A YouTuber, frustrated with the state of modern gaming and the high prices of computer hardware, decided to build a copy of his first PC from 1996. On one of the old hard drives, he unexpectedly discovered someone else's school homework and cheats for Doom 2 from over 20 years ago.
A YouTuber, frustrated with the state of modern gaming and the high prices of computer hardware, decided to build a copy of his first PC from 1996. On one of the old hard drives, he unexpectedly discovered someone else's school homework and cheats for Doom 2 from over 20 years ago.
The author of the project is a blogger from the TrashBench channel, writes Dexerto. According to him, his passion for computer games began at the age of 11, when he first saw Need for Speed Special Edition on his cousin's computer. He received his own first PC as a Christmas present in 1996 and almost thirty years later decided to completely recreate the same collection.
After months of searching for authentic components on Facebook Marketplace, eBay, and local thrift stores, the blogger finally managed to assemble a configuration with a 200 MHz Pentium processor, 32 MB of RAM, and a Sound Blaster 16 sound card.
However, the biggest surprise awaited him when he checked one of the hard drives he had purchased: "There was someone's science homework from 2001 and cheats for Doom 2. I felt a little embarrassed to just delete those files."
Instead of formatting the drive with someone else's archive, the YouTuber installed Windows 95 on a separate drive and launched the cult games Need for Speed and Duke Nukem 3D.
As for the graphics accelerator, due to the high prices of 3dfx Voodoo cards (which currently cost around $1,000), the author settled on the budget Matrox Mystique for $100.
According to TrashBench, this experiment brought back genuine emotions from the gameplay: during filming, he repeatedly caught himself simply "losing track of time by the hour" while immersed in classic games.
