If you replaced MS Paint with SkiFree in that picture, you’d achieve perfection.
I grew up with mine sweeper, but now with internet there’s triple A minesweeper.
We thought it couldn’t get better than this, and in fact it didn’t get better.
Now they have AI, and micro transactions if you want to buy more balls/cards.
Watching the maze screensaver on windows 98 like a damn tv show
That tickles a memory of an actual game from around that time that looked like that. I think it was one of the ones MS made free, though you might have needed to specifically install the extended game pack or play it with the windows CD in or something like that. Not the most solid memory I have, but I just remember the screen saver looked a lot like that game just without the actual game part.
What about roller coaster tycoon?
Those ones above were all included with windows back in the day, like installed from the disc when you installed windows, then they’d be discoverable in Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> Games (other than paint, which was in accessories) IIRC. Eventually they moved it out of the accessories folder, then later on they changed which games were included, eliminating some, though these ones I believe remained the longest until MS started instead advertising games they had on the windows store.
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Uhhh excuse me?
Where’s Number Munchers?
…or Oregon Trail?
…or QBasic games like Gorillas?
…and Nibbles (aka Snake)
…and Wolfenstein 3D that some kid installed on the machines when no one was looking?
Jezzball mothertruckers.
i miss that game so much. I should try to find if someones made one for linux.
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Icebreaker on flatpack, even has a jezz-like skin. huphup
I still remember when the prize at the bottom of the cereal box was a CD-ROM for (mostly terrible) computer games
I remember once getting a demo CD for strategy games (not a cereal box one but one they had for like $5 beside the cash register at computer stores). It set a trajectory on my life that resulted in my later WoW addiction.
That disc had Dune II on it, the first RTS game I ever played. I was instantly hooked. Then I tried Warcraft II (also on that disc) and it was even better. I mentioned it to a friend at school and he had just gotten SC:BW, which meant he had two play discs and let me borrow the SC disc first, then the BW disc later and we played a ton of StarCraft. Somehow, on battle.net despite using the same key (my assumption is they screwed something up in early manufacturing and duplicated some keys, which meant they couldn’t just limit it to one player online at a time per key for some set of keys that included my friend’s).
That eventually led to me discovering the StarCraft modding community, which defined my later high school years. Funny enough, I wasn’t even into modding that much, I was more fascinated with the tools that enabled it and the reverse engineering process involved in building those tools.
It also led me on my path to D2, WC3, SC2, and finally WoW (uh, might have the order wrong for SC2).
I wonder how things would have gone for me without that demo disc.
Where is the OG Prince of Persia, it below on that list
I had the Internet well before that pinball game existed. Windows 95 wouldn’t even exist for almost a decade when we got Internet. IRC made me the lifelong pirate I am today.
This, but all your games are shareware/demos you constantly replay
Loved the Road Rash demo back then
That’s the “I don’t know how to install games onto the PC” starter pack.
The first PC I had in my bedroom didn’t have internet, in fact we didn’t have internet in the house at all, but when bored I would still click the internet E xplorer logo sometimes to see if it would magically work.
