What was your game room like in 1995?

[KWKBOX]

I just recently got a blast to the past when I came across some old video footage I was digitizing for backup off one of my old camcorders in the 90s. I was able to freeze frame the footage and get a good look at my game room in 1995 and decipher where I was at. It was incredible to think I was pushing a 133MHz 16 MB RAM Packard Bell as my gaming computer. I have had computers before this but they were mainly for office use and not purchased with the intent of gaming. This computer was fully intended to be the gaming machine of the day and I am surprised how much has changed since then. From what I have researched the computer was the Ultimate Machine of it's time partnering with Microsoft. Can anyone remember what they were gaming with in 1995? I was just curious how these specs would compare to see if it was really that big of a deal.

I posted the footage for anyone interested in seeing my setup back then in the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRokeIzEpEw

[jb143]

I had the same computer around the same time. Got it Christmas of 94 I believe. The specs sound about right as well. I still have it actually. I remember it came with the Jurassic Park game which we loved and played all the time. I think it was the only actual "real" game we had for a couple years until updating it with a multimedia CD-ROM and SoundBlaster upgrade kit, which came with a bunch of games. No game room to speak of, at the time we had everything set up off to the side of the dining room.

[YoshiM]

Hmm...1995. I was rocking a Packard Bell 486 SX at 25 MHz and 4 MB of RAM. I was playing Tie Fighter heavily at the time. Otherwise I would be playing on a Super Nintendo as I think I sold my Turo Grafix 16 with CD by then.

I was then just out on my own in a mobile home by myself. I did not have a dedicated "gaming room" but more of a computer room and video games would be connected in the living room. My NES collection was small and in a rolling wire rack with wire shelves. A year later and I'd be married to my first wife.

[Cornelius]

I was a HS senior then. Not playing a ton of games, and it all would have been on a PC. Not sure the details, but my dad worked for IBM, so all our computers were IBM, and we would have had some sort of Aptiva. They were trying the whole multimedia PC thing then, with mediocre results. No game room, the computer was just on a desk near the kitchen/dining room.

Not sure what games I would have been playing, probably a later Quest for Glory. I was using the modem a lot at that time, playing games like S.R.E. and B.R.E. on a couple local BBSs. Our local library had free dial-up internet access called Orion, so I used that for stuff. Pretty sure I downloaded Mortal Kombat using Usenet (? is that right? something where you downloaded many files and then assembled them back together) and played that a bit. Oh yeah, I definitely hauled the computer and monitor to a friend's house fairly regularly to play Command and Conquer linked with a serial or parallel cable(?).

[Aussie2B]

I didn't have a computer yet at that point in time. All I had was a small TV in my bedroom that only had RF input. The only home console I had was my SNES, and I'm guessing I had fewer than ten games for it. I got Donkey Kong Country on its launch day near the end of '94, and it was, if I remember correctly, my fourth or fifth SNES game. I know I was still playing it in '95 because I was having a hell of a time with the bee boss and ending up taking a break from the game for a few months before I resumed and finally cleared that part. I was also playing Donkey Kong Country 2 at the very end of '95, since I got that for Christmas. Between those, I can't recall what, if any, other SNES games I got. I'm sure most of '95 was just replaying my small collection ad nauseam. I probably already had or received my Game Boy in '95, so I was probably playing Tetris and Wario Blast and such as well.

[Emperor Megas]

My gameroom was my bedroom, and it was pretty basic. I had a large wooden entertainment center cabinet like most did in the 90s, with a 27" Emerson television which was the first set I'd ever purchased for myself before learning what a shit brand Emerson was. I did have a video selector box to swap between all of my game consoles on the fly, and I had a Commodore monitor for secondary screen, which I later would take with me to game on when I worked off shore.

I didn't have a PC then. In '95 I had a SEGA Master System, the original model Genesis with the SEGA CD (model 2, I think), an SNES that a friend convinced me to snip the region protection tab out of, a Vectrex with about half dozen games, a Panasonic REAL 3DO, an Atari Jaguar (I believe), and an Atari 2600 kicking around somewhere that I didn't play anymore.

I got my Jaguar at a retail expo called the 'Super Sale' that they used to have every year in the New Orleans Super Dome. I think it was '95, when I got my 3DO, but it could have been '96.

I had about a dozen Master System games, several dozen Genesis games, about a dozen SNES games, I think, a pretty decent number of SEGA CD titles, and an impressive number of 3DO games interestingly enough. They were being liquidated by the end of the year at EB and they used to have 4 packs of 3DO games for like $9.99 - $14.99 in the preowned bin. It was crazy how a year after the console launched I could find dirt cheap titles for it. I've never owned more than 4 Jaguar games, ever.

I had about three of these cool, black wall-mountable Genesis game case holders. I would keep all of the game carts in a canvas audio cassette storage case. My SNES carts fit into a cool wooden cassette store crate from 'Peaches Records and Tapes' (that I wish I still had), and I had this super snazzy disc Rolodex style thingie that I stored disc media in for easy access. I stored all the cases and boxes for SEGA CD and 3DO games in the side cabinet of my entertainment center.