And so it came to pass that my uncle gave me a present -- a PC! That was a big leap, and I have never turned back to consoles ever since.
The white greyish body of the computer, containing 5.25" floppy hole, 80286 CPU and monochrome 14" display found the best table in the house. A well equipped gaming rig -- at last! Whooohoo!
The first thing I tried out, besides booting to DOS-something, was a driving game. It may very well have been Test Drive, but I am not sure anymore. Windshield would crash if you made a driving mistake if that helps in someway.
There was also Golden Axe running on the PC from time to time. Some Ninja game, which I cannot recall or find. I enjoyed sneaking fully covered in dark, dropping vague shadows.
The 286 was running pretty much flawlessly, but I wanted to move on. 3D was starting to get more and more attention, internet was on its first steps for more casual users.
And the gaming went to the whole another level on the 15th of August, 1998. I got Pentium2 300MHz PC! With a CD-ROM! The blue wallpaper, super fast Win98, 15" SVGA wonder -- what could one want more? Oh, did I mention 2.0 Typhoon speakers? As I later found out, these things get old and tired pretty fast, and the most time-proof component was SB Live sound card.
The first games I purchased were Tomb Raider 2 and Carmageddon: Splat Pack along with Quake II.
Although I had ATI 32MB video card, I was drooling ower 3Dfx. It's a pity the Voodoo died later on.
My sleepless nights before were nothing comparing to the years to come...
March 16, 2010
March 12, 2010
The console days
It all started when my parents got me a gaming console when I was a kid.
I do not recall the situation and whys/hows. Just the fact that the very night I was not able to sleep due to Bomberman impatiently exploding baloons: "P000F! beep beep P000F!"
I am pretty sure the console was a NES clone: possibly black box, pair of controllers, a light gun and a cord with augmented power supply box. I later had to replace the controllers with the new Select-Start ones, the gun got lost but the power supply kept well even at play-until-it's-red-cool-in-freezer conditions.
Actually, these were the first hardcore days and nights. The games I can clearly remember were Duck Hunt and Battle City. Even my father used to beat the juices out of the latter.
I am quite positive the console was worn out in a couple of years, so I had to move on. I always had this obsession with the 16bit Mega Drive. Road Rash II was incredible when I played that at a local store. Mega Drive was the next thing I wanted so bad.
Oh well, I got 8bit Master System instead.
It was a huge maroon-black box with Alex Kidd integrated. Can remember the lava spitting levels I did not manage to beat. Later got several titles including Predator 2, something-tennis, Sonic the Hedgehog and Golden Axe Warrior. The latter being the most memorable.
PC looked like overwhelming blistering temple at the time. More about that sometime later.
I do not recall the situation and whys/hows. Just the fact that the very night I was not able to sleep due to Bomberman impatiently exploding baloons: "P000F! beep beep P000F!"
I am pretty sure the console was a NES clone: possibly black box, pair of controllers, a light gun and a cord with augmented power supply box. I later had to replace the controllers with the new Select-Start ones, the gun got lost but the power supply kept well even at play-until-it's-red-cool-in-freezer conditions.
Actually, these were the first hardcore days and nights. The games I can clearly remember were Duck Hunt and Battle City. Even my father used to beat the juices out of the latter.
I am quite positive the console was worn out in a couple of years, so I had to move on. I always had this obsession with the 16bit Mega Drive. Road Rash II was incredible when I played that at a local store. Mega Drive was the next thing I wanted so bad.
Oh well, I got 8bit Master System instead.
It was a huge maroon-black box with Alex Kidd integrated. Can remember the lava spitting levels I did not manage to beat. Later got several titles including Predator 2, something-tennis, Sonic the Hedgehog and Golden Axe Warrior. The latter being the most memorable.
PC looked like overwhelming blistering temple at the time. More about that sometime later.
Testing testing
Hey,
my name is Andy and I am about to start my new blog.
The last blog I was updating somehow started collecting dust and died of starvation.
This time I am for real. Well I hope so.
I promise myself to post here constantly. 2010 is good year for a fresh start.
And I would like to speak of computer games. Simple as that.
Over now.
my name is Andy and I am about to start my new blog.
The last blog I was updating somehow started collecting dust and died of starvation.
This time I am for real. Well I hope so.
I promise myself to post here constantly. 2010 is good year for a fresh start.
And I would like to speak of computer games. Simple as that.
Over now.
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