planet romero

“About six months later, my father bought a swanky 486SX with 4MB ”

DID YOU IKNOW you could have been able to play MORTAL KOMBAT

you couldt do that earlier…

WHERE do i start!

I will probably make a bigger post with details for me

My father was/is engineer so we had the luxury of having a computer , the computer was

3 8 6.. ALSO kow as my first brother! yes i grew to really love it because it was my friend for over 3 years.

I knew already back the that games were better on consolls but games on computers were special because they DIDNT WORK most of the time (yes even then) and you were lucky if your floppy disk worked or red..
STILL DESPITE this i still loved our computer because it had a language , very simple dos laguage and there was a personal conection to me ,, i was just a child 7 y old .
I still am known as the kid who knows alot about computers but i do not since i quit computing like that when i was young , but the rumour still goes with me bcause i used to play arround with 386 knowing basic dos.

It might not be such a suprise, since i am here that the real reason i loved computers were mostly games but today my true gaming love is in consols but my past gaming love is truelly in old games and not the new ones.

I remmember ever game i waited for many many days , and i was excited too much it was as if nothingelse made me happy . I ones were told by my fathers friend that he was going to copy a game for me that had ninjas , after that i would go for many days maybe months imagining a imaginary game looking something like ninja gaiden… BUT it was not true there were no game and i never got it , it was very “painfull”.. becuase i had waited each monday to monday week after week… for he had told my father “next week”

I was very found of ninjas and martial arts and i never recieved any game like just like that , and the truth was i loved I LOVED teenage mutant ninj aturtles that i played at my younger friends house on NES .. OH MAN this was the best game of all times.
Long before that i had this friend who got a NES and Mario , i remmember Mario was so boring but just adicting the idea got stuck in my mind and i decided to save up for NES , my dad told me to start collecting coins in order to get NES lol .. it never happened.

Now i have not mentioned that there was this older kid who had a computer he would introduce me to any copy of a game i had he always tried to impress my dad with the graphics of games heeh. HIS YOUNG brother after some years of knowing them got a COMODORE the CASSETTE tape versions (LOL ) EVEN at those days i thought it was funny. ANYWAY this is BIG like MAJOR because HE WAS PLAYING an awesome version of —ROBO COP– lol it was sooo nice! it was the closest thing to arcade i had seen, after that i went into the car and CRIED my eyes out and started dreaming about that game in my mind for a loong time.

i am not sure if it was before or after that which some of my other friends had a computer a keyabord which could play incredible graphic and games and itw as called amiga 500

After this traveled to our family in sweeden (its besides norway) and they had DAN DAN DAN SEGA GENESIS and it blew everything off , it had great sound great visuals and awesome design! but i still had computer.

THEN ONE DAY i used to go to martial art class and i was just living , and my father came to take me home and he was happy , then he opened storage room in behind the car and THERE IT WAAAAS … GUESS WHAT?
THE AMIGA 500
THIS IS still the amazing suprise i have ever had! it was my prise for continuing my martial arts class.

i will continue this post lol later in another post because i there are alot

I will just say i have ALOT of memory with 386 and 486 but i do not know these chronologically so it does not come out right.

I can say i had golden axe on 386 and al we could hear was pc speaker haha it was truelly not even a question of “if it should be htere” we didnt ask . thats is very odd because NES had sounds and arcades had dsounds.. but we were satisfied with being able to even runn a port on PC.

I remmember having alot of memory problems bbut today i realise back hten it was MUCH better if you had 2 , 3 ,4,8 mb ram it was going to decide your fate but it would not be as STUPID and complicated as today where almost every computer barely meets any means no matter what you pay.
BACK THEN it was SOO EASY you had 4 mb or not .. you had this mb space or not , there were simple , simple criteria and IF YOU HAD 8 mb , you had 486 you had 100mb or so THEN YOU COULD HAVE DOOOM 1! DOOM 2
Or before that you would die for Mortal Kombat! whoooooooo! that game was so hot.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand
YOU COULD PLAY EASLY WITH simple criteria PLAY ROT!!!!

today i really want to complain about the ridicolous demands that even if you meet them there is less then a gurantee to be able to play.
I want to stuff up the face of people how easy it was to play doom 1 full speed and its those memories i refer to when i see any computer who barely can runn what it should today!

i dont want so much high tech i just want some fun!

I do not think its only nice to look back i think it is URGENT

Today games are not about funn and adiction or about epic experience , you would ask “what else is there” well what is left is THIS STUFF we hav on our hands which most of the time does not even work.

as i mentioned that back in the day if you had a clean cloppy and the required RAM and space you would be fine !

There are a small “majority” i think who still pretend PC gaming is two words which go togheter but it truelly does not because PC was not intended for games at all and i think it still is not, instead its a expensive hoby which seems more like the pc is omdified with a gfx card then being pc working with a gfx card
think about it if its not a type of modification why do we have so many cards and so many standards? technically its a modification to the hardware , its putt togheter , there are no preset standards AND THIS IS a problem .

These people still want to live in the fantacy that computer gamming is more stable and look ALOT better and run faster but this is VERY VERY VERY exadurated even more so will consolls in the future dominate because they are MADE FOR GAMING putt togheter JUST SO IT CAN BE PERFECT for games.. yet people deny the fact that a machine solely made for gaming is better for just that purpose.
I have tried to understand why and i have come with answer such as , maybe they like putt their heads into the monitor or maybe they just like to be able to copy games or maybe its the keyboard… IN ANY RATE all those things will be possible on consolls in the future.

I am a gamer and i loved my old pcs because they were closer to making things work ironically and their games were funn , i can never forget wolf 3d but iwas happy there were easy standard on requireemnts.
today its my pain i have made twice good high end computers but guess what they just lag, go slow or something and believe me i have teaked , deleted done everthing ..
the closest i came to an answer was “maybe a componont is not synergic with the mb” WHAT THE DANG is that? HOW CAN I KNOW aboslutely sure they have good synergy? am i the terminator?

anyway back to the good ol days

The bigest pain i had in the old days were the floppy which had some problems it wasnt untill my 486 with a HD that i could play doom without floppy i htink . I used to play doom for hours lol and finishing the game.

I want to say i had golden axe very young and it was such funn, i believe i had torunn it on Fdisk on 386, it was SLOW , uggly and strange but i loved it because it was so graphical, i remmember when the golden axe logo came in teh sky it was oooo exciting lol then you could choose your hero and battle arround it was too difficult and the cheats did not work, i didn finish the game.

One time i got a very special game it was called STREET FIGHTER 2 yup! lol street fighter 2 wasnt even a port to pc it was an ugly remake where you could marble on the same type of art but it wasnt the same grpahic but yoU LOVED it because it was STREET FIGHTER 2 aaaaaaand it went VERY VERY slow
It wasnt untill a while later one of my friends got STF2 on aminga 500 and i got to see it and compare it and i was convinced consolls were much better at arcade games to begin with.
BY THIS TIME snes had of course the best versions with alot of addons hyper etsc.

Another special game got was called MOrtal Kombat 1 and i couldt play it anymore because my 386 didnt have enought power, i was so dissapointed and could onl play it many yearslater on 486.

talking about Adventure games i want to say my first adventure game on pc was a game called “beneath a steel sky” which i later on finished, it was such a wierd wird game it came with my cd rom on my 486 computer, a very odd game.
I played lot of otehr games after this but later in life one adventure game i DID NOT FINISH but i was found of was gabriel knight 3 because it was in an actuall 3d engine and i had seen nothing like it , still today there has been no new gabriel knight but many people did not recieve GB3 as a good game and i tink its unlucky .

In my opinion which is against many other peoples opinion is that there should be atelast some standard standards for gaming computers and that it should be much easier and much more correct ways to arrange components , so that they can make sure people get what they pay for.
isnt it easier for programmes as well ? if they know what platforms they are aming for instead of “let us just do it then see who is compatible” because that is why i think PC gaming is failing behind a shrade and appearance of excellency.

The reason that they dont go to mac is that producers simply care much more for money and it also benefits hardwrae productions since they will always have a group of ex-counterstrikes paying ALOT of money just to play a laging game.

Mac is also very expensive so people believe that mac is this monster and pcs are the humble choice where as they could be very wrong.

Mac for fun? i have tried a few macs and they are nothing more then a different gui and some standard differencials but they were not specificially more funn .. itsjust a personal computer.

I am note ven sure if mAC wants to be a competitor because they probably have hte resources to battle pc , it is more as if they want to be obscure and mysticall and its that which makes people come to mac and on top of it all maybe it makes a statemet ” you came ot us we did no come to you , so e are not reliable ” lol

The first time I used a computer that I remember was 1996, when I played Doom 2 with my dad, my dad also bought me my first computer in 1998. I don’t remember much about it, but I do remember it was a gaming rig and it came with a Voodoo 2 graphics card and it had a ton of games on it. I was all about video games on that thing, owned games like Battlezone, Unreal, Mechwarrior 2, Delta Force, Quake 2, those are the ones I still have at least.

I swear, running Unreal back in the day is the equivalent of running Crysis today, I never saw anything like it and I thought it would be the pinnacle of video game graphics for years to come.

I was introducing my friend to Doom the other day when his 3 year old daughter wandered in, saw a bunch of Cacodemons and shouted “stwawbewwies!”. She loves the “strawberries” lol.

My first PC was in 1996. It came with Batman Cartoon Maker. We had a fine time making cartoons with Batman farting in the Joker’s face, Bruce Wayne’s facing turning into Hitler with a glowing swastika in his forehead and so on. I got Duke Nukem 3D. When I loaded it up, I realised with dismay that I needed to learn how to use a mouse and keyboard to play games! It only took a couple of hours – it feels a lot more natural than a game pad.

Back in the day I had a Commodore 16, a Commodore +4 and, later, a Commodore 64. Later we got a NES and Master System, then a MegaDrive and SNES. Finally we got a Playstation for Christmas with Destruction Derby… and Doom.

The rest is history!