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Me too. My dad would go to "the computer club" and bring back some diskettes. Best part was, most of the games were hobbyist efforts so I'd get a true floppy (
by lubujackson 2y ago
Me too. My dad would go to "the computer club" and bring back some diskettes.
Best part was, most of the games were hobbyist efforts so I'd get a true floppy (5 1/2") that held maybe 320kb? And each side would have like 10 or 15 games each.
There was a later period on PCs in the 386/486 era where you would buy a magazine and it'd come with a CD loaded with games - back when shareware was a perfect vessel for marketing games that were easily stolen - good enough to sate a broke kid but also led to many Xmas gift wishlist items. iD had so much street cred in my circle.
- vyrotek 2y agoHmm. I never really knew where my dad got this mountain of Amiga disks. A mix of legit and not. As kids we would always find something new to play digging through them. https://x.com/vyrotek/status/1722050918265274434 https://x.com/vyrotek/status/1722050918265274434
- kridsdale1 2y agoMy neighbor in the early 90s was a 747 pilot on a regular route to Hong Kong. We’d give him a list of requests and a couple bucks and he’d come back with disks of whatever we wanted.