I found a box of CD-Roms and floppy disks in my mum’s basement and damnit, I want to play them! I could use emulators, DosBox or VMs but it’s never quite the same as having the real thing, so between an eBay mobo and a box of old parts I managed to build my new gaming rig to cover 1990-2005.

Its running a P3 at 1GHz, 512MB of ram, and an ATI Xpert98 with 8MB of memory. As I didn’t want to run an old IDE drive with a million hours on it, I tried an SATA-IDE adapter, it caused some issues during the install but that just felt like the standard Windows experience.

Though unpopular, I went with ME for 2 reasons, the first was Dos support, the second is that I went from W95 to ME as a kid, 98 wouldn’t have felt the same. The install bricked twice with video drivers but I finally got it up and running with the default drivers and an 18" Samsung flat CRT (runs up to 1600x1200 at a nauseating 60hz).

So what were your favorite games from the 90’s and early 2000s?

  • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    6 months ago
    • Jazz Jackrabbit
    • Descent
    • Need for Speed 2
    • Witchaven 2: Blood Vengeance
    • Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness

    These are the games I remember best on our win95 IBM PC. My personal favorite of this era is Hexen: Beyond Heretic but that has been mentioned a few times already.

    • Nik282000@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      Jazz Jackrabbit

      Epic game music, up there with Sonic for getting stuck in your head.

      • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Epic game music

        Not sure if the wordplay was intentional, but I chuckled a bit. Agreed though, the music was awesome.