How did you get into online FPS games?

(=DaRk=CrAzY-NuTTeR) #41

bondyboy, that kills ur eyes

(bubba g) #42

Cheers bondyboy - excellent link!

The worst bit is I still recognised every game!

For more spectrum memories: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/sgd.html

I still consider rebelstar one of the best games ever :slight_smile:

(evilsock) #43

heh - mint :slight_smile:

(Mr_Tickles) #44

I love the way they have minimum requirements on there :rolleyes:

(RocketGrrl [SWE]) #45

Mostly SP FPS since Doom in 1994, then quake and quake 2, was playing them online a very few times. Got Goldeneye in 97 and played it alot w/ my brother. Then PD which was a bit of a letdown. Then in 2000 I got a good computer and connection so I started with Q3. A friend of mine wanted some more variation and teamplay so he found out about Q3F, it had classes and everything. It was real fun but eg all the grenade jumping that was required made you wish for some more “realism” as in Goldeneye. I found out that Id was releasing a new game and got the RTCW MPtest on the day it was released, Sept 15 2001. From then on I was stuck. Btw, do you remember that when you did a TK/Revive w/ the first MPtest, the “patient” got full ammo again, lol.

Lots of Goldeneye fans ehh Loffy. But maybe u should tell them

(evilsock) #46

heh, anyone remember Jetpac?

http://www.bansheestudios.com/games/jetpac.htm

(BondyBoy007) #47

Yep Jetpac was teh bomb

(pgh) #48

Weird to read that being one of the youngest on this board at 18, also appear to be one of the oldest online gamers lol…

Played Doom/Quake LAN’d/Null Modem Stylee in School tech department… abused there 56k madness for a while playing Quake DM online before playing 33.6k at home around the time of Wireplay being the biggest company for servers and such… played alot of there leagues and named in PC Zone loads \o/ and then moved onto QWTF. At this time it was basically dead and moved onto Quake 2. This is where it got sad :> - Quake 2 was playable on the MSN Gaming Zone and so I used to give it a go… one night trying to set it up I got hooked on a free game from Zone named Antz and also had the odd game of Age of Empires… left playing FPS’s and started playing Worms Armageddon, Age of Empires (Again featured in PC Zone…), Antz and the odd game of Q2… dabbled with AQ2 and Diablo 2 shortly after and moved onto Quake 3. Didnt bother at all with anything but CTF and Q3F on 56k (provided free by the wubbly NTL as part of a testing scheme) and stuck with this for several years until last year/2 years (who knows) when I got 600k Cable fitted. Now playing RTCW occasionally when can be arsed, ET far too much im at the stage im bored of it already and happy enough to spec rather than play and Call of Duty. Too much work to play games nowadays tbh.

(schmeisser) #49

I started out with Doom. Remember 1.4 meg floppies? Played Doom 2, Quake 1-3, then RTCW. I never had a good internet connection (still don’t, no DSL in my area) until we got ADSL at work, so the few times I tried MP it was so laggy as to be unplayable. I had left off RTCW for a while, kept checking RTCW.com for new SP maps occasionally, and stumbled across ET. Tried it out, WHAM, instant addiction. All the other FPS pale by comparison. COD looks better, but the MP sucks. After all the new maps, I still like Fuel Dump best. Go figger.

(Harper) #50

I was interested in FPS for quite a while. My cousin let me borrow Doom II on my old 486 with a huge 8mb of RAM :D. Followed that with the original Wolfenstein and didn’t really play them until i purchased UT2004. After that I got the 2mb Blueyonder internet connection and got into the online side of it.

(ElderNewb) #51

1.4 meg floppies? still got a ton in the house!!

(BondyBoy007) #52

1.4 meg floppy disks, they’re a luxury, what about 360k / 420k floppy discs (you know the big 5.25inch black ones)? or if you’re old enough punch cards and readers?

(evilsock) #53

heh, ever seen one of those really old eight inch floppies? I remember seeing one only once - it was from a huge old Zenith machine.

(bubba g) #54

One of my mates has still got his 5 1/4" floppy drive for his speccy - and those discs were truly floppy!

gawd, really showing my age, but do you remember punch cards :slight_smile:

(BondyBoy007) #55

Yep we still got a few ppl working here who could read them just by looking at them

(G0-Gerbil) #56

First connected game was stunt car racer. Lugging 2 atari STs and TVs together when you are about 10 is a pain in the arse, but definately worth it :slight_smile:
First online shoot-em up was a bit of c*unterstrike, but it was already cheat-haven so didn’t bother.
First proper game I got into was RTCW demo, had it on the LAN at work. 2 hour lunch breaks were great :slight_smile:
Then got broadband, got RTCW, and began my long and ardious rise in ability to the mediocre shooter I am today.
RTCW died, ET following (although with abit of a side-step), then I changed countries and my ping dropped and now I am public server haunter. Lucky for me most ET players are crap or I’d be even more frustrated :smiley:

(Azzadar) #57

My friend Bnutz introduced me to deathmatch via Half-Life. I bought my first PC in 1999 along with Quake 2 and a 56k internet connection. I’ve been hooked ever since.

(Riftgarde) #58

For me? It’s all id software’s fault. Those bastards!

(Kendle) #59

Lo IRONMAN :smiley:

/me waves

(=DaRk=CrAzY-NuTTeR) #60

i had milllions of floppy disks but i well, got bored and me and my friend smashed them to hell :smiley: