Not sure if this has been asked here before, sorry if it has. What was your first experiance of online or network gaming? Mine was when i was at college in 1996 and we played Duke Nukem 3D over the closed network they had. I played this almost every lunchtime for months and was blown by away it, after a few weeks i started to get the hang of the level editor and even went in on days off just to get levels ready for the next Deathmatch tourney :icon_bigg , Happy days. Then when the I.T guy found out he deleted the game and all my levels of my profile :crying:
Back in the days of the bulletin board systems. You would get 15 minutes of playing a text based MUD per night. The interaction with other people was limited to competition as only one person could be logged on at a time.
My first network game experience was when I was 11 or 12 against my neighbor in Quake 2. I loved that game. =P My first online game though would have been, huge surprise here, Quake 3.
Mine was probably Halo 2, actually. I always have been kind of late to these sort of things, and the net in general. I probably played some other PC game online in the past, but I can't remember. As for first network experience, that was Halo 1.
I don't actually remember my first "online" game, but I remember that quake 3 gave online gaming a meaning it didn't hold previously. That game is unsurpassed even today when it comes to arena-style games. I prefer it over any UT.
Sinclair Spectrum with an interface one playing a simple attacker raid / defending city game with 3 other people in school and this was back in 1984... Online probably some real time trading game on a BBS back in the early 90s using a painfully slow 2400 baud modem.
First network game was Doom, my first online game was the original Unreal Tournament. I probably played that game for 5 or 6 hours a day for a year or 2 straight when it came out.
First networking gaming experiance? Marathon on Mac OS 7.1 over Appletalk. First online gaming experiance? Total Annihilation Over a 28.8k dial up connection.
Warcraft 2 for two weeks in 1999, quickly followed by Starcraft which I really haven't stopped playing... First LAN was in 2002 when I began high school. Checkers, Unreal Tournament, and Quake 3 every day at lunch... and during class.
My first network gaming happened on Macs in the early 90s. I can't remember which game came first, but I recall both Bolo and Minotaur quite fondly. I think I ended up playing more of the latter than the former, if only because all the Minotaur games were played on office Quadras that were all in the same room so we can yell at each other as we played. Fun stuff. Of course, both those games were LAN-based. My first real Internet-based game outside of a MUD or MUSH was Phantasy Star Online, and it remains the definitive experience in my opinion. To this day I prefer instanced play areas and smaller parties to the giant, wide-open MMO environments that are in vogue now.
A small bit of Doom when my brother had it all setup... But my first real online experience started with the... First XBOX? Wow... never really thought about that. My first online game was the Moto GP demo disc that came with early Xbox Starter Kits.
Always wanted to get Phantasy star online for my DC but they closed Dream Arena before i got round to it :-( . Was pretty skint around then so i never got a dreamcast till it's last days on shelfs, plus side though i got it new with 5 games for £50 . Never got to play Quake 3 on it either, they had it in Woolworths for a fiver but when i took it to the check out they couldn't find the disc.
I remember Prestel's Micronet800. You'd connect with your Spectrum (I think maybe other computers worked too) with a 1200 baud modem - painfully slow! You'd often get dropout, especially if someone tried to use the phone in your house!! Gaming was slow - you had the move-a-day chess type thingumuh, and Shades, which was a MUD. Putting textual / turn-based games aside, the first network game I can recall playing was probably Tetris in 1990 on a two-player in-store demo unit ;-)
smart-ass,we re talking about online, i.e internet based games. Dialing up etc has been around forever and so has playing pac man on a main-frame system :110: