The three most-used keys in Tomb Raider were spacebar for shooting, Alt for jumping, and Ctrl for "action." Every jump, lever pull, and ledge grab required getting dangerously close to the Windows key, and when I pressed it-inevitably, without having saved for half a level-I'd watch the screen go black, the desktop appear, and the Start menu eagerly pop open. Whatever the cause, pressing the Windows key was a ticket to crashville. Maybe it was the amount of memory the average PC had, maybe it was the newness of DirectX, which debuted on Windows 95, or maybe it was just Windows itself, which had a real tendency to crash and throw out a Blue Screen of Death. Maybe you get a black screen for a few seconds as the game loads back in maybe your framerate takes a temporary hit. Fullscreen games don't take so kindly to being minimized, but these days, they still usually handle it gracefully. Today's PC games default to borderless windowed mode, a minor miracle that makes it trivial to Alt+Tab to different applications and back into the game.
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