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XanarkiParticipantSeptember 4, 2026 at 1:21 am #12287Although self-promotion/marketing/etc. doesn’t seem to be stated in the rules, I won’t directly link anything here unless someone gives me the okay. But long story short, I released a book (digital only for now) about the Win9x era, aka 1995 to 2001. It has 42 chapters on 555+ games, 3D cards, multiplayer services, etc.
I was led here because, recently, it looks like DGC has subtly shifted into the Win9x era with the podcasts/discussions. Considering there were over 5000 games released between ’95 to ’01, there’s…quite a bit to talk about. That era ran along at a baffling rate.
So, that’s pretty much me. I’m a part-time writer who finished his first ever book recently (I’ve written for music websites for over a decade but never actually published anything on my own). I’ve been a part of numerous specific game communities from the era, along with a few retro-focused FB groups and subreddits, but having a centralized focus like here is something that I wish I had found earlier. Better late than never lol.

DJ_HiPParticipantSeptember 4, 2026 at 1:47 am #12289Welcome Xanarki!
We have a couple of members who have written books as well, great to see more recollections coming out, I’m sure we would love to learn more about it!
Posting lots of random threads about it likely wouldn’t be well received, but allowing people to discover your work is welcomed.
As for the shift, this club is still very much staying within the MS-DOS based games, we’re not going to run out of games anytime soon haha!
But after an April Fools episode this year, there has been a ‘sister’ club started called Windows Game Club (https://windowsgameclub.com/) which has been created for exactly those eras, because so many of us enjoyed both eras of gaming, so I would encourage you to also join in the fun there and post suggestions.
What was the earliest computer or game you were exposed to?

XanarkiParticipantSeptember 4, 2026 at 2:07 am #12290Oh I see now. I thought both WGC and DGC were combined into just one site (here, lol). I didn’t know the other one literally split off, so thank you for linking to it.
Yeah I don’t really like spamming about my project. I’m not an influencer or full-on journalist or anything like that. I’ve seen plenty of coverage on 3D cards, or a specific game, or a genre, or the dot com bubble, etc., but my goal was to connect ’em all together under one roof. My book’s temporary home is on my very simple GeoCities-like site: https://win9xera.neocities.org/ (if ultimately I’m not allowed to link to it, please delete this msg and/or yell at me).
I started off with a few NES games in the early ’90s. But then I mostly skipped 16-bit & DOS (except for Police Quest III & the 1st Oregon Trail at school). Got my first PC in 1997, and so I went from those 8-bit games straight to the likes of Age of Empires, Carmageddon, Quake, Interstate ’76, Outlaws.. and never looked back. It was quite the leap.

DJ_HiPParticipantSeptember 4, 2026 at 2:43 am #12291Ah excellent, well it sounds like you can certainly contribute over at WGC! The current game is Interstate 76′ as well 🙂
And you’ll discover some hidden gems here as the team dig through some amazing and quirky dos games each month.
The book looks really interesting, love that its on neocities as well ! 😀 , thanks for sharing the link.
If you know IRC you are welcome to drop in and chat live with whoever is online as well.

Evil TacoParticipantSeptember 5, 2026 at 11:45 am #12312That site is gosh darn lovely. I hope to see you around either here or on WGC, Xanarki!

XanarkiParticipantSeptember 5, 2026 at 10:30 pm #12322Thanks for the kind words you 2 ! Yeah I’m always down to talk about the old eras so I’ll be up n around.
(dunno if I’ll ever reinstall IRC – it’s been a decade since I’ve used it and that was EFnet – but it’s cool seeing some folks still using it)
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