You think there was only ONE dos? The for me most common ones were DR-DOS (my favorite) and MS-DOS.

And there were even different versions around in terms of like W95/98 ;) IIRC I started to DOS 3.5 (latest non WIn DOS IIRC was 6.5? )

I started with the VIC 20. and a Datasette!

Oregon Trail! :) There was some other game I forget too... um.. I want to say Gold Rush but I'm not sure if that was the name of it or not. I don't remember very many other Apple IIe games though off the top of my head.

Never had a console so I can't relate to that. First thing we got was a Commodore 64 with those squeaky tapes :) Then came the first PC with awesome 16MB of sd ram and Windows 95. After that it was just PCS till today. I never saw consoles as an option especially since the games there a highly overpriced, in my opinion. And they don't offer anything else but games.

The only thing that could count as a console was an old Gameboy I got from my german cousin. I really loved that Buggs Bunny Crazy Castle.

First pc game I got was Settlers 2 :)

Early PC market had a metric ton of shareware out there. I'd say it was probably one of the strongest selling points, considering you could experience nice chunks of gameplay for free.

I was omnivorous. Started out with arcade games like Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, had a Pong console and then moved on to Atari 2600 and Colecovision before our family got our first PC, which was a PCjr. (that one didn't last very long). From there, I split my time pretty evenly between playing on PCs (both IBM compatibles and Atari and Commodores that my friends used) and consoles, mostly Nintendo's.

No idea if that's correct, but it might make sense. When practically all your experience is DRM, and smooth un-bugged DRM even, it's pretty difficult to see what GOG is even about. :|

And then there's the 'old games' factor. You're unlikely to seek out the really old stuff if it wasn't a part of your childhood.

I grew up with access to business PCs, either IBM or compatibles. A console was unthinkable as a present to give to me or anyone else in the family.

Played on the Nintendo earlier on, got a Pentium later. Oh yeeah, Age of Civilization (2 or 3?) - those were the times :D

C64 for me too.
Bruce Lee, Ms. Pac-Man, River Raid, H.E.R.O., Up'n'Down, Spy Hunter, Rally Speedway, Encounter, Mercenary, The Last Ninja, ......

Then a 286 12MHz with 640kB RAM, EGA and 20MB HD for serious stuff.
I still remember Stunts (aka 4D Sports Driving) being particularly fun on that one. And Commander Keen.

I learnt my current trade, programming, on those two machines.
In between the important stuff (games), of course.

First had a commodore 64 somewhere from 1986 somewhere,then had sega mega drive when it came out till 2001 i think or even longer.Got a IBM pc 333mhz ,32 ram and 32 mb graphic card probably the same year with win 98. Then in 2004 i bought my first own pc with my scholarship which i still own today most used pc 3000xp+ amd athlon with ati radeon 9200 and windows xp(graphic was once a 9600xt 256mb but it went kaput in 6 years,same happened to 9200 before on the last day sunday when it was still under warranty,but nobody works on sunday,then some 8mb graphic and now i am back to 9200)512 ram which i upgraded to 2gb ram,80 gb HD.
Sadly this pc is not good anymore after 12 years of use,problems that it keeps restaring if i don't underclock the processor to a 1700xp+,which started happening 1 month ago.This year i had my uncles pc with win 10 why put win 10 on a 2009 pc?
But anyway had a lot of problems with it and simply gave it back to the guy who installed win 10 haven't seen the pc for 3 months now, maybe something burned i think he said which was exactly when windows 10 did an update and i had to leave to visit my sick grandfather when it said don't turn it off,pc never restarted itself with having such problems like overheat, though it only became super lagging where i couldn't do anything after that win 10 update.And my room also isn't that good for pc since it's only a rug and no extra layer under it so it gets dusty. Couldn't afford a new pc yet even though i once had a job for almost 2 years.
I still preffer pc gaming more,most played strategy games,rpg now much more and sometimes a FPS.Also racing games can be pretty fun too and simulation like rollercoaster tycoon.
Bravo screenfun also got good games think i was buying it from 2003 or 2004? Anyway it had caesar 3 in it as the first time i bought it and there were also awesome rpg maker games on it,the first rpg maker game was mondschein i played.
Gonna try get a new pc as soon as i will get enough money which i am at the start now again due to going on a vacation since nephew never seen the sea.

I grew up on console gaming. We got cheap old consoles sometimes second hand. Atari 2600, Atari XE, Commodore 64, Sega. But the first new console I got was the first playstation. Then the playstation 2. Afterwards I did not desire a ps3 since FF 12 was a disappointed and KH 3 never coming out. So I went to pc. WHen I discovered GOG, I gradually turned into a pc gamer. I think I made the right call on time. The ps2 was the last 'offline' console.

Meaning no need to download and all games bought are on the disc. No patches whatsoever. When I hear you have to pay for online gaming I shudder. I also heard manuals are gone too nowadays. I know this may not be the right topic or story for this but i wanted to share nonetheless.

You should never admit that, let alone so publicly.

Too late now though.

That's certainly true, but wouldn't that mean games from five to a maximum of ten years ago – instead of 90s, even 80s stuff? That's kind of the generation gap we're talking about, I guess.

I originally joined GOG for Beyond Good & Evil, as the DRM of my discs wasn't compatible with Windows 7 (duh!), and bought Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project (2002), Broken Sword (1996) and Wing Commander III (1994) immediately afterwards. I'm not sure that would be the stuff I'd try to get my greedy hands on if I was just searching for games my six year old laptop can handle.

My personal impulse definitely was nostalgia and little else. :)

I grew up building and tinkering with computers, and now I can barely operate a smart phone. I'm not sure what that means, but it probably isn't good.