At least in the 90s, trying to play PC games was a great way to figure out how computers worked and how to troubleshoot them when they went wrong. Things are s

At least in the 90s, trying to play PC games was a great way to figure out how computers worked and how to troubleshoot them when they went wrong. Things are so much easier now... You don't have to touch an autoexec.bat, or deal with extended memory. The amount of system tweaking you have to do to get decent performance is minimal. And installing a game almost never borks your computer so badly you have to madly try to do an OS restore, trying to preserve everything and make it look like you hadn't broken the family computer...