Conina said:
I wouldn't call that the best time for PC gaming. In the late '80s most PC games still had EGA graphics with bad scrolling and bad Adlib sound (or even worse: PC speaker sound)... a much cheaper Amiga made more sense for gaming back then. |
It was the rapid progress that made it a magical time for me. Starting with SQ2 in 1987 in glorious EGA colors I was simply being amazed at a regular basis. True Amgia was better at scrolling games and sound, but PC was catching up quick. F-19 Stealth fighter, Grand prix circuit, Indianapolis 500, Sim City, Populous, FS 4.0, all the amazing graphical adventures from Sierra and Infocom. The party started in the late 80's for me.
With VGA and sound cards there was no going back indeed. Civilization launched in 1991 and is one of my most played and favorite games ever. Actually tinkering with autoexec.at and himem.sys was a lot easier to get games to work than windows 95. DirectX was terrible in the early days. But true, progress accelerated all the way into the early noughties.
