well i began last summer playing Opposing force on the net, before that i mostly played alone, and sometimes when it was arranged(which was rare) i'd go a a LAN party playing Duke nukem 3D, quake 1 etc.
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Tiberian Sun on a 56K modem over AOL <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo--> I was trying to play with my friend who lives in Australia... not easy
I realize this probably doesn't fit the definition of 'online' very accurately, but my first "not-local multiplayer" experience was Warcraft. Yes, the first one. I had a 386/40, and a friend of mine had a beasty 486/66.
We'd stay on the phone for hours at a time, at least until someone picked up another phone and they'd get a screaming modem in response. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Technically, I'm pretty sure that Science and Industry was the first time I went on an on-line server. However, if you count LAN's, then it goes way back to either Heretic or DOOM when I played against my best friend. Not to mention the "huge" 6-player Marathon 2 deathmatches that I played a quite a few years back.
BAH! Alot of u are new to online gaming. Mine would be online hearts <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
I guess a MUD would count as a online experince... even before DOOM <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
I remember wanting to play that game SO bad, but my dad was always on playing it. So I had the great of idea of waking up at like 2 AM, which was WAAAY past my bedtime when I was 8. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> I snuck down to the basement to try and play Doom, and my dad was STILL down there playing. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> . After he beat it he stopped playing, so I had plenty of time to play it
All of you that played cc prolly owned me back in the day. I played that alot but god did i suck <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
You're all n00bs! ^_^ Except Comrpox, Rhoads, and Paq. :P
My first online game was LORD (Legend Of the Red Dragon), but if you aren't counting MUDs, then it'd be DOOM. Sadly, I never got to use DWANGO (nearest access number was in Dallas Tx, and noway can I pay long distance from Oklahoma City just for that), but instead there was a local BBS that had software that emulated an IPX/SPX network, so you could play 4 player DOOM over a modem.
I still remember how **** people were when I hopped in w/ my 2400 baud modem and everybody's game went to pot. (You see, back then the connection was syncronious, which means your entire game was only as fast as the slowest person. And you didn't have lag, the game time actually slowed down...) :P
<!--QuoteBegin--DOOManiac+Jan 19 2003, 06:53 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Jan 19 2003, 06:53 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->My first online game was LORD (Legend Of the Red Dragon), but if you aren't counting MUDs, then it'd be DOOM. Sadly, I never got to use DWANGO (nearest access number was in Dallas Tx, and noway can I pay long distance from Oklahoma City just for that), but instead there was a local BBS that had software that emulated an IPX/SPX network, so you could play 4 player DOOM over a modem.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> OOOOHHhh... I remember DWANGO. I live in Dallas now, but unfortunately I lived in Maryland during DWANGO's heyday.
thisk i will reinstall those <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Avara was the first game I played over my 14.4 modem connected to the Internet. Otherwise, Warcraft over phone lines (against my brother upstairs) was my first phone-line game. and before that, I think tron was the first game I played via serial cable. You would ride around on a "bike" making lines so that your enemy couldn't go there, and you had 3 "missiles" or something that created a block of lines in front of you. *shrug*
Avara's still around, dunno about Warcraft. <a href='http://www.ambrosiasw.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.ambrosiasw.com/</a>
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I remember Rise of the Triads... wasn't it just another Doom clone (it looked and felt like one, at least. It might have had a storyline, though).
My first multi-player gaming experience was when my school IT department decided to have a massive Quake 2 LAN party. That rocked... I came third with five hundred or so frags.
I had the internet at the time, but I couldn't use it much (only one phone line, other people constantly making calls, that sort of thing). I only really started playing over the internet when I got broadband.
Rise of the Triad rules <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> still remember those big skin-things which threw you 100miles up in the air... or was that Hexen? Or was Heretic first... ah, can't remember, to much Warcraft back in the days... <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
Runescape <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->. Say what you will about how fun it is now, when you don't have anything else to do all summer, it can really be quite addictive.
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DREAMCAST BABY!
I was trying to play with my friend who lives in Australia... not easy
That game pwned
I also owned on the original Air Warrior on AOL, which is also where i got my trademark Ravan name. hehe
We'd stay on the phone for hours at a time, at least until someone picked up another phone and they'd get a screaming modem in response. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Mine would be online hearts <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
I remember wanting to play that game SO bad, but my dad was always on playing it. So I had the great of idea of waking up at like 2 AM, which was WAAAY past my bedtime when I was 8. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> I snuck down to the basement to try and play Doom, and my dad was STILL down there playing. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
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After he beat it he stopped playing, so I had plenty of time to play it
My ancientness is almost respectable.
My first online game was LORD (Legend Of the Red Dragon), but if you aren't counting MUDs, then it'd be DOOM. Sadly, I never got to use DWANGO (nearest access number was in Dallas Tx, and noway can I pay long distance from Oklahoma City just for that), but instead there was a local BBS that had software that emulated an IPX/SPX network, so you could play 4 player DOOM over a modem.
I still remember how **** people were when I hopped in w/ my 2400 baud modem and everybody's game went to pot. (You see, back then the connection was syncronious, which means your entire game was only as fast as the slowest person. And you didn't have lag, the game time actually slowed down...) :P
God how I love broadband!
OOOOHHhh... I remember DWANGO. I live in Dallas now, but unfortunately I lived in Maryland during DWANGO's heyday.
my frist FPS what rainbow 6
thisk i will reinstall those <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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Avara's still around, dunno about Warcraft. <a href='http://www.ambrosiasw.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.ambrosiasw.com/</a>
sorry don't wanna try to get the tag to work, and I don't remember the html one.
That game rocked....
anyways Doom was my first multiplayer experience with my stepfather.
my first online game was this crappy mech style game on aol that went pay to play.... way back when i actually used and liked aol.
edit// the game was called cyberstrike (i remembered)
My first multi-player gaming experience was when my school IT department decided to have a massive Quake 2 LAN party. That rocked... I came third with five hundred or so frags.
I had the internet at the time, but I couldn't use it much (only one phone line, other people constantly making calls, that sort of thing). I only really started playing over the internet when I got broadband.
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or was that Hexen? Or was Heretic first... ah, can't remember, to much Warcraft back in the days... <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
And despite this I've had a computer for over four years...........