Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like "How tidy is your desktop?" and "What game will you never uninstall?"
Stuart Ashen—better known by his YouTube persona Ashens—grew up on a diet of 8-bit games on consoles like the Atari 2600 and the Spectrum. The earliest PC game he recalls playing was Syndicate Wars on his first home-built rig—a Pentium 200 MMX machine housed in a server tower case: "I loved Syndicate. Hated Syndicate Wars. Never got on with it at all," he says. "Ended up giving it to a friend who loved it … I think I went on to Duke Nukem 3D or something."
