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Registered: 7/16/2007

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#73055 5/3/2025 1:15 PM UTC

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We actually had a computer back in the nineties. I don't know where my dad found it, but we were barely making ends meet, and I lived with my grandmother for half a year at a time; she had a garden and a pension, but we had a computer. Even when I started first grade, my mom told me not to tell anyone that we had a computer. I remember my dad playing Heroes II on it, and I would watch. That was my first "let's play." And my mom liked to play Digger. I had a game about Winnie the Pooh, where he bought a room with all the furniture, and it had puzzles and vocabulary exercises to learn English words. So, I don't know if I would have gotten into playing all sorts of different games; I probably would have just stuck with Heroes, but I had a chance, and it was a pretty good one.
But I never had a console.

And in general, Meg, it's not very nice to speak for someone else.

А, вот почему.

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Registered: 3/5/2007

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#73056 5/3/2025 1:24 PM UTC

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Yeah, some people got a computer right away. It wasn't common, though, to have both in the 90s. Console players were more likely to get computers in the 2000s, while PC gamers never really experienced 8-bit and 16-bit games. I remember there was a show on the local channel about video games, and I always liked the segments about 8-bit and 16-bit games (they were actually called that), sometimes 32-bit, but PC games seemed boring, considering the early 3D graphics and the variety of genres (and considering the TVs of that time).

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Registered: 12/20/2007

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#73057 5/3/2025 1:32 PM UTC

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Wow, you guys were such spoiled brats with your computers back in the early nineties.

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Небо – угроз не слышит
Небо – ведёт особый счёт
Небо – тебя найдёт

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Registered: 5/24/2009

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#73058 5/3/2025 1:37 PM UTC

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You should be thinking about future games instead. Or are you already doing that? By the way, I used to work at a gaming company as a 3D modeler; I created tank models for a game, and I was good at it. But then I left because they didn't pay me enough.

Смысла нет, но вы держитесь там. Удачи, здоровья, хорошего настроения!
И пока в кармане пачка милкиуэйев - значит все не так уж плохо на сегодняшний день

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Registered: 2/12/2010

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#73059 5/3/2025 1:42 PM UTC

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Drakkoska

And in general, Medj, it's not very good to speak for another person.

I don't see any reason to attack me.

It's as if, regarding the question "what would happen if we were born 10 years earlier," only one person knows the truth, and only that person has the right to engage in a conversation.

В тихой однообразной жизни всегда так бывает: каждый отдельный день бесконечно долог, но месяцы и годы мчатся с непостижимой быстротой.

I wanted to offer you some flowers, but a crown would suit a princess like you much better

Смысл жизни в том, что жизнь на тебе не заканчивается

Registered: 3/5/2007

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#73060 5/3/2025 1:46 PM UTC

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at the beginning

in the end..

In my case, it was gifts or used gifts, but I don't know where others got them. But I think most people bought them. In our building, almost every kid had something. My neighbor had a Dendy, the neighbor across the hall also had one, the neighbors upstairs had a Sega, the kids downstairs had computers, and one even had an Atari 2600 (though it was already in the 2000s, I don't know where they got it. But then a PC quickly appeared), and on the first floor, there was also a Sega that we borrowed for a few months. But yes, many of our neighbors actually lived quite well. And some people didn't get paid for months or were paid in goods instead of money...

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Registered: 9/1/2009

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#73061 5/3/2025 2:21 PM UTC

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I didn't drive a Mercedes at age 5, nor did I earn 300,000 wood per second, but the bakery appeared back then. Later, when I visited friends and played on their Dendy/Sega consoles, I was amazed at how much worse the games were compared to even those from the Windows 95 era, and how unpleasant it was to develop blisters from the cheap, tight, and constantly breaking joysticks. But I still played, what else was there to do?

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Registered: 12/18/2007

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#73062 5/3/2025 2:59 PM UTC

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My family also had a computer by the end of the nineties, even though we weren't exactly wealthy, to put it mildly – we were quite poor.

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Where do we end up when we save the world?

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Registered: 3/15/2008

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#73063 5/3/2025 3:22 PM UTC

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Arandor

So, Kosha and Neyra's parents probably knew a thing or two about computers; at least they had them, although maybe not in the 90s, but later. But considering the hypothetical situation about 10 years, that could have been the case. The problem is that the game was probably rare.

We got our first Pentium around 1996, and a year later, my dad brought a second one from Moscow. But until the early 2000s, I wasn't allowed to play anything other than casual point-and-click adventure games like Pajama Sam, Petka, and Minesweeper. But they did let me watch my dad play Heroes 2 and 3, Might and Magic 6 and 7 with a clumsy translation (it definitely wasn't Buka, but I don't know what it was), Diablo, Warcraft, and so on.

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We actually had a computer in the 90s. I don't know where my dad dug it up; we were barely making ends meet, I lived with my grandmother for half a year, she had a garden and a pension, but we had a computer. Even when I started school in the first grade, my mom told me not to tell anyone that we had a computer. I remember my dad playing Heroes 2 on it, and I would watch. My first let's play. And my mom liked to play Digger. And I had a game about Winnie the Pooh, where he bought a room with all the furniture, and it had puzzles and vocabulary to learn English words. So, I don't know if I would have gotten into playing different games, I probably would have just stuck with Heroes, but there was a chance, and it was a pretty good one.
But I never had a console.

Wow, Kosha and I have a similar background. By the way, I remembered that we also had Digger and Bomberman. We were allowed to play those too.
We weren't allowed to tell anyone about the computer, and we weren't allowed to have friends over. And I probably knew about consoles more in theory, because the one my sister had broke before I was old enough to understand what games were.

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Registered: 9/1/2009

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#73064 5/3/2025 4:10 PM UTC

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Diablo

How many Necromancers did you level up?

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Registered: 10/30/2009

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#73065 5/3/2025 4:22 PM UTC

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A computer in the late 90s, I don't remember DOS, nor do I remember Win95 (but maybe my dad had it). I definitely remember Win98... Master of Orion with its funny faces (as Kosha says, I watched a let's play, I didn't play it myself), Heroes 3, and something else was lying around on the shelves, like Dune, but I didn't play it... I played Black Cloak at a friend's house on a console, but after five minutes, it seemed impossible to complete.
Then, closer to the mid-2000s, there was a gradual increase in variety, partly due to the emergence of adventure games for children like Pink Panther and Bremen Town Musicians; partly because, as a schoolchild, I had common interests with my friends.
Friends gave me Warcraft 3 for my birthday, and I borrowed Gothic on a disc (and at the same time, there were heated debates about which was better, Gothic 1 or Gothic 2). Every time a new Heroes game came out (first 4, then 5), I remember the excited, almost reverent descriptions of how cool the angels were.

So, it might not seem like much, but... it was actually very good in its own way.

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Registered: 7/16/2007

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#73066 5/3/2025 4:24 PM UTC

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Oh, right, my dad used to play Pete and Worms. I tried Pete myself, but I quickly got bored. And I didn't even try Worms. I also remember a game, I don't know what it was called, where a guy climbed ladders and other guys climbed and ran after him. My dad liked that one too. Maybe he also played Bomberman. But I remember Heroes the best, and that's not surprising... I used to call them "horseys." "Dad, are you going to play horseys? Oh, Dad is playing horseys!"

А, вот почему.

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#73067 5/3/2025 4:42 PM UTC

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A guy was climbing stairs, and other guys were climbing and running after him.

Lode Runner?

Sometimes I think I even experienced Windows 95, but most likely not, and it was just 98.

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Master of Orion

I didn't like watching my brother play these kinds of strategy games. If nothing visually happens, it's boring; it's a different story with party-based tactics and the like.

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Registered: 5/24/2009

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#73068 5/3/2025 4:55 PM UTC

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Cool angels in Heroes of Might and Magic V? Nope, haven't heard of them. If anyone's cool, it's the black and lava dragons. And the astral dragons.

Смысла нет, но вы держитесь там. Удачи, здоровья, хорошего настроения!
И пока в кармане пачка милкиуэйев - значит все не так уж плохо на сегодняшний день

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#73069 5/3/2025 4:56 PM UTC

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I'm not sure. Based on the screenshots, it seems like something else was there, but I'm not sure I'd remember even if I saw the game again.

А, вот почему.

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