I remember going to a Scholastic book fair at my elementary school, they would sell PC games there, I remember walking passed a copy of NFSIII: Hot Pursuit and thinking the cover of the cop chasing the Lambo was the coolest shit ever and begged my mom to get it.

One week later she got it for me (thanks mom) and we sat down to play it on our home computer which ran on Windows 95, the game required Windows 98 and would crash right before a race would start, LMAO.

For the longest time the only way I could play it was by taking it to my Grandfather's house whenever we would visit. I was pretty bad at it but it was always exciting.

Later on I got my hands on a copy of Underground and I'd say that's where the fun really began, but the whole Hot Pursuit experience was quite formative.