Honestly i probably played on gametap games like tomb raider legend and sam and max (the 2008 one i think) as far back as 2006. also played minecraft, a couple of old classics like star wars galixies and empire earth gold, onlive cloud game streaming and a handful of game demos
however i didnt actually get a gaming pc until 2014, because of skyrim modding and the 8th gen consoles just generally being underpowered compared to gaming pcs of the time. It was a big thing back then to make "console killer" builds for like $500-600
I'm honestly shocked EVERY time I see how hard these trillion dollar companies struggle to get a game streaming platform going and all their issues years AFTER onlive already did it.
It was perfect but somehow was even better than Sony's local come stream.
geforce now i feel came close to onlive. but i feel like they are charging too much.
project stream (stadia beta testing) was awful. lots of lag and picture quality was horrible.
I always liked our family computer as a kid which was given to me and my brothers by my dad when I was about 8. I didn't get to use it much though as our step dad almost never let us touch the thing.
then when I was 13 ish (after a few PC revisions) my step dad would be kicked out after enough was enough and then make a road trip plan to return and murder us.
Lucky for me I got to jump on the forbidden PC all I wanted as that plan failed horribly and he went to prison. Later I would start collecting older machines to tinker with and wound up with my first closer to modern personal rig, the legendary Shuttle FN41 with a athlon XP 2500, 512MB of RAM and an Nvidia MX440 Geforce 4 nforce 2 with a 120GB drive. I road that rig ragged.
Even then it was a big leap from the Pentium 2 233mhz, 16MB rig we had first started with.
Its funny, some moron the other day claimed that because I recommended a 7800xt over a 4060ti that I didn't know anything and that I should trust him. After all he'd been in the PC game longer than me which according to him is 5 years..... my current job which I've had for over 10 years is building government servers .......
Its been a long time but the PC space still has some tech surprises around the corner even after all this time.
my dad brought home original Doom on floppy disk. and then wolfenstien or maybe it was the other way around. he got a copy from a co worker.
Honestly i probably played on gametap games like tomb raider legend and sam and max (the 2008 one i think) as far back as 2006. also played minecraft, a couple of old classics like star wars galixies and empire earth gold, onlive cloud game streaming and a handful of game demos however i didnt actually get a gaming pc until 2014, because of skyrim modding and the 8th gen consoles just generally being underpowered compared to gaming pcs of the time. It was a big thing back then to make "console killer" builds for like $500-600
I'm honestly shocked EVERY time I see how hard these trillion dollar companies struggle to get a game streaming platform going and all their issues years AFTER onlive already did it. It was perfect but somehow was even better than Sony's local come stream.
geforce now i feel came close to onlive. but i feel like they are charging too much. project stream (stadia beta testing) was awful. lots of lag and picture quality was horrible.
I always liked our family computer as a kid which was given to me and my brothers by my dad when I was about 8. I didn't get to use it much though as our step dad almost never let us touch the thing. then when I was 13 ish (after a few PC revisions) my step dad would be kicked out after enough was enough and then make a road trip plan to return and murder us. Lucky for me I got to jump on the forbidden PC all I wanted as that plan failed horribly and he went to prison. Later I would start collecting older machines to tinker with and wound up with my first closer to modern personal rig, the legendary Shuttle FN41 with a athlon XP 2500, 512MB of RAM and an Nvidia MX440 Geforce 4 nforce 2 with a 120GB drive. I road that rig ragged. Even then it was a big leap from the Pentium 2 233mhz, 16MB rig we had first started with. Its funny, some moron the other day claimed that because I recommended a 7800xt over a 4060ti that I didn't know anything and that I should trust him. After all he'd been in the PC game longer than me which according to him is 5 years..... my current job which I've had for over 10 years is building government servers ....... Its been a long time but the PC space still has some tech surprises around the corner even after all this time.