They had games like this before the Internet with no DRM or anything? :O

I've got a Dungeon Master's guide

I've got a twelve sided die

I've got Kitty Pryde

And Nightcrawler too

Waiting there for me

Yes I do

I do

The last 25 years was better and better browsers and web technologies, but the result now is a web that loads slowly and has tons of ads. Somewhere around 2008 was maybe the best, I dont remember exactly what year. But when the web was actually good and social media was not big yet.

Now they have AI, and micro transactions if you want to buy more balls/cards.

Yes, hello! I made some beautiful stained glass are

Neither came as a standard Windows game/app

I have that shit on my phone right now, it's a great time killer

i miss that game so much. I should try to find if someones made one for linux.

edit

Icebreaker on flatpack, even has a jezz-like skin. huphup

Fuck yeah!

Loved the Road Rash demo back then

I can just open my 486 laptop running win2k and play it, Still booted 5 years ago.

Enter teenage me trying to draw (in Paint!) proper exposed boobies on this image from Pools of Darkness. That's about when I gave up on my aspirations for becoming an artist.

Damn, now I understand when exactly I stopped doodling, with both the pencil and the mouse.

Funny that I had a similar skill. My drawings were all "under boob" pics. I focused on that. Tops of boobs are no big deal, but when a halter top is involved the tops are completely covered but a good portion of the bottom of the boob is exposed.

The rest of us had better jerk off a material.

Sorry that you had to cum to cards and pinball

Your parents did what?

This was the peak

That tickles a memory of an actual game from around that time that looked like that. I think it was one of the ones MS made free, though you might have needed to specifically install the extended game pack or play it with the windows CD in or something like that. Not the most solid memory I have, but I just remember the screen saver looked a lot like that game just without the actual game part.

Please take the billionaire technocrats away...

DONT YOU SLANDER CHEX QUEST

I remember once getting a demo CD for strategy games (not a cereal box one but one they had for like $5 beside the cash register at computer stores). It set a trajectory on my life that resulted in my later WoW addiction.

That disc had Dune II on it, the first RTS game I ever played. I was instantly hooked. Then I tried Warcraft II (also on that disc) and it was even better. I mentioned it to a friend at school and he had just gotten SC:BW, which meant he had two play discs and let me borrow the SC disc first, then the BW disc later and we played a ton of StarCraft. Somehow, on battle.net despite using the same key (my assumption is they screwed something up in early manufacturing and duplicated some keys, which meant they couldn't just limit it to one player online at a time per key for some set of keys that included my friend's).

That eventually led to me discovering the StarCraft modding community, which defined my later high school years. Funny enough, I wasn't even into modding that much, I was more fascinated with the tools that enabled it and the reverse engineering process involved in building those tools.

It also led me on my path to D2, WC3, SC2, and finally WoW (uh, might have the order wrong for SC2).

I wonder how things would have gone for me without that demo disc.

Windows 3.5 was the apex of operating system design. There, I said it. Fight me, I dont care.

I think almost everyone started with ms paint, no? I have no idea what skifree is.

Those ones above were all included with windows back in the day, like installed from the disc when you installed windows, then they'd be discoverable in Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> Games (other than paint, which was in accessories) IIRC. Eventually they moved it out of the accessories folder, then later on they changed which games were included, eliminating some, though these ones I believe remained the longest until MS started instead advertising games they had on the windows store.

It was expensive in most parts of the world, though.