Sometimes it got frustrating enough that after hours of trying to find something, you would call friends and ask them what they did. There were no walkthroughs, rarely any printed maps or special instructions (since they were not original games) and the only way to finish up a game was to actually play it. I really have no idea how the PC game market was working in the US, but here in Romania, there were very few PCs, no Internet and the distribution of games (all pirated) was done via friends who would recommend and share what they thought was great. Click here to hide the following rant, if you are not in the mood for it. I want to open a parenthesis here and talk about the quality of games back then. They were DOS games released in 19, respectively, and were absolutely marvellous: large universes, with many star systems, each of them with planets and moons many alien species which were strange and funny and obnoxious storylines that were both absurd and very captivating.
I have very fond memories of the games Star Control and Star Control 2, played on my PC when I was but a wee boy.
