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History of video games
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docta seuss
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cool.. or maybe the opposite of cool, but i'm enjoying it nonetheless.
Isosceles_CAT
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Strange that there was no mention of Sierra, or the adventure game genre (besides a brief mention of Zelda).
Pretty cool! They seemed to dwell more on the console style games though.
I guess the development of PC games would be another whole study, with the PC vs. Commodore C64/Amiga platform wars (CGA/EGA/VGA vs. simple RGB co-ax video).
It wasn't until the 386 DX2's or even 486's that I felt that PC games were better than my Amiga games.
I guess the development of PC games would be another whole study, with the PC vs. Commodore C64/Amiga platform wars (CGA/EGA/VGA vs. simple RGB co-ax video).
It wasn't until the 386 DX2's or even 486's that I felt that PC games were better than my Amiga games.
docta seuss
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i was running civ 1 on a 286.. and the LucasArts flight sim Battle of Britain. those were the first two pc games that i would classify as great. oh, and police quest of course.Lurker said:
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docta seuss said:
You could run Civ 1 and the <insert>Quest games easy enough on a 286. I had Battle of Britain for the Amiga and it was night & day compared to the same game on my friend's 286. I was always jealous of some of the games that I couldn't get for the Amiga though.
The biggest difference that pc's overcame was their ability to play flight-sim stuff smoothly. Battle of Brittain, Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, the Wing Commander series didn't really start getting playable until you had a 386dx with some extra ram (16 meg!!!)