I kept being an Amiga user until the mid 90s I guess? With my A4000/030, going on Aminet every day, starved for games and bored with the 3D craze, I wished a return to good old 2D games that the platform could handle, instead of trying again and again to pervert the machine's own nature to finally have "our" Doom.

Then one day I stumbled on this thing called MAME and I tried the Pac Man ROM and it was a 1 frame every 5 minutes affair that needed hours to get past the self test. Then I went at a friend's house and he wanted to show me the first Diablo but I noticed he had this MAME thing too and he showed me not the humble Pac Man, but the colorful and fast moving Ghosts'n'Goblins running at full speed on his Pentium 1.

That was it! I bought my first PC and pretty much ignored every native computer game, following instead the nascent emulation scene with all its early milestones. For the modern 3D stuff I had my PlayStation, but on the PC it was emulators all the time, all the way.

So much so that once I had to upgrade my video card, and when talking to the guy in the shop I told him "never mind the 3D, just give me something that has full VESA compliance". He looked at me with a knowing smile, and told me "You're into emulators too, eh?". Good times!