alt Hacker News> Back in the day, computers were expensive and games weren't readily available.
You could get a PC for a thousand bucks back then, and shareware was a thing in 1990-91. Crystal Caves, Commander Keen, Duke Nukem were huge hits and there were tons of less popular games...not to mention copying commercial games from friends.
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egypturnash • today at 8:59 PM
$1k in 1990 ~= $2.5k today.
QuercusMax • today at 8:31 PM
Crystal Caves! I've been trying to remember the name of that game for ages! I never bought the full version but played the shareware endlessly...
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> You could get a PC for a thousand bucks back then
In the United States... In a lot of countries, computers cost a lot more than that in the local currency which, together with lower salaries, made computers inaccessible to most people.
I remember seeing people playing GORILLA.BAS in computer stores...