I played it on 386 with 8mb of ram... I had to reduce the screen to get a few more fps...Then when my first amd k6 2 arrived at 500mhz with the famous voodoo 2 I could play it easily....
I loved being 11 years old in 1992 and growing up playing the Nes, Snes, Genesis, Sega Saturn, N64, playstation, and Dreamcast. And PC games were amazing during the late 90s. Also, video game magazines, Magic the Gathering, Comic book stores, and Arcades were amazing. We had Mom and Pop Computer stores, Circuit City, Comp USA, and amazing LAN parties. I also attended Computer Conventions back in the 90s, seeing flat panel TVs for the first time was amazing!
@@bigblue9484 We could probably debate this for hours on the topic of music alone! Despite our differences, 80s and 90s kids have way more in common than they don't.
@@Jaan-Gaming-WRyep they are missing something. A kid who was born after 2005 doesn’t know what relationships without cell phones and internet look like. And don’t know what going on vacation without connection or phone feels. And the world without cell phones and internet. So basically life. I know that because I’ve been chief scout and I saw the evolution. I’m 31 in a few days…and I don’t know with who having real life relations and experience…
@@boltinabottle6307agree. I was born in 93. I feel close to those born in the 70’s, 80’s (the 60’s are my parents generation). But I cant have good connections with those born after 2005 and I know it will continue that way. They simply don’t have some basic life experience like living a year of relationships and experiences in a world without cell phones and internet. They just didn’t experience that yet…crazy
Doom, Dune, Dune 2, Pinball Fantasies, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter 2, Battle Isle 93, UFO Enemy Unknown, Heores of Might and Magic 2 and so many more...
I’m 43 years old and I can still vividly remember the first time I played DOOM at a PC shop. I could not believe what I was seeing. I took the shareware version home that day.
44 here! I didn't have a pc at the time but a friend did. He had no speakers so all sounds came from the pc speakers, which REALLY were bleeps and bloops. When he finally got, if I remember correctly, a Gravis Ultrasound, we were blown away by all the realistic gunfire and demon screaming!
52 here. I remember before getting engaged to the wife (we lived together), I'd bug her for hours sitting up editing WAD files for DOOM 2 with a program called DCK (Doom Construction Kit). I still have a 3-inch thick book called "Tricks of the Doom Programming Gurus" which came with a CD full of editing tools and WAD files/Doom conversions.
Thats insane. You here that noice of the floppy disc beein loaded and you have instant menorys before your eyes. I even had the smell back in my nose. Imagine what else lays hidden in your brain, waiting to be triggered by some random old noices...
Yes, it was very expensive, I had 8mb, I don't remember the manufacturer of the motherboard, but it had 512 kb of cache memory and an integrated music card. The processors of that time did not have a cache memory on the chip.. the cache was on the motherboard.
486dx 66 4, upgrade to 8MB RAM for DooM 1.2k baud modem SB16 (or Pro? i had both at some point) Sound Card I think the CD-ROM was a 2X Then got a 4X /w my 1st Pentium Win 3.1 and DOS6
@@olfan92Stop trying to play Star Wars and look at new IP's and smaller studios. Games are great right now, the problem is that gamers let themselves get led to the slaughterhouse with their favorite IP's on a stick. What genres do you like?
But it was the early 90s and all the cool brands of the 80s were going bust. 1975 to 1995 is the Golden Age of computing - the 80s were its Cambrian Explosion. Computing been kind of boring ever since.
Almost all of our school computers had doom on it back in the early 90s grade 7 as our computer teacher allowed us to play games at break time. Yes, even doom despite it being 'violent'. I still remember exactly the time one of my friends told me 'cd' stood for change directory and me typing 'cd doom' into DOS for the first time ever to start the game.
I had exactly this processor. And then overlocked it to 100 MHz. And upgraded 4 MB RAM to 8 MB. This slight upgrade increased speed like my PC ran on the nitrous oxide all the time.
Yeah, especially with so much RAM in 1993. I got my DX-66 in late 1994, but I only had 4MB of RAM that I salvaged from my old machine and had to save up for months for another 4MB.
If that keyboard has a ps/2 connector, I definitely still have a ps/2 USB adapter, I'll bet you could find those somewhere. Completely plausible to buy that vintage keyboard and use it with a modern PC without much problem.
Yeah in the 1990s literally every single year would have a handful of new revolutionary games that could contend for GOAT status. Super Mario World, Sonic the Hedgehog, Earthbound, Doom, Super Metroid, Phantasy Star IV, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy III, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Final Fantasy VII, Crash Bandicoot 3, System Shock 2, Super Mario 64, Half-Life, Final Fantasy Tactics, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Goldeneye 007, Tekken 3, Pokémon Red/Blue/Yellow. Truly a magical time! ❤
@@omegamanGXEYou forgot a few: Tomb Raider Age of Empires Total Annihilation Settlers Nightmare Creatures Resident Evil Carmageddon Rollercoaster Tycoon Railroad Tycoon Commando And last but not least: Command and Conquer Red Alert
Bomberman, tanks, supermario, Wolfenstein, civil- rus (3 days 3 nights played), quake I was best, carmagedon, serious Sam 3, age of empires2, dungeon keeper 2...
I don’t care what anyone says. People can spend $1000 on a keyboard to get the key strokes to sound a certain way, but nothing sounds as good as an old classic like that 😃.
@@lethalbroccoli01Yeah about that, you got some homework to do. Start with searching for custom key caps... yes, people actually do pay that much for those.
whenever I hear it I'm always reminded of that bit in Goldeneye when you wait as Bond with Natalalya tapping on the computer mainframe towards the end of the game before you face Janus, idk why
It's the constant background whine of the hard disk and the grinding of the floppy drive. My modern PC is silent. It's everything I ever wished for as a kid with my 90s PC that took forever to boot... but it's also very boring now.
Class of '79 here. Nothing beats us xennials. Analog children and digital young adults. We had the chance to play on the streets with our friends and, at the same time, we witnessed the development and mainstreaming of computers, gaming and the internet. We are equally able to use a dial phone and a smartphone. We had a walkman and the first mp3 player. We grew up supporting the rebels against the evil galactic empire and we also watched the fall of the berlin wall. Our micro-generation rules!! Oh, and mIRC, we had mIRC! 😂
Yeah, i remember when I brought it to my teen camp without permission to look cool and it didn't work. The sound is so small and made all my friend laugh at me😅. Now It belongs to my father so despite the shame it cause me, i cannot throw it and therefore i have to haul it all along 3 days camp and return home to face scolding from my father 😂.
The brilliance of Carmacks engine and Romeros levels. A shareqare game that had one complete game, I bought my 486 DX2-66, 4 mb RAM and a massive 428mb HDD for just under a grand, just to play DOOM. Thank you Alan Sugar (Viglen) :)
@@davidca96 earlier wolfenstein 3d was the first game i got to experience with soundcard - that was a mindboggling experience. I mean amiga was super awesome compared to c64 (which was pure bliss compates to ataris etc)...but pc gaming first with actual soundcard and then later first 3d cards was utterly transformative experiences. ...combine that with awesome Star Wars, indina jones etc games that are now utterly trashed...its difficult to find comparison today really.
Man this is a giant flashback. These devices were luxury back in the day. I also remember the dial up internet noises were crazy too. These were some good times looking back
I used to love tinkering and trying to fix those old computers, which needed troubleshooting all the time lol. Unfortunately when computers went from a fun hobby to an absolute necessity it really took a lot of the fun out of it for me.
I've been into computing for a long time and this brings back memories, a real blast from the past. I've got the old versions of doom on my Steam account. I still play them sometimes. I also have Dark Forces.
Born in 1970 i witnessed the transformation from board games to tech first hand.... what a journey. ATARI, Sinclair, Commodore ( my first Vic 20 on christmas 1983 ) .. how advanced the IBM PC and compatibles seemed in the early 90s. We had to grab things locally or by mailorder .. assemble, configure and repair ... No internet ... you had to read a book ( after GETTING it ) to learn stuff. Nice.
Same... Pong game, ATARI, Texas Instrument TI99/4A, could not afford the Sinclair (I think there were 2 versions Color and B&W capable), Commodore 64 with a 300 Baud modem to connect to CompuServe encyclopedia, 186, 286, Packard Bell 486 DX4...
@@zc9407 i wanted the TI99/4A - just because of its looks. My parents bought the VIC20 -- a year later the C64 -- Amiga -> PC My basement and homeoffice is full of 8Bit stuff i bought and repair. Just an old man and his childhood dreams :) I wish i would have been able to repair those things back in the days ... but hey - not making money but a lot of fun today.
My first "real" job was at Radio Shack in 1981. We sold the TRS-80 Color Computer with 4k of RAM, yes, I said 4k, for $549.00 and we sold a bunch of them. That's about $1,700.00 in todays money!
Good times. The Amiga was my dream machine. I used to go to a local computer club and was amazed at the gameplay and graphics. Eventually, I became a programmer but lost the excitement when my "coding" was limited to payroll, inventory, and banking software...no games. Few things match the excitement of those early days of computer gaming.
was working a night shift as a security guard and doing my walk around. Someone was 'working' late and playing DOOM at their desk. I had never seen anything like it and was amazed, transfixed. I am now a regional director of a Games QA service provider and have put in 23 years of service to the games industry. Cheers Doom ;)
I was 22 back in '93. I vaguely remember being inline for Star Wars: Episode IV back in '77. Now that is nostalgia for me. But I see where you are coming from as well. All hail to the old farts...like me!
I was living in Puerto Rico for a while in 2004 and saw that sign and thought is was one Spanish word, Compusa. My friends had good laugh at my expense.
Ahhhhhh, the good old days. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
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Wow blast from the past. I loved dos. The sound of those machines booting up was the best. Makes me think of my father in law who is no longer with us. He loved tech.
For the uploader: The red gun in your CRT monitor is being affected by the left speaker being close to it, you can see red colours getting less red on the left side of the monitor. The gauss guns in these can be pulled out of alignment by magnets. If you leave it this way, the monitor will eventually be permanently damaged. move the left speaker further away from the monitor.
@azynkron feel free to do a Web search and find out. This can happen with unshielded speakers and CRTs, and did with mine. I could literally move the speaker around and watch the oolours on the screen change. I'm not really interested in being told that something I saw happen didn't... it did. The speaker doesn't have to have a strong magnet to affect a CRT, any magnet will affect them. By the way once the speaker is moved away a bit the monitor will have a degauss function that was made specifically to deal with the effects a magnet will have on the electron guns.
I remember my friend at school telling me he had a life changing game on his pc. Since he spit a lot of crap before I didn't take him all too seriously... Man was I wrong! He typed Doom, hit the enter button, it said "Init DOOM refresh daemon" and I knew shit was about to get real REALLY fast! That was 30 years ago, and here I am still playing games ever since. Thank you my friend 👍
@@boardernut fair I can't remember what I had I know we had a 386 as a first PC. Not sure why I remember it that way unless I'm conflating it with a 486 we got later.
Seeing that: "Init DOOM refresh daemon" was what got me feeling nostalgic. My eyes are actually watering-up right now. Those were some great days, and it was only thanks to the video games, TV shows, and movies of the time, which got me through the worst times of my life.
Damn memories. I was 16 and remember our school Computer lab Technician (an absolute legend who had literally his whole house as a computer/radio lab) stayed up one night to download the full version from a BBS. From memory he had an RM Nimbus 486 in his lab in school which had a few mods and we'd go round at lunch time and after school to play it. Unreal
Mad respect to the 486DX2-66 owner. For owning a CD rom. I was in college 93, owning a CD rom was a luxury item let alone a color VGA minitor. I remember running a star wars CD rom game and everyone in my dorm was envied.
@@sangkang6294 Such a great game. Really one of the best DOS era games regardless of genre. I had the exact same impression the first time I played it...visually stunning, great gameplay. Would have been amazing with the Internet we have today for multiplayer
@@csmith7404 I was born in the wrong decade! You boomers have no idea how lucky you are to have been born in the 80s and 90s. Social media makes life so stressful
The 80’s-early/mid ‘90’s were the perfect decades because technology and “real life” (not real time or what have you) were perfectly aligned. There wasn’t more of another.
Fellow 82 birth year here. The 90s were the best. We didn't know how good we had it back then. We didn't know the best of times ended with the millennium.
Don't forget Castle Wolfenstein. Though Descent was my favorite. Baud modem connection over the phone line playing head to head with my friends. The original online gaming. Someone would always end up picking up the phone and ending our session. Lol
Pure nostalgia. Only those who lived through that era will understand. Classic Doom was basically the first PC game I played. My dear uncle was a teacher at a school. During my school vacations, I would go visit him. Every now and then he would take me to school and drop me off at the computer lab, which had computers from that same era. And it was there that, rummaging through the computer lab cabinets, I found a CD with a collection of PC games. And among them, one name that caught my attention: DooM. It was the first one I ran and played. In that same collection, there was Heretic. ✊🏻😎
Never had a full blown game, just the demos you'd get for $1 each sent to you on diskette from that magazine, I don't even remember what it was called. I still remember that "cd" stands for "change directory" to this day.
For all the original doom fans. They just released an upgraded version of doom 1 and 2 on steam and xbox. They gave it better resolution and upgraded the soundtrack. Its pretty awesome.
14 in 1993. Man the memories. I didn’t even play Doom, but just the simplicity of the time, when we were entertained by such simpler things, and we didn’t have the ubiquitous mess of cell phones, the internet, and the spiderweb of everything else that has come with it all.
@@todderbert I heard every game for that system blew. But.. I am a huge fan of squarepusher (he'll often reference a vic20, and has a song called vic acid) so I am determined to have some idea of what it was. the vic 20. respect to you man
I hope it stays that way. Most people had consoles so they aren't nostalgic for PCs. We don't want them driving the prices up like they have on retro consoles.
Retro PC's are so much bigger than a console, especially if you use a CRT monitor. Also getting working retro PC parts that work can be tricky. Floppy drives are by far the worst, followed closely by AT power supplies.
So good. As a poor community college student, I saved every last penny and got myself the 486 DX-50 with the 50MHz bus, not double clocked like the DX2 66. I was so proud of that machine! And I got 8 MB of RAM when everyone I knew was getting 4 MB. Round it out with AutoCad, WordPerfect for Windows, and an HP ink jet, and I was a happy guy!
My very first PC gaming experience. It was a Sears in the mall. My mom was buying whatever crap ppl bought from Sears in the 90s and I wandered my way to electronics. Someone left doom up and running on a demo computer. I now have the doom logo tattooed across my knuckles
Hell, I still remember when I was AMAZED that I could actually burn music and data onto a CD! Or the thrill of installing an AST Rampage memory expansion board! Nowadays, computers can be 100,000x faster, but…..bleh…
Dont forget Turok, Goldeneye, Jedi Knight, Perfect Dark, System Shock 2, Unreal Tournament, Shadow Warrior, Team Forteess, Killer Instinct, Fallout 1 and 2, and so many more.
@@hiddendragon415 I "built" my first PC so I could play Diablo 2 with my buddies from school. It's was a blue screen of death box, but it would run enough to have some fun. The poor thing didn't even have a case, it just has a motherboard sitting in a box. 😄
This was me in 1993! Thank you for the memory! IBM Aptiva running at 133! I eventually ported the music to an expensive keyboard via midi! With a hard drive that’s numbers ended in MB ! Thank you for allowing me to post this limerick!
Born in 1971. Got back home after 2 years in Soviet Army in 1992 and played on my father's 286 Olivetti at his workplace. Prince of Persia and F1 were my favorite. 486 and Doom - it was a dream at the time 🙂 Fed up with Duke Nukem in 2000, never played any virtual game since then.
I remember games like Jazz Jackrabbit 2, Quake, Blake Stone, that Star Wars game which had prerenderd FMV video of you flying through canyons (very advanced looking game for it's time), Hexen, Diablo. Just really good early to mid 90s games. All before most people had internet. It was a great time for gaming. Don't even get me started on having an SNES and then Playstation coming out. It was just... you don't understand the magic that was happening then. Once in a lifetime to be alive and exactly get to experience this level of changes in gaming. It felt like magic.
16 MB RAM playing Doom considered luxury.
I played it on 386 with 8mb of ram... I had to reduce the screen to get a few more fps...Then when my first amd k6 2 arrived at 500mhz with the famous voodoo 2 I could play it easily....
Wasn't 16 MB of Ram about $2,000.00 back then?
@@giovannimarongiu7150 You skipped like 7 years there :)
I only had 4 MB and made a batch file to run it without running out of RAM rofl. Ah good old times.
I don’t believe this system had 16MB of RAM in 1993. More RAM was added later when it became cheaper.
I miss the 90s. Being a kid in the 90s was awesome
Yep, can only agree to that. Being a kid now just sucks… feel like kids are missing something nowadays.
I loved being 11 years old in 1992 and growing up playing the Nes, Snes, Genesis, Sega Saturn, N64, playstation, and Dreamcast. And PC games were amazing during the late 90s. Also, video game magazines, Magic the Gathering, Comic book stores, and Arcades were amazing. We had Mom and Pop Computer stores, Circuit City, Comp USA, and amazing LAN parties. I also attended Computer Conventions back in the 90s, seeing flat panel TVs for the first time was amazing!
@@bigblue9484 We could probably debate this for hours on the topic of music alone!
Despite our differences, 80s and 90s kids have way more in common than they don't.
@@Jaan-Gaming-WRyep they are missing something. A kid who was born after 2005 doesn’t know what relationships without cell phones and internet look like. And don’t know what going on vacation without connection or phone feels. And the world without cell phones and internet. So basically life.
I know that because I’ve been chief scout and I saw the evolution. I’m 31 in a few days…and I don’t know with who having real life relations and experience…
@@boltinabottle6307agree. I was born in 93. I feel close to those born in the 70’s, 80’s (the 60’s are my parents generation). But I cant have good connections with those born after 2005 and I know it will continue that way. They simply don’t have some basic life experience like living a year of relationships and experiences in a world without cell phones and internet. They just didn’t experience that yet…crazy
No internet, no stupid trolls, just you, your computer and Doom.
no day-1 patches so big as the game itself
The best
Doom, Dune, Dune 2, Pinball Fantasies, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter 2, Battle Isle 93, UFO Enemy Unknown, Heores of Might and Magic 2 and so many more...
No internet ? Well, sort of. Took me six hours to download the shareware version.
No commercials adds and other distractions for full DOOM experience!
I’m 43 years old and I can still vividly remember the first time I played DOOM at a PC shop. I could not believe what I was seeing. I took the shareware version home that day.
Bro. Do you also remember the co-op and deathmatch, using com ports null modem cable?
43 also.
Same here 66.
Same 43 😮 but still 25 in my mind😅
44 here! I didn't have a pc at the time but a friend did. He had no speakers so all sounds came from the pc speakers, which REALLY were bleeps and bloops. When he finally got, if I remember correctly, a Gravis Ultrasound, we were blown away by all the realistic gunfire and demon screaming!
52 here. I remember before getting engaged to the wife (we lived together), I'd bug her for hours sitting up editing WAD files for DOOM 2 with a program called DCK (Doom Construction Kit).
I still have a 3-inch thick book called "Tricks of the Doom Programming Gurus" which came with a CD full of editing tools and WAD files/Doom conversions.
Those start-up noises activate something in my brain that's been dormant for years...serotonin
Thats insane. You here that noice of the floppy disc beein loaded and you have instant menorys before your eyes. I even had the smell back in my nose. Imagine what else lays hidden in your brain, waiting to be triggered by some random old noices...
100%
YES! I came here to comment exactly that! The beep at 0:12 filled me with euphoric excitement!
That floppy drive sounds so crunchy . I miss the days when your PC had actual start up sounds.
I miss the internet screeches on the 56k modems. lol. Same kick
Look at this money bags here! 486dx and 16 MB RAM!
Yes, it was very expensive, I had 8mb, I don't remember the manufacturer of the motherboard, but it had 512 kb of cache memory and an integrated music card. The processors of that time did not have a cache memory on the chip.. the cache was on the motherboard.
Don't forget the CD drive! Wow! I am really impressed!
16MB? That will set a person for life!
It even has a CD ROM
486dx 66
4, upgrade to 8MB RAM for DooM
1.2k baud modem
SB16 (or Pro? i had both at some point) Sound Card
I think the CD-ROM was a 2X
Then got a 4X /w my 1st Pentium
Win 3.1 and DOS6
And this dear kiddos is NOT the Stone Age of computer gaming. This was the industrial revolution in comparison.
When they learn the first video game was just reading to do everything to read more 😂😂😂
So there were small children getting crushed in textile mills?
@@richpryor9650yeah in china making chips
2024 is the stone age of gaming because we havnt had any good games in 2 decades now. gaming is dead in 2024.
@@olfan92Stop trying to play Star Wars and look at new IP's and smaller studios. Games are great right now, the problem is that gamers let themselves get led to the slaughterhouse with their favorite IP's on a stick.
What genres do you like?
Back when Doom was on more PCs than Windows. Pure bliss.
But it was the early 90s and all the cool brands of the 80s were going bust. 1975 to 1995 is the Golden Age of computing - the 80s were its Cambrian Explosion. Computing been kind of boring ever since.
Almost all of our school computers had doom on it back in the early 90s grade 7 as our computer teacher allowed us to play games at break time. Yes, even doom despite it being 'violent'. I still remember exactly the time one of my friends told me 'cd' stood for change directory and me typing 'cd doom' into DOS for the first time ever to start the game.
Another common game that I also remember around that time they also had installed was a pac-man clone called CD man
I remember screaming about how good the graphics were.
@@spikester All my school had was Oregon Trail on our computers lol. "You died of dysentery."
486 DX2-66 16 MB RAM was a dream machine in the mid '90's
I had exactly this processor. And then overlocked it to 100 MHz. And upgraded 4 MB RAM to 8 MB. This slight upgrade increased speed like my PC ran on the nitrous oxide all the time.
Overclocked mine to 80 mhz!
That was my first computer in 1995. Amazing machine.
Yeah, especially with so much RAM in 1993. I got my DX-66 in late 1994, but I only had 4MB of RAM that I salvaged from my old machine and had to save up for months for another 4MB.
Mine was a 486 DX4-100 32MB RAM with a 16MB video card. I loved that machine.
omg all of those startup sounds... brings me back.
yeah those hard disk spinning up sounds hit me right in the childhood
In that case, search for floppotron. Or even better "floppotron doom".
And the floppy drive
Eghh🎵 eghhhh 🎵Uhhhh 🎵
I was barely born in 1993. Brings you back to what year?
I forgot how noisey they were
Man, the sheer *slap* of that Enter key is sooo satisfying
If that keyboard has a ps/2 connector, I definitely still have a ps/2 USB adapter, I'll bet you could find those somewhere. Completely plausible to buy that vintage keyboard and use it with a modern PC without much problem.
I went to look at the comments to opine on the Enter sound. They are slapping it way too hard!
@@palimondo No such thing. The harder you slap it the better it works. That's just a fact.
she be SLAMMIN that key
I don't know she's smacking that enter key like it owes her money 😂
Das waren noch Zeiten! Vielen Dank für die Erinnerungen.
Bless you, lol
ASMR for 90's teenage nerds. Man it takes me back.
❤
I was turning 13 yrs old this year. Ahhh, sweet nostalgia.
Same! Forgot about all the startup sounds. Drives spooling up and what not are so machine like compared to current tech.
Kids today might think the sound of data being accessed is a Zen riddle.
I was going to say this. Except almost a reverse, would be torture to go back to those days now... All those beeps and buttons. Good times.
The startup sounds takes me back to my childhood.
Me too bud😂
I can even recall the smell of that machine heating up. It was so F awesome 😅
@@DFD1 :DD
seriously lol
@@DFD1 This!
The 90s was the golden age of gaming. Graphics would literally double every year. Ahh... the nostalgia
Yeah in the 1990s literally every single year would have a handful of new revolutionary games that could contend for GOAT status. Super Mario World, Sonic the Hedgehog, Earthbound, Doom, Super Metroid, Phantasy Star IV, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy III, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Final Fantasy VII, Crash Bandicoot 3, System Shock 2, Super Mario 64, Half-Life, Final Fantasy Tactics, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Goldeneye 007, Tekken 3, Pokémon Red/Blue/Yellow. Truly a magical time! ❤
Every six month
@@omegamanGXE crash bandicoot! I forgot how much I played that
@@omegamanGXEYou forgot a few:
Tomb Raider
Age of Empires
Total Annihilation
Settlers
Nightmare Creatures
Resident Evil
Carmageddon
Rollercoaster Tycoon
Railroad Tycoon
Commando
And last but not least:
Command and Conquer Red Alert
Bomberman, tanks, supermario, Wolfenstein, civil- rus (3 days 3 nights played), quake I was best, carmagedon, serious Sam 3, age of empires2, dungeon keeper 2...
With SoundBlaster! and properly configured! huh. Nostalgia.
Thank you!
I don’t care what anyone says. People can spend $1000 on a keyboard to get the key strokes to sound a certain way, but nothing sounds as good as an old classic like that 😃.
No one is spending a thousand bucks on a keyboard.
@@lethalbroccoli01 you clearly aren't familiar with the modern custom keyboard scene.
@@lethalbroccoli01Yeah about that, you got some homework to do.
Start with searching for custom key caps... yes, people actually do pay that much for those.
@@lethalbroccoli01well, relatively few people are spending that on keyboards
whenever I hear it I'm always reminded of that bit in Goldeneye when you wait as Bond with Natalalya tapping on the computer mainframe towards the end of the game before you face Janus, idk why
Those sounds brought back the simple days of great happiness 😊
The hard drive spinning up, the installation of the floppy drive, the hard drive chripping away loading dos. 😅
@@Vainqial 😂at Dos 3.3
My childhood pc ❤
Eye of the beholder, young man.
Something about those start up noises is beyond satisfying
Like out of a pip boy 😀
That and the modem dialup and connect sound. Every day after work my friend and I would get on StarCraft
Ohhh yeah babyyyyy the PC warming up! 😂
I know right 😂
Doubt u saying this at 1,am in morning while u trying to play an wake house up loll
Amazing this takes me back.
Man that Doom startup music got me going and brought me back to my childhood 😂
We need 4 more.
That’s what they got paid the big bucks for!
9 whole dollars per disk ;)
@@CantTellYou 4 thumbs up for the 666, not dollars although I can use the money. ;)
Yep, my autocorrect goofy af.
"At Doom's Gate" haha, I'll never forget that track
I did not know nostalgia could hit this hard. The turbo button was probably the biggest thing, but all of this brought back so many memories.
And the sound !
@@super_straight Yesss!
made me shed a tear
First game I ever played, on a old comp USA computer my dad bought.
What did the
"turbo" button do back then? I am relatively new on Planet Earth
I miss the old sounds of the computer from back them. They just seemed awesome
It's the constant background whine of the hard disk and the grinding of the floppy drive.
My modern PC is silent. It's everything I ever wished for as a kid with my 90s PC that took forever to boot... but it's also very boring now.
@@ncot_tech it's better now, but it's more boring indeed
cool profile picture
@@pipebombmailer22Misfits fan since the 80s 😊
@@ku9239 thats good to hear, i saw gbh a few weeks ago
Hearing that door open made me jump.. those were some awesome late night battles. Good times, good times.
Lights off, it could really give you goosebumps hunting zombies.
Those were the sounds of happiness.
They do take me back with a nostalgic smile. Simpler times.
Just the clicking of the computer is such a nice sound. I wish I was a part of this era
AOL chat rooms
@@ZeddisDead I’m so gen z I had to look up what that was 💀
Yeah, until the hdd started clicking!😮😅
Wow.
This really brought me back. The sounds were even time tickling.
Born in 1978 - I loved this game so much. Damn I miss the 90’s ❤
Lol
It was the beginning of the end once 2000 hit it was over.
Same here ;)
Same year as my mom.. that’s rare❤️
Class of '79 here. Nothing beats us xennials. Analog children and digital young adults. We had the chance to play on the streets with our friends and, at the same time, we witnessed the development and mainstreaming of computers, gaming and the internet. We are equally able to use a dial phone and a smartphone. We had a walkman and the first mp3 player. We grew up supporting the rebels against the evil galactic empire and we also watched the fall of the berlin wall. Our micro-generation rules!! Oh, and mIRC, we had mIRC! 😂
Those incredible times.. & DooM was there!!
I was born in 1982. I experienced that time fully. Played so many great games of his time. DOOM was one of them.
I was on a 386 33mhz. Didn't care if doom ran at like 8fps. It was great.
Me too! God I miss those days.
I was born in 1988 my first PC game was Shadowcaster in 1994 or 95
I was born in ‘85. I remember getting a demo of quake that was on 11 floppy disks. The demo.
@@Flexin010 You probably didn't notice if it ran at 8fps.
Nothing beats the old SoundBlaster MIDI for Doom!
Man I forgot how good it sounded compared to what 2016 sound hardware junk I have today.
Yeah, i remember when I brought it to my teen camp without permission to look cool and it didn't work. The sound is so small and made all my friend laugh at me😅.
Now It belongs to my father so despite the shame it cause me, i cannot throw it and therefore i have to haul it all along 3 days camp and return home to face scolding from my father 😂.
Loading for his last memor... tututuru tuturu tuturu tutuuuuruuuuuuu
Tuutuutuuruuutuutuuruutuuruutoootoooooooooo
Wtf?
I remember these days well, Doom was utterly amazing when it came out we were blown away with its graphics.
What really convinced me to get a computer was Doom and the Wing Commander series
The brilliance of Carmacks engine and Romeros levels. A shareqare game that had one complete game, I bought my 486 DX2-66, 4 mb RAM and a massive 428mb HDD for just under a grand, just to play DOOM. Thank you Alan Sugar (Viglen) :)
@@davidca96 earlier wolfenstein 3d was the first game i got to experience with soundcard - that was a mindboggling experience.
I mean amiga was super awesome compared to c64 (which was pure bliss compates to ataris etc)...but pc gaming first with actual soundcard and then later first 3d cards was utterly transformative experiences.
...combine that with awesome Star Wars, indina jones etc games that are now utterly trashed...its difficult to find comparison today really.
Doom, and Prince of Persia!
I remember this like it was yesterday...great times and emotions!
Man this is a giant flashback. These devices were luxury back in the day. I also remember the dial up internet noises were crazy too. These were some good times looking back
yeah dial up sucked ass... all those scam callers disrupting my internet all day.
had to replace it with a 24mb/s ethernet connection asap.
bee baa boop bee baa boop
ring ring
beep
beep
beep
Those AOL trial discs….😂
Born in 80. Ahh, a decade and a half of the best years. Man oh man I miss the 80s and 90s.
James Turner ❤😂
Same!!
Jazz Jackrabbit, All Sierra Games (Kings Quest, Police Quest, etc)
My Windows 3.1 90mhz Pentium PC was amazing. I still miss AOL chat rooms and booting into Dos. Times that can never be forgotten!
I used to love tinkering and trying to fix those old computers, which needed troubleshooting all the time lol. Unfortunately when computers went from a fun hobby to an absolute necessity it really took a lot of the fun out of it for me.
@@titanjake8640 Yeap I remember those, added with Wing Commander, scorched earth, lemmings, wolfenstien etc, etc.
I can't believe that was over 30 years ago! And that CompUSA banner! Really brings back memories!
You're wrong...the '90s were just 5-10 years ago...🥲
@@mclashproyale8102 ?
@@SelSun83 In the 2050's, you will understand when someone tells you how long ago 2024 was
mithcee 35 - 310 years ago. 😂
Did this person just buy out the remaining stock from a closing COMPUSA lol
I've been into computing for a long time and this brings back memories, a real blast from the past. I've got the old versions of doom on my Steam account. I still play them sometimes. I also have Dark Forces.
Born in 1970 i witnessed the transformation from board games to tech first hand.... what a journey.
ATARI, Sinclair, Commodore ( my first Vic 20 on christmas 1983 ) .. how advanced the IBM PC and compatibles seemed in the early 90s.
We had to grab things locally or by mailorder .. assemble, configure and repair ...
No internet ... you had to read a book ( after GETTING it ) to learn stuff.
Nice.
Same... Pong game, ATARI, Texas Instrument TI99/4A, could not afford the Sinclair (I think there were 2 versions Color and B&W capable), Commodore 64 with a 300 Baud modem to connect to CompuServe encyclopedia, 186, 286, Packard Bell 486 DX4...
@@zc9407 i wanted the TI99/4A - just because of its looks. My parents bought the VIC20 -- a year later the C64 -- Amiga -> PC
My basement and homeoffice is full of 8Bit stuff i bought and repair. Just an old man and his childhood dreams :)
I wish i would have been able to repair those things back in the days ... but hey - not making money but a lot of fun today.
Ordering games by mail order, often from Special Reserve (in Sawbridgeworth) aaah fond memories
My first "real" job was at Radio Shack in 1981. We sold the TRS-80 Color Computer with 4k of RAM, yes, I said 4k, for $549.00 and we sold a bunch of them. That's about $1,700.00 in todays money!
Good times. The Amiga was my dream machine. I used to go to a local computer club and was amazed at the gameplay and graphics. Eventually, I became a programmer but lost the excitement when my "coding" was limited to payroll, inventory, and banking software...no games. Few things match the excitement of those early days of computer gaming.
I love the computer clicking to boot things.. man that takes me way way back.
was working a night shift as a security guard and doing my walk around. Someone was 'working' late and playing DOOM at their desk. I had never seen anything like it and was amazed, transfixed. I am now a regional director of a Games QA service provider and have put in 23 years of service to the games industry. Cheers Doom ;)
wow!
That's fuckin cool man, thanks for sharing 🍻
Great story! 💖
That's beautiful man.
Now thats impact!
no social media, no bs, just solo gaming. Good times.
Oh man. The nostalgia. I can’t handle it. I was 12 in 93 and remember this well.
I was 22 back in '93. I vaguely remember being inline for Star Wars: Episode IV back in '77. Now that is nostalgia for me. But I see where you are coming from as well. All hail to the old farts...like me!
Damn y'all aged 😂
Me too. 81 baby 🎉
10 here and I remember it well 😆
I'm a 1984 model good memories
The “Comp USA” sign alone is the biggest nostalgia trigger here
I was living in Puerto Rico for a while in 2004 and saw that sign and thought is was one Spanish word, Compusa. My friends had good laugh at my expense.
Same for me.. such memories. I had upgraded my PC to 150 Mhz lol. It was awesome :)
@@ronquin5272 I remember going there in 1999 (I think) and seeing “Jet Fighter III” and I wanted it so bad.
Had a such comp in 00' Russia, I disasembled it, and figured out that turn on button was made by USSR
#WORD
Everything about this is beautiful
Minus the man hands.
@@donotdisturbagain minus your comment
@@donotdisturbagain lmao i knew i wasnt the only one
Music to my ears! Brings me back to my childhood ❤
Every beep of the bootup and the intro midi music of doom brings back so many memories. Staying up all night playing doom
That's incredible. A total retro setup, and it looks really well taken care of.
One for the museum some day!
Pretty sure this IS a museum. Awesome!
Ahhhhhh, the good old days. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Wow blast from the past. I loved dos. The sound of those machines booting up was the best.
Makes me think of my father in law who is no longer with us. He loved tech.
For the uploader: The red gun in your CRT monitor is being affected by the left speaker being close to it, you can see red colours getting less red on the left side of the monitor. The gauss guns in these can be pulled out of alignment by magnets. If you leave it this way, the monitor will eventually be permanently damaged. move the left speaker further away from the monitor.
Do you think so?
@SolidNateMovies the same thing used to happen to my CRTs, I'm pretty sure
Nah, dude. That speaker has a way to little magnetic field for that to happen.
Thanks for playing though.
@azynkron feel free to do a Web search and find out. This can happen with unshielded speakers and CRTs, and did with mine. I could literally move the speaker around and watch the oolours on the screen change. I'm not really interested in being told that something I saw happen didn't... it did. The speaker doesn't have to have a strong magnet to affect a CRT, any magnet will affect them. By the way once the speaker is moved away a bit the monitor will have a degauss function that was made specifically to deal with the effects a magnet will have on the electron guns.
Truth. Tech improved in good ways over the last quarter century.
1975 here. I remember this like it was yesterday. Fond memories :)
1992 (DX2 66 and I instantly had it), there were no intel before 1976...
2055 here, I can say that we will revert back to these after ww3
@spazzymacgee5648 3069 traveler here - blew ourselfs up agian and also reverted back to OG Doom.
1975?!?
@@danielbodnar7703I believe, like me, the OP was born in 1975 😁
I remember my friend at school telling me he had a life changing game on his pc. Since he spit a lot of crap before I didn't take him all too seriously... Man was I wrong!
He typed Doom, hit the enter button, it said "Init DOOM refresh daemon" and I knew shit was about to get real REALLY fast!
That was 30 years ago, and here I am still playing games ever since.
Thank you my friend 👍
You’re welcome old friend.
😂👌
@@eightinches6221 Who the hell are you? 😂
Friends. How many of Us have THEM?.exe
@@Cyproduction Jesus is Everywhere, Bro. Force.
Incredible! Great memories from my teens. That video game scared me when I was at night alone in my house 😱 But what a cool and exciting memories!!
Back then when everything was simple and satisfying. Brings back good memories. God bless❤
This brings back so many memories from my early teens playing so many amazing dos based PC games.
me too❤
Crazy nostalgia happening. I miss the 90’s
fk the 90 and those sht bag old machines full of technical problems hard to solve. Evolution baby!
No Xbox Game Pass back in the 90's xD
Yeah man the memories this conjures up. "Magnavox" man i haven't seen that name in forever.
@@sayhitoyutub hahahaha
@@sayhitoyutub you must have bought crap hardware
Now I love you 😍😍😍😍
I missed these sounds so much 😭😭😭
MEMORIES!
Это была магия!
386 DX-2 66 - that doesn't exists.
@@boardernut fair I can't remember what I had I know we had a 386 as a first PC. Not sure why I remember it that way unless I'm conflating it with a 486 we got later.
@@Stu-Bo Definitely, a 386 can't really handle Doom.
@@boardernut I ran it on a 368 with postal-stamp screensize. :D
The computer class in school with all these machines running was a magic place.
I was at one school as a deputy chess course lector like 4 months ago and saw one there. Very beautiful feeling.
We had a computer 💻 lab in our school 🏫
CompUSA = best smelling store EVER! All that 90s plastic and cardboard smelled incredible to me….miss all those gray cases and big boxes.
I remember loving the smell of my N64 as a kid when I first got it. New hardware hardly has the smell nowadays sadly
The smell of an N64 cartridge and Fries with the trans fats still in em'
Give me a moment please
I miss Babbage's and other software stores, too.
I wonder if this person used to work there, or just got all their remaining stuff from them when the company was bought?
@@beauwalker9820 I still remember the Atari 5200 console smell. 80s electronics smell, like new car smell. Great stuff.
Beautiful! My childhood awesome!
Seeing that: "Init DOOM refresh daemon"
was what got me feeling nostalgic. My eyes are actually watering-up right now. Those were some great days, and it was only thanks to the video games, TV shows, and movies of the time, which got me through the worst times of my life.
Also the music of the time! I miss those days so much.
Damn memories. I was 16 and remember our school Computer lab Technician (an absolute legend who had literally his whole house as a computer/radio lab) stayed up one night to download the full version from a BBS. From memory he had an RM Nimbus 486 in his lab in school which had a few mods and we'd go round at lunch time and after school to play it. Unreal
Must be so touching remembering those days and how they are never coming back
Unreal came way later.
@@JWAM beat me to it...
Dude! The chill went up and down my spine from that memory! The computer screen, boot noises and the Doom!
Man, that takes me back. You put a big ol smile on my face with this post.
Mad respect to the 486DX2-66 owner. For owning a CD rom. I was in college 93, owning a CD rom was a luxury item let alone a color VGA minitor. I remember running a star wars CD rom game and everyone in my dorm was envied.
X-wing?
@@indalot8315 Yeah, it's X-wing.
@@sangkang6294
Such a great game. Really one of the best DOS era games regardless of genre. I had the exact same impression the first time I played it...visually stunning, great gameplay. Would have been amazing with the Internet we have today for multiplayer
Flashbacks from the start up noises. They make me smile and giggle. Love it.
IKR! I forgot about all those sounds but time warped when I heard them again.
I miss the 80 and 90's... absolutely no stress
Thank god we still got DOOM
Don't forget Wolfenstein
No stress and no worries or problems. people back then were so lucky
Hilarious! Oh man...@@MarvinMonroe
@@csmith7404 I was born in the wrong decade! You boomers have no idea how lucky you are to have been born in the 80s and 90s. Social media makes life so stressful
@@MarvinMonroe "boomers", lol.
I remember these days well. I used to play this on a Gateway. Thanks.
The 80’s-early/mid ‘90’s were the perfect decades because technology and “real life” (not real time or what have you) were perfectly aligned. There wasn’t more of another.
yeah, iLiked about Half of it.
everyone will say their time on earth was the best. it isnt.
Man, this just brought back a flood of memories. I remember I used go be good at using DOS.
I was born in 82 and I've personally never seen a PC from the early 90s that bad ass.
Best year to be born 😉
Born in 82 as well. 80's and 90's were so good. Where's my time macine?!?!
Fellow 82 birth year here. The 90s were the best. We didn't know how good we had it back then. We didn't know the best of times ended with the millennium.
86 here. Y'all old huh 😉 I'm almost there 😂
Bad ass?
Looks pretty standard to me for a certain time.
Ugh, those old PC pre boot up sounds brings back soooo many comfortable memories of booting up the same PC at like 2am.
Quarantine. Doom. Descent. War Craft. Theme Park. Those were my GAMES back in ‘94!!!!
Duke Nukem?
@@tkowen8614
Come get some
Don't forget Castle Wolfenstein. Though Descent was my favorite. Baud modem connection over the phone line playing head to head with my friends. The original online gaming. Someone would always end up picking up the phone and ending our session. Lol
Quarantine was awesome.
still have all my original 💿 of those games! quarantine was one of my favorites....just the 90's grunge soundtrack alone.
Pure nostalgia. Only those who lived through that era will understand. Classic Doom was basically the first PC game I played. My dear uncle was a teacher at a school. During my school vacations, I would go visit him. Every now and then he would take me to school and drop me off at the computer lab, which had computers from that same era. And it was there that, rummaging through the computer lab cabinets, I found a CD with a collection of PC games. And among them, one name that caught my attention: DooM. It was the first one I ran and played. In that same collection, there was Heretic. ✊🏻😎
Never had a full blown game, just the demos you'd get for $1 each sent to you on diskette from that magazine, I don't even remember what it was called. I still remember that "cd" stands for "change directory" to this day.
Duke Nukem was another classic.
Oh yesss, Heretic was especially good. Also, Blake Stone 3D.
For all the original doom fans. They just released an upgraded version of doom 1 and 2 on steam and xbox. They gave it better resolution and upgraded the soundtrack. Its pretty awesome.
Also through GOG or anywhere else they were selling the old ones. If you owned the old releases anywhere it's a freebie
Thanks for the advice, I just bought that. :) ... again xD
booooo :D
I'm not sure how you could upgrade the soundtrack. It's already 10 out of 10.
It's on the Nintendo eShop as well. (Source: Me, who downloaded that sucker faster than anything.) lol
I love those sounds OMG!!!! the computer starting
then doom! my ears are soo satisfied
14 in 1993. Man the memories. I didn’t even play Doom, but just the simplicity of the time, when we were entertained by such simpler things, and we didn’t have the ubiquitous mess of cell phones, the internet, and the spiderweb of everything else that has come with it all.
Der Sound der alten Festplatte und das piepen. 🎉Ich liebs
The good ole days of simple computing..😢
LOL nothing about DOS is simple.
Vic 20 rings a bell for Simple computing, now there was fun in a box.
"Simple"? Other than visually?
it s simpler now
@@todderbert I heard every game for that system blew. But.. I am a huge fan of squarepusher (he'll often reference a vic20, and has a song called vic acid) so I am determined to have some idea of what it was. the vic 20. respect to you man
Omg. Brings back memories!!!
OMG, the nostalgia!!! It hurts my soul.
100%
It is interesting how so many people are into retro gaming consoles but retro PCs or gaming on retro PCs don't get as much love.
not everyone had computers back then, consoles were more affordable, more people had them, hence the nostalgia
I hope it stays that way. Most people had consoles so they aren't nostalgic for PCs. We don't want them driving the prices up like they have on retro consoles.
It will after this vid😊
Retro PC's are so much bigger than a console, especially if you use a CRT monitor. Also getting working retro PC parts that work can be tricky. Floppy drives are by far the worst, followed closely by AT power supplies.
It is because they are mostly a giant pain in the ass while retro console generally just works.
The sounds while being started up just brought back some serious memories. Haven’t heard those sounds in decades.
I got chills watching that start-up sequence. Takes me the fuck back!
So good. As a poor community college student, I saved every last penny and got myself the 486 DX-50 with the 50MHz bus, not double clocked like the DX2 66. I was so proud of that machine! And I got 8 MB of RAM when everyone I knew was getting 4 MB. Round it out with AutoCad, WordPerfect for Windows, and an HP ink jet, and I was a happy guy!
486DX 50 was a great machine and actually ran faster than the DX2 66 as it had a bigger cache.
I had a 386 SX20 :) And loved it!
1977 here. Ah the memories. It’s all flooding back. What a time for gaming.
I think you're still in the 70's too.
My very first PC gaming experience. It was a Sears in the mall. My mom was buying whatever crap ppl bought from Sears in the 90s and I wandered my way to electronics. Someone left doom up and running on a demo computer. I now have the doom logo tattooed across my knuckles
E1M1 sound track was crucial to this video. Thank you for including it you’re a legend
I was hoping for it so much - and was released.
RUclips Longs for Doom + Doom 2 update?
That music just gave me shudders and a big smile ... Thank you !!
Heck yeah!!! Our kids these dayz will never know how we use to live back then.😊
Hell, I still remember when I was AMAZED that I could actually burn music and data onto a CD! Or the thrill of installing an AST Rampage memory expansion board! Nowadays, computers can be 100,000x faster, but…..bleh…
I don't know why hearing this video made me so relaxed and comfortable. All the old computer noises took my back to memories of good times.
Hell yeah. Doom, Duke Nukem, Quake, Hexen, and Diablo. The golden 90s.
And Blake stone!!!
Dont forget Turok, Goldeneye, Jedi Knight, Perfect Dark, System Shock 2, Unreal Tournament, Shadow Warrior, Team Forteess, Killer Instinct, Fallout 1 and 2, and so many more.
Baulders gate!
@@daleford8621 Ultima Underworld inspired me to buy my first PC
@@hiddendragon415 I "built" my first PC so I could play Diablo 2 with my buddies from school. It's was a blue screen of death box, but it would run enough to have some fun. The poor thing didn't even have a case, it just has a motherboard sitting in a box. 😄
This was me in 1993!
Thank you for the memory!
IBM Aptiva running at 133!
I eventually ported the music
to an expensive keyboard via midi!
With a hard drive that’s numbers ended in MB !
Thank you for allowing me to post this limerick!
Oh What a sweet memorie u brought.... good old times that won't never return.. hugs from Brazil ❤
Born in 1971. Got back home after 2 years in Soviet Army in 1992 and played on my father's 286 Olivetti at his workplace. Prince of Persia and F1 were my favorite. 486 and Doom - it was a dream at the time 🙂
Fed up with Duke Nukem in 2000, never played any virtual game since then.
F1 with katayama,jean alesi,🎉
Blo0d splat when prince fell off😂
Ahhh.. The Memories of being 12 years old again!
X2
X3
I had a friend in high school who ran a BBS on his 486. Anyone remember those?
@@p0llenp0nyohh man do I.. I ran The Edge BBS back in the mid 90s was just a teen back then :) so many memories…
I always had DOOM running on the Tandy 1000 in front of the store when I worked in Radio Shack back in '93.
I was 9, it was amazing. I never though these startup noises and keyboard clacking would feel so nostalgic haha
😢 I actually miss those days 😢
The nostalgic sounds of the computer loading..❤
@CubbeliPalpatineHoca
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After watching the video, i wrote the same to my brother and now i'm reading your comment. :)
I remember games like Jazz Jackrabbit 2, Quake, Blake Stone, that Star Wars game which had prerenderd FMV video of you flying through canyons (very advanced looking game for it's time), Hexen, Diablo. Just really good early to mid 90s games. All before most people had internet. It was a great time for gaming. Don't even get me started on having an SNES and then Playstation coming out. It was just... you don't understand the magic that was happening then. Once in a lifetime to be alive and exactly get to experience this level of changes in gaming. It felt like magic.
I may not have grown up in the 90s but damn do i respect this era of pc gaming. Doom was and always will be Eternal.
Oh yeah!, Now this brings me back. The nostalgic sounds.