The first time you played a mutliplayer game online?

Either Quake 3 or UT, probably in the summer of 2k. I'd played them both to death while i was in uni, against the bots and some friends with a seriously ghetto lan we set up in the halls (no outside network connection, though, except via the phone line, and that used an insanely expensive scratchcard system (it was something like £10 an hour)), but i had to wait until i went home for the summer to get online, and i can't really remember which i did first... (not that i got a lot of online gaming in that summer, at least once my parents realised how much the phone bill was going to be... (hooray for BT and per-minute phone charges! *grumble*)).

First console online experience* was shortly before the official launch of Live in the uk (i was a fairly late entry into the beta), with mechassault and the motogp demo.

*well, first console online /gaming/ experience - i had a brief stint with my DC as my only web-capable system at one point, while i was waiting for a replacement modem for my pc. god, that was a pain in the ass
 
Define "online." I played Doom directly over modem. Otherwise it would be Quake 1.

Well I guess really it would be BBS games like Legend of the Red Dragon and Usurper.
 
I think it was a Quake 3 Arena demo. I had a blast hiding in the upper parts of this one wide open level and then launching down rockets into crowds of random idiots and watching them splatter all over the place.

First console online experience was Halo 1 on xbconnect.
 
Doom ][ on LAN
Descent (2? I can't remember) on Kali
Duke 3d on TEN (heh, memories)
Quake 1 on TEN/Mplayer/( and Quakespy.....before it became the bloated monstrosity it is now)
Quake 2 sucked. Then Everquest. Then I quit online gaming, except for a brief stint wth FFXI.
 
Doom, the original. Coop multiplayer kicked ass.

I could bring up all of the text War BBS games like FoodFight and similar, but I'm not sure that's what you had in mind.
 
Vgamer said:
It was Quake 3 for me. I still play it to this day!
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Yep, I still play the hell out of the pc version, the DC version was my first online experience though. I remember I had a good ass time meeting people and jumping from server to server until one fateful day.............

........when I joined a CTF server and constantly got cursed out and had my life threatened for not being good. :lol
 
Infantry is the first MMO game that I have played. All started in 2001, 8th grade, was surfing the net and stumbled upon nmebase.com (it changed to nmebase.net and is dead now) and read about Infantry. The features, artwork, interviews, and community just amazed me. I am thinking wow, this game is cool. The first zone I download is Gravball. The IGBL (Infantry Gravball League) keeps me playing every day and especially Sunday (Sunday is the day when all leagues games are played, so high population.) And not only is the league competitiveness that makes me come back but community. Gravball in Infantry is a small zone compared to the big popular ones like CTF or Skirmish. This means the community is smaller and tight knit. It feels like a small family, where you watch everyone grow up, literal and skill wise. Not only have I made friends in Infantry and GB (Gravball) but know them in person. One GB'er moved all the way to Dallas and is going to UTD. So it is exciting to know that someone you knew for 4-5 years online is living in the same city.

I still play Infantry and Gravball. Will not stop until the community dies and Infantry dies.
 
TFC

"Hey dad! Look at this!! I think I'm playing with other people!!"
"Wow that's cool son!"
*I kill some guy*
"HEY QUEEN'S OWN....YOU'RE A BIG PENIS WRINKLE YOU TKER"

ah the memories...
 
Trade Wars! quintessential bbs game.

Come on other bbs people, where was your gaming-love back in the day? Legend of the Red Dragon you could practically just set up macros to play for you.

First actual internet game would have been gemstone 3

First Graphical game was Doom.
 
Wario64 said:
Speaking of Tetrinet, do people still play this game?
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Yes, there are lots of people on the centralized servers as well as the TetriNET2 servers. TetriNET was my first online game as well.
 
For me it was Socom. I was good for a week or two. But I'm not huge into online gaming, too much crap to deal with.
 
Tribes PC on 56k, I was fuckin amazed. I participated in my first Yahoo chat that day as well. My first day on the internet. Truly a whole new world
 
Back in 1988 or so I played a game on a BBS, a trade and battle-type game that involved flying in space, claiming planets and fighting other players. It was entirely text-based.

Anybody know the name of this game?

Around the same time I played a MUD or something like it on the Moonshae Isles BBS. Can't remember much about that game either.
 
lockii said:
688 Attack Sub. Why the hell don't they make Sub sims anymore, God that game was ahead of its time.
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Oh my. I rocked that game hard on my 33mhz BEAST. 9.8baud was killer fast at the time. :lol
 
FINALFANTASYDOG said:
Trade Wars! quintessential bbs game.

Come on other bbs people, where was your gaming-love back in the day? Legend of the Red Dragon you could practically just set up macros to play for you.

First actual internet game would have been gemstone 3

First Graphical game was Doom.
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Methuselah over here. You Rock harder than everyone else at GA.
 
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM. The first one. Went to my friends houses. They lived across the street. It was pretty crazy at the time. After that I played Command and Conquer.
 
One of these three:

Got them back in 99/00 when i got a pc.

Quake 3 (damn this was so awsome, i need to find it and play it again)
Unreal Tournament (another great one, loved floating around and sniping while jumping)
Age of Empires 2/ or Comand and Conquer Red Alert (one of these two i just cant remember which)
 
First online game was FFXI back in May'02, but we used to play a hell of a lot of LAN games before that, and even MIDI-based multiplayer games :lol Used to spend a lot of time on MUD-like chat servers, but it wasn't really a game as such.
 
Ok... a couple of notes:

1st multiplayer/multi-computer game: Doom (over two connected modems, no network yet) other games were played over the modem as well (DN3D, WC2, Doom2, OMF2097, etc)

1st networked multiplayer game: Warcraft 2.. yes, this above doom was the first game to get us to go out and learn networking to get a LAN up so 6 of us could play it at the same time. (many many many many many many other games were played over the LAN.. WC@ was just the one that opened the floodgates).

1st Internet online game: Warcraft 2 over Kali. Yup.. good ol WC2 again. What can I say, at the time it was one of the greatest games ever made.

1st Internet ready online game: QuakeWorld. I remember being so bummed when I found out that GLQuake and QuakeWorld were two separate games, and remember being equally overjoyed when GLQuake and QuakeWorld were finally merged...

and now for a new one..

Worst Online gaming experience: Bomberman PC by Activision. OMFG.... the game concept/engine was pushing 12 years old. The graphics were strictly 2D and could be handled by any graphics card out there. The network was a 100Mb LAN... and this game was SHIT. Frequent disconnects, game out of syncs, crashes, and one network packet flood... ON A LAN!!! wow... by far the shittiest network game I ever played.. but it was bomberman, so at the end we resigned to 4 people on a single computer playing it.. because that was the only way all four of us could play it without disconnecting/crashing.
 
Some old Muds back in the C64 days, but it was the orginal Quake that really got me hooked. That game was so far ahead of it's time and influential on what Internet gaming would become. I remember how much lag there was on a dial-up connection, and then they released QuakeWorld and everything improved. QW had a persistant score that was basically your number of kills minus your deaths. 95% of the players has a negative number, and I think I was +5000 or something. :D
 
L.O.R.D, Sword of the Usurper (come on, you could cast V.D on other players :lol ), foodfight, and who remember the infamou STUD!! and the female counterpart, STUDDETTE!

Then came Doom,dn3d, and so on
 
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.
 
MK2, Killer Instinct, Super Mario Kart - XBAND (SNES)

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Wario64 said:
First time for me was around 1995-1996, using the DWANGO service. Played some Terminal Velocity, Doom 2 and Heretic on like a 14.4 kbps modem. Then eventually went to Duke Nukem 3D and Quake, which imo made multiplayer gaming popular with TCP/IP support, modifications (Threewave CTF, Team Fotress) and clans

I'm assuming most of you started with Xbox Live or Dreamcast, but I'm just curious when you guys started playing games online
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I started pretty much at the same time you did. Online gaming has been a treat for me ever since. ;)
 
Hexen on a 28.8 modem. Back then it had 8-16 players multiplayer (although I don't think the servers could actually handle 16 without everyone lagging insanely) and 4 character classes. I just remember the Assasin's final tier weapon being the chains shit that flew everywhere and fragged random people standing around. That was fucking cool and the fucking shit back then for me. Fun fun fun.
 
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