(Image credit: Future) April showers bring May flowers, or so the saying goes; more relevant, around these parts, is that magazines written in April come out in May, the date plastered on all three of the issues featured below. It’s a fine vintage no matter the year ending in 6, it turns out. Here's a look back at what was going on in PC gaming—and in particular, in the pages of PC Gamer magazine—one, two, and three decades ago. Did you own any of these issues? How do our review scores hold up? What seemed trivial at the time that's now enshrined in PC gaming history? Archive Spelunker What was on the cover? May 1996: The Future of Gaming (US, issue #24) (Image credit: Future) Cover story: The Future of Gaming - "Playing It On the Line" by Steve Poole and "Virtually Real" by T. Liam McDonald Putting "the future of..." just about anything is the kindest gift a magazine editor can give to their eventual successors, because odds are about 100% that they'll be able to look back and make fun of you for it.…