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My parents bought PC in 1993. 95% of the usage by me were games. 100% of the reasons for upgrades for next decade and a half were only due to games. Doom made
by jajko 2y ago
My parents bought PC in 1993. 95% of the usage by me were games. 100% of the reasons for upgrades for next decade and a half were only due to games.
Doom made folks want PC, it just didnt work that well on consoles. Then multimedia and windows 95 in PCs steamrolled everything else, even with high prices and famous MS instability.
If you needed all-in-1 solution, PC was the way to go.
- Maxatar 2y agoAbsolutely if you bought a PC in 1993 it would have been suitable for gaming, but that was not the claim I replied to which claimed that PCs had always been suitable for gaming and that games were always a significant part of the PC market. If you bought a PC in the 80s, you didn't buy it for gaming and PCs did not have hardware support for gaming like other home computer systems did. Finally, and I would have thought a website like this would be aware of this fact, you don't develop video games to run on the latest hardware. DOOMs official system requirements was a 386 with 4 MB of RAM.