We thought it couldn’t get better than this, and in fact it didn’t get better.
What about roller coaster tycoon?
Watching the maze screensaver on windows 98 like a damn tv show
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I used to play rodents revenge on my dad’s wori computer all the time
Jezzball mothertruckers.
i miss that game so much. I should try to find if someones made one for linux.
edit
Icebreaker on flatpack, even has a jezz-like skin. huphup
Fuck yeah!
Uhhh excuse me?
Where’s Number Munchers?
…or Oregon Trail?
…or QBasic games like Gorillas?
…and Nibbles (aka Snake)
…and Wolfenstein 3D that some kid installed on the machines when no one was looking?
Neither came as a standard Windows game/app
I still remember when the prize at the bottom of the cereal box was a CD-ROM for (mostly terrible) computer games
DONT YOU SLANDER CHEX QUEST
I remember once getting a demo CD for strategy games (not a cereal box one but one they had for like $5 beside the cash register at computer stores). It set a trajectory on my life that resulted in my later WoW addiction.
That disc had Dune II on it, the first RTS game I ever played. I was instantly hooked. Then I tried Warcraft II (also on that disc) and it was even better. I mentioned it to a friend at school and he had just gotten SC:BW, which meant he had two play discs and let me borrow the SC disc first, then the BW disc later and we played a ton of StarCraft. Somehow, on battle.net despite using the same key (my assumption is they screwed something up in early manufacturing and duplicated some keys, which meant they couldn’t just limit it to one player online at a time per key for some set of keys that included my friend’s).
That eventually led to me discovering the StarCraft modding community, which defined my later high school years. Funny enough, I wasn’t even into modding that much, I was more fascinated with the tools that enabled it and the reverse engineering process involved in building those tools.
It also led me on my path to D2, WC3, SC2, and finally WoW (uh, might have the order wrong for SC2).
I wonder how things would have gone for me without that demo disc.
Where is the OG Prince of Persia, it below on that list
I had the Internet well before that pinball game existed. Windows 95 wouldn’t even exist for almost a decade when we got Internet. IRC made me the lifelong pirate I am today.
It was expensive in most parts of the world, though.
I got bored during a particularly slow period at work once and wanted to just play minesweeper or solitaire and found I did not have that option on modern windows without download some bullshit “app” from the “app store” that was full of ads…
I grew up with internet and still played these.
This, but all your games are shareware/demos you constantly replay
As a teenager, I got really good at drawing boobs from the side and the front in MS paint.
Then we got the internet and my digital art career went up in smoke at 28.8kbs.
Enter teenage me trying to draw (in Paint!) proper exposed boobies on this image from Pools of Darkness. That’s about when I gave up on my aspirations for becoming an artist.
Funny that I had a similar skill. My drawings were all “under boob” pics. I focused on that. Tops of boobs are no big deal, but when a halter top is involved the tops are completely covered but a good portion of the bottom of the boob is exposed.
Damn, now I understand when exactly I stopped doodling, with both the pencil and the mouse.
If you don’t have Space Cadet Pinball on your PC right now, then please re-evaluate what you’re doing with your life.
I have that shit on my phone right now, it’s a great time killer
