One of my first memories was being a little kid and being shipped off to my grandpa's house so he could babysit me. I shuffled into the front room and I saw an Apple II that was running through both a monitor and my grandpas television. He put in one of those giant floppy disks and all of a sudden I was playing a game about a caveman riding around on a stone unicycle, I later found out that it was called B.C's Quest for Tires. I also remember it being difficult for me because there was this hill that you had to climb up and it changed the jump timing for every obstacle. When I was done with B.C, my Grandpa then put in what I now is Mickeys Space Adventure, and I remember playing that for the rest of the day. Now this was 84' or 85', I can't really remember, but outside of my NES that my Dad purchased in 87' I never played another PC game until 91' when I entered grade 3. My school at the time just set up a computer lab and every lunch hour I would go on to one of the computers and play some game where you had to program a turtle and your mathematical equation would turn out to be some drawing. I could never do much more than a checkerboard or a star but it was an interesting program to goof off with. Lastly, in 94' my dad walked into a Visions electronics and saw Doom being demoed, he was impressed so much that he went to the bank, took out a loan and purchased a 486. Now, this wasn't just any old 486, it was powered by a top of the line IntelDX4WB, 8mb or Ram, a nearly 600mb HD, Sound Blaster AWE 32, 4x CD drive, and all the bells and whistles to make gaming great at the time. It was sweet, not only did it come with dozens of shareware titles pre-installed, but my dad bought a bunch of those shareware disks with a hundred games on them. I also swapped floppy's with other classmates and ended up with awesome games like Sim City 2000, Rise of the Triad, Epic Pinball (The Start of my Epic Fanboyism), Raptor: Call of the Shadows, Solar Winds, Civ II, Hillsfar, ShadowCaster, Street Rod, and the list goes on and on. That 486 was the most important video game machine I ever owned, and even though I played other PC titles first, I will always see that as the first time I actually played PC games.
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