Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Zaghadka Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: Did EGA Save PC Gaming? Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 10:08:00 -0500 Organization: E. Nygma & Sons, LLC Lines: 29 Message-ID: <3062ajtdnhpltv4vn3k2sutn2fh7s3ulnk@4ax.com> References: <2mdr9jdfoaib835mgjqaerb4isnd2q8i3i@4ax.com> Reply-To: zaghadka@hotmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 17:08:01 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c012b23f2d0171d0124dca77c16b4fdd"; logging-data="1893600"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/wxNizoKTznu2onEUbRWKQ5A84Z8S8eKg=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:ExLBX7eFhnKAyvE6paqFlB0WwMY= X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 Bytes: 2393 On Tue, 23 Jul 2024 13:17:47 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Spalls Hurgenson wrote: >Until "Doom", as far as outsiders were concerned, there was nothing >exciting about the PC platform, even if it actually did have a vibrant >gaming scene. Did "Doom" save PC gaming? No; I think the platform >would have been going strong for years afterwards. But it gave it an >exclusive it never had before that made it less of a laughing stock >wannabe reputation amongst console gamers. I probably shouldn't have put this in a footnote then. **** Arguably, DOOM is the seminal "killer app" for the current market. That is where the PC gaming excitement really took off. I remember people flocking to game stores for the shareware disk. I saw stores _run out_ of the shareware disk. It was a stroke of marketing genius. People at my place of work wanted to play DOOM, but all their computers could handle was Wolf3d, and their minds were blown when I installed it. They had never heard of it. Productivity plummeted. My popularity at work soared. -- Zag No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten