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"I remember."

When everyone knew how to use DOS, because they had to.
When Windows 3.1 came as standard.
When soundcards were sold seperately from PCs.
When games were no more than 2mb each.
When all game music was midi.
When 500mb of hard drive space was enough.
When 8mb of RAM was too much.
When Windows Media Player couldn't play MP3s.
When Voodoo cards ruled the nest.
When saying "Are you gay?" and making a unit say "Yes" in Warcraft was a fully original and humerous idea.
When 800 by 600 was a high resolution.
When CD burners were brand new, cost more than a car and could only write at x4 speed.
When being able to jump and crouch in Dark Forces was a big deal.
And when being born in the 80s meant you were young.


Just had to get that off my chest. I feel old.

That'd be £85 BTW.

Yup, remember all those and more...

When the Amstrad 464+ came out (it had a built in cartridge slot!)

When the Megadrive launched (and the price....)
the last Future Entertainment Show in London, and paying $85 for Super

Empire Strikes Back on the SNES (import).

C64 user magazine

Mean Machines Sega

The Atari 2600...my first ever console/computer.

Desert Strike

Thinking 9.99 was a lot to pay for a new game (on the Amstrad) (oh dear)

My first PC has 3.1

I thought it was the bees knees!

I can use DOS, only because i remember windows 3.1

The good old days...

MoJoJoJo wrote:
> When everyone knew how to use DOS, because they had to.

Yes

> When Windows 3.1 came as standard.
No

> When soundcards were sold seperately from PCs.
Yes

> When games were no more than 2mb each.
Yes

> When all game music was midi.
Yes

> When 500mb of hard drive space was enough.
Hell yes

> When 8mb of RAM was too much.
I still have some 8MB stick i took out an old computer yesturday :D

> When Windows Media Player couldn't play MP3s.
Na i always used winamp

> When Voodoo cards ruled the nest.
Nope

> When saying "Are you gay?" and making a unit say
> "Yes" in Warcraft was a fully original and humerous idea.
Never played it

> When 800 by 600 was a high resolution.
Lol, yup

> When CD burners were brand new, cost more than a car and could only
> write at x4 speed.
Uh'hu, boy do i.
> When being able to jump and crouch in Dark Forces was a big deal.
> And when being born in the 80s meant you were young.

Um, no.
>

cookie monster wrote:
> Or when you had a page full of passcodes with different line and
> column numbers.
>
> So when you started the game the screen said;
>
> Line 23 Column 6 then you typed in the password at those coordinates.


A la Worms.

Joyous!

TGMbloke wrote:
> Or "Page 7, Paragraph 4, Line 3, 4th word" of your 800
> instruction manual for Microprose F1 games.

these were legendary on microprose games. I owned David Leadbetter's golf and it asked those, yet we lost the manual we used to guess them! we worked out there were 15 different ones and we could only rememeber one.

We managed to guess 10. Some were "and" and "the" but most were things like Cup and Drive. A waste of time perhaps but at least we could still play it. back in the day before, you could have got them of the net.

I sucked at DOS

I remember my dad proudly declaring on arrival of our 386:

"520mb's of hard disk space! i don't think we'll ever fill that!"

I remember when point and click adventure games were released more often then once every 3 years. I miss those times.