow, I think you're right it probably was ARJ..... :eek: Don't know why tho. I remember we started making multiple copies of the second to last disc to try and make it work...... We failed most of the time...... :(
 
AlphaJohn said:
Don't get me started on PC games, and playing with Highmem and EMS386 settings inn config.sys and autoexec.bat files just to get enough memory to play your games.

Some times this resulted in different boot menus depending on what you want to do with your PC. Play Doom, boot PC into one config, Go into Windows 3.1 boot another, Use Wordperfect (MS Word did not exist back then) select another option.....

Those are the days I do not want back, at least they taught me about PC's.
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Loading your mouse driver incorrectly in DOS and then your game that requires mouse support moans that you don't have sufficient memory.

loading network card drivers so you can play doom against your mates...aah the good old days
 
phool said:
Cleaning the dust out of your roller ball mouse so your cursor can scroll again.
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One of my first IT jobs, that was one of the things I had to do on a regular basis until optical mice came along. the amount of nasty shit you had to clean from keyboards and mice was cringe worthy.
 
phool said:
Cleaning the dust out of your roller ball mouse so your cursor can scroll again.
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I am so grateful for optical technology that freed us from the prison of frustration that was the ball mouse. The worst offenders were the in the WITS library, where it was not uncommon for you to land up with a mouse that would not move to the left no matter what you did.
 
AlphaJohn said:
Hey I had it good, Parallel was only 2 people, at least IPX gave you the ability to DM 3 mates at the same time. And yes My PC use to bethe server as I use to run the Beast among my friends (486 with 4 meg of RAM)
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Aah, I still have fond memories of my 486DX4-100, I had 8MB of RAM which I needed for some game (I think it was Wing Commander 4)

Who still remembers having one of these 220px-KL_Diamond_Monster3D_Voodoo_1.jpg
 
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