8 megs with DOS was awesome and really all that you needed with a 2 meg VGA card, for those games. You are right about the cost of RAM in those days, a buddy of mine had spent a fortune upgrading his PC with expensive RAM. We only learned years later that the RAM manufacturers were complicit in cornering the market and everyone ended up paying these inflated prices. That old PC also had the typical Sound Blaster audio card, CD drive, two 3.5" floppies with a WD 230 meg HDD all of which were dependable. Its funny to see how ancient that tech seems to us today. Lands of Lore series, Doom, Wolfenstein, Eye of Beholder series and of course Descent were all great games. Nonetheless, that 486DX2-66 could handle it all very well.

8 megs with DOS was awsome and really all that you needed with a 2 meg VGA card, for those games. You are right about the cost of RAM in those days, a buddy of mine had spent a fortune upgrading his PC with expensive RAM. We only learned years later that the RAM manufacturers were complicit in cornering the market and everyone ended up paying these inflated prices. That old PC also had the typical Sound Blaster audio card, CD drive, two 3.5" floppies with a WD 230 meg HDD all of which were dependable. Its funny to see how ancient that tech seems to us today. Lands of Lore series, Doom, Wolfenstein, Eye of Beholder series and of course Descent were all great games. Nonetheless, that 486DX2-66 could handle it all very well.