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At what point did you decide to become a pc gamer? (piefed.ca)
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Me after getting tired of PlayStation plus.

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[–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

When my mom refused to buy a console, but would happily buy a PC, because PCs can be used for other things than gaming.

Worked out for her, I became a software engineer.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Same for me, with the exception of an Atari 2600 because she liked pacman. By the time I was old enough to remember playing it, it was already extremely outdated.

    I am not sure where our C64 was on the scale of computing, TBH. The only thing it was exceptional at was gaming, but it is where I got exposed to BASIC and how filesystems worked.

    Our TRS-80 was a really fancy paperweight and still not sure what it was actually used for, to this very day.

    Our 286 is where the magic really started and that is when I truly began to disregard consoles. (Consoles were still cool and I still wanted one, but Space Quest or LSL were still just fine.)

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