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Post by Ex on May 23, 2018 8:50:05 GMT -5
It took me back to the time when computers were advancing so quickly your hardware would be obsolete in a year. Yes that was indeed the case. Modern PC gaming was a rather expensive hobby back then. I remember the first 3D accelerated video card I bought was the ATI Rage 128 Pro back in 1999. It was... expensive. a vast disparity still existed between home consoles and 3D-accelerator card enabled PC's. The visuals in this game look on par with a Dreamcast or crappy Playstation 2 game at a time where the best one could hope for under the living room TV was a Nintendo 64. Exciting times. It wasn't until the advent of the original Xbox that the PC/console homogenization trend began. Before that, PC and console gaming were very different beasts, with clearly unique strengths and weaknesses. True exclusives that cater to their hardware's idiosyncratic strengths are just about extinct these days.
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Post by Xeogred on May 23, 2018 17:25:55 GMT -5
I like to remember my first main family computer had 4GB of HDD space and no real graphics card other than whatever was integrated. Starcraft was probably the best thing I could get out of it. Frogger 3D, Need for Speed III, and Rainbow Six Gold pushed it to the limits! Rainbow Six wouldn't even startup.
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Post by Sarge on May 23, 2018 17:57:56 GMT -5
Yeah, the first PC I owned didn't come until I hit college. It had an S3 Trio 64V+ (I think that's right) graphics card with 1MB of RAM. Didn't support VESA 2.0, which for us emulation oldsters, meant that I couldn't do transparencies in ZSNES. At least not without getting Scitech Display Doctor, which did it in software. It also couldn't run SNES full speed; you had to frame skip. SNES9x 0.24 did full speed, but no transparencies, and in all fairness, ZSNES could as well without the transparencies, but who wants to do that?
I remember buying a lot of cheaper PC games from Sam's Club as well. I've still got those games along with the boxes, although I did throw away the cardboard disc holders inside the boxes, because I have all of them within each other, all nesting doll-style.
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Post by anayo on Aug 6, 2018 15:33:53 GMT -5
One thing I liked about going to my Grandma's house was playing Hoyle Card Games on her PC.
It had this animated intro which is hopelessly cheesy today, but was the bomb in 1997:
This game taught me how to play poker. It had talking characters in it who would announce, "Check.", "Fold." or whatever. I thought that was pretty neat.
She also had a scrabble game for PC I really liked. I'm not about to search for it, because I'll probably end up with a bajillion results from the past 20 years. Also, I probably wouldn't know the exact version if I saw it, and we all know what scrabble looks like, so just imagine that on a Windows 98 computer. Anyway, for some reason I was really into scrabble at that age. For Christmas I even asked her for a plastic scrabble board with square-shaped indentations for all the pieces (so they wouldn't slide around) and a circular swivel mechanism so you could spin the board to whoever's turn was next. That scrabble board got a lot of use! We were still using it by the time I was in my late teens. I think my mom still has it.
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Post by toei on Aug 6, 2018 17:38:18 GMT -5
anayo Oh wow. You know that's basically a simplified rip-off of La Macarena those cards are dancing to?
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Post by anayo on Aug 6, 2018 18:17:56 GMT -5
anayo Oh wow. You know that's basically a simplified rip-off of La Macarena those cards are dancing to? In 1996 kids at school wouldn't stop mimicking that song and the dance that went with it, so I'm not the least bit surprised that Hoyle put it in their 1997 computer game.
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Post by toei on Aug 6, 2018 18:50:46 GMT -5
That definitely makes it the most 90s card game ever.
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Post by anayo on Jan 14, 2019 20:03:24 GMT -5
This probably belongs in the "retro gaming media" topic, but my heart tells me to post it here instead. I found a YouTube channel which is apparently owned by one of the guys who worked on Lego Island 20 years ago. I came to that conclusion because he posted on the Lego soundtrack saying, "This game was a lot of fun to work on!" or something. I checked his channel and it's full of Lego Island-related stuff, like a CNN news story about the game, an E3 trailer, and even unused music that never made it to the final game. I'm tagging chibby because he should check it out.
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Post by chibby on Jan 14, 2019 21:03:37 GMT -5
I'm tagging chibby because he should will check it out. Bless you.
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Post by Sarge on Jan 14, 2019 22:28:16 GMT -5
Oh, that's neat for sure.
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