I played Doom using modems before Internet was available. We used a local BBS to set up death matches. I met quite a few friends that way. It later turned into small LAN parties playing Doom2 and Duke Nukem 3D, then grew to large weekly LAN partied when Quake came out.
As for true online gaming over the internet, when QuakeWorld was released, our LAN parties began to die down since we no longer had to lug our PCs around to play with each other. We were able to set up a Quake server at our local ISP, so our latency to it was lower than everyone else when we had it open to the public. We'd make it private when we wanted to play together or have clan matches.
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I never played Doom online, but I do remember carrying my state-of-the-art 486 gaming rig to my friends house to play multiplayer...
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Heh, my first computer was a 486 (DX2-50), and it had a 1GB drive. Bought it second-hand, but given these drives had only just come out, most of the cost was probably for the drive.
My dad had only recently bought a Pentium 90 and it only had a 540MB drive, so I tried not to rub it in too much.
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My first PC was an Amstrad PC1640: CPU Intel 8086 @ 8MHz, 640 KB RAM, no HD ;)
Later I bought an incredible 25MB (yes, MB!) Hard Drive, as noisy as an helicopter lol
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My first hard drive was for my Atari ST and it held an unbelievable 10MB of data. It was really expensive.
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Pretty sure it was Starcraft 1, but I might be mistaken.
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I'm probably older than all of you. A game called Tradewars which was played over a 300 baud dial up connection to a BBS. This was in the 80's - way before the web ever existed lol!!!
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Yes! My first would have been some BBS game , but I don't remember which. I'm pretty sure I played some Tradewars at some point too, but probably at 2400 baud (I guess that makes me slightly younger since I wasn't online gaming in the 300 baud era...)
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Starcraft, played it at a friends house back before I got internet (it was the 90s, most people didn't have internet access). Also think it was the first game I played over LAN.
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MUD2 was my first. Followed sometime after by Ultima Online.
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It was slow paced, unlike most other RTS games, because it takes a while to build a base and research stuff. Sure, research and construction is sped up a little for multiplayer but compared to its contemporaries like Age of Empires 1 and Warcraft 2 it took a bit longer to play.
My favorite tactic was to play as Plymouth and to rush the enemy's command center with those tanks that exploded.
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That sounds like it could be a potentially rather annoying strategy to face :P It was ages ago since I played Outpost 2, but I remember everything moving really slow, and taking a long time, so adapting to something your opponent does can't have been easy.
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I think either Warcraft 3 or Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix.
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Let's show how old we all are here. :P
I think the first game I ever played online was the first Dungeon Siege on pc.
The first, and only, console game I ever played online was Phantasy Star Online on the old Dreamcast. I miss my DC. Best games on that thing.
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