Ah, and I assume you had a colour monitor. You were lucky, then. I spent the first few years of my computing days on a monochrome PC running DOS from 5.25" floppy disks.
I first played Rayman in, either 2002 - 2003, when my Brother had Rayman Arena, I liked it. I wanted it, but the store didn't have it anymore, but they did have Rayman 3. So I got it, liked it. I wished I started at RZ at the exact time, we HAD internet, but I never looked at the gamecase to find out about RZ untill 2004. XD
still haven't beaten it...I'm playing the advanced version of it from time to time...I still got a lotta work to do...I'm at the Cave of Skops, but I'm not even halfway done...