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Windows 95 had a horrible reputation for games in the early days, for good reasons or not (maybe mostly because how bad Windows 3.x was for games?). Quake was possibly the first mainstream game that managed to convince many that it was possible to get good games performance without sticking to MS-DOS? 1997 was still a great year for DOS games really. Even 1998 was not bad. For someone playing games on a PC in that era there was really no hurry to switch to Windows 95/98 (but by 1997 I had moved on to Linux instead anyway).

https://www.mobygames.com/platform/dos/year:1997/ https://www.mobygames.com/platform/dos/year:1998/