The magic of being 8 years old in the 90s and not having any consoles or money is that you could fall in love with some extremely simple PC game that came included with Windows 95.
I played dozens (if not hundreds) of hours of Hover from 1998-2000. For whatever reason, I normally did so with Winamp running in the background, as my dad had recently found out about the .mp3 file format. This means that when I think about Hover, I hear the spring item sound effect layered over "Straight Up" by Paula Abdul and "Things Can Only Get Better" by Howard Jones.
Anyway. The game is cool! It's sort of a tech demo for Windows 95, and worth your time as a curious little relic of PC history.
I played dozens (if not hundreds) of hours of Hover from 1998-2000. For whatever reason, I normally did so with Winamp running in the background, as my dad had recently found out about the .mp3 file format. This means that when I think about Hover, I hear the spring item sound effect layered over "Straight Up" by Paula Abdul and "Things Can Only Get Better" by Howard Jones.
Anyway. The game is cool! It's sort of a tech demo for Windows 95, and worth your time as a curious little relic of PC history.