MS-Dos (1990-1995) vs SNES "A Fun What-if Debate"

Back when I was a kid of around 9-10, I was discovering DOS and initially spent a lot of time just trying to make my games work, My dad taught me some but mostly he was leaving me to deal with it on my own.
This is how I started learning English. Good times, I can understand how some people would dislike the added complexity of using DOS vs a Game console, but I ended up liking it. A couple years later I was cracking games on my own, back when CD protection was new and still very easy to defeat. Often you just needed to change a .ini file and copy some files manually.

 

While I didn't learn English from PC games as English is my first language, PC games contained a much more elevated language compared to their console console counterparts. This vastly expanded my vocabulary at a young age. Couple that with the fact that when I was bored/grounded I would read the dictionary and you have a recipe for strong verbal skills. It's funny to think that I was told by some that computers were an educational tool and that games were wasting that capability, but I learned a lot from those (non edutainment) old PC games. The same really can't be said for the modern ones.

 

+1 to all that. We didn't have any family members to help configure all the PC and DOS stuff, so we learned as we went. I remember creating those boot disks for Doom as well in order to get it to run with 4mb of RAM on our 386!

 

Wow i've never thought my thread would become this popular ( sort of ) even though some of you guys are complaining about the fact that ya disagree or say it's too pricey to compete & issues about it's hardware that kinda goes off topic at times. I have no issues with that or anything but i think it would be best if we stick back to the games part of exclusivites in which looks more similar or what library are better In your Opinion.

 

My dad's a programmer, so I grew up around computers, but I didn't have one of my own until about '95-'96. My dad had computers long before I was born though, so I was around them. When my dad first started doing programming (he was a surveyor before that), which I think was in the early '90s, the company he was working for used Unix mostly, which was command-line based. I also think most of the computers he used for work (not counting the one he had at home) were mainframes - so you had several terminals that connected to a central computer, and they shared resources. Later they started using DOS, and eventually Windows 95. I remember as a kid going to my dad's office, and they had set up a Doom multiplayer match over the company's LAN network. It seemed pretty cool at the time.

And of course later I got my own computer, and by that time GUIs were the norm and games were a lot more complex than the earlier DOS games.* Anyway, I grew up around it - so I always had, and still have, a natural interest in it. Now, I probably know more about hardware than my dad does, but he still knows a lot more about programming than I likely ever will.

*I also had consoles at the same time. There were a few years when I was mainly into PC gaming, but that was short-lived, and I eventually came back to console gaming. But I still love both consoles and PC games.

 

That's pretty funny, I remember reading ( i do not remember where ) about how productivity in IT related businesses worldwide suffered a significant drop in the Few months following the release of DooM. Because the employees would be playing DooM during work hours, notably because of the possibility to setup multiplayer matches over LAN, and of course because DooM was Ultra cool.

 

Wow, flashbacks right there. My Novell instructor walked out of the classroom in the 90's when he realized we were playing DooM and not paying attention in class, the following week we had a new instructor who was much cooler.

 

I still have 5 CD-ROMs of only DOS games (mostly freeware, but there's CD packs like Doom and Quake w/ others).
One DOS game that i played a lot was Charlie the Duck. I've finished the game a lot of times, but it was always nice to restart and finding new secrets/bonuses.