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Soundblaster and vga cards came out before windows 95 did. You had games like Wing Commander and Doom and such that came out well before windows gaming existed

• bluedino 7y ago
  People forget that originally, Windows 95 was a resoure-hogging, performance-robbing, disaster of a gaming environment until Windows 98 or so. 3D accelerators and internet play finally killed off DOS. Even in the days of Windows 95, you had to drop down to 320x200x256 to get any decent performance on the average PC.
  • dehrmann 7y ago
    The only acceptable Windows 9x variant (ME included) was Windows 98 SE.
  • rleigh 7y ago
    Even in the Windows98 era, it was common to boot into DOS for many games.