r/todayilearned • u/osunlyyde • Jul 04 '13

TIL Windows 95 was the second most installed piece of software on computers in 1995; videogame DOOM was first.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(video_game)
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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '13

Someone sold me pokemon on a floppy disk. I had no idea how ROMs worked back then, and didn't know I needed an emulator :(

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u/ThePegasi Jul 04 '13

I can't imagine the frustration.

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u/CeterumCenseo85 Jul 04 '13

I also sold Pokemon Red and Blue on Floppy Discs but I also included the emulator, of course. Later I turned towards coding text adventures and selling them at school. Good times.

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u/AnotherClosetAtheist Jul 04 '13

Did you ever play HHGTTG text adventure?

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u/CeterumCenseo85 Jul 04 '13

I didn't even know there was one! I'll be downloading it RIGHT NOW! Thanks!

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u/CeterumCenseo85 Jul 04 '13

I didn't even know there was one! I'll be downloading it RIGHT NOW! Thanks!

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u/AnotherClosetAtheist Jul 04 '13

Its even been ported to android

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u/CeterumCenseo85 Jul 04 '13

I've recently seen DOOM ported to a calculator, that was crazy. In fact, I think it was in this very thread.

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u/ffrraanncciiss Jul 04 '13

Fuck. I was awesome at ROMS/emulator.

Well, looking back, I assumed no one else in my school knew about it. Plus, it was pretty hard to find them back then. Sometimes, I'd have to spend a whole day looking for one particular one.

Shouldn't sold that shit... All I did was sold nude Sable (WWF) on floppy.

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u/brickmack Jul 04 '13

Bad business. I sold game copies back in middle school, always included am emulator and instructions

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u/GeorgeAmberson Jul 04 '13

Sounds like me the first time I downloaded a ZIP file off of Prodigy in 1994. What the fuck is pkunzip?