consoles all the way ! just plug in and play , some graphic settings such as performan mode , nothing like trying to optimise a pc for games , driver updates , windows updates , messing with all settings ect
I've always loved the pickup and play ability of a console, but on PC you can really put some added longevity into your games. I used to do a lot of modding on the original Jedi Knight game, and just the thought that you could modify a game gave me a soft spot for PC gaming. Now that you have to install games on hard drive even on a console it's like we've reached equilibrium between the two
same man, just something about the memories and footage, even if from others from the 80's, 90's... I cant put my finger on it, but it makes me teary eyed, and I was born in 1993.
I was an arcade kid, those arcade systems where so much ahead back in the day, though I also loved gaming on consoles, handhelds and PC's. I was the IT kid in the family, I even did build a PC to game on (and do school work) from scratch back in the 80s and later my first 3D gaming PC with both an ATI rage video card and a 3DFX Voodoo accelerator, that time PC gaming really took leaps and it felt like every few months newer and faster hardware was being released. Having a side-job at a computer store while studying was great, as I was able to see and test all the latest and greatest, setting up demo units in the store and selecting what upgrades I was going to get (with employee discount)
PC gaming back then was a little more involved that just putting in a game and playing. It's a shame, a lot of classics went under the radar of a lot of console gamers back then. Really appreciate that your uncle tried though, he sounds like the coolest guy!
I’ve been following your story and videos for a while. I’ve noticed you’ve covered almost every console launch….. with one obvious glaring exception. I know you’re probably not ready to do an Xbox 360 episode. I lost my Dad in 2017, and I discovered your channel a couple years later and found it to be comforting in that aspect. I hope you finally find the strength to tell us the story of the last console your precious father bought you. I know I’m going to be bawling the whole video, but I hope you touch on it, and we as an audience are here for you, we already love spending time with you and your Dad through this medium. You’re a treasure, Tyler, just like your Dad. Have a good one.
That's what got me into PC when my uncle gave me a computer of windows 95 and he gave me Quake 2 and Half-Life, I played those games day and night on my PC and I thank my uncle for bringing PC to my life but I'm also a console gamer as well growing up on Playstation and N64 days like back then it's the golden era of gaming.
Remember the ridiculous challenge of making sure you have enough conventional memory available to run a game? Removing drivers, buying memory managers, etc. just to get a PC game to run. We did so much just to free up that base 640kb of memory.
@@zombl337og not anymore, I gave up completely on PC gaming (last games I played on PC were sim games which now run better on my current gen consoles than on my lousy 2015 laptop, like Cities and Planet Coaster)… I also collect consoles and retro games, so that’s where my spendable income goes to lol
@@zombl337og nah, problem is that I spend around 9 hours a day using a computer at work, the last thing I wanna do when I get home is… well, use a computer lol
How would he feel about the negatives though, like microtransactions and the push towards digital? Would he even see them as negatives or was he more of the "go with the flow" type?
@@dapperfan44 I'm talking about graphics and hardware. Nobody likes money grabs, just vote with your wallet and it will go away. Don't let your kids use your wallet. It's parents who do this, not the gamers who grew up normal.
@dapperfan44 I wish you'd get a reply to this. I'd also love to know. His dad seemed like such a fantastic man, I really enjoy hearing these stories of who he was, and maybe how Tyler thinks he'd feel about things today. @myretrolife do you think your dad would've been very opinionated against the current state of gaming?
Well I had a Coco3 and no games, only the BASC rom and a type in book to type your games before playing them with no way to save them because disc drive were 500$ back then.
To play the latest and greatest PC games in the 90s you needed a CD-ROM drive, which was more than most consoles by itself. Between 2007-2018 or so, the cost of entry for PC gaming was on par with or lower than consoles, but since the COVID chip shortage the price of parts has skyrocketed again. Plus ça change...
"To play the latest and greatest PC games in the 90s you needed a CD-ROM drive, which was more than most consoles by itself." it's kind of impressive that Sega released Sega CD in 91 in Japan and 92 in the States for only $300. 3do didn't come out until a year later (93), and it cost 700 bucks
I was full console until 1999, my brother and I got pulled into pc by a game called Motor City Online. From there I've played pretty much all my new games on pc, which is another reason my nostalgia for retro games is so strong.
@@marcludwick512 Yep you could build the the card including the engine and suspension piece by piece. Then you drag race, circuit race. They have clubs where you could be on a team and race other clubs.
Playing DOS games was the reason I learned command prompt. Wolfenstein, Commander Keen, Doom, X-Wing, Wing Commander series, Duke Nukem, Blake Stone, Sim City 2k... After the bit about Zork I was reminded that my Wing Commander 2 refused to synthesize speech after the introduction sequence. The game highlighted the spoken dialogue as a feature ffs (at the time uncommon at best). Even thinking about it now, I'm not sure what the actual issue could be, I mean it worked with my sound card for like 3 minutes in the intro, why not the rest of the game? The original 486 I think, could've been a 386, was put together by my IT uncle. How many people reading this had a CD-Rom drive that took discs in a carriage? You put the disc in this sled that would be inserted into the drive. Never seen anything like it aside from mine tbh. Later on as tech progressed, we got a P1 I think? 133mhz proc. machine built by my dad's coworker's husband, also IT guru guy. I believe all of the family PCs from that point forward were store bought as they became more prevalent. I started doing my own thing with PCs in the early 00s.
Even though I didn't get a home PC until about 1998, I was fortunate to have access to the University computer labs in the early and mid '90s, where I got hooked on games like Crystal Caverns, Duke Nukem, Secret of Monkey Island, Warcraft 2 and yes, Doom and Duke Nukem 3D. While I've always remained a steady console enthusiast, PC gaming definitely became a massive and highly-influential force in my life from then on and some of my favorite games and game experiences have been on PC. Today, I play much more on PC than on modern consoles...but most consoles today are just fancy PCs with a handful of exclusive titles anyway. I remember the thrill of getting my first Voodoo graphics card.
Another great video ! So relatable. By 1998 and windows 98, other than dos games, these issues were mostly gone, you still had compatibility issues and have to tweak stuff around sometimes but that was also part of the fun, I loved learning new stuff on computers. I grew up playing consoles, mostly sega and the game boy for hand held in the early 90s, but my cousin introduce me to computer gaming when he sold us his old Amstrad CPC 6128 with a ton of games in 1997, I loved it. We did not get our first windows PC until 1998 and that is when I slowly switched to computer gaming. I still love both consoles and PC to this day, I loved the PS2 when it came out, I just use them for different kind of games. I never was able to enjoy FPS and RTS on console but spent so much time playing Half life and its mods counter strike and day of defeat , quake 3 .. on PC. On the other side, the rest of the games, I prefer on consoles.
"Oh, I get it, he's speechless"😆. I was a console gamer but I also really like gaming on the PC as a kid and this was really cool to see you get new PC games and then setting them up. I sort of liked the challenge of installing a game and what I liked about PC gaming in the 90s is that there was so much variety in the types of games. It was like the wild west of gaming and it felt like anything was possible.
You know, with a slightly higher pitch/tone, you could probably pull of a convincing Guybrush Threepwood impersonation. I was getting flashes of that all the way through this one. My all time favourite Pc franchise!
90's were the time period which PC gaming was born but it was still a work tool more than an entertainmant device. A lot of iconic franchises today set it's roots in the 90's on PC like Diablo, Doom. I remember staring at a computer screen which a demo of Duke Nuk'em 3d was play in loop forever inside a showcase of a computer store for 30 minutes. I remember seeing Full Throttle played on an external CD Rom Drive at a friend's house. Man i'm old.
Nah.. After mid 90s gaming on PC was becoming better and better and by 98 you needed a 3d card to experience it. Before that games that supported a 3d card would run in software render.
@@mesicek7 PC gaming became a thing after the release of 486 CPUs in the early 90's. Prince of Persia, Monkey Island, Doom those games released originally for DOS. Those franchises are relevant even today after 30 yrs
@@mesicek7 It was a process, PC didn't become a gaming machine instantly but what started to make PCs something other than than a work machine was the release of 486 processors on 1989. It happened gradually over the years, reached it's peak at late 90's
DUUUUUUUDE Return To Zork was THE game in my house. Only took like 2 weekends straight to upgrade our PC to have a CD-ROM and Sound Blaster card so we could play it! :)
We didn't get a computer at our house till 98, but my grandma had a pc that my uncle gave her. It had a bunch of older games like the first two Duke Nukem games, commander keen, ect that I would always play when we would go visit.
I only really played a few PC games growing up and always at a friend's place. I was a console kid and still am. For PC I played Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Doom II, Snake (like Nibler), The Duel: Test Drive, Street Fighter II, Zool, Duke Nukem, Duke Nukem 3D, Monopoply, Quake, and Full Throtle. Duke Nukem 3D and The Wolfenstein and Doom series were the only ones I liked.
I had a Snes and Mega Drive in the early 90's , ditched them for a Neo Geo In 94 but still couldnt resist playing games with a mouse and Sid Meyers civilization/Wolfstein/Day of the Tentacle,/Cobra Mission (hehehe) so I also made a switch to PC Gaming halfway through 94...
I remember back in 98 before we moved, my dad showing me pc's and how they all worked. Dude straight up took apart an old mac and his new pc to show their differences to a 3 year old lol. Then got some games for my brother, Doom and Road Rash. I never really played Doom as a toddler but I definitely tried to play Road Rash purely to wtch the soundgarden rendition of rusty cage in the intro. The yellow cd also just looked cool. Then my uncle brought over the alpha for a game called Combat Evolved at the time before we knew it as Halo, and then my pc gaming intruigue spiked ten fold.
I still have one of the Zorks complete in box for the Atari 400/800 . The Atari 8-bit computers and Commodore 64/128 had the best of both worlds in the 80s . Tons of the most popular games of their time on cartridge , tape, and disk .
Not only do I love this channel and get that nostalgic vibe as it kinda mirrors how I grew up just not as many systems as I had, but my first computer was a Mac too! Mac LC2 specifically, and when I saw your first PC was a Mac I just had to laugh.
Ive binge-watched all of your videos man, takes me back. Glad to have another one! I remember playing pc games at my friend's in the 90s, command and conquer and doom
Man, you are one lucky guy to have this much footage from your childhood. 99% of us just wish we had something like this to reminish. I can only imagine the kind of memories with the people that appear on the videos that you have. The ones that are gone etc.. made me really teary eyed for some reason.
I dabbled into PC gaming quite a bit when I was a kid starting with Wolfenstein in the early 90s when I played around my cousin's IBM PC. Then around the mid to late 90s our family got a PC with 3D acceleration I was playing games like Tomb Raider 2, Need for Speed High Stakes, The Sims, Sim City, and my all time favorite Roller Coaster Tycoon and its sequel. By the mid 2000s I started getting away from PC gaming and becoming strictly console because of general ease of use consoles provided. Then come around 2016, after seeing my brother play GTA V and The Witcher 3 on his PC with a GTX 970, them running at 60fps and above, I wanted to go back to PC gaming. I was at this point thoroughly dissatisfied with the Xbox One and PS4 at this point I wanted to go back into PC gaming and I'm glad I did. I still have a console (the Switch) but my preferred platform for well over 5 years now will remain the PC. I'm just having too much fun with it. I like playing games with it that you don't find on consoles. Like running arcade games, I can play the latest beatmania IIDX or DDR or pop'n music on it with the hundreds of songs that the console versions could never do when Konami used to port them to console. Experimenting with mods for games. Just the general freedom PC gaming gives me it's hard for me to remain a strictly console gamer.
PC gaming back then was hard to get into. Installing the game properly was the final boss. For the past 10 to 15 years it got so accessible from an user standpoint. I would like console only people to understand that PC gaming changed a lot, because lot of folks online keep repeating these 90s/00s facts about PC gaming that arent true anymore.
The mid-late 90s definitely turned me onto PC gaming, that's when we first got a proper gaming PC. Didn't even have a sound card before 1996 or so! Had to imagine wth Flashback sounded like for example. Luckily I could play some games at the school cafeteria and at friends' houses like Commander Keen, Lemmings, Doom, and some relatives also had an Amiga which was great.
I was fortunate enough to have a SNES, N64, and Playstation and my parents bought a PC so I have a lot of fond memories from that time playing some of the console classics as well as Half Life, Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, C&C (Original on up through Red Alert 2), Return to Castle Wolfenstein, the OG Call of Duty, etc... Probably spent an unhealthy amount of time on CS though, on a 56k dial up connection that was awful.
At someone who's more of a PC Gamer now I can totally relate with this video, I was lucky enough to have a computer growing up but it was a family computer and I didn't really know how to do any of the type of programming or coding or any of that stuff.
The lovely time: How to change the IRQ? What i need more high memory? And so on... PC/MAC was so beautiful at this time...😅 Thanks for the memories and the great Video.❤❤❤
My father was big into computers as I was with Nes and snes. My father got me into pc gaming with the Commodore 64 and then dos. I played games you could only get on pc .
I played on PC when I was little, but I ultimately transferred over to console gaming when I got the PS2. It was much more convenient for me at the time. Man, how times have changed...
It was a struggle to make pc games run back in the mid 90's, specially if you had a 486DX PC with low memory, but once you had it running it was a very rewarding experience. I was a console gamer until 1996, then PC gaming took over specially with games like Command & Conquer, Warcraft and The 7th Guest you could not go wrong. Nowadays I'm a console gamer again jeje.
Dude I love this ! Same reasons I was mostly console too . PC gaming was a double edge sword , when it worked it was great but then when it didn’t .. so frustrating. Still remember my dad installing wolfenstein 3D to our packard bell computer running windows 3.1 from the A floppy drive haha ! Took us all evening to install . Wolf3d , doom , blood and all the $5 games from Walmart bargain bins , oh the memories …
I was a console gamer too. When I was 14, my dad bought for me and my sister a computer, for school homework. It came with two games installed: "Megarace" (a futuristic racing battle game) and "Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold" (an awesome Wolfenstein 3D clone FPS). Since then, PC is one of my fav platforms to play and played tons of great games.
I was a bit of a PC gamer back in the day. I played so much Starcraft it was insane how much time I put into that thing but eventually I went back to my roots and now I'm just a strictly console gamer
I got an IBM Aptiva for college back in 1996. A whopping 4.3 gb of total storage. My first real game I got was Diablo. That game ruined my freshman year in college. Lol!
The IBM Aptiva was my first PC I got as a kid in early 1996. It had a Pentium 90, 8 MB of RAM, a 28.800 modem, and 1 gig of total memory. It was an awesome machine...because it also came bundled with MechWarrior, MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat, and MechWarrior 2: Ghost Bear's Legacy.
Man, I'm sad that my family lost all our home movies from when we were young. We moved around a bit and a lot of those memories were lost along the way.
Always a Console gamer for me! Even when all my friends moved onto PC in late high school / early college... I tried to get into Steam even today! But I never fail to... hate the complexity and issues of PC gaming if you don't have the correct settings, PC, graphics chip, ETC. Even today, I will always choose a console over its PC predecessors if there are multi-platform titles. I love that I can turn on my XBOX or Switch.... and it just starts the game with no issues. There's magic in it too. There's something about looking at my consoles during this video while they're on their displays, like... "my babies. Good times". You don't get that with a PC. Those PCs are replaced.
I remember getting stuck early on in return to zork and I had fever dreams of one old guy saying "He's so drunk even his plants are potted" over and over again.
Although I love gaming on the PC, console gaming is so much easier. I remember going to places like Electronics Boutique or Best Buy and finding what looked like a decent game, but then getting a little confused if it was going to run on my system or not, so I had to leave the game at the store. With consoles, if you have a Super Nintendo and bought a Super Nintendo game? It worked. No need to worry about having enough space or minimum ram requirements.
Great video, had my times with pc's aswell, built a couple in teenage years, but yeah growing up on consoles, to this day I'm a console gamer through and through, love it.
I had an old Tandy computer. I had a football and baseball game on it lol. They looked like stick figures. I used to put real players names in it. Took me hours lol
in 1996 my dad would download games for me at his work, bring them home on floppy disks as zip files and then load them up on our PC. those were the days
I remember being into PC gaming for a couple of years when I was younger, then our computer was ridiculously outdated and my folks refused to update anything PC related, so I missed out on games like WOW or Everquest.
I remember getting Night Trap 2 months after launch for xmas. All my friends were so jealous because their parents would not allow them to buy it. lmao! I was 11 at the time! My Dad was not a gamer, but he made sure I had every system and every game!
I'm the same. PC is just too much work. I've played a few games like Half-Life and Tomb Raider on PC but console is the way to go. I bought a 2 disc PC game, but it didn't come with "Disc 1" only 2 "Disc 2"s. Best Buy didn't accept returns or exchanges for PC games, so I completely dropped the PC after that.
You must be the only person who has literally their whole childhood logged and dated. You must remember it all cos you've watched them back as youve aged, so it keeps it fresh in your memory. ❤
I was both a console and PC gamer growing up but switched exclusively to PC right before 360\PS3 era and haven't looked back. To everyone in the thread saying that PC gaming is so difficult, stop spreading misinformation. I'm far from the smartest person I know and if I can figure it out, chances are you can too.
I got into PC gaming later, and now that i'm in my 40's i'm more into using a controller again lol. Keyboard and mouse does offer a lot for many games, but it's just a chore a lot of the time when you get older and just want to relax with a controller in your lap.
Ugh...Return to Zork was a pain in the ass for me back when I played it. I still hear that annoying old drunk asking me time and time again "WANT SOME RYE? 'HORSE YA DEW!" Though I will say 1995 was a bad time for me when it came to PC gaming. At the time I had a 486DX2/50 which I played a lot of classics on, but that was when games required a minimum of a 486DX2/66 to even start up, so I missed on a lot of good stuff such as Wing Commander 3 and 4 until I finally got a new computer in 1997, a Pentium 150.
Ahh yes, early pc gaming days. When most of the time was spent on fixing the game versus actually playing it. Good times. I remember being too young to have the patience to troubleshoot and eventually give up and go back to Playstation.
Hey guys! Alright, let’s just get right to it… Console or PC? Thanks for watching!
Console had my heart and PC had my curiosity??? Lol
consoles all the way ! just plug in and play , some graphic settings such as performan mode , nothing like trying to optimise a pc for games , driver updates , windows updates , messing with all settings ect
Console! Tyler you really should make a video about your dad’s backstory :)
I've always loved the pickup and play ability of a console, but on PC you can really put some added longevity into your games.
I used to do a lot of modding on the original Jedi Knight game, and just the thought that you could modify a game gave me a soft spot for PC gaming.
Now that you have to install games on hard drive even on a console it's like we've reached equilibrium between the two
Consoles for the best gaming experience
I wish I had this much footage of my childhood..
my grandmother has soooooo many hours of footage that she and my grandfather filmed, and also me and my cousins filmed of each other doing dumb stuff
same man, just something about the memories and footage, even if from others from the 80's, 90's... I cant put my finger on it, but it makes me teary eyed, and I was born in 1993.
I think we all do. It's like the jackpot.
I wished I for birthday parties when I was a kid lol
My sister tried to record me a lot of times but my reaction was either escape, or freeze infront of camera
I am utterly amazed that your family recorded all of that gaming history. That is truly awesome.
I was an arcade kid, those arcade systems where so much ahead back in the day, though I also loved gaming on consoles, handhelds and PC's.
I was the IT kid in the family, I even did build a PC to game on (and do school work) from scratch back in the 80s and later my first 3D gaming PC with both an ATI rage video card and a 3DFX Voodoo accelerator, that time PC gaming really took leaps and it felt like every few months newer and faster hardware was being released. Having a side-job at a computer store while studying was great, as I was able to see and test all the latest and greatest, setting up demo units in the store and selecting what upgrades I was going to get (with employee discount)
Alright Tyler...let's get one thing straight here...Number Munchers and The Oregon Trail were my jam in the mid '90's lol
Uncle Wes is every uncle we know lol i love this lol true life bro for real 90s kids galore!!!!
Heartwarming video. So cool your family supported your hobby in videogames.
PC gaming back then was a little more involved that just putting in a game and playing. It's a shame, a lot of classics went under the radar of a lot of console gamers back then. Really appreciate that your uncle tried though, he sounds like the coolest guy!
I’ve been following your story and videos for a while. I’ve noticed you’ve covered almost every console launch….. with one obvious glaring exception. I know you’re probably not ready to do an Xbox 360 episode. I lost my Dad in 2017, and I discovered your channel a couple years later and found it to be comforting in that aspect. I hope you finally find the strength to tell us the story of the last console your precious father bought you. I know I’m going to be bawling the whole video, but I hope you touch on it, and we as an audience are here for you, we already love spending time with you and your Dad through this medium. You’re a treasure, Tyler, just like your Dad. Have a good one.
Tyler lost his Dad a decade earlier than that.
@@mariokart8715 I know, hence the reason I mentioned the last console being a 360
That's what got me into PC when my uncle gave me a computer of windows 95 and he gave me Quake 2 and Half-Life, I played those games day and night on my PC and I thank my uncle for bringing PC to my life but I'm also a console gamer as well growing up on Playstation and N64 days like back then it's the golden era of gaming.
Remember the ridiculous challenge of making sure you have enough conventional memory available to run a game? Removing drivers, buying memory managers, etc. just to get a PC game to run. We did so much just to free up that base 640kb of memory.
I’m 39 and still a console gamer. But making custom boot disks back in ‘94 to run games on our lousy 486 was kind of a thrill!
do u PC game at all? myself, i switched to PC as i always wanted to do, since i can spend however much I want on a PC nowadays and upgrade when needed
@@zombl337og not anymore, I gave up completely on PC gaming (last games I played on PC were sim games which now run better on my current gen consoles than on my lousy 2015 laptop, like Cities and Planet Coaster)…
I also collect consoles and retro games, so that’s where my spendable income goes to lol
@@ahirunakamura9592 well most of the problem there is the 8 year old laptop lol but consoles are still cool
@@zombl337og nah, problem is that I spend around 9 hours a day using a computer at work, the last thing I wanna do when I get home is… well, use a computer lol
@@ahirunakamura9592 gotcha, makes sense
I wish your dad could see the gaming scene now.
Me too man
How would he feel about the negatives though, like microtransactions and the push towards digital? Would he even see them as negatives or was he more of the "go with the flow" type?
@@dapperfan44 I'm talking about graphics and hardware. Nobody likes money grabs, just vote with your wallet and it will go away. Don't let your kids use your wallet. It's parents who do this, not the gamers who grew up normal.
@dapperfan44 I wish you'd get a reply to this. I'd also love to know. His dad seemed like such a fantastic man, I really enjoy hearing these stories of who he was, and maybe how Tyler thinks he'd feel about things today.
@myretrolife do you think your dad would've been very opinionated against the current state of gaming?
I was born in 1989 and was a gamer my whole life. I feel sad whenever I think about the modern gaming industry.
Bro legit, so blessed to have videos of you and your dad and the videos being of Console and Computers and Christmas, talk about amazing!
Return to Zork came with my Packard bell. I played the hell out of that game. In the beginning, in mine, the wizard requesting a new battery was FMV.
I hope Wes is alright, he seems like a great uncle 🙂
I had 'Return to Zork' - good luck playing that as a kid lolz 😅🤷
Hahaaha!!!!!!
@@admiralAlfonso9001 obviously his Uncle never played Zork 😄 whoops
Well I had a Coco3 and no games, only the BASC rom and a type in book to type your games before playing them with no way to save them because disc drive were 500$ back then.
To play the latest and greatest PC games in the 90s you needed a CD-ROM drive, which was more than most consoles by itself. Between 2007-2018 or so, the cost of entry for PC gaming was on par with or lower than consoles, but since the COVID chip shortage the price of parts has skyrocketed again. Plus ça change...
"To play the latest and greatest PC games in the 90s you needed a CD-ROM drive, which was more than most consoles by itself."
it's kind of impressive that Sega released Sega CD in 91 in Japan and 92 in the States for only $300.
3do didn't come out until a year later (93), and it cost 700 bucks
@playstation3.508 meanwhile doom in sega32x not the best but playable
I was kid during this time. My family bought a PC during the boom. But thats all you needed to play the latest and greatest back then.
Supply chain is improving. Chip shortage is fading.
Atari Jaguar had a CD add on and so did the Turbo Graphx 16.
Hello Tyler.. Love your videos. Keep up the good work. From Steve in the UK.
MK 2 DOS version, Quake, Age of Empires 1. And later Diablo, AoE 2, Sim City 3000, Fifa 98. Those where great years for my gaming memories.
I was full console until 1999, my brother and I got pulled into pc by a game called Motor City Online. From there I've played pretty much all my new games on pc, which is another reason my nostalgia for retro games is so strong.
Was that the racing game where you can buy and upgrade parts and drag race other people?
@@marcludwick512 Yep you could build the the card including the engine and suspension piece by piece. Then you drag race, circuit race. They have clubs where you could be on a team and race other clubs.
Playing DOS games was the reason I learned command prompt. Wolfenstein, Commander Keen, Doom, X-Wing, Wing Commander series, Duke Nukem, Blake Stone, Sim City 2k...
After the bit about Zork I was reminded that my Wing Commander 2 refused to synthesize speech after the introduction sequence. The game highlighted the spoken dialogue as a feature ffs (at the time uncommon at best). Even thinking about it now, I'm not sure what the actual issue could be, I mean it worked with my sound card for like 3 minutes in the intro, why not the rest of the game?
The original 486 I think, could've been a 386, was put together by my IT uncle. How many people reading this had a CD-Rom drive that took discs in a carriage? You put the disc in this sled that would be inserted into the drive. Never seen anything like it aside from mine tbh.
Later on as tech progressed, we got a P1 I think? 133mhz proc. machine built by my dad's coworker's husband, also IT guru guy. I believe all of the family PCs from that point forward were store bought as they became more prevalent. I started doing my own thing with PCs in the early 00s.
Oregon Trail was fun for me playing it at the school computer lab after turning in my schoolwork.
Love watching your videos man! Great time capsules
Even though I didn't get a home PC until about 1998, I was fortunate to have access to the University computer labs in the early and mid '90s, where I got hooked on games like Crystal Caverns, Duke Nukem, Secret of Monkey Island, Warcraft 2 and yes, Doom and Duke Nukem 3D. While I've always remained a steady console enthusiast, PC gaming definitely became a massive and highly-influential force in my life from then on and some of my favorite games and game experiences have been on PC. Today, I play much more on PC than on modern consoles...but most consoles today are just fancy PCs with a handful of exclusive titles anyway.
I remember the thrill of getting my first Voodoo graphics card.
Another great video ! So relatable. By 1998 and windows 98, other than dos games, these issues were mostly gone, you still had compatibility issues and have to tweak stuff around sometimes but that was also part of the fun, I loved learning new stuff on computers. I grew up playing consoles, mostly sega and the game boy for hand held in the early 90s, but my cousin introduce me to computer gaming when he sold us his old Amstrad CPC 6128 with a ton of games in 1997, I loved it. We did not get our first windows PC until 1998 and that is when I slowly switched to computer gaming. I still love both consoles and PC to this day, I loved the PS2 when it came out, I just use them for different kind of games. I never was able to enjoy FPS and RTS on console but spent so much time playing Half life and its mods counter strike and day of defeat , quake 3 .. on PC. On the other side, the rest of the games, I prefer on consoles.
"Oh, I get it, he's speechless"😆. I was a console gamer but I also really like gaming on the PC as a kid and this was really cool to see you get new PC games and then setting them up. I sort of liked the challenge of installing a game and what I liked about PC gaming in the 90s is that there was so much variety in the types of games. It was like the wild west of gaming and it felt like anything was possible.
PCs were the only way you could play the OG Doom and get the experience you were meant to have while playing it, not the console ports!
PC doom at that sweet sweet 3DO soundtrack paired together 🤌
Loved it… PC Gamer 4 LIFE!
Ain't gonna happen...
Full Throttle was sick and probably cutting edge at the time.
I just replayed it last year for the nostalgia. Still very fun.
You know, with a slightly higher pitch/tone, you could probably pull of a convincing Guybrush Threepwood impersonation. I was getting flashes of that all the way through this one. My all time favourite Pc franchise!
90's were the time period which PC gaming was born but it was still a work tool more than an entertainmant device. A lot of iconic franchises today set it's roots in the 90's on PC like Diablo, Doom. I remember staring at a computer screen which a demo of Duke Nuk'em 3d was play in loop forever inside a showcase of a computer store for 30 minutes. I remember seeing Full Throttle played on an external CD Rom Drive at a friend's house. Man i'm old.
Nah.. After mid 90s gaming on PC was becoming better and better and by 98 you needed a 3d card to experience it. Before that games that supported a 3d card would run in software render.
@@mesicek7 PC gaming became a thing after the release of 486 CPUs in the early 90's. Prince of Persia, Monkey Island, Doom those games released originally for DOS. Those franchises are relevant even today after 30 yrs
@@Geckotr You wrote it was more a worktool :D Not me.
@@mesicek7 It was a process, PC didn't become a gaming machine instantly but what started to make PCs something other than than a work machine was the release of 486 processors on 1989. It happened gradually over the years, reached it's peak at late 90's
@@Geckotr I played on my dad's C64 and we called it a computer at the time.
THIS IS ONE OF YOUR BEST EPISODES YET! YOU'RE GETTING REALLY GOOD, TYLER!
This week I was remembering and looking for this video. I saw it some time ago. Glad that you upload it again. Greetings from Argentina 👋
DUUUUUUUDE Return To Zork was THE game in my house. Only took like 2 weekends straight to upgrade our PC to have a CD-ROM and Sound Blaster card so we could play it! :)
A 3D version of Oregon Trail came out on Wii in 2011 (40th anniversary edition).
We didn't get a computer at our house till 98, but my grandma had a pc that my uncle gave her. It had a bunch of older games like the first two Duke Nukem games, commander keen, ect that I would always play when we would go visit.
I only really played a few PC games growing up and always at a friend's place. I was a console kid and still am. For PC I played Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Doom II, Snake (like Nibler), The Duel: Test Drive, Street Fighter II, Zool, Duke Nukem, Duke Nukem 3D, Monopoply, Quake, and Full Throtle. Duke Nukem 3D and The Wolfenstein and Doom series were the only ones I liked.
I had a Snes and Mega Drive in the early 90's , ditched them for a Neo Geo In 94 but still couldnt resist playing games with a mouse and Sid Meyers civilization/Wolfstein/Day of the Tentacle,/Cobra Mission (hehehe) so I also made a switch to PC Gaming halfway through 94...
I remember back in 98 before we moved, my dad showing me pc's and how they all worked. Dude straight up took apart an old mac and his new pc to show their differences to a 3 year old lol. Then got some games for my brother, Doom and Road Rash. I never really played Doom as a toddler but I definitely tried to play Road Rash purely to wtch the soundgarden rendition of rusty cage in the intro. The yellow cd also just looked cool. Then my uncle brought over the alpha for a game called Combat Evolved at the time before we knew it as Halo, and then my pc gaming intruigue spiked ten fold.
Oh man, Full Throttle is still one of my favs!
I still have one of the Zorks complete in box for the Atari 400/800 . The Atari 8-bit computers and Commodore 64/128 had the best of both worlds in the 80s . Tons of the most popular games of their time on cartridge , tape, and disk .
Not only do I love this channel and get that nostalgic vibe as it kinda mirrors how I grew up just not as many systems as I had, but my first computer was a Mac too! Mac LC2 specifically, and when I saw your first PC was a Mac I just had to laugh.
Ive binge-watched all of your videos man, takes me back. Glad to have another one!
I remember playing pc games at my friend's in the 90s, command and conquer and doom
Wow I remember Zork and all the pain of finding a compatible card to play the cinematic scenes!
Man, you are one lucky guy to have this much footage from your childhood. 99% of us just wish we had something like this to reminish. I can only imagine the kind of memories with the people that appear on the videos that you have. The ones that are gone etc.. made me really teary eyed for some reason.
I dabbled into PC gaming quite a bit when I was a kid starting with Wolfenstein in the early 90s when I played around my cousin's IBM PC. Then around the mid to late 90s our family got a PC with 3D acceleration I was playing games like Tomb Raider 2, Need for Speed High Stakes, The Sims, Sim City, and my all time favorite Roller Coaster Tycoon and its sequel. By the mid 2000s I started getting away from PC gaming and becoming strictly console because of general ease of use consoles provided. Then come around 2016, after seeing my brother play GTA V and The Witcher 3 on his PC with a GTX 970, them running at 60fps and above, I wanted to go back to PC gaming. I was at this point thoroughly dissatisfied with the Xbox One and PS4 at this point I wanted to go back into PC gaming and I'm glad I did. I still have a console (the Switch) but my preferred platform for well over 5 years now will remain the PC. I'm just having too much fun with it. I like playing games with it that you don't find on consoles. Like running arcade games, I can play the latest beatmania IIDX or DDR or pop'n music on it with the hundreds of songs that the console versions could never do when Konami used to port them to console. Experimenting with mods for games. Just the general freedom PC gaming gives me it's hard for me to remain a strictly console gamer.
PC gaming back then was hard to get into. Installing the game properly was the final boss. For the past 10 to 15 years it got so accessible from an user standpoint. I would like console only people to understand that PC gaming changed a lot, because lot of folks online keep repeating these 90s/00s facts about PC gaming that arent true anymore.
Thank you very much Tyler, I couldn’t have asked for a better video to watch to finish off my birthday 😁👍
Happy Birthday!!!
@@afk8785 Thank you 😄
The mid-late 90s definitely turned me onto PC gaming, that's when we first got a proper gaming PC. Didn't even have a sound card before 1996 or so! Had to imagine wth Flashback sounded like for example.
Luckily I could play some games at the school cafeteria and at friends' houses like Commander Keen, Lemmings, Doom, and some relatives also had an Amiga which was great.
everytime my family got a new PC, i was thrilled since i could play some newer PC games
I was fortunate enough to have a SNES, N64, and Playstation and my parents bought a PC so I have a lot of fond memories from that time playing some of the console classics as well as Half Life, Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, C&C (Original on up through Red Alert 2), Return to Castle Wolfenstein, the OG Call of Duty, etc...
Probably spent an unhealthy amount of time on CS though, on a 56k dial up connection that was awful.
At someone who's more of a PC Gamer now I can totally relate with this video, I was lucky enough to have a computer growing up but it was a family computer and I didn't really know how to do any of the type of programming or coding or any of that stuff.
The lovely time: How to change the IRQ? What i need more high memory? And so on... PC/MAC was so beautiful at this time...😅 Thanks for the memories and the great Video.❤❤❤
My father was big into computers as I was with Nes and snes. My father got me into pc gaming with the Commodore 64 and then dos. I played games you could only get on pc .
I played on PC when I was little, but I ultimately transferred over to console gaming when I got the PS2. It was much more convenient for me at the time. Man, how times have changed...
Wish I found your channel sooner. Got a new subscriber
It was a struggle to make pc games run back in the mid 90's, specially if you had a 486DX PC with low memory, but once you had it running it was a very rewarding experience. I was a console gamer until 1996, then PC gaming took over specially with games like Command & Conquer, Warcraft and The 7th Guest you could not go wrong. Nowadays I'm a console gamer again jeje.
Dude I love this ! Same reasons I was mostly console too . PC gaming was a double edge sword , when it worked it was great but then when it didn’t .. so frustrating. Still remember my dad installing wolfenstein 3D to our packard bell computer running windows 3.1 from the A floppy drive haha ! Took us all evening to install . Wolf3d , doom , blood and all the $5 games from Walmart bargain bins , oh the memories …
They were such a hassle and growing up in the 90s, consoles just had the games we loved!
I think that was legend of dragoon music....loved it!!
I used to go to my grandparents to play my computer games also! This channel brings back so many memories for me.
pc gaming in the late 90s and early 00s was peak though. Starcraft, half life, world of warcraft, warcraft 2, diablo 2. Iconic.
I was a console gamer too. When I was 14, my dad bought for me and my sister a computer, for school homework. It came with two games installed: "Megarace" (a futuristic racing battle game) and "Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold" (an awesome Wolfenstein 3D clone FPS). Since then, PC is one of my fav platforms to play and played tons of great games.
Love your work! Netflix should tap you up for a 'history of gaming' documentary with all the content you have!
Thanks 🙏 Great compliment
I was a bit of a PC gamer back in the day. I played so much Starcraft it was insane how much time I put into that thing but eventually I went back to my roots and now I'm just a strictly console gamer
August 18th, eh? I too, was celebrating my birthday that day.
I got an IBM Aptiva for college back in 1996. A whopping 4.3 gb of total storage. My first real game I got was Diablo. That game ruined my freshman year in college. Lol!
The IBM Aptiva was my first PC I got as a kid in early 1996. It had a Pentium 90, 8 MB of RAM, a 28.800 modem, and 1 gig of total memory. It was an awesome machine...because it also came bundled with MechWarrior, MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat, and MechWarrior 2: Ghost Bear's Legacy.
Man, I'm sad that my family lost all our home movies from when we were young. We moved around a bit and a lot of those memories were lost along the way.
Always a Console gamer for me!
Even when all my friends moved onto PC in late high school / early college... I tried to get into Steam even today! But I never fail to... hate the complexity and issues of PC gaming if you don't have the correct settings, PC, graphics chip, ETC. Even today, I will always choose a console over its PC predecessors if there are multi-platform titles.
I love that I can turn on my XBOX or Switch.... and it just starts the game with no issues.
There's magic in it too. There's something about looking at my consoles during this video while they're on their displays, like... "my babies. Good times". You don't get that with a PC. Those PCs are replaced.
I remember getting stuck early on in return to zork and I had fever dreams of one old guy saying "He's so drunk even his plants are potted" over and over again.
Although I love gaming on the PC, console gaming is so much easier. I remember going to places like Electronics Boutique or Best Buy and finding what looked like a decent game, but then getting a little confused if it was going to run on my system or not, so I had to leave the game at the store. With consoles, if you have a Super Nintendo and bought a Super Nintendo game? It worked. No need to worry about having enough space or minimum ram requirements.
Thank you for these videos Tyler.
So i just saw you are coming to the Long Island Retro Gaming EXPO!!
Yes and Cousins Manny and Mikey will be there too!
@@MyRetroLife Awesome!!
I started gaming on PC in the early days with wolfenstien, quake, doom, max payne, half life etc., the list goes on :)
Great video, had my times with pc's aswell, built a couple in teenage years, but yeah growing up on consoles, to this day I'm a console gamer through and through, love it.
love the story telling in all your videos Tyler!
Funnily enough- I did eventually get into PCs…. To emulate my old console games.
Man i love that wild arms music at the end of the video 🎮🤠🎮
We absolutely did grow up in the best era.
I had an old Tandy computer. I had a football and baseball game on it lol. They looked like stick figures. I used to put real players names in it. Took me hours lol
Oregon Trail is now on Switch. Your daughter might like that. It has updated graphics.
I've played mostly consoles But point and click PC games were my favorite during my mid teen years.
My first memory of pc gaming was a kiddo version of doom called nightmare 3d instead of demons I was fighting ghosts witches bats and Frankenstein
Pirates of the Caribbean Online came out in 2007 and was discontinued in 2013.
I found my true calling modding games starting with winxp.❤
Thought I do love PC and Console I will always be a PC gamer for life!
Uncle Wesley's voice kinda sounds like "uncle baby billy" from "The Righteous Gemstones" show
in 1996 my dad would download games for me at his work, bring them home on floppy disks as zip files and then load them up on our PC. those were the days
I remember being into PC gaming for a couple of years when I was younger, then our computer was ridiculously outdated and my folks refused to update anything PC related, so I missed out on games like WOW or Everquest.
I did try switching to PC back in 2013 and find it expensive due to upgrades that is why I went back to console up until now..... Nice video Tyler
Why bother with the trouble of a PC!? Thanks for watching
I remember getting Night Trap 2 months after launch for xmas. All my friends were so jealous because their parents would not allow them to buy it. lmao! I was 11 at the time! My Dad was not a gamer, but he made sure I had every system and every game!
Another great episode.
I'm the same. PC is just too much work. I've played a few games like Half-Life and Tomb Raider on PC but console is the way to go. I bought a 2 disc PC game, but it didn't come with "Disc 1" only 2 "Disc 2"s. Best Buy didn't accept returns or exchanges for PC games, so I completely dropped the PC after that.
You must be the only person who has literally their whole childhood logged and dated.
You must remember it all cos you've watched them back as youve aged, so it keeps it fresh in your memory. ❤
I was both a console and PC gamer growing up but switched exclusively to PC right before 360\PS3 era and haven't looked back. To everyone in the thread saying that PC gaming is so difficult, stop spreading misinformation. I'm far from the smartest person I know and if I can figure it out, chances are you can too.
I got into PC gaming later, and now that i'm in my 40's i'm more into using a controller again lol. Keyboard and mouse does offer a lot for many games, but it's just a chore a lot of the time when you get older and just want to relax with a controller in your lap.
Nope
My grandfather, who is in his 80s, can use a keyboard just fine
Ugh...Return to Zork was a pain in the ass for me back when I played it. I still hear that annoying old drunk asking me time and time again "WANT SOME RYE? 'HORSE YA DEW!"
Though I will say 1995 was a bad time for me when it came to PC gaming. At the time I had a 486DX2/50 which I played a lot of classics on, but that was when games required a minimum of a 486DX2/66 to even start up, so I missed on a lot of good stuff such as Wing Commander 3 and 4 until I finally got a new computer in 1997, a Pentium 150.
I was a PC kid and N64 at the same time. Age of Empire II, Jedi Knight, and Max Payne especially!!
Ahh yes, early pc gaming days. When most of the time was spent on fixing the game versus actually playing it. Good times. I remember being too young to have the patience to troubleshoot and eventually give up and go back to Playstation.
GREAT video. Great series!
Phantasy Star Online 1, 2 & 3 came out on GameCube in the early 2000s, after the first Dreamcast one at the turn of the century.