I’ve got a question to all of the people who had PCs back then, were audio cards that expensive that it wasn’t worth just buying one if you had any interest in gaming?

Just doing a little research it was like $80 - $100 to add it.

I do remember back then that the motto was for PCs that “the computer wanted was always $2000”.

My first time having an x86 PC was in 1994 when I bought the 486DX/2-66 DOS Compatibility Card for my PowerMac 6100/60. It had a SoundBlaster daughtercard.