| The_Liquid_Laser said: In 1996, I had no plan whatsoever to get a Generation 5 console. I was having waaaaaay too much fun on the PC. However, in late 1997 I was convinced to buy a Playstation because of a gigantic marketing campaign over a certain RPG. |
Even after getting a Playstation though, I spent more time gaming on the PC. I love strategy games and RPGs, and the PC had plenty of great ones throughout the 90's.Not surprised. 
Yeah, the PlayStation had done just fine from the outset really, but 1997 I remember as the year that it began to really pull away from the competition and cement itself as the overwhelmingly dominant gaming console brand for two consecutive system generations, which was really an unprecedented feat in the biz and one that has never truly been replicated since. Their superior ability to lasso in third-party console exclusives and attract European gamers to the console market I think is what really started to become apparent at that point, to the extent that the PlayStation would almost monopolize whole gaming genres, like RPGs. 1997 I think you could say was the real breakaway year where the competition started becoming less relevant.
Anyway, I don't remember getting many computer games in the mid-90s, though I did start buying more of them toward the turn of the century. Namely, I recall really getting into Grim Fandango, The Longest Journey, American McGee's Alice, Drakan and the Order of the Flame, Alien Hominid, and to a lesser extent EverQuest, along with some of the early Nancy Drew games. Warcraft though, that sorta thing, never really interested me much, I'm afraid.
