nkarafo
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Being a PC gamer in the mid 90's was pretty hard though. PCs would evolve very fast, making it a much more expensive platform than it is now.
In 1994, you needed the equivalent of 2500$ to buy a fast 486 multimedia capable PC. And a year later, Quake would render that CPU obsolete. And a year later than that, you needed additional funds for a 3D accelerator, otherwise your expensive games machine would perform worse than a PS1 or N64 in most 3D games.
PCs went from 386 cpus as a standard, up to Pentium 3s in the 10 year 1990-2000 span. The performance gap here is massive. In 2000 there was nothing you could do with a 386, not even a 486. But today, a 10 year old CPU can still run everything well enough, including the latest OS and games.
In 1994, you needed the equivalent of 2500$ to buy a fast 486 multimedia capable PC. And a year later, Quake would render that CPU obsolete. And a year later than that, you needed additional funds for a 3D accelerator, otherwise your expensive games machine would perform worse than a PS1 or N64 in most 3D games.
PCs went from 386 cpus as a standard, up to Pentium 3s in the 10 year 1990-2000 span. The performance gap here is massive. In 2000 there was nothing you could do with a 386, not even a 486. But today, a 10 year old CPU can still run everything well enough, including the latest OS and games.