Sounds like we are identical :-) ... though I do not have a switch yet. I loved the first Zelda ... I never got into any of the subsequent ones. The only RPGs I liked were SciFi ones on the PC. SSI had an outstanding Buck Rogers RPG ... there was one by EA that came out around 1988 I want to say ... loved that as well though the name of it is eluding me right now.
I remember when I first saw Doom ... disbelief was putting it lightly. I had my brain wrapped around how they pulled off Castle Wolfenstein 3D (still wasn't an easy feat ... that game ran great on an older 286) ... Doom was a work of art though. Everything from the game's design to the engineering they pulled off was incredible.
My friend had a 486DX with a VLB graphics card ... it ran perfectly on that machine (I think it was a 66MHz machine). I had a 486SX when it came out ... the demo ran OK, but the graphics didn't look as good. I didn't have all of the fancy floating point hardware nor did I have the VLB graphics :-) ... plus my machine only ran at 25MHz :-). Still, it's amazing to think that a game like that could run on that kind of hardware. It's a testament to those engineers that brought that game to life.
I just thought of another game I was insanely addicted to ... Pirates! :-) ... I played the shit out of that on my Commodore 64 when I was a kid. I bought the 'remastered' version that came out ~ 2005. I played it for 48 hours straight ... I had to uninstall it since I was a contractor at the time and didn't need that kind of distraction :-) .
Sounds like we are identical :-) ... though I do not have a switch yet. I loved the first Zelda ... I never got into any of the subsequent ones. The only RPGs I liked were SciFi ones on the PC. SSI had an outstanding Buck Rogers RPG ... there was one by EA that came out around 1988 I want to say ... loved that as well though the name of it is eluding me right now.
I remember when I first saw Doom ... disbelief was putting it lightly. I had my brain wrapped around how they pulled off Castle Wolfenstein 3D (still wasn't an easy feat ... that game ran great on an older 286) ... Doom was a work of art though. Everything from the game's design to the engineering they pulled off was incredible.
My friend had a 486DX with a VLB graphics card ... it ran perfectly on that machine (I think it was a 66MHz machine). I had a 486SX when it came out ... the demo ran OK, but the graphics didn't look as good. I didn't have all of the fancy floating point hardware nor did I have the VLB graphics :-) ... plus my machine only ran at 25MHz :-). Still, it's amazing to think that a game like that could run on that kind of hardware. It's a testament to those engineers that brought that game to life.
I just thought of another game I was insanely addicted to ... Pirates! :-) ... I played the shit out of that on my Commodore 64 when I was a kid. I bought the 'remastered' version that came out ~ 2005. I played it for 48 hours straight ... I had to uninstall it since I was a contractor at the time and didn't need that kind of distraction :-) .
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Sounds like all 3 of us are identical. 🙂