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Going back to your beginnings in PC gaming: the first game you played and loved, but the frame rate and resolution weren't ideal. Your first "I need/want to upgrade my specs" basically.

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[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Heretic.

I bought a used hard drive at a yard sale in like 1996 or 1997, that contained Doom II and Heretic. The 386/40 that was my personal box wouldn't tun the latter, and I wasn't going to set it up on the family's rapidly disintegrating Packard Bell Pentium-100.