I had forgotten how out right fugly PCs were back then.

Remember CRT monitors?

0:43 Is he talking to his daughter, or a puppy?

The ending of this simply BLEW MY MIND.
Instead of answering his daughter's simple question, the father steps through a portal into a strange futuristic room beyond space and time and then slowly approaches another portal, only to disappear in a blinding white light.
It was like "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite" sequence or a visual representation of Bardo experience, and totally unexpected.

ACTING!!!!

"creepy dad" needs to be linked

We had one of the full tower gateway 2000 computers in our graphic arts room in high school. i'm pretty sure it was a Pentium though. i failed that class because i never did anything in it except play on that computer. that and my 486 thinkpad laptop.

Doo dee doo, let's see... This computer still won't turn on, hmm... Neither will this one. Huh... Oh well, fuck it. I'll just teleport into the toolshed to beat it again.

"mini desktop"

cut back to daughter, tears streaming down her face: "daddy? are you going to come back?... ever?..."

...but does it play Doom?

-1 star for DX2-50. The DX2s ran the bus speed at 25Mhz unlike the AMD DX50 which ran the whole deal at 50Mhz.

And if you didn't have a US Robotics HST Dual Standard then just sign out.

The ending implies that he's about to go fight crime with one of those computers. Criminals will learn to fear Creepy Dad and his computers.

Was 1994 really that long ago

YOUR COMPUTER IS BECOMING A WOMAN NOW

SOON YOU MAY DISCOVER HAIR ON PARTS OF YOUR COMPUTER WHERE THERE WAS NO HAIR BEFORE

IF YOUR COMPUTER BLEEDS, DON'T WORRY--IT IS SIMPLY A NATURAL PART OF YOUR COMPUTER'S LIFE