you can't excise the culture from the art that was made from it, and that's what we have here, the console culture and the PC culture. "it's not just a gym bag, eddy, it's a way of life" etc. now, obviously it depends on how involved you want to get into games, but there are differences between the two and it'd be educational to discern what they are and how they came about. an argument about which is "better" is stupid, i'm with you on that, but saying that the difference is simply in hardware is wasting an opportunity for insight into people and into games.
Remember when you needed a joystick to play PC games? And it kind of sucked without one? Most of you probably don't, because you're too young.
Come to think of it, C64 was sort of both because you had a disk drive but you also had game cartridges.
I remember both of those things. Although I didnt know how to read back then so I had to make my dad type it.
I'll tell you how they came about - people arguing about which is "better". Seriously though, that's all cool, but I still don't want any of that noise infecting a discussion about a game. I said "seriously though", cause the first part was meant to be comical, but it was still serious.
Sure needed a joystick to play Wolfenstein, Simcity, Scorched Earth, Commander Keene, and Oregon Trail.
This is like those kids on 9gag. "That awkward moment when you realize that most young people today don't know why Picachiu isn't stuck in a ball" ....from a 18 year old grandpa But yeah, i don't remember that moment when you needed a joystick because there wasn't one.
The biggest shame of all is some gaming development companies not developing games for PC anymore. Instead of trying to adapt to the market and find creative ways to sell their product to PC gamers, they make shitty ports of console games riddled with bugs and problems. It's a fucking tragedy.
I remember really needing a joystick for my amiga 500, but I don't remember ever using one for anything with windows installed on it
Isn't the first true computer the first that could run Windows on it? Amiga, Commodore and all of those are mostly pre PC gaming consoles.
My first PC had Windows 3.0, but I remember some of my uncles/aunts having DOS only PCs. Anyways....lol.
No, macs existed before windows did. The PC market in the late 70s early 80s was very wide open. MS-DOS, Linux/Unix, Macintosh, etc. Windows didn't come out until 1985.
And even then, lots of games had to be run from DOS until shortly before Windows 95. That's because older Windows, like 3.1, wasn't even technically the operating system. DOS still was and Windows was basically a program that ran on top of DOS.
Neah, just pulling your leg in reply to this ridiculous post This is my first contact with a computer. I still have nightmares with forgetting my command lines and being unable to start a game,
At least make that attempt of a joke a bit more smart. Second world problems. Don't skip from Homo Sapiens Sapiens to "monkeys" if you don't understand what Australopithecus is. *edit: If you were really serious, look up ZX Spectrum.
Yes I do remember when there were a bunch of games that were clearly designed to use joysticks (dos games, flight sims, old platformers with controllers). The problem was ever getting the fucking joystick to work with them. PC gaming is so much easier these days. Remember having to config the fucking sound device in every game?
I remember playing text games off floppy. I think one was called Hugo? I think eventually there was graphics.
Some of my fondest memories of joystick video games are of X-wing and Tie Fighter. Fuck I miss those types of games.
Those fucking ruled so much. I also loved Descent Freespace. When i bought my first joystick, i was so much into Comanche, F16 and F22 Raptor. When Novalogic had some amazing games.
X-Wing was insane. It was "hardcore mode" automatically. I learned pretty quickly that if I completed a mission, I had to exit the game and copy the save file somewhere else.
