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What were you gaming with in 1995?


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I just recently got a blast to the past when I came across some old video footage I was digitizing for backup off one of my old camcorders in the 90s. I was able to freeze frame the footage and get a good look at my game room in 1995 and decipher where I was at. It was incredible to think I was pushing a 133MHz 16 MB RAM Packard Bell as my gaming computer. I have had computers before this but they were mainly for office use and not purchased with the intent of gaming. This computer was fully intended to be the gaming machine of the day and I am surprised how much has changed since then. From what I have researched the computer was the Ultimate Machine of it's time partnering with Microsoft. Can anyone remember what they were gaming with in 1995? I was just curious how these specs would compare to see if it was really that big of a deal.

 

I posted the footage for anyone interested in seeing my setup back then in the link below.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRokeIzEpEw

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As far as consoles go, I had the following at the time:

 

-Colecovision

-NES

-Genesis

-Game Boy

 

I did get my SNES in late 1995 for Christmas as well, but I was still doing most of my gaming on the Genesis or NES.

 

I also got my 1st PC that year: a Gateway 2000 tower with a Pentium 166mhz with MMX Technology. I don't remember all the specs, but that thing was AWESOME. I had custom ordered it with my dad, and the total came out to be around $4000!!! It was great for playing all the latest games. I wish I kept it.

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In 1995, I had a complete (or near by then) U.S. TG-16 Collection (HuCards, not CD) and these other consoles and computers:

 

TurboExpress handheld

Amiga CD32

Atari 2600, 7800 and a Jaguar (CD bought later on clearance from Tiger Direct)

Sega Genesis (no CD) with 32X and a Saturn

SNES

Intellivision

 

Amiga 500 and an Amiga 1200

TI-99/4A

 

...the year before, sold my 486DX2 66mhz and then purchased an IBM Pentium 133mhz w/ Windows 95 from Radio Shack of all places! lol That computer is long gone of course, but I still have the powered speakers that came with it. Best computer speakers I've ever owned, now hooked to an Amiga 1000. :grin:

 

 

 

By 1995, I had already sold my second C64, Lynx, 5200, Gameboy, Colecovision, second NES, Magnavox O2, Atari 400, Apple ][+, Mac Classic, Neo*Geo, Sega Master System, Mattel Aquarius, Timex Sinclair, a third Amiga 1000 and several Pong systems - oy! lol

 

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Wow looks like the SNES was dominating back then for most of you. I got a SNES from Funcoland a few months before the N64 came out and it was yellow. I remember quickly enjoying the staple classics of Castlevania IV, Super GnG, Super Metroid, Zelda, Super Mario World, and Mario Kart before I got an N64 on launch and never looked back for many years.

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NES, Sega Genesis, and TI-99/4A. All 3 were under our TV and we could swap em out pretty quickly since our TV had only one composite input. We were only a couple years away from the N64, which was our next step up from the Genesis. Never owned a PlayStation, but we did get a Dreamcast in 99 which was a complete mind-blow

 

I was very sad to see that system go under.... such potential.

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I had a Packard Bell Legend 2000 MultiMedia that I would have upgraded by then to some kind of 486 DX, though I don't remember if it was a DX2-66 or a DX4-75. I do know that it had 6MB of RAM and a 170MB hard drive.

 

For consoles, I was still rockin' a Genesis, although I wasn't playing it much by then. I got my PS1 in January of 96.

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