Reply 20 of 22, by RandomStranger
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My first encounter with a PC was at a friend's house back in maybe first grade elementary. It was a Videoton XT type machine. It looked like a VT180, but it had a 286 CPU manufactured by AMD. It was severely outdated, but the only PC in our class.
This is the best I could find about it (page 6): https://www.holdcomputers.com/holdcomputers_e … ideoton_all.pdf
It had about half a dozen games, but all I remember are Prince of Persia, Grand Prix Circuit and maybe Wolfenstein 3D of which Prince of Persia had the biggest impact on me.
The next I would probably call defining was when around 4th grade the same friend upgraded to a P2 era machine. Celeron 333MHz, 64MB RAM and an S3Trio64V+ (which I still have with a memory upgrade) and an 8x speed CD drive (I also have it but it doesn't read). Back then I had my second PC with a 100MHz Pentium, 32MB RAM and probably also some generic budget graphics card. The games influenced me the most on this PC (my friend's) was Carmageddon and Need for Speed: High Stakes.
Then finally I got to take the spotlight when I upgraded to a 900MHz Celeron, 256MB RAM and a TNT2-M64 which for a brief year was the most powerful PC in my class, though obviously it was never really good. And with this one I had to pull through until about the end of first year high school. This means countless important and legendary games and in the early 2000s a lot of suffering and pain. Playing games with frame rate in the single digits for years really build character.