Much more DOS and old PC gaming coverage please!!

[jdanddiet]

certainly didn't with me, I was still playing my MD then...

[Antiriad2097]

I was PC gaming on my Oric long before the MD arrived

[The Laird]

I didn't know a single person who used a PC compatible for gaming until the mid-nineties

[Antiriad2097]

PC or IBM PC compatible?

We all had our Sinclair, Atari or Commodore PCs.

I recall working in an office in the late 80s to early 90s and passing lunch breaks with sessions on Sierra adventures and PGA competitions.

[kleinemaus]

kept me going until 95 when the PsX came out

PSX wasn't released until 2003:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSX_(DVR)

Haha very funny! I still use code names for a few consoles, I find them more catchy, heres a few i prefer...PSX, Ultra 64, Dolphin, Revolution.....not so sure about Nitro for the DS though!

Wasn't just a code name, it was widely used during the early PSX era, I even have the British Sony Pro/PSX Pro magazines from that era:

[kleinemaus]

Anyway, PC gaming took off in UK early 90s, I bought my first PC in 91, a 286 Olivetti, it was crap, soon to be replaced with a 386 HP Vectra, which was good. In 92 I bought a single speed CD ROM, which was GBP 150.

Return to Zork, the Star Wars games, Day of the Tentacle, Pool of Darkness, those were the must have games.
I fondly remember 'edlin'

Yes, during the early days, Apple ][, A8, C64 also had the name 'PC', but this soon faded with the arrival of the IBM and IBM compatible

[Antiriad2097]

Wasn't just a code name, it was widely used during the early PSX era, I even have the British Sony Pro/PSX Pro magazines from that era

It was just a code name, Sony never officially used it on any material once the Playstation brand had been declared. The fact 3rd party media continued to reference the name doesn't change that.

[pforson]

I didn't know a single person who used a PC compatible for gaming until the mid-nineties

I didn't know a single person who used an Atari Jaguar for anything until... nope, I've never known a single person who's used an Atari Jaguar.

[The Laird]

I didn't know a single person who used a PC compatible for gaming until the mid-nineties

I didn't know a single person who used an Atari Jaguar for anything until... nope, I've never known a single person who's used an Atari Jaguar.

What does that have to do with this topic

[pforson]

I didn't know a single person who used a PC compatible for gaming until the mid-nineties

I didn't know a single person who used an Atari Jaguar for anything until... nope, I've never known a single person who's used an Atari Jaguar.

What does that have to do with this topic

I first bought a PC in '93, as did most of my friends, as upgrades from Amigas for the sole purpose of gaming. The fact that YOU didn't know anyone who used a PC for gaming is irrelevant and proves nothing.

I assume you owned a Jag back in the day - therefore my statement is also, equally irrelevant.

If someone makes a pointless statement, I like to reply in kind.

[The Laird]

I first bought a PC in '93, as did most of my friends, as upgrades from Amigas for the sole purpose of gaming. The fact that YOU didn't know anyone who used a PC for gaming is irrelevant and proves nothing.

I assume you owned a Jag back in the day - therefore my statement is also, equally irrelevant.

If someone makes a pointless statement, I like to reply in kind.

My comment was far from irrelevent, firstly because people were talking about when PC's became popular and others mentioned how they were still using consoles around this time. In 1993 I was actually working for Game (who sold PC games so I was very aware of them) but I didn't know anyone who did any gaming on a PC, thus my comment was totally relevent to the discussion. Secondly this topic is about the PC, not the Jaguar, making your comment totally irrelevant and it just seemed like the Jaguar was mentioned just for the sole purpose of trying to irk me in some way.

[pforson]

In 1993 I was actually working for Game (who sold PC games so I was very aware of them) but I didn't know anyone who did any gaming on a PC

If nobody was gaming on a PC, why were Game selling PC games?

[Matt_B]

In 1993 I was actually working for Game (who sold PC games so I was very aware of them) but I didn't know anyone who did any gaming on a PC

If nobody was gaming on a PC, why were Game selling PC games?

And perhaps even more to the point, why were people making games for it?

Seriously, there's a well documented history of PC games dating right back to the early 80s, so quite why anyone thinks their personal anecdotes about whether anyone they knew were playing them adds much to the argument escapes me.

[The Laird]

If nobody was gaming on a PC, why were Game selling PC games?

Because I never said that, I said I didn't know anyone personally who used a PC for gaming.

[Antiriad2097]

I didn't know a single person who used a PC compatible for gaming until the mid-nineties

I didn't know a single person who used an Atari Jaguar for anything until... nope, I've never known a single person who's used an Atari Jaguar.

You know me, I have one. Though admittedly it was a dead system when I bought it. I came close to buying one bitd but then Sony started issuing promo material for the PS1 so I held off. I was something of an Atari fanboy back then being an ST owner. I'd have bought a Falcon too, but I just didn't have the cash having recently started living alone and preferring to buy lager instead.