Once Internet came, downloaded demos on bboards and then happy puppy. Had content for a while although short lived.
We thought it couldn’t get better than this, and in fact it didn’t get better.
Now they have AI, and micro transactions if you want to buy more balls/cards.
If you replaced MS Paint with SkiFree in that picture, you’d achieve perfection.
Watching the maze screensaver on windows 98 like a damn tv show
That tickles a memory of an actual game from around that time that looked like that. I think it was one of the ones MS made free, though you might have needed to specifically install the extended game pack or play it with the windows CD in or something like that. Not the most solid memory I have, but I just remember the screen saver looked a lot like that game just without the actual game part.
Jezzball mothertruckers.
i miss that game so much. I should try to find if someones made one for linux.
edit
Icebreaker on flatpack, even has a jezz-like skin. huphup
Fuck yeah!
I grew up with mine sweeper, but now with internet there’s triple A minesweeper.
Uhhh excuse me?
Where’s Number Munchers?
…or Oregon Trail?
…or QBasic games like Gorillas?
…and Nibbles (aka Snake)
…and Wolfenstein 3D that some kid installed on the machines when no one was looking?
Neither came as a standard Windows game/app
I used to play rodents revenge on my dad’s wori computer all the time
This, but all your games are shareware/demos you constantly replay
Loved the Road Rash demo back then
I had the Internet well before that pinball game existed. Windows 95 wouldn’t even exist for almost a decade when we got Internet. IRC made me the lifelong pirate I am today.
It was expensive in most parts of the world, though.
My dad convinced his work that he needed it. No clue how much it cost. It was 1986
I’ve got a Dungeon Master’s guide
I’ve got a twelve sided die
I’ve got Kitty Pryde
And Nightcrawler too
Waiting there for me
Yes I do
I do
They had games like this before the Internet with no DRM or anything? :O
If you wanted to put in the time you could finder power ups!
You could at least tell something about it instead of just putting a picture of a new concept without commentary… some people are just ignorant
It was a peaceful life.
before Swifties
I got bored during a particularly slow period at work once and wanted to just play minesweeper or solitaire and found I did not have that option on modern windows without download some bullshit “app” from the “app store” that was full of ads…
We thought it could never get better than this
And we were right
What about roller coaster tycoon?
Those ones above were all included with windows back in the day, like installed from the disc when you installed windows, then they’d be discoverable in Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> Games (other than paint, which was in accessories) IIRC. Eventually they moved it out of the accessories folder, then later on they changed which games were included, eliminating some, though these ones I believe remained the longest until MS started instead advertising games they had on the windows store.
If you don’t have Space Cadet Pinball on your PC right now, then please re-evaluate what you’re doing with your life.
Edit: also on every other platform
I have that shit on my phone right now, it’s a great time killer
Same here.
High score so far was 10mil
