Not very far from my first PC: 14'' VGA monitor, and a Siemens Nixdorf 386SX 16Mhz, 40Mb HDD but fortunately 2Mb of RAM (which probably made a huge difference on being able to play some games). Something similar to this beast: https://www.ebay.com/itm/172038842293?hash=item280e5067b5:g:...

Similarly, the Pentium was just released and a friend of a friend of mine had one (wealthy parents). Just once, I got to visit the Pentium's guy home tagging along my friend. The guy played a small VIDEO-CLIP with sound output in a Soundblaster-driven pair of speakers.

I had never heard any game sound but PC speakers or NES (Famicom). There was a popular software at the time which I don't recall, which was playing MOD files into the PC speaker and we would listen in awe how that would sound.

Now imagine being hit simultaneously with full-blown digital sound AND VIDEO. Flabbergasted is an understatement. The Pentium guy kept saying something about choppy video and crappy quality but I couldn't notice a damn thing, seemed the most amazing video I ever saw and all I could think (but of course couldn't say it out loud) was "shut the fuck up, I can't hear the soundtrack".