Oh gosh. I was 3 or 4 years old when this came out. My brother I had a habit of sitting on my dad's lap, one on each knee, playing Nightmare 3D. I would hit the spacebar to open the doors. My brother and my dad each had a ctrl button to shoot the bad guys. And my dad would move around with my brother and I telling him where to go. I would also control the red and green potions which revealed the map. So much fun. OH! And Commander Keen. Remember that guy?

Then we got Myst because, as the article says, it was supposed to change gaming. I don't think we ever got past like 10 minutes. I remember we would go up to the compass or sundial and then nothing. My dad got a bit further by himself but it didn't work with us as a group and so we went back to Nightmare 3D.

A few years later, maybe 5 or 6 years later, before we had internet in the house, I tried again. Still nothing. I remember the feeling that this was an epic game. It was so eerie and cool and confusing and I always felt drawn to it. But I never got very far.

I forwarded this to my dad and he just said "blink 20 years blink...oh my," Even I feel old reading this. :/