| m0ney said: The new generations can't understand it but in the 90s PC was mindblowing and it was the same price as a good used car lol and every peripheral/component cost at least 10x more than today. |
As primarily Amiga fan, I became somewhat interested in PC gaming around 1990, about the time I first saw 80486 PC at my friends, but there wasn't really much that Amiga didn't have at the time...that and next Amiga was looking promising on paper, so I was leaning toward that for the future.
But in '92 I just knew where the future (3D at that) is - Amiga 1200 was somewhat of a disappointment, and PC in the same year had Ultima Underworld, Wolfenstein 3D and Comanche: Maximum Overkill, with 1993 cementing that view with DOOM and Star Wars: X-Wing (along with MYST that was new type of experience). It took me until '95 to actually get one (I wanted Pentium) and it cost ~2000DEM (equivalent of ~$3000USD these days)...and that's without any 3D GPU, which weren't a thing at that point in time. Truth be told, those CPUs were running software renderers, so Tomb Raider ran at 640x480 without problems (PS1 ran it at 320x240 with 3D accelerators hardware), so they were quite powerful for their time, not needing 3D cards for a few years.
So yeah, they cost pretty penny back then, though allure was not in "better visuals/higher res/frame rate", but in completely new experiences PC offered in 90s.
