The mid 1990s was an exciting time for the PC industry. PCs were rapidly being adopted with nearly everyone having one by 2000. The Internet was just becoming mainstream and that's the biggest part of what drove adoption. The October 1996 issue of PC World includes:
PC World (October 1996)
All of the photos in this set were taken in the 1970s, probably in Michigan.
The first three photos were all processed in August 1979. These all appear to be from a summer trip to a lake with events such as water skiing. There have been several photos from what appear to be this same trip in previous sets.
Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (273-276)
Missile Command was originally released as an arcade game by Atari in 1980 and was one of the games that made arcades and Atari popular. The premise is pretty simple. Nuclear missiles are raining down on your cities and it is your job to shoot them down before they strike. I guess you could say it was the perfect Cold War era game.
Given its popularity it was an obvious candidate to port to Atari’s own home video game system, the Atari 2600, the following year. Not all arcade ports turned out well for the 2600 but this one was quite good and even better if you had a trackball. Missile Command became the third bestselling Atari 2600 game of all time. It was also released on various other systems throughout the years, sometimes in updated form, but the Atari 2600 is the one pictured above and the one that had the most success.
During the mid 90s, just before the Internet exploded, Computer Shopper was at its peak. The April 1996 issue has more than 800 pages and includes:
Computer Shopper (April 1996)