Runoff!! 1987, Game of the Year

[Bofferbrauer2]

SvennoJ said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

I got my 80286 (with a VGA GPU, 40MB HDD, 2MB memory, 5.25 and 3.5 inches floppy drives, Soundblaster soundcard and Joystickport, all from a PC they exchanged with the new 486 in the bank my dad worked. Still wonder what they were doing with that Joystick port in a bank, though...) in 1989, so Stunts was just around the corner. I got Test drive first, but it was testing my nerves and driving me crazy more than anything at the time.

I was spoiled as a kid since my dad worked for Philips' software division in the 80s. We had a 8086 PC at home which he had bought himself, and next to it the latest PC model from work to work at home. Thus we also had the latest modem. Remote work in the 80s (well off hours, next to regular work hours at the office) It never came with a joystick port though haha.

So I played on 8086, 80286, 386dx, 486, 486dx2-66 before buying my own PC. (I started with a Pentium 90)
And he also got lots of games from work, well not from work, from co-workers. And I downloaded more from BBS.

I first played Test Drive on the 8086, CGA although the monitor could only display black, green and bright green. My dad had some jumpers on the cable so you could choose which 2 'colors' were merged together. It ran like crap, but I loved it. That sound though...

Imagine that noise through the PC speaker (no sound card)

I wasn't savyy enough at the time to configure the soundcard for every game (and didn't speak english yet, so I didn't always understand what to do), so quite a few games also just ran on the PC speaker.

Actually, I think I prefer Stunts on PC speaker than on Soundblaster...