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[nathkenn]

LORD on a 2400 heh
Then I guess Doom

 

[Sysgen]

MS Flight Simulator
Descent I on Kali.

Both on a 14.4 modem. 1993? Not sure.

 

[jobber]

Chu Chu Rocket!

 

[skip]

subspace, baby. then it was on to qw.

 

[Dilbert]

First asynchronous online game was probably Trade Wars (or something like that, it was a LONG time ago) circa 1986 on a BBS accessed via a 1200 or 2400 baud modem.

First simultaneous player online game was Return to Castle Wolfenstein about four years ago. I didn't have a gaming PC with 3-D capability until somewhat recently in my life.

 

[KingJ2002]

terminal velocity in the mid 90's... i played on mplayer.com before they merged with gamespy.

 

[Parallax Scroll]

Tradewars 2002 on a dial-up BBS with a 2400 baud modem. Sometime in the early nineties, maybe around 93? It was my first and last massively multiplayer game, if you can call a few dozen dial-up users "massive."

 

[MightyHedgehog]

Netreck, circa 1989. Turned into an obsession that lasted my entire college career, to the point where I had actually written my own custom borg client. To date, I still haven't found a team based multiplayer game that's hooked me the way Netrek did. Capture the flag doesn't even compare to the variety of team strategies that Netrek had to offer. If anyone makes a modern update/clone of it, I'm totally fucked.

Pretty much my thought on it as well...though I didn't get to play it until '92 while in college.

 

[Unison]

I can't recall the first PC game (Probably Wolf 3d?) but I know the first console game was Chu-Chu Rocket.

 

[SystemShark]

Galactic Empire (with ge3mp.exe) Greatest game ever.
Mutants

MajorBBS kicked all kinds of ass. 2400 baud modems were the best!

 

[Ironclad]

MK2, Killer Instinct, Super Mario Kart - XBAND (SNES)

Same here. I also played a lot of SF II with XBand.

 

[Ristamar]

Shadowdale MUD in '96. Otherwise, it was Quake in '97, but that wasn't my thing. AoE and UT were probably my first enjoyable online experiences/addictions.

 

[Stryder]

The original Diablo, this would have been in 1998 iirc.
That was my first online internet game-playing experience, I just remember partying with a Ranger (or were they called Hunter?) from Taiwan and I just thought it was so cool, I also played Starcraft online a few times, although lost interest in that for some reason, I think school got in the way.

After that I picked up Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament once I had my first gaming PC built (it was probably a couple of years after I was playing Diablo/Starcraft).

If you want to get technical though, before all of this I was playing 'online' on local BBS's in the MUD's that were around at the time, (anyone played Major MUD?).

 

[Project Midway]

Doom or Geoff Crammonds F1GP. Cant remember which one was the first on...

 

[Tunesmith]

if memory serves me correctly it was a game of

Comet Busters! around, hmm I dont know.. '93? or even earlier.. it was version 1.0 I think, and it came out in '91.

 

[Karg]

BRE (Barren Realms Elite)

Inter-BBS game on 14.4k modem.

 

[Scottlarock]

star trek game on compuserve(sp) or a game on bbs where u had to extract minerals from planets....