When I was a young teenager I was visiting my cousins and they showed me this game called Command and Conquer by Westwood Studios. Remember, back in those days computers were super expensive, closer to about $2,000. I was in awe. I thought the building and movement of the units was an awesome concept. They had a stack of games: The 7th guest, The 11th Hour, Gabriel Knight, and many others.
I visited another cousin and was then introduced to WarCraft 2. It was at this same time I was also introduced to a magazine. PC Gamer became my Bible to the PC Gaming world. Every grocery store trip was a beeline to the magazine isle.
I was hooked.
I begged and prodded my parents for a PC which they finally relented. Second hand from someone at church. To their dismay it also included Hexen and Heretic. The irony was not lost on me either.
Coming from a split family my dad was already into computers so he had one as well, but I had to foot the bill for games. At the time I sprang for WarCraft 2 and spent countless play hours soaking in the story. This was at a time when EB and Babbages was still around. At the time I was already reading PC Gamer which had released an issue about all the ways to play on this thing called the internet. The article included services like Kali, Mplayer, GameSpy, b.net, TEN, and WON.net. This was the heyday of dialup.
It wouldn't be until high school that I finally was able to save enough for my own machine, forgoing a car for a gaming machine ($800 at the time).
Now we have the likes of Steam, Occulus Rift, and 4k gaming. Gaming has come a long way from the days of dialup service, Mattrox video cards, and the revolutionary Pentium Processor.
Long live PC Gaming!
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