Alright, this is my new "My Gaming Life" blog/forum. Basically, a good place to geek out over all things past gaming. I know whenever I've talked about this with friends it's been pretty interesting to find common experiences we had. So, I encourage everyone to participate, however, I do want to stress:
Lets not make this into an insult thread. I know it can be done, cause the "Can't Remember the Name of this Game" thread seems to do it fine.
I'd like to keep this thread a hub for warm fuzzy nostalgia, and not for people who abuse their anonymity.
So, I'll start:
I went to visit my parents for thanksgiving, and went down into the basement for some wine. Amidst some old pc game boxes, I found my old PS/1. Not playstation, that came about 8 years later, I mean the IBM PS/1 specifically model 2155.
I remember a few specs about it: 80 megs of hard disk space, and (initially) 2 megs of RAM (Then my mom came home with a ram doubler one day, and we had "4").
The 2155 was preloaded with Windows 3.1 and Dos 5.XX (I think).
At first I wasn't supposed to use the computer on my own, but that rule quickly became obsolete. I remember the first time using it on my own: I messed around on windows for a bit and then, when I clicked shutdown it said "This will end your windows session." I freaked out. I thought I was deleting windows, so I ran outside and found my mom.
My dad brought home the Wolfenstein demo, and some golf game, on 2 3.5 floppies. After about an hour of walking into walls I was hooked. Computers were awesome.
I remember my older brothers friends talking about this game called "DOOM" which had way better graphics than Wolfenstein! They brought over a demo one day, but alas, it didn't work. Said something about needing a DOS 6.2. So, I convinced my mom that we needed DOS 6.2, telling her that it would make the computer faster like virtual reality. We spent a whole Saturday installing it off of like 10 or more floppy disks, and then when I tried to run DOOM again, it still didn't work. Ridiculous. I went to bed PISSED.
The next morning I woke up and started trying to get DOOM to work. Looking back, I know I got into the bios and changed some settings, which I have no idea how I figured out what to do.... but DOOM worked after that! I just had to do that bios operation every time I wanted to play it and then set it back, cause windows wouldn't work with those settings.
This kind of ambition to play a game taught me a lot about computers, and still does...
Alright that's all I got for now, I'll leave you with this:
It's the boot screen for the PS/1. I typed PS/1 in google and this came up....... to me, it's utterly beautiful.
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