It is all started in 1992. It was an era of 286 Computer. There was no windows, no MS-office, Tally... nothing but only DOS. The software technology was just a small child.
But there was an .exe file called QBASIC. There were two games that time 1) Snake game - snake eating a dots and lengthening 2) Gorilla Game - A Gorilla throws banana with given projectile angle and dances raising the hands after winning.
Later in 1994 the 386 PC came. Then we started playing Tetris, Pac-man, and Book-worm. These were simple but mind attracting games. The mine-sweeper is still my favorite game.
In 1996 on 486 we played first 3D game called "Wolf3D". The best 3D game ever available free. The technology used was just similar to that of today's 3D games. I was mad for this game totally. I crossed all the 6 floors without using a cheat code. Same time I used to play Prince, Mario, Aladdin, Keen4 etc. But wolf3d was wolf3d.
Few years later the Pentium 3 arrived and 1.44 MB floppy drive to and it was now easy to copy the games from one computer to another. One of my neighbors was used to play Shadow warrior (It is still free on the net to download), first game with multiple modern weapons, too good graphics and animation. We dare not to play that time but we used to enjoy watching it.
The Doom Series was also good but too terrifying. It was something where one must hold his hand on the Heart. It was the game not for weak-minded.
Then the Road-rash, Age of Empires, World War II, Close Combat, V-cops, Heavy-weapons, Duke1 and Yahoo as well as MSN games came. Some of them were free and some of them were with time limits. I played them all. But I never thought of buying them. Because even a $ 10 is for us Rs. 500 in Indian Rupees, fifty times more. Who will buy it?
Now days I play Bejeweled, Claw, Shadow Warrior, Age of Empires, Rubic's games, KChess and Free-spade more. It is a die-hard passion. Once upon a time my mother used to switch off the plugs directly fading up by our computer games playing; now there is no one to stop us. So we play atleast an hour a day, if not possible at least 10 minutes a day. Person who has this habit could only understand the passion behind it as one alcoholic knows the thirst for the liquor of other alcoholic.
But there was an .exe file called QBASIC. There were two games that time 1) Snake game - snake eating a dots and lengthening 2) Gorilla Game - A Gorilla throws banana with given projectile angle and dances raising the hands after winning.
Later in 1994 the 386 PC came. Then we started playing Tetris, Pac-man, and Book-worm. These were simple but mind attracting games. The mine-sweeper is still my favorite game.
In 1996 on 486 we played first 3D game called "Wolf3D". The best 3D game ever available free. The technology used was just similar to that of today's 3D games. I was mad for this game totally. I crossed all the 6 floors without using a cheat code. Same time I used to play Prince, Mario, Aladdin, Keen4 etc. But wolf3d was wolf3d.
Few years later the Pentium 3 arrived and 1.44 MB floppy drive to and it was now easy to copy the games from one computer to another. One of my neighbors was used to play Shadow warrior (It is still free on the net to download), first game with multiple modern weapons, too good graphics and animation. We dare not to play that time but we used to enjoy watching it.
The Doom Series was also good but too terrifying. It was something where one must hold his hand on the Heart. It was the game not for weak-minded.
Then the Road-rash, Age of Empires, World War II, Close Combat, V-cops, Heavy-weapons, Duke1 and Yahoo as well as MSN games came. Some of them were free and some of them were with time limits. I played them all. But I never thought of buying them. Because even a $ 10 is for us Rs. 500 in Indian Rupees, fifty times more. Who will buy it?
Now days I play Bejeweled, Claw, Shadow Warrior, Age of Empires, Rubic's games, KChess and Free-spade more. It is a die-hard passion. Once upon a time my mother used to switch off the plugs directly fading up by our computer games playing; now there is no one to stop us. So we play atleast an hour a day, if not possible at least 10 minutes a day. Person who has this habit could only understand the passion behind it as one alcoholic knows the thirst for the liquor of other alcoholic.
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