It somewhat astonishes me that, with his pedigree in the industry, I actually have an older, more rich history of PCs than Richard Leadbetter!

My first "gaming" PC was a 386SX with 4 meg of RAM, which my dad and I built in 1989. It even had a VGA card, although it did not have a sound card-- PC speaker audio was all we had.

Around '91, we replaced that PC by building a 486 DX2 66, with 16 meg of RAM, and an actual nice VGA card, which had good benchmark scores due to a fast RAMDAC speed. For audio, I remember that we had a crappy, external "Disney Sound Source" at first, but later bought a "Soundblaster Pro". It was on that PC which my most formative memories-- "Aces of the Pacific", "Wolfenstein 3D", "Doom", the various "King's Quest" games, and way too many others to name-- were created.

We then built a Pentium 133 system a couple of years later, with a Matrox Millenium. I built my own first computer sometime after that, which was a Pentium 166 MMX. Then it was on to the AMD K6-2 300 and my first 3d accelerator, a PowerVR PCX2. After that, an AMD Athlon 700 with an Nvidia RIVA TNT. After that, PCs started to get boring, so I won't go into the 2000s too much; Pentium 4 "Northwood" 2.53 GHz, Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, and so on.

Today it's an AMD Ryzen 3 1600 with an Nvidia RTX 2080.