If it wasn't you vs multiples, you fought like a bitch.They made good weapons in a fight. As small as they were, they packed a helluva punch...and could be used numerous times without breaking.
ahem...or so I heard.
Your brain is full of fuck. The 90s sucked for PC gaming. even in the first part of the 2000s everything went obsolete quickly. You weren't holding on to a platform for a decade like you can now.
The A&W's here were basically done by the early 80's but made a comeback in the 90's.
Just different circumstances and personal experiences.
There were many games between 1993 and 2001 that would have required you to upgrade both, that was a time of very rapid advancement in both hardware and software. Hell, Halo came out in 2001, even a year prior you probably couldn't run that on the PC unless you were running some good shit, and I can vouch for that because I had it. Today about the only thing you absolutely have to upgrade for is ray tracing or 4k@144hz, if you don't care about that a 1080ti can carry you pretty well (also citation: me).
Still have one near me, it's pretty damn good! They don't have their spicy fries (tots? I forget) anymore though, at least not there.
You're probably forgetting the fact that you did those upgrades over like a 4 year period.
I remember that I finished both Halo and Halo 2 on PC. That era of my life is a bit hazy. But it couldn't have been any more hardware than a Sempron 2 GHz and a Radeon 9500. The only game I remember finishing on my Q9300 and Geforce 9600 GT was Crysis. Being unwealthy makes you very compromising. If a game managed 15+ fps, I would play it without complaining too much.
If your metric for reasonable gameplay was still 15fps, you could probably still rock that q9300 with something like a gtx960 and get even better with today's AAA.
Ha! Have a 12700K and RX 6800 plus a 3090 in reserve in case the 6800 seems insufficient. The bigger problem I never anticipated is that the older one gets, the more one "thinks" about playing games rather than actually doing it. My brain gets tired very easily now.
Tuesday Coney's 10/$1.00.
First, I was riding you a bit.
I hope you realized that. You were a warfighter, you got street cred. I have the opposite problem, more than enough desire and stamina, not enough time. If I could I'd move myself and my SO to Mars to gain an extra hour a day and get everyone else a few million miles a way so they'd stop interrupting me.
The first drive in in the PNW was XXX rootbeer in 1930.
I've neen to the XXX in Issaquah. Not bad. IMO, their root beer wasn't as good as A&W's used to be.The first drive in in the PNW was XXX rootbeer in 1930.
http://www.triplexrootbeer.com/history.htm
There is one in Issaquah and in Lafeyette, IN.
The one in Issaquah is a going concern, hosting all sorts of car gatherings.
http://www.triplexrootbeer.com/
Quake, Quake II, Doom, Unreal, Half-Life...great games at the time.
Your list is invalid because no Duke Nukem 3D or Wolfenstein 3D.
Missed out on Unreal and Half Life and couldn't get into them later on (felt too old compared to more modern shooters) but Half Life 2 and Orange Box and Ep1 and 2 were a blast!
Wolf3D and Spear of Destiny were superb for their time!Your list is invalid because no Duke Nukem 3D or Wolfenstein 3D.
I do. Kept the fucking morons off the Internet.Your list is invalid because no Duke Nukem 3D or Wolfenstein 3D.
Was it fun at the time? Sure. But when I compare and contrast to now, now is so much better by my standards.I don't miss any of the things you referenced. Or dip switches, jumpers on everything, CLI, etc. I especially don't miss floppy drives, parallel cables, needing multiple expansion cards, or a power gulping CRT pumping out heat.
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