Comments on: Where were you 10 years ago?!?

By: keinermacht

keinermacht — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:16:02 +0000

10 years ago today? This one’s easy.

The game: Starcraft

The machine: The first ever PC I assembled myself. W00t!
Cyrix 233 MHz CPU (knockoff Pentium I)
64MB RAM
4GB hard drive
Biostar Socket 7 motherboard
S3 Trio video card
15″ CRT monitor
Windows 98 (free copy from the campus computer lab)

By: Grimnir

Grimnir — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:53:34 +0000

I think I went through a good 6 Dreamcasts and a dozen controllers or so. Madcatz made a horrible controller that would fry your system and everything plugged into it at the time. Lots of fail before we figured that one one. They do make rather attractive paper weights and doorstoppers though.

Crazy Taxi, Phantasy Star Online, and Soul Calibur were the best DC games for it’s time, imo.

By: Grok

Grok — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:17:29 +0000

I was working at HMV (music store chain here in Canada and in the U.K.) and I worked across from a game store in the mall. At the time I made enough money to eat and have a roof over my head, and not much more, so video games just weren’t an option at the time. But I remember the lineup outside the store that day and a vague feeling that I was missing out on something fun.

By: Aruth

Aruth — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:30:10 +0000

I think I was just starting EQ1 10 years, and a week ago…..so 10 years ago to the day, I was probably falling down the center hold in Blackburrow. Or maybe I was lost in the dark tunnel between Blackburrow and Halas (yeah I didn’t think to crank up my gamma back then).
Also, that controller looks like Buck Roger’s starfighter.

By: Rer

Rer — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:47:24 +0000

1999… well then… I’m 8 years old.

Um… Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles lunch boxes made you popular, girls were yucky, and my life would change forever thanks to a certain Japanese video game about an electric rat and his other 150 friends.