I mainly plan on playing games from 1995-1999. For games from 2000 onward I have a Windows XP era PC, and for anything before 1994 I have an old Compaq LTE Elite 4/40CX 486 laptop.

I was looking through some PCMAG magazines from June of 1999 and they were still selling Pentium ii 350MHz for $199. So that's why I choose the Pentium ii.

This is a new old stock beige/blue PC case I bought off of eBay for $35. I'm gonna be using this case for my budget Windows 98 gaming PC. What do you think? IMG-0012-compressed.JPG IMG-0013-compressed.JPG IMG-0015-compressed.JPG IMG-0014-compressed.JPG Did PC cases have color like this one in the …

So I wanted to build a Windows 98 gaming PC using period accurate parts from 1999. I want to emulate a PC that someone in high school with a part time job would have built. I used prices from computer magazines from May-Sept of 1999. I am using USD and rounding the prices. So here is the parts list. …