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Yes I remember buying PC games in the store.
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the only game i used to play on my pc as a kid was the sims
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Feb 20, 2015 02:46
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I used to write my cd keys on my cds. I had to burn my friends copy of diablo 2 because i kept loving up the 2nd disc.
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Feb 20, 2015 02:47
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i think the only game that had really good installation screens was age of mythology
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Feb 20, 2015 02:55
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I bought a copy of Neverwinter Nights from a Menard's ages ago. It wasn't until a year later my family had a computer that could barely run the game, but by god I played the poo poo out of it. Before that my PC gaming was like, Reader Rabbit and Amazon Trail and Putt-Putt. Basically, I hadn't gamed on a computer in years. Anyway now that Steam is here everything is better, and people who think Steam is bad are stupid and wrong.
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Feb 20, 2015 02:55
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A CRUNK BIRD posted:I borrowed Warcraft II from my friend and never gave it back. I still have the disc You're an rear end in a top hat, Tim. And where are my Baldur's Gate II disks?
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Feb 20, 2015 03:19
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A CRUNK BIRD posted:Before Steam I bought a copy of Counter-Strike that came in a big box. I also bought Half-Life Blue Shift in a box. I have the 11 year badge on Steam Not really.
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Feb 20, 2015 03:20
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it sucked
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Feb 20, 2015 05:52
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i played morrowind on the xbox... good times, good times now with steam the motivation just isn't there, to play morrowind
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Feb 20, 2015 05:54
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remember when getting a new videogame was like this magical experience. youd be sittin on the ride home reading the manual and gettin all anxious and excited. now i have access to every single game in existance and im not sure its better
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Feb 20, 2015 06:31
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babypolis posted:remember when getting a new videogame was like this magical experience. youd be sittin on the ride home reading the manual and gettin all anxious and excited. now i have access to every single game in existance and im not sure its better i think that the most magical experience is playing games
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Feb 20, 2015 10:58
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babypolis posted:remember when getting a new videogame was like this magical experience. youd be sittin on the ride home reading the manual and gettin all anxious and excited. now i have access to every single game in existance and im not sure its better This, except when you get home it turns out you only have 600k of free conventional memory, when the game requires 620k. Then you spend weeks loving around and finally get it working, thus dooming you to a lifetime of family tech support.
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Feb 20, 2015 12:44
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Remember having to click on desktop icons to open games? Dark times indeed...
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Feb 20, 2015 13:44
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:I remember all the cool game boxes and the boot disks and the hair-pulling whenever disc 6 of 20 got scratched. gently caress that was always bad. RIP my original baldur's gate
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Feb 20, 2015 15:30
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Why did you buy counter strike it was free. It took all night to download though I loaned Fallout to my "best"" friend and never got it back. He gave it to someone else to I guess it was a gamer pay it forward
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Feb 20, 2015 15:41
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metricchip posted:Remember having to click on desktop icons to open games? Dark times indeed... you can still pretty faithfully imitate this ancient practice.
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Feb 20, 2015 16:45
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I really miss the thrill of the installation screen, watching the little progress bar slowly move towards the right of the screen, inching ever closer to new game playing bliss. Also getting a new RPG and spreading the map (there was always a map) out on the desk while the installer was running, imagining the grand adventures to be had in the fantasy landscape before me. Downside was going into the game store and having to interact with the sweaty neckbeards who really needed to tell me all about why I shouldn't buy Star Trek Elite Force (they were wrong, poo poo was awesome).
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Feb 20, 2015 17:52
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Half of Baldur's Gate was swapping out the 6 or 7 CD-ROMs it came with whenever you traveled to a new town or map
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Feb 20, 2015 18:18
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlxU3AJ6UGk
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Feb 20, 2015 18:21
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Yobgoblin posted:Diablo II: Lord of Destruction was kickin' rad. i was playing diablo on 9/11 everyone left my bloodrun it sucked
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Feb 20, 2015 19:53
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even with some bad aspects steam is a vast improvement over having to keep physical media, cd keys, keep an eye on patches, not getting quarterly sales, not being able to check out cheap ow budget games, having to manage shortcuts to the desktop manually, worrying about install folders,
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Feb 20, 2015 21:18
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I remember when they first attached steam to certain games for updating and such. It sucked. It still sucks
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Feb 20, 2015 21:22
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Just Offscreen posted:I remember when they first attached steam to certain games for updating and such. It sucked. why?
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Feb 20, 2015 21:22
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Nobody has mentioned WON yet. The shame I feel for you all.
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Feb 21, 2015 00:01
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Before Steam we had Hope, Jobs, and Cash... now we have NO hope NO jobs and NO cash!
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Feb 21, 2015 00:07
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Bob, Steve, and Johnny?
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Feb 21, 2015 00:09
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FactsAreUseless posted:Before Steam we had Hope, Jobs, and Cash... now we have NO hope NO jobs and NO cash! actually steam came out after bob hope died
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Feb 21, 2015 00:13
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Kazvall posted:Bob, Steve, and Johnny?
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Feb 21, 2015 00:17
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Before Steam we had Bob, Steve, and Johnny! Now we have NO bob NO steve and NO johnny!
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Feb 21, 2015 00:18
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I'm not sure it works.
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Feb 21, 2015 00:18
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i dont remember before steam because im a child
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Feb 21, 2015 00:21
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early battle.net was cool. they gave out a special multiplayer-only version of wc2 for it, but if you used cheats in a vs. ai game, you could jump to the campaign
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Feb 21, 2015 01:15
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steam came out about four months after i got my first PC, but i do remember the beige mac gaming scene in the '90s it was obviously terrible compared to today i feel no nostalgia
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Feb 21, 2015 01:17
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ur a scrub if u dont have a 6 digit
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Feb 21, 2015 01:36
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I had a subscription to the ImagiNation Network.
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Feb 21, 2015 02:41
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One of the CD games I remember most is Quarantine, the 'Doom in a taxi' game which was awesomely cool with a great soundtrack. The anti-piracy sheet was a chart with a bunch of taxi speeds with the weight of the passengers and the game gave you a speed and a weight which when looked up would give you something like how much they'd splatter and you'd put that in as your code to play. Shareware too, going into a game shop and paying a few quid to get 3 floppy disks with the first chapter of Doom on it. ...and local newsagents selling games on tape from a rack from 99p-£2.99.
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Feb 21, 2015 02:50
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lol if you're not fragging dudes over Kali.
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Feb 21, 2015 05:40
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I only have a 10 yeard badge (turning 11 in a week) since I was kind of fed up with CS. I remember downloading Steam and getting Half-Life and CS with my old CD key only because a cute girl on MSN asked me to play CS with her. The rest is history.
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i still have my copy of stalker soc on disc but will be finally getting the steam version sometime soon because i need a clean install for a different mod setup and i am really not going to regret buying this, or any, game twice for the convenience of it people talk about it from time to time but the enormous pain that was pc gaming before steam honestly was a big barrier for a lot of people who weren't dedicated to troubleshooting the product they just bought, and i'm glad that it's made the pc a way more popular platform all around
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FuriousGeorge posted:lol if you're not fragging dudes over Kali. No, but I did over heat.net.
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