I gave this a good thought and as much as the nes was great
for my 12th birthday in 1992, my father and I went to Hollytron in Los Angeles and he purchased a Magnavox Head start 300 with the first CD-Rom for a personal computer. I believed he paid like 2700 dollars for it. In todays money it would be around 5k.
Im sure my dad got ripped off but he qualified for some sort of payment plan.
The saleman sold to him the idea that I will use it for education to have a career in business or computers.
It was a 286, 12mhz, but the salesman sold my father on the power of the Cd-rom.
Look the whole encyclopedia on 1 CD, but my focus was on the small game collection with manhole and a bunch of older amiga style games.
The CD caddie
I learned to use DOS, Dosshell, copy con autoexec.bat and config.sys to boost expanded and extended memory (not much of it )
Used the 14.4k modem to get onto Prodigy, an intra-net which led me to BBS systems all over the world incurring thousands of dollars in phone bills which was forgiven by ATT at fraction of the cost.
I always dreamt of being a "Sysop" so i wouldnt have such a bad upload download ratio at the fileshack.
This led me to learn more about PCs and Pc gaming as opengl was just starting back then,
I learned a whole lot from my first computer.
Thanks to my father, I have a 17+ year career in IT to be able to afford a home, 2 marriages, and provide for two children.
This is also the reason why my 12 year old son has pretty much every technological device that a 12 year old should have.
Is taking outschool Unity classes and why I reserved for him a Steamdeck.
He can torrent, install NSPs and XCIs on his switch but sometimes spends time on dumb phone games.
Thanks dad for all you hard work and sacrifice.
