Depth. When stomping Goombas with Nintendo's over-cute plumbers was pretty much the pinnacle of console gaming, gems like Quest for Glory and Starflight were teaching me what gaming could (and should) be.
Horizon (or was it called Horizon 2000?) on a buddy's wheezing XT; gotta love that pre-286 technology. All the guys who started with Doom or Quake or even Wolf3D missed another, earlier golden age. I still pine for the old Sierra 'Quest' games...
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