Ah! 1996 - one of the best years for PC gaming! Equally good as 1993 and almost as fascinating as 1998.

The world would be a better place if The Computer Chronicles were still running, fact! Lol.

Playing Quake with keyboard only. Mind blown.

On the year this episode was broadcast (1996), I was able to buy my first PC, a Cyrix MediaGX 133 Mhz with 16MB EDO Ram and 1.2 GB hard drive. It was slow even for its time, but what a wonderful experience it was having my own PC with speakers and CD-ROM drive :)

I tried running Tomb Raider (shown in this video) and it was 3-5 FPS. Later, I bought a Rendition Verite 1000 (Creative Labs 3D Blaster PCI) graphics card, and marveled at the fluidity of the game. It ran much better than the 10-15 fps shown here.

14:50 That didn't look like an espresso. 😆

Ive been pretty down lately. This series is that little ray of hope I needed. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.

What an awesome show. I'm so glad that I discovered this channel 😊

I was 11 when shattered steel came out. I was eyeballing this game for a long time, asked my parents to buy it. But that never came to pass 😭

playing quake w/o a mouse.  takes me back

Wow, that takes me back! I remember Quake on my 486/66DX. Then I remember it on my old Voodoo 2 card!! It was like a whole new world. I thought graphics couldn't get any better... I was wrong!  LOL

I actually have most of the ProOne software that sponsored this episode.  I actually binge watched this show during the first lockdown in 2020.  Been using computers since a DEC PDP-11 in 1978.

I know Chiefet was on a tight schedule but still, it would've been fun to see a guest say "Don't f--king interrupt me." 🤣

It's crazy looking back and seeing the guys responsible for some of my fav games all time in 1996. The Bioware team went on to do Neverwinter Nights, Baldur's Gare, Baldur's Gare 2, Kotor, Mass Effect and Dragon Age Origins etc!

I remember playing Quakeworld online and the original Quake Arena for hours on end, tying up the phone lines from 10pm to 3am lol. Those were the days when everything was moving fast and getting magical.

So cool seeing MacTCP in the opening again after all these years ! I used to work for Demon Internet 1997/98 and amongst Amiga and Windows support I was there doing MacTCP ! Happy days - apart from when people tried to dial up whilst still on the phone - was always the Turnpike users that done that...

Hearing that Diablo music takes me back. Also I really miss old Bioware. All we have is Bioware in name only because we are EA.

I like how a minor blurb story in the ‘news’ part of the broadcast was Apple buys Next and Steve Jobs comes back to Apple.  In other news lol…Little did they friggin know the massive chain of events that was about to happen starting with that acquisition.  Not to mention, Apple’s lowest stock price at $12/share.  What a time to be alive!

I remember getting Shattered Steel on sale at, of all places, a hardware store.   They had a big rack of 5 dollar Big Box PC games. This was probably 1999 or 2000 that I got it. Put a lot of hours into that game.

Never heard of 'Shattered Steel', looks like a fun game. I would have loved to have played that game back in 1996.

Ah, good times... when every 3D looking game was called a Doom clone...