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@ajlanes @justinto @goatsarah Yeah, so this will sound surprising coming from me, a PC gamer. For most of the 80s, DOS gaming sucked. This probably doesn’t surprise you but believe me, when you lived in the moment, it was rough.

I didn’t get DOS games because I liked them. I got them because I didn’t have an NES. Don’t get me wrong, when it specifically came to adventure gaming and RPGs, DOS was very good – I loved King’s Quest and Ultima – but if you wanted to play something like Contra or Super Mario Bros., DOS was brutal.

My mom was against an NES because she didn’t want video games to monopolize the living room. So I convinced her to buy a C64 that someone was selling at a garage sale – I told her it would help me with homework. Really, I just wanted a better gaming machine than our 286.