I know. I was there. There was no “just clicking an exe” in the nineties. Pc’s where work machines. Made for boring stuff like excel and typing letters. Getting them. To play a game was a task on its own.
To play games on them you really had to go through several burning hoops. Every time. Because game A used xms, game B didn’t care, game C must have ems. Etc. You where reconfiguring your pc for each game in a different way.
Later, win vista and XP solved a lot of problems but caused several others just as worse.
It was with win7 it finally all started to work like it more or less should.
And really, I meant it: I take current day tracking and ads any day. 3 steps forward, one backwards.