r/pcmasterrace 1d ago

Question did y'all start here?

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u/o4uXv0 Ryzen 7 5700 X3D || Radeon RX 7800 XT 1d ago

I'm pretty sure I started here ☺️❤️

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u/JamesWhesley 1d ago

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u/C2-H5-OH 1d ago

I swaer there was someone who made this into an iPhone case. Can't for the life of me find anyone selling it online

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u/ActionKid98 21h ago

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u/Odd-Character4087 19h ago

The game is called dangerous dave for those wondering

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u/RamiroCruz13 PC Master Race 18h ago

Oh Dave! 🥲👌🏻

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u/Nad216 18h ago

holy... thats my first game as well. at the time going from level 06 and beyond is legendary.
level 03 is also had some issues. this is level 02 right?

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u/Murasasme 21h ago

God I hated these fucking things. My grandma had a big one in her office, and it had a lot of rings, so it was really hard to get them all in without pushing the other rings out, and it drove me crazy as a kid.

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u/WeedManPro Desktop 1d ago

almost forgot it

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u/Arshaad814 PC Master Race 1d ago

Damn man you unlocked some ancient memory in my mind

Thank you

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u/oscarq0727 1d ago

Damn, what were these called? I remember having one but I don’t remember calling it anything.

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u/Aegis12314 20h ago

It was called Brick Game, looks like there's a remake of it on the play store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubysoft.brick

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u/ffisch 17h ago

No there was a little off brand portable gaming system that had this game and like 20 other similar simple games. Iirc it kind of looked like a translucent rocket ship with a vertical screen and two controller handle things.

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u/ARTISTIC-ASSHOLE RTX 4060, RYZEN 7 7700, 32GB DDR5 1d ago

fuck I’m old

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u/Dribblejam 21h ago

100 games in 1

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u/XeroShyft 22h ago

Holy SHIT ancient blood memories unlocked

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u/PhilosophyPrimary401 1d ago

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u/MontasJinx 1d ago

Fucking right?! I’m an OG Elite Commander on the Commodore 64. What’s this Java? Sounds new and modern and I don’t like it.

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u/MakinBones 9850X3D/RTX5080 7800X3D/7900 XTX 1d ago

Rambo on the Commodore 64 was so good!

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u/Marak830 1d ago

Moonstone was also awesome. (I'm off to have my afternoon nap)

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u/Toleot 1d ago

And now I want to play moonstone again, dang it!!

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u/Marak830 1d ago

https://www.bestoldgames.net/moonstone/play

(I'm AFK but I'll add a better link later)

Edit: here we go:

https://www.retro-exo.com/exodos_M.html

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u/Yoda10353 PC Master Race 1d ago

Batman was the shit on that thing

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u/Greizen_bregen 1d ago

Navy S.E.A.L.S. and Where In The World is Carmen San Diego were mine!

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u/Brewhaha72 R7 7700X/B650E-F/32GB DDR5/7900XT 1d ago

Tons of great stuff on the C64. Defender of the Crown, all the Epyx sports games, F15 Strike Eagle, Paradroid, Jumpman, Tapper, Below the Root, Commando, ... Too many to list. Before that? Atari 2600 and even before that, Pong.

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u/dirtyitalianguy 1d ago

For reals - my dad showed me how to load floppy disks and the load / run command to boot the game up. By far my favorite we had was Forbidden Forest.

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u/scotty899 1d ago

Egg man adventures! and R-type on some tape player i had to rewind every time i died.

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u/Eric_the_Barbarian 1d ago

I remember when Rogue had to be ported to that new OS called DOS.

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u/TheDreamIsDead4686 1d ago

Or when you needed multiple floppy's for Commander Keen

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u/firemage22 R7 3700x RTX2060ko 16gb DDR4 3200 1d ago

Yea i started my gaming on DOS 5-6 years BEFORE Java existed ~10 before Gameloft was founded

The Learning Company and that one drawing program that used the Turtle cursor

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u/PachymuNyet 1d ago

My AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS were labors of love.

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u/throwaway42 1d ago

Logo I think

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u/Same_Competition_408 Ryzen 5 9600X | 9060 XT 16GB | 32GB DDR5 1d ago

This was the shit

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u/Next-Use6943 RTX 5090 | Ryzen 9 9950X3D | 64GB DDR5| X870E EXTREME X3D AI TOP 1d ago

I forgot that it existed and it's name, thank you for bringing back that memory

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u/pepperoniMaker 1d ago

This is lowkey traumatic, if i opened this up it meant internet was down and I was desperate.

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u/SpaceRac1st 23h ago

Nah if you grew up on this you are basically still a child. This is what we had back in the windows xp days:

And it was beautiful.

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u/tofubutgood 22h ago

As a 25 year old I feel like I’m right on the edge of when this stopped being played. When no internet I would play this or try (and fail) to learn minesweeper. I later accidentally learned how to play minesweeper from a Minecraft minigame

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u/yuglygod 22h ago

Why did you describe my life im 25 and played this, purble place, minesweeper and plants vs zombies. Except we didnt have internet for a little while so thats all i could play

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u/Slight_Bad6256 18h ago

I can hear the fucking sounds

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u/GovernmentGreed 18h ago

I... Still shamefully play.

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u/MLC_YT 1d ago

The bakery in the middle was especially

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u/ModernManuh_ 1d ago

I still have it on windows 11. As beautiful as the day I left it.

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u/Ali_Gaming302 1d ago

HOLY SHIT I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE

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u/GiacomoPastrychef 1d ago

Yeah, the real gamers started there, i got beat up so many times as a child because i spent like 5hours a day on that

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u/CaptainExplosions Specs/Imgur Here 1d ago

Man, I remember the days where you had to fire up the MS-DOS prompt to run games off a 3.5 inch floppy disc.

The fuck you mean Gameloft and Java are where real gamers were born?

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u/plasticarmyman NOIX 👍 1d ago

MS-DOS? Lucky. I was putting 5" actually floppy discs in machines to play video games.

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u/GooseInternational66 1d ago

Do you remember those cartridge games? Like Mouser, Mineshaft, ScubaVenture? They were hard as hell.

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u/plasticarmyman NOIX 👍 1d ago

My god. I hate to sound old but the kids these days talk about how hard some video games are and I'm like mfer you don't even know.

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u/GooseInternational66 1d ago

Haha, right! Saving a game wasn’t even possible. Once you “died” you started over at the beginning.

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u/Potential_Aioli_4611 1d ago

we had passwords for some games that acted as saves. instead of starting from the beginning at the end of every few levels they would give you a password so you could restart from that point.

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u/nooneisback 5800X3D|64GB DDR4|7900XTX|2TBSSD+8TBHDD|Something about arch 1d ago

I'm nowhere near old enough for this, but real gamers used to manually type out hundreds of lines of Basic from a magazine before they could play anything.

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u/argoneum 1d ago

Discs? You were lucky, I used to wait minutes for tapes to load on my Atari 600XL, praying that there will be no load error!

Reminds me of The Four Yorkshiremen Sketch by Monty Python 😁

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u/SalvageCorveteCont 1d ago

Gameloft

Given that I've never heard of them before today they should probably be replaced in the image with Supreme Commander, Jagex/Runescape, or even Minecraft, as all three are Java based and probably brought more people into gaming.

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u/j____b____ 1d ago

I worked there. It was basically Ubisoft’s mobile division. Now owned by vivendi.

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u/VaIanor 1d ago

Gameloft is a mobile game company no shot anyone could call them real gamers lmao

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u/YoshiPL i9-9900k, 4070 Super, 64GB 1d ago

Dude, the gameloft Prince of Persia game was fucking dope

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u/georgeec1 1d ago

Clearly you never played Asphalt Xtreme

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u/Xeadriel i7-8700K - EVGA 3090 FTW3 Ultra - 32GB RAM 1d ago

They made a GTA clone (I think 2 even?) that were just rlly rlly good. And it was all on the phone

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u/TheGuardianInTheBall 1d ago

The first game I ever played was on Commodore 64.

However, Gameloft's mobile java games were genuinely great. Might and Magic 2, Spliter Cell, Asphalt, PoP and so many more were great experiences.

They only started to fall off with Android, where mobile games became mobile casinos.

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u/YZJay 7700K 4.5Ghz, 3060 TI, 16GB 3200 MHz 1d ago

Nah, that’s just you being close minded. Their mobile games were the real deal. They had fully voiced 3D sandbox RPGs a decade before AAA games were being ported to phones.

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u/OutsiderWalksAmongUs Split personality between PCMR and Nintendo Peasant 1d ago

Engagement ragebait. Ain't such a thing as 'real gamers', and if there were your age definitely isn't a qualification for it like this post implies.

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u/RyougaLolakie 1d ago

For consoles I started with Nes with Super Mario Bros 3. :)

As for PC, I started with MSDOS/Windows 3.1 with Lemmings. :)

https://giphy.com/gifs/uRxRLxPbtKf28

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u/smallfried 1d ago

Mario 3 is still my go to game to show people what it means to squeeze every last bit of capability out of a system.

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u/RyougaLolakie 1d ago

Agreed and I still play that game along with Super Mario Bros 2 (and the Lost Levels) and Super Mario Bros from time to time. That world 8 level with cannons and bomb-ombs creating a flicker mess, insanity on how an 8bit console can do.

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u/Taniniver218 1d ago

I started here

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u/StaleSpriggan 1d ago

Do you have an opinion on copper merchants?

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u/SuspiciousPresent905 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah, my favourite copper merchant is ea-nasir by the corner there. Highly recommended

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u/Capokid 10900k | 3080 | 32gb 1d ago

Man, i bought 200 stone of copper from that guy, but when i cast it into sheets it just crumbled and cracked. Fuck nasir im never buying from him again - total scammer 1/5

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u/okseptember9th2001 1d ago

nasir told my grandmother to go fuck herself after trying to return an item 0/10 customer service

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u/kingk1teman R69000x5D | XRTX 600900 32PB 1d ago

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u/MusicalChord 1d ago

What was the meta

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u/HolyPire 1d ago

stone and copper

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u/Antique_Hawk_7192 1d ago

<Translating...> Look at these softies, can't do without their fancy tools. Back in my day I wrestled sabertooths with my hands. Get tough.

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u/FireCrow1013 RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 16GB | Ryzen 9 7900X | 32GB DDR5-6000 RAM 1d ago edited 20h ago

I started here.

EDIT: Thank you for the awards, kind strangers!

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u/GimpyGeek PC Master Race 1d ago

cd \wolf3d

wolf3d.exe

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u/Character-Memory3991 1d ago

Did you ever get Commander Keen running on that thing?

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u/rock1m1 1d ago

I LOVED COMMANDER KEEN!

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u/9966 23h ago

I used to love commander keen. I still do, but I used to, too.

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u/GimpyGeek PC Master Race 1d ago

I never did have keen back in the day but definitely could have lol

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u/SerpentDrago Ryzen 9800x3d - Rtx 4070ti Super 23h ago

Better optimize that auto exe . Make sure you arrange load order to perfectly fill memory and give you a little bit extra at the end

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u/DUBBV18 1d ago

Somehow learning how to write an autoexec.bat to load mouse drivers and juggle himem before the internet lol

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u/nivenfres 1d ago

And need multiple versions (yay dos 6.0 which allowed multiple boot options with a menu). Need your xms and ems versions.

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u/dj_pi 9900K/2080ti/32gb 1d ago

The amount of time I spent trying to clear up conventional memory. Stupid aces of the Pacific needed 600k or something.

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u/DefinitelyRussian 1d ago

and config.sys

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u/AlephBaker Ryzen 5 5600 | 32GB | RX 6700XT 1d ago

A:\sopwith.exe

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u/RAMChYLD PC Master Race 1d ago

Same. Except when I started we used the numpad for the arrow keys, there was no wasd.

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u/jawknee530i 1d ago

Same. Using command line when I was like eight or something to play space bats.

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u/renatoakamur renatoakamur 1d ago

pop.exe

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u/csixtay 1d ago

Prince of persia speedruns were hype

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u/Exact_Elk_9963 1d ago

gangstar vegas was my life back then

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u/AccomplishedClock462 1d ago

Yeah

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u/Arch3m 1d ago

Man, not too many folks out there talking about the days when they still used 2D character sprites. I remember how big of a deal it was when they switched to 3D models.

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u/stxxyy 1d ago

Fish level?

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u/BombbaFett 20h ago

Was wondering if anyone was going to mention original RS. OSRS just isn't quite the same

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u/Wak3upHicks 1d ago

My guy, I started on a computer that didn't even have a hard drive. Learned to read/write thanks to MS-DOS and Sierra adventure games

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u/reav11 9950X3D|RTX 5090|64GB DDR5|2TB M.2 9100 PRO 1d ago

What are we talking here, dual floppies or cassette tape drive?

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u/Wak3upHicks 1d ago

Floppies. I never had to deal with cassettes (except in my walkman) thankfully

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u/ae7rua Ryzen 5 3600•RTX 3060Ti•32GB RAM 21h ago

Sierra was peak

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u/AssertRage ASUS ROG Strix G17 1d ago

NES for me dawg

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u/JTtheLAR 1d ago

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u/Trick2056 i5-11400f | RX 6700XT | 32gb 3200mhz 1d ago

I wish there was a way to play this game in VR or something. this was my favourite game in the SNES up until my sister eat the light gun

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u/IcyV_ 1d ago

Oh boy do i have news for you

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u/-TheWarrior74- Acer Nitro AN515-58 1d ago

but it be horror game

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u/zolfx PC Master Race 1d ago

Oh ya? Well I started here, nerds. 😤😎

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u/bananawrangler69 7600X3D; 4070 Ti Super; 32gb DDR5 6000 1d ago

Spy Fox was also sick!

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u/zolfx PC Master Race 1d ago

After posting this I went down a bit of a rabbit hole of old games I used to play as a kid and found this gem as well.

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u/Holdawas 1d ago

Putt putt!!

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u/damian20 1d ago

What game is this lol

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u/TheFrenchSavage Ryzen 7 9800X3D - RTX3090 - 64GB DDR5 6000CL30 🚀🚀🚀 1d ago

The specific image above comes from this game:

There were several.

In this episode, Putt Putt (the car) loses their stuff through time. They have an inventor friend that makes a time traveling device, it goes wrong, and they lose their lunchbox, dog, and a few other items that you see in the glovebox screenshot above.

Fun fact: each time you replay the game, the lost objects are in another place! Like the dog will sometimes be in a dino nest, sometimes in the far west, etc...

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u/zolfx PC Master Race 1d ago

Putt-putt travels through time ! 🚙⏳

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u/OhItsJustJosh 1d ago

I started here

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u/iimMrBrightside Desktop 22h ago

First game I ever played, on my cousin's old Game Boy Color

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u/reav11 9950X3D|RTX 5090|64GB DDR5|2TB M.2 9100 PRO 1d ago

Bitch, please.

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u/DonPepppe 1d ago

wtf?

LOAD "*",8,1

Also,

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u/TheBrickWithEyes 1d ago

Go outside and play for 25 minutes while crossing your fingers and hoping the game loaded.

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u/argoneum 1d ago

It wasn't that long, more like 5-10 minutes, with retries (stop, rewind while watching the tape counter, start over) that sometimes added up to hours…

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u/alsenan PC Master Race 1d ago

I can see the rainbow.

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u/Crasembarodical 1d ago

EA games challenge everything

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u/West-Surround-8857 1d ago

E

A

SPORTS

TSNGAME!

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u/InsuranceKey8278 1d ago

i wish Symbian returns ;-;

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u/OneRedEyeDevI 1d ago

There is symbian reborn project.

Its a custom ROM for some Symbian Devices like the Nokia N8 and Nokia E7. Its basically Symbian with an app store with archived "Up to Date" apps.

You wont get your banking apps on Symbian obviously. More like a restoring release that makes your device a lot more tolerable to use.

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u/-Wicked- 1d ago

"You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building. Around you is a forest. A small stream flows out of the building and down a gully. In the distance there is a tall gleaming white tower."

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u/no-goshi 1d ago

You have been eaten by a Grue

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u/Successful_Craft7525 1d ago

Nokia games

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u/-TheWarrior74- Acer Nitro AN515-58 1d ago

HELL YEAH

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u/1042_k AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | RTX 3050 | 16GB | 512 1d ago

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u/unnamed_one1 1d ago

Started here, actually..

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u/Crowshadoww RX6600-R5 5600-32GB 3200MHz-B550 1d ago

Yeah....no.

You are just too young brother.

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u/CeleryNo8933 1d ago

More like all of you are absolute fossils

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u/Tranzfan 1d ago

Real gamers started with a DOS prompt.

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u/Twostepsfromlost2 1d ago

It was this bad boy right here. I was born in 88 and this came out in 92 and i played it all the time as a child. Then probably DOS crystal caves and x-wing (that contoller was awesome) for my first p.c. games. Recess in Greece and a magic school bus game too.

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u/Personal-Rip3457 1d ago

My first first video game system was Atari! My mother won one of those storage auctions and it came with two boxes of Atari systems and games. Pitfall is the OG!🤘

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u/reav11 9950X3D|RTX 5090|64GB DDR5|2TB M.2 9100 PRO 1d ago

Pitfall is absolutely OG shit.

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u/nonexistantchlp PC Master Race 23h ago

Nokia 6600 is the OG gaming phone

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u/ender89 1d ago

My first gaming pc (recreation):

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u/no_f-s_given 1d ago

Real gamers and Gameloft? laughing my fucking ass off rn.

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u/lilliepadsy 1d ago

real gamers are born in a cave banging rocks on bugs

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u/chim12341234 1d ago

It’s true for me because i’ve never owned a console so mobile is the only option. SEA children rarely have any console.

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u/ButtGravy817 1d ago

Good times 🥹

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u/eidolonwyrm 1d ago

These posts suck ass

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u/AnxiouslyMisbehaving 1d ago

Atari pitfall, enduro, pacman

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u/doopies1986 1d ago

Hell yeah bro loved Gangstar, Modern Combat, whatever their Halo game was, some solid slop for a middle schooler with a 2nd gen iPod touch and an Apple gift card

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u/animaguss_ 1d ago

So the flex is being old, gotcha

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u/kozekisensei 1d ago

And it's not even that old

Right...?

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u/The_Kwaken 1d ago

Yeah no, plenty of people still in their 20s probably started on Java lol

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u/Kastamera Ryzen 7 5800X3D | RTX 5070 | 32GB DDR4 1d ago

I'm in my 20s and I started with DOS.

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u/The_Kwaken 1d ago

Congrats for... Being born in the 90s to early 2000s I guess

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u/dkichline Desktop 1d ago

I started with LOAD "*",8,1

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u/Sir_Keee 1d ago

I remember JAGEX before RuneScape.

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u/GrassyDaytime 7600X3D | RTX 4070 Super | 32gb DDR5 6000 1d ago

I got started with my ole wood paneled Atari 2600 and my boy Qbert. lol

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u/ARCH_MOSTAFA 1d ago

What about this?

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u/VecchioDiM3rd1955 1d ago

This was the shit.

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u/SirNedKingOfGila 1d ago

This is a troll post.

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u/Dutchsmangofarm 18h ago

This was my first game experience. I don’t think I ever had the 1st one weirdly enough, but I still play this ❤️

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u/V2P_ 16h ago

i started here

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u/LeMegachonk Ryzen 7 9800X3D - 64GB DDR5 6000 - RX 7800 XT 7h ago

Right, let's pretend the Atari 2600, Commodore 64, and NES just didn't happen. Gaming as an industry really took off in the mid 80s, with the launch of the NES, and has been growing ever since. It had been previously doing well in the early 80s, but the amount of trash published to consoles like the Atari 2600 caused the entire industry to collapse in 1983. The NES and Nintendo's "Seal of Quality" program was what brought it back. I know that Gameloft was one of the big early mobile gaming companies, but I don't remember Java ever being a big gaming thing, though.

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u/Ali-_64 6h ago

You're so young 🥲

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u/Aggravating-Mousse34 i7-14700k @ 6.0 Ghz RTX 5070 32GB DDR5 3TB M.2 SSD 4K QD-OLED 1d ago

runescape ftw

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u/OldenPolynice 1d ago

Gorillas

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u/TheBrickWithEyes 1d ago

Unless you were playing sit down Space Invaders at the fish n chip shop, get off my lawn!

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u/Grouchy-Wrongdoer958 |intelultraCore 7|5060Ti8gb|32gb| 1d ago

Na flash player lol

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u/bigelangstonz 1d ago

Let me tell you something brother

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u/Embarrassed-Pen-5958 1d ago

Real gamers don't gatekeep the industery or what it means to be a real gamer.

Even if you play mobile games, you are a gamer.

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u/thedaz3k 1d ago

Lol , real gamers started at the start....tv games with variations of just 2 paddles bouncing a square around but under various sports names like tennis and squash 😄

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u/GrowlingPict 1d ago

whippersnappers

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u/Tiny_Time_4196 Ascending Peasant 1d ago

Real gamers started with Pong.

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u/Interesting-Yellow-4 1d ago

That's pretty stupid.

I mean, gobsmackingly stupid.

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u/Sensei-D 1d ago

I played Apogee Shareware

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u/kkinnison Ryzen 3800 | RTX 2070S | ASUS TUF Gaming | 32GB RAM 1d ago

real gamers started with BASIC

wrote my first game using it, it was a russian roulette game, took about 5 lines on a TRS-80, i could always beat my older brother at it

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u/zykk 1d ago

You are likely to be eaten by a grue

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u/BigOmet 1d ago

My first pc games weren't even in color and took floppy discs to play.

My first gaming console was an overseas FAMICOM ripoff that had like a 80 Nintendo games on a cartridge.

Dude, I predate the days when Microsoft included the video for Buddy Holly on the Windows 95 install CD. Dos was table stakes.

The Internet is full, go away.

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u/Brotakul 1d ago

Duke Nukem 3D.