Video Gamers Podcast - Gaming Quick Takes - Wolfenstein Story

Episode Date: December 3, 2022

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episodes actually were only available to those who financially supported the show through Apple subscriptions and Patreon. But due to popular demand, we have decided to shake up the perks for our supporters and we'll be releasing these Quick Takes on Saturdays to everyone, giving you all some extra free content that was previously unavailable to the public. And these Quick Takes are a little more laid back and they're hosted by just one of us. So sit back, relax, and enjoy this Quick Take episode. Shazam! Boom! Hello, everyone. This is Paul here with another Quick Take episode. So excited to be talking to you guys again. And before we jump in, just wanted to say thank you

to all of you out there for helping support the show financially. It definitely means a lot to us. What I wanted to talk about here today is maybe what I'm going to title something like Video Game Memory Lane or something like that. I just wanted to talk about one of my earliest memories about gaming. So I don't think I've told this story before, but I do know that I have talked on the show about how we did not own any video game systems growing up. My parents just believed pretty strongly that we shouldn't own it in the home. I was free to play games at my friends' houses, but they thought that if we owned video game consoles that I would

become addicted to it and spend too much time playing. However, even though we did not own any consoles, our family was very early to buy a family PC. And I remember growing up, most of my friends did not have a computer. Out of my friend group, I think I was actually the first to have one in their home. And this is way back in the day. I remember that we had a 33 megahertz processor. This was a 386, you know, very slow computers way back in the day. I don't know. Maybe this was somewhere around like 1994, somewhere in that range.

And I remember that I had a friend from church. His name was Shane, and he was coming over one day to come play. Our parents were friends, and so every once in a while he'd come to our house, or I would go over to his. And he had brought over some discs that he got from someone else, and it was Wolfenstein back on floppy disk. And so he brought these over. These were the three and a half inch floppies. I think it was on two discs. And he was like, hey, Paul, I brought over Wolfenstein. You've got that brand new computer. Let's go ahead and play this. And I did not know anything about computers at all. I know it's probably hard for our younger listeners to think about, but at this time, people my age oftentimes

had never used a computer or maybe had only slightly dabbled at school or whatever it might be. Even back then, you'd have a computer lab and your school might only have a handful of computers at the most. And I remember being very sternly told not to mess around with the computer. You know, it started up in DOS. Don't type in commands or mess around with stuff like that. You know, you might accidentally delete something. And so when my friend Shane, though, had Wolfenstein, which I had heard about, and even though I knew I would not be allowed to play Wolfenstein given my age at the time,

because I think I was, I don't know, maybe like eight years old when this happened, but it was just too enticing. And so I knew this is something I wanted to play. Me and Shane, our parents were in the kitchen, we were in the office. And so we just decided, all right, let's go for it. Let's play Wolfenstein. And the problem was that we had no idea how to type in commands in DOS or how to play a game off a floppy disk. And so we put in the disk and I just looked on the side and my only experience was with the NES consoles, right? You pop in the cartridge and and I just looked on the side, and my only experience was with the NES consoles, right? You pop in the cartridge, and you hit the power button. And so I was like, well, there's

this big old switch right here that turns the computer on and off. I bet that's what would turn on the game. All you got to do is flip this switch. And so we put in the floppy, I flipped the switch, which of course just immediately shut down the computer, you know, turned off all the power. And I instantly went into fear mode thinking that I did something wrong. I must have broken the computer. This is exactly what my dad was warning me not to do. I probably just destroyed the whole thing. And so we immediately popped the disk out. We did not even tell anyone about it. And I was just kind of waiting and hoping that maybe I didn't wreck the computer, which, of course, I didn't. And there was nothing wrong with it at all.

And then later I ended up learning how to actually use DOS. And eventually we had Windows 3.1 and then Windows 95 and everything from that point on. But that's actually my very earliest memory of using a computer and just completely ignorant. No idea at all how to use it. Luckily, I'm a little bit more experienced now. But anyway, that was my first experience with attempting to play Wolfenstein, even though it did not work out at all. All right. So anyway, might share a couple other memory lane type stories here with other quick takes, but that's all that I got here for

today. Thank you so much for listening. Thanks again for the support. We'll see you guys next time. Hope you're all having a great day.