/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.2368149]

Let's talk about our first computer.

[Anonymous No.2368169]

>>2368149
>Buy a no-name 8088 system
>512K RAM
>Hercules and a 20MB disk
>Company goes out of business a week later
>Barely PC-compatible and no tech support
WordPerfect worked I guess

[Anonymous No.2368179]

>>2368149

An old one we got from our neighbours when they got a new one, don't know the specs but still had a turbo button and ran Win 3.1, later we put on 95 which it could stand just enough.
Then one day the a boot dll got corrupted and since I did not know anything about computers back then and my family even less, it went down into the basement and was never seen again ;_:7
Pitiy, could make a very nice DOS gaming system out of it today.

[Anonymous No.2368180]

>>2368149
Dell Dimension
200MHz Pentium WITH MMX TECHNOLOGY
32MB of RAM
4GB HD
4MB MATROX MILLENNIUM video card
SoundBlaster 32 with AWE support
>luv 2 acronym

[Anonymous No.2368185]

Commodore 64. And there were so many games. So much piracy. I even liked all the bad ones.

[Anonymous No.2368238]

no-name (Megatronic I think) 286 with 1 MB RAM and 40MB hard drive. Loved the crap out of it. Programmed in QBASIC and Turbo Basic only, tried learning C and assembler but didn't have enough books / too lazy. Still remember learning DOS memory management to create custom boots with more memory so I could play Wing Commander II with pretty explosions. Loved Space Quest, Police Quest and all Sierra games.

Fapped to Strip Poker II and shitty porn pics some dude downloaded from Compuserve

Only regret is it couldn't play Doom or any games needing a 386.

[Anonymous No.2368254]

8088
712 kb useable ram
No HD
CGA
Monochrome display

And I'm spanish, truly the golden age shone upon me, altough partially only.

Played tons of games, some were good, some horrible.

Some favourites were Game Over, by dinamic, I never finished it, but first phase was fun. Double Dragon, it had shitty controls, but it was fun as fuck. Motherfucking Barbarian. Titanic. Viaje al Centro de la Tierra (Journey to the Center of the Earth). Poogaboo 2. Poli Diaz (Boxing). Angel Nieto 500cc (Super Hang On Ripoff, lol). Bad Street Brawler. Indiana Jones arcade. Lakers vs Celtics. Fucking Rampage. Heavy Metal: Modern Land combat. Team Yankee. And especially one I played forever since I got it: Navy Moves.

Many more, but remember them very vaguely.

[Anonymous No.2368275]

486 dx 75mhz
8mb ram
512k video
Sound blaster 16
512mb hdd

[Anonymous No.2368342]

One of the Power Macintoshes. I played edutainment games until I was old enough to want to play NES/SNES/Genesis. Rather than getting the consoles, though, my dad opted to download emulators and roms.

[Anonymous No.2368352]

The first one that i could really consider my own was this bad boy right here. Was pretty cool at the time. I miss OS9 still.

[Anonymous No.2368414]

Radio Shack CoCo

I don't feel like there's much to say about it that hasn't already been said over the past three decades.

[Anonymous No.2368549]

>>2368185
>Commodore 64.

Same. My aunt gave it to me. I was amused that I could use a sega genesis controller with it. I remember Who Framed Roger Rabbit

[Z No.2368551]

commodore 64

[Anonymous No.2368635]

My family was poor as fuck, no way would they be spending the $1500 or so it cost to get a computer through most of the 90s.

I put a lot of money up from my first teenage job to get our first one in October 1998. I forget mst of the specs but I remember the Pentium 2 and 9gb HD.that made me store every possible last thing on 3 1/2 disks.

I used that thing to play all the RTSs of the time, years later that was still my dedicated Starcraft computer even after I had got a new one.

[Anonymous No.2368647]

First computer was some beige Windows 95 POS, but later our we got something a lot like pic related.

[Anonymous No.2368939]

Had a commodore64 which i only remember working for a short time. We then had straight DOS systems prior to IBM 286 then the early windows etc. Playing skifree and minesweeper. Was kind a cool time to get into it because i was old enough and into it enough to appreciate the different phases of evolution of the PC. Microsoft used to have some very cool software sort of encyolpedias of animals on cd rom etc cant remember what it was called

Then of course apple2 and prior in elementary school.

Since then i'd say my family, including the last 2 PC's i've bought for myself have probably upgraded every 3 or 4 years and probably 22-25 computers total since the Commodore.

Amazing now to use my relatively high end rig with the i7 and see how far it's come

[Anonymous No.2369034]

>>2368939
Microsoft Encarta?

[Anonymous No.2369047]

>>2369034
encarta was cool but nah it was somthing like

edit* ahh here we go, dangerous creatures, this was actually excellent for its time really before anyone started doing mainstream games u were kind of limited to software like this lol but it was great

[Anonymous No.2369050]

Zenith eazy PC
Model: EZ-2
Released: 1987
Price: US $1,199
CPU: NEC V40 @ 7.14MHz
RAM: 512K, 640K max.
Display: 80 X 25 text
640 X 200 pixels graphics
14-inch monochrome monitor
Ports: Printer, mouse
system expansion bus
Storage: 3.5-inch 720K floppy drive(s)
optional 20Meg hard drive
OS: MS-DOS 3.21

[Anonymous No.2369716]

>>2368414

Same. I remember writing text adventures and saving them to cheap audio cassettes that would lose the data within a couple months.

>>2368635

There were plenty of affordable 8-bit and 16-bit systems by the early 90s but I'm guessing those weren't what you were looking for.

TBH the IBM compatibles didn't interest me at all until they had decent graphic and sound hardware. I didn't make the move until the 486 came out.

>>2368939

I gotta say one thing I don't miss is having my whole setup go obsolete inside of one year when clock speeds kept doubling. Progress has slowed to a standstill since then, which is unfortunate but a lot better for my wallet.

[Anonymous No.2369756]

My first computer was a TI-99/4A that we only had for about 6-8 months before we got a Commodore 64. Then we had an Amiga 500 for a couple years before getting our first PC: a 386-40.

I still have the TI and C64. I sold the Amiga 500 when I moved out of the house to help finance the purchase of a Pentium 66 system.

[Anonymous No.2369801]

Amiga 500 that I still have with a 1084S monitor, RAM and hard drive expansions.

[Anonymous No.2369847]

Sinclair ZX-81
1 KB ram (+external 16 KB plugin expansion, which kept getting loose, crashing programs)
3.25 MHz Z80 cpu
Monochrome display via UHF tv
Plugged into a regular tape player to load/save, took about 10 minutes, during which the aforementioned RAM expansion would come loose, causing crash.

[Anonymous No.2369872]

>>2369047
Hmm? By 1994 the computer game industry had been around for over a decade. Doom came out the year before Dangerous Creatures.

[Anonymous No.2369917]

>First computer used
In elementary school

[Anonymous No.2369919]

>first computer in the house
Dad sold them for a while

[Anonymous No.2369923]

>first computer owned
They were cheap, that's about all I can say for them although I have a pretty good collection these days for nostalgia

[Anonymous No.2369924]

>>2369847
Did you get the kit or pre-built? It wasn't my first computer but it was the first one I really dug into.

[Anonymous No.2369926]

>first computer owned
They were cheap, that's about all I can say for them although I have a pretty good collection these days for nostalgia.

[Anonymous No.2369930]

>first PC
Brother gave it to me - Literally the shittiest PC I have ever seen but it still changed my life because it had a 2400bps modem in its one expansion slot

tfw never played a single game on a Commodore or even an Atari computer because my dad (and all my friends' dads too I guess) thought computers primarily for gaming were stupid

[Anonymous No.2369932]

First one I used. It was 1998, I was 5 and in Kindergarten.

I would draw Crazy Bones in the Paint program and play some Shadow Keep.

[Anonymous No.2369935]

>>2369932
WHOOPSADAISY

[Anonymous No.2369936]

First one I used ran Windows 98. First one I owned ran Windows XP. I feel super young right now though, which is nice.

[Anonymous No.2369962]

Dad bought me pic related from a garage when I was very young, maybe 4 or 5. This computer was outdated as fuck when we got it, this was probably in '95. I remember in grade school, even in the mid-90's, the only computers we had were these ancient Apple IIs and several different models of them. Used to spend hours playing Summer Games, Mixed Up Mother Goose, JOHN MADDEN, Galaga, and fucking around with print shop programs.

My family got an actual WIndows 98 PC for Christmas of '98. A Compaq Presario. AMD K6-2 processor clocked at 475 mhz, 8 MB dedicated video, 64 MB RAM, 4.3 GB HDD. And I used that bastard as my main machine up until 2009.

[Anonymous No.2369964]

>>2369962
forgot pic. My first machine

[Anonymous No.2369969]

>33MHz shitbox
>Dot matrix printer
>internet by CompuServe
>Encarta disc included
Those were the days.

[Anonymous No.2369985]

>>2369872
>>2369872
Sorry I phrased that poorly. Yea the game industry had been around long prior to that but it was still mostly an after thought in computing. Most stores etc focused so heavily on business and other applications that the "gaming" section was usually nothing more than a back corner or small stand at that point. I can remember playing a shit tonne of 3.5" floppy games far before dangerous creatures. dangerous creatures however was just a benchmark I remember back to when CD-Rom technology was finally coming into its own for the home user

[Anonymous No.2369990]

>>2369985
>the "gaming" section was usually nothing more than a back corner or small stand at that point

You're from murrica?

I'm this anon

>>2368254

The EU -or at least Spain- was brimming with games those days, I find it hard to believe that murricans had no gaming back then.

Shit was called golden age even.

[Anonymous No.2369998]

From Canada here.

So which games were included in that era? There were very few cd-rom games at that point in time, it was a transitional time is moreso what I'm saying. People were crossing over from their plastic cases full of floppies to the large boxes CD titles

[Anonymous No.2370004]

>>2369801

Lucky bastard, that was an amazing machine for those that wanted good music.

Gotta find a good torrent with amiga shit. Atari ST wasn't half bad either.

[Anonymous No.2370008]

>>2369998

The transitional era saw many murrican titles. From those days one of my favourites is Bio-Menace. But yeah, along came Doom and the explosion of clones...

[Anonymous No.2371023]

>>2368149
Atari 400, with the cassette drive...

[Anonymous No.2371158]

My family are pack rats, so I still have my first computer, and it still works.

It was some sort of custom build from a local computer shop.

ABIT FA4
Cyrix Cx486DLC-33GP @ 33MHz
ULSI FPU
8MB RAM
Seagate ST3243A
Sound Blaster 16
Headland VGA card
56k Modem

It ran (and still runs) Windows 3.1 and DOS 6.

I upgraded it a bit the last few years, put an ethernet card and SVGA ATI Mach32 card in it.

[Anonymous No.2371159]

>>2368180

WHAT?>! MMX TECHNOLOGY

NO WAI

BASED COMP

[Anonymous No.2371202]

>>2368149

My first PC
>1987
>8086 compatible chipset @ 1.2 MHz
>1024 Kb RAM (upgraded)
>no hard drive
>one 5' 1/4 SD drive (340K)
>Hercules monochrome card
>Yellow phosphorus 14' monitor
>IBM compatible mechanical keyboard
>No Mouse
>PC Speaker
>DOS 3.1 bootable disk ready for action

Favorite games
>Monkey Island. 8 motherfucking SD LD floppies... EIGHT.
>Sokoban
>Puzznic
>Rick Dangerous
>A god awful Atari 2600 conversion of Star Wars
>Alley Cat (SIMCGA required, bedgging for the MMA 640K to hold it up without memory overflow)

My cabby was exactly the one in the picture but the monitor was different.

[Anonymous No.2371205]

>>2368180
>4 Gb HD

what were you, the fucking Rockafellers?

[Anonymous No.2371223]

>>2371202
My second PC
>1996
>Texas Instruments 80486 DX @ 100 MHz
>Some god awful motherboard with too many ISA slots and too few PCI slots
> 4 Mb RAM (Upgraded to 8 later)
>1 Gb Seagate HDD
>One 3' 1/2 HD floppy 1.44 Mb. Later on, a 8X CD-ROM reader
>PCI Trident 8900 VGA 1 Mb buffer.
>VGA Samsung SyncMaster 14' monitor
>Some shitty random AT keyboard
>Genius 3 button COM mouse
>Pc Speaker, added an ESS Labs SoundBlaster 16 clone later on. Very sweet soundcard if you ask me.
>Started with DOS and Windows 3.11, went all the way to Windows 98 SE.

Favorite games
>Doom. What else?
>Duke Nukem 1, 2 and 3D
>Terminal velocity
>Raptor
>Jazz Jackrabbit
>Tomb rider
>Crusader: No remorse
>And a ton of other games, too many to count.

Pretty similar to pic related.

[Anonymous No.2371231]

It was an HP computer. 400MHz Celeron with a 9.6GB hard drive. I forget how much RAM it had, I think either 96 or 128MB.

Got it in 1997 because I was about to enter junior high.

[Anonymous No.2371549]

>>2369924
Prebuilt, I can assemble a dumbass-proof modern computer no problem, but wasn't prepared to trust myself soldering chips to PCB.

I was always a little disappointed I never got to try the miniprinter that burnt text into aluminium foil coated paper.

[Anonymous No.2371605]

>>2371202
muh nigga.
Every shade of yellow on that screen.
Still today i think its very rare
Still had a lot of games.
Even Golden Axe.
Also Sokoban, Alley Cat (hell yeah), Dark Castle (fuck haters) Dangerous Dave, SDI, Stunt Car Racer...Grand monster Slam.
And some PC-Master games....

[Anonymous No.2371608]

>>2371202

Also, The Games summer edition, 4 discs...you had to swap discs before each different sport.
I couldn;t find PC games for a long time, and was mad for a long time with the gameboy because it had a lot of games that were not available on my pc...

[Anonymous No.2371759]

>>2371549
I never got to try that printer either. I don't even know what you were supposed to do with it or why. I did manage to connect a daisy wheel printer but with limited memory and no random access storage it was pretty useless.

[Anonymous No.2373769]

>>2368179
>Got neighbor's old PC
Me too, got an old Compaq running Windows 95. Only games I remember on that machine are Magic Carpet and Fury3. Our first new PC was in 2002.

[Anonymous No.2373774]

>>2371205
Sb32awe
Yes, they were.

Vic20 to c64 to 386 to 386dx to pentium166... Then started making my own boxes

[Anonymous No.2373786]

Hard Hat was awsome.

[Anonymous No.2373793]

some HP pavilion with windows xp on it.
I was late to the game. Played a lot of Starcraft on it.

[Anonymous No.2373801]

>>2368149
The first computers I remember having at home were a pair of IBM-compatible PCs, one had a 386 processor and the other one a 486 processor. Both ran Windows 3.11 for Workgroups, but that's where my knowledge about its specs end.
The next one was a Pentium 200 MMX with 32 MB of RAM (I recall), and a S3 Virge, running Windows 95. It had CD-rom so we were set for the future. I loved that computer even though it would hang during boot way more times than normal (I suppose today it may have been a shitty HDD), and of course it showed us countless BSODs, but that seems to be normal.
The motherfucker ran stuff quite greatly for what it was, all software renderer 3D games ran OK, even better if you settled for low res. Of course whatever with a good 3d accelerator looked way more impressive but that computer punched above it's weitght.

[Anonymous No.2373845]

>>2373769

Oh I remember a game: Skyroads my nigga, played the shit out of that.

[Anonymous No.2374606]

IBM PS/1
386SX 2M RAM

This thing had a case that was only held on by a clip, you just pulled it straight off with no screws. It also had some ungodly SIMM slots that were a pain in the ass to get things in. Ran Wolfenstein etc. okay. No sound card though, just the PC speaker. Come to think of it, the PC speaker sounds for Wolfenstein were pretty good for what they were.

[Anonymous No.2374609]

>>2368149
Mine was a Tandy something that couldn't even play the CGA version of King's Quest.

[Anonymous No.2374630]

>>2374606
>It also had some ungodly SIMM slots that were a pain in the ass to get things in.

The 30pin slots with the impossibly tight steel clips? Those were fun.

[Anonymous No.2375593]

286
8Mhz (16 on TURBO!!1)
40 MB disk
Played many a pirate game on it. Impressive how many the guys down at the Phone company and at the Tech uni manage to grab out of what I imagine were BBS in the early late 80s/early 90s and how fast they shared. Stunts, 4D boxing, Civ, Keen, Nukem, fuck I can't even count. Floppies fucking everywhere.

Although tbqh the first "computer" I had was the Speccy 128k.

[Anonymous No.2375834]

I had some emachines hunk. I don't know the specs, but I remember it could barely run Halo in a sorry state where everyone's armor was glitched white, so I found myself playing /vr/ stuff via old games and emulators.