This was a fantastic piece of software that was included with your Sound Blaster card. At that time, it was uncommon to have a sound card, most computers had a

This was a fantastic piece of software that was included with your Sound Blaster card. At that time, it was uncommon to have a sound card, most computers had a PC speaker that produced beeps and in some really rare cases (Star Control 2 did this) played a low fi version of what would have been sound card output. You spent your $179, and suddenly games had some kind of midi/wav support. This had a synthesized voice at your machine which at the time was magical. I was completely blown away at the age of ten, and it definitely kept my interest in computing.