Quote Originally Posted by Reflector View Post
My PC at the time was my first also, a hulking 386! It couldnt run Doom in full screen mode, so i had to minimise it so the playing screen was tiny. Also i had no sound at all... it was not a good time for PC gaming for me and i couldnt see why anyone would want one over a console, little did i know haha
Ditto!

We went through the EXACT same set of circumstances dude, except we never even considered shrinking the screen (It was too small on a 13" CRT! ) and we did have Midi-support miraculously so we had music but no sound!

We also only had the Shareware version of the 1st Episode: "Knee Deep In The Dead" - Man I cannot tell you how utterly psyched my Brothers & I were when we arrived at the final level (Phobos Anomaly); Survived those corridors of Pinkies & Barrels, only to get outside onto that giant platform in the shape of a Pentagram with a pair of pillars, whose doors slid down to reveal a pair of Barons of Hell!

This was all at a staggering 10-15FPS I might add!

So I imagine when you finally got a 16-Bit Soundblaster Card (Or akin ) and were able to play a Doom game with sound as well as music along with a proper framerate & screen size, like us, it would've felt like a fairly monumental moment too!

My big box for Doom is gone too but i still have my Full Throttle box, but the cd is gone lol. Ill post a pic of that bad boy too, that game seems like its a bit of a cult classic now, it was awesome though so its not surprising.
Yeah I bought a British version of Doom 1 which included the "Ultimate Doom" bonus episode: "Thy Flesh Consumed", I was more after the exclusive boxart though :
(It was based on an English Exclusive promotional poster of which you can also see a reproduction print of at the top of the pic )




Full Throttle is a game that I've never actually played but I remember seeing a whole lot back in the day and I do believe it's considered one of the all time best and classics of the LucasArts Adventure games - So hang onto that box dude, hell, with Dosbox you should consider giving it another burl!