It wasn't available for years until about two years ago when it popped up on Steam together with a bunch of other Vivendi published games. I used to have a sizeable library on Direct2drive before that went under. Then the internet came around and piracy got more common over time, and PC gaming had a pretty big slump - still good games but it wasn't profitable enough for the big boys, then things turned around in the mid 2000s, not entirely because of steam by any means, but because of unreal engine and development tools codifying the development pipeline in a way that didn't require separate studios for each version of a game anymore. Piracy was basically always possible, up until the early 90s you usually got pass codes or spinner wheels or whatever else to protect against it in the box, but certainly not every game had them. Now when you go back pre-windows 95 (which is when I would say DOS started to finally phase totally out of the scene for gaming) it gets a lot more fun, configuring sound drivers and whatnot, or even farther and just dealing with different graphic formats. It's not that different than installing anything else on your computer, it's just that physical media is dead now, but aside from literally putting the disc in, it was the same. You just bought a game, put the disc in, and installed it. Super interesting concept but the actual game was meh.Ĭlick to shrink.Lord no, ain't nobody have enough hard drive space to have 2 dozen games installed fam.ĮDIT: and more seriously OP.not really sure what you're looking for I guess. Like I stumbled on an obscure adventure game called the Neverhood a while back. I'd be curious about some historical oddities as well. Just a sidenote about game recommendations, they dont have to be good games necessarily. What's up with that? I would have been super interested in Doom as a kid. At least different enough that there were entire gaming magazines dedicated to just PC gaming. It seems that PC gaming and console gaming during that era were very different as well. They never had them at Toys R Us which is where I got my "normal" video games from. Were there game stores in your area dedicated to PC games? When I was growing up, it was rare for me to see physical PC games being sold even at stores dedicated to video games like EB Games. I know piracy was a big thing back then so I'm more curious about how you legitimately got games. I'm more curious about how teens and adults did it back in the day. Most of the physical PC games I bought as a kid were heavily discounted at gaming stores several years after their original release.
So I've been buying PC games for a long time but my teenage to adult life pretty much overlaps the Steam era.
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