First Online/Network gaming experiance?

1992: Tradewars on BBS.

1993: MUDs on Internet. I would dial into a university using Procomm in DOS, and from a unix shell would run gopher (early hypertext precursor to "the web") and connect through the gopher client to MUDs of various types.

 

Talking 1997-2000 here;
Played Duke Nukem 3D via network, 'dialing up' friends and TEN/HEAT.net.
Also; Shadow Warrior, C&C: Red Alert, Carmageddon and Unreal Tournament (those were the days, still one of the best games ever).

2000-2002
On DC: PSO, Speed Devils online, Planet Ring.

 

GTA on the PC. Followed by Chu Chu rocket.

 

It was on 1996, I played DooM woth my brother via something xD

 

Two Amiga 1200s, two copies of Stunt Car Racer and one null modem cable.

My first modem-play game was Duke Nukem 3D with the use of a horrible 33.6k modem. I remember that it wouldn't accept my friend's incoming connections, so I always had to dial in to his machine.

The first game I played over the internet was Quake World. With no mouse. I was using an external modem at that point and only had one serial port - my mouse was a serial mouse (it was an old AT-standard computer, so no PS/2 connectors).

Fun times.

 

LAN: Quake II at cyber cafe (was a tournament, I lasted what... 10 minutes?)

Online: Quake III on DC :nod:

 

The Internet started off as ARPANET. How do you think people connected to that? ;-) In fact, Shades' predecessor, MUD (or MUD1) ran on JANET (the British education network) and was licensed to CompuServe. Don't forget, what is now the Internet was originally several smaller networks and many of the companies involved in running these networks (e.g. CompuServe, Prestel) becane ISPs.

Here's some info on Shades:

http://games.world.co.uk/shades/inshades/history/Mags.htm

Shades is still going via Telnet, by the way:

http://games.world.co.uk/shades/

 

Hmmm, Starcraft in 1999/2000 through direct call, not quite stable really haha.

Then LANs in 2002 with lots of different games, Medal of Honor Allied Assault and Starcraft overall.

For MMORPGs (not a big fan) my first one was the open beta of RYL back in 2003 and it was damn awesome for the time.

Tribes 2 was an awesome game to play online/network with a team of organized, serious players (which was quite difficult to find lol).

 

Chuchu rocket. I didn't even have a pc at that time (I "borrowed" the internet connection of one of my friend).

 

The first game i played online/internet was probably C&C Gold Edition/Windows 95 Edition.

 

chu chu rocket was my first console online gaming experience. i felt like i invented the wheel the day i was able to connect with a friend using the then new , net zero as an isp provider ( it was totally free then, im not sure now that was back in 1999 0r 2000)

 

Doom and Rise of the Triad, over IPX network at my friend's BBS Server. I think it was arround 1995.
Played ROTT every weekend till 2000 =)

 

Chu Chu Rocket! on Dreamcast. Nice memories of it

 

Well this will show my age, but first networked game I played was TREK on a DECsystem 20/20 via a teletype interface.
--Selgus

 

I would say my first time was with Age of Empires 2, then Diablo 2, then once I got broadband that opened up so many games.

 

So the 64 under your name isn't too far off your age then? :110:

 

PS: I also remember playing Indycar Racing 2 through modem, but dialing my friends number. No internet involved.

Damn, i'm getting old :lol:

 

My first was probably PC Wolfenstein or DOOM, direct-dial.

Then in summer 1997 it was all about Sega Saturn NETLINK games, which also used direct-dial. You had to visit a SEGA website that had a LIST of players you could e-mail to ask if they wanted to play sometime! Met a couple good friends through SEGA that way, and also reconnected with some friends I hadn't seen since the Master System/Genesis days. Pretty amazing..

 

Dreamcast - DreamArena

First online gaming -> chu chu rocket

 

Network: playing NetMerc, which was basically the network play of Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries, back in '96 or early '97.

Internet: probably Counter-Strike, the last beta, around 2000 or so.