First Multiplayer Game You Played?

[Mr_Bojingles]

What was your first multiplayer pc game you played?

Mine was Doom on my 100mhz packard bell across the phone line with my friend.

2 player deathmatch at its best!

[McBain]

Gotta be Super Spike V-Ball for NES

[keto]

Quake on AMD K6-200, 1997

[Al_Capown]

Believe it or not,

CS on P4 1.7GHz Compaq 2001
Geforce2MX200
1.5up/down cable

OMGOMGOMO%$!%!@$ NOOB!

[Creep]

Team Fortress Classic on an AMD K6/2-500 and a Voodoo 4!

[madmat]

HL (Team fortress) on a 800Mhz celly @ 1100Mhz with a GeForce2Mx-400

[Dragstk]

Quake ll on a 450 Mhz. Pentium

[Souriat]

Internet wise, Duke 3D on wireplay, with my uber p2 233 and some ancient ATI card it came with :)

[Buster]

Subspace (now known as Continuum) on a Packard Bell with a 166mhz Pentium, still find myself playing that game no matter how old it gets it will always be a great game.

[DogSoldier]

Blood on Mplayer. And you n00bs, Quake TF is the true TF!

[Clutch]

I played Warcraft II before battle.net came along, modem to modem with my best friend on an old Acer computer we had.

[leishi85]

internet wise, it would be starcraft on a cryix 333 with 2mb intergrated video, it was the first game i play extensively online for a long period of time.

[JB]

Descent on a 200Mhz Compaq/2MB Matrox Video/Win95/56k!

[Mr_Bojingles]

I forgot to add doom was over a 14.4k modem :D ah, the speed...

[fatcat]

Starcraft...u just cant beat it...

then came Half-Life...needed bigger cans of spray paint!

[paroxym]

Duke 3d battles between Neuromancer and I.
First REAL multiplayer experience??? Quake on HEAT.net. Remember HEAT? :p

[Rot Katze]

internet wise was the original Diablo (I think)

console..geez I've forgotten

[Mr_Bojingles]

paroxym had this to say
Duke 3d battles between Neuromancer and I.
First REAL multiplayer experience??? Quake on HEAT.net. Remember HEAT? :p

I don't know if I actually used it but I do remember signing up for it at one point.... :crazy:

[CB]

I used to play a soccer game against my sister on our Atari 130XE. I don't remember if there were any bofore that... That was a long time ago!

No, wait!

I think it was before that: My friend Darius and I used to play Paperboy in 2 player mode, on his Commadore.

Wait...

Did Nintendo come out before that? I remember Darius was also the first kid on the block with an NES. His dad got it for him the day it hit the shelves, and we played Super Mario together for weeks!

Hmm...

I'm getting my timeline mixed up...

Well, I remember the first multiplayer game that you didn't have to share a screen with your buddy was Doom, and I was there. I was namn good too. Then games started comming out that had a namn Z-axis... Shot my game to hell. I've sucked at FPSs ever since.



mr_bojingles3264 had this to say
paroxym had this to say
Duke 3d battles between Neuromancer and I.
First REAL multiplayer experience??? Quake on HEAT.net. Remember HEAT? :p

I don't know if I actually used it but I do remember signing up for it at one point.... :crazy:


I was the Heat Intercollegiate Gamming League Team Captain for Cincinnati State. Zanthian was a Captain for NKU. And, CrazyJoe was a Captain for UC. We each got a package of ten T-Shirts to give to our respective team members. We just kept the shirts.

[Gargoyle]

Legend of the Red Dragon (http://www.rtsoft.com/pages/ourproducts_lord.htm). A BBS game by the great Seth Able.

On a 286 with a 12 inch orange and black screen. Blazing fast 20mhz-ish speed processor, made by AMD (licensed from Intel). 30mb hard drive. 2400 baud modem. PC Speaker sound. I still have almost every part of this system. It was fully functional when I took it apart 2 years ago to mod it's box (which turned out to be about 2mm too small to hold a full ATX mobo :banghead: ). I still use the ancient, massive powersupply to test drives and fans.

The only parts I can't find now are the HD and Floppy.

Here's some glamour shots :) (I should never be given access to digital cameras)

[Gargoyle]

I'd like to encase this old CPU in a glass sphere or something neat like that. I'm just... that big of a nerd :)

[Xenogeared]

decent, used to play with my best friend over our 14.4 modems :)

i didn't play doom over multiplayer because i didn't know multiplayer doom even existed! infact i didn't play doom until i was like 12 or 13 because the game gave me nightmares when i was a kid.

[FormFactor]

Pong, on a then top of the line, well Pong machine.

then came 2 player donky kong on a TI 99/4a

and the first on the web had to be doom, over 14.4 k dial up.

things sure have come a long way since the good ole days of pong. btw there is an updated version of Pong coming out that will support 4 player simutanious play.
sounds like quite a gheym

[drasnor]

My first multiplayer game was College Town, a MOO. The first one I liked was Age of Legends (Wheel of Time RPG MUD), and the first one I excelled at was Ground Zero (Pure-PK MUD). Of the three, none are still up, though Ground Zero II is around. It doesn't have as many players as it used to though.

The first conventional game I ever played non-hot seat multiplayer was the MacPlay version of Descent on my Apple Performa 6200CD with my buddy over 14.4KBps direct dial-up (I dialed up his Mac). My first multiplayer PC game was MechWarrior 3, which I'm still fairly good at multiplayer-wise. The game had lousy multiplayer code, so not a whole lot of people were very good at it.

First console multiplayer was Super Mario Bros. in two-player, though that wasn't nearly as good as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Arcade Game for NES. The only time I ever really got along with my sister (she was Michelangelo, I was Raphael).

-drasnor :fold:

PS Xenogeared, your avatar reminds me of my current desktop.

[EMT]

Clutch had this to say
I played Warcraft II before battle.net came along, modem to modem with my best friend on an old Acer computer we had.

Dude... exactly the same for me. Acer computer, best friend, War2, and all. His modem would overheat though so we had to keep our games short :). Man, that Acer was the most robust 33MHz computer ever.

Only truly got into multiplayer with Starcraft on bnet. I think I spent a whole summer doing that, hehe...

[Black Hawk]

My first Bnet expierience was rather screwed. First game I played (SC), I got pwned by a cheater. Damn guy had like a 100 siege tanks army in less than 2 mins.

[Thrax]

I think my first multiplayer game was Quake2 in 1996 when I got broadband.

[csimon]

first multiplayer I played would be quake 2 I think.

[Gobbles]

rise of the triad over a direct modem to modem connect with my friend. 1995

before that it would have been an atari console and pick a game...

We also had an intellivision pong game and a coleco vision which had graphics that owned atari...

Gobbles

[TheSmJ]

Descent, on the ol' 486 DX 66. A friend and I tried many games before that, but Descent was the first one we could get working).

Some 2D VLBUS video card... brand name began with an "S"...
Generic mono 8-bit sound card
Generic SCSI 2X CDROM (connected to the soundcard)
Maxtor 520MB HDD
8 Megs of RAM (30-pin SIMMs)
CTX 14" monitor
14.4Kb modem

THe floppy drive from that machine is still much in use today (over 10 years old now). Everything else from the system is long gone (threw away some of it's ISA components a couple weeks ago).

[Butters]

I remember my first nintendo came with the SuperSpike V-ball/World cup Soccer game with the infrared 4-player controller w/turbo.

As far as PC goes, it would probably be Warcraft 2 or Duke Nukem of Kali!!! I actually paid the $20. Does anyone remember Kahn?

[Enverex]

Extreme Violence on the Amiga back in 1995.

PC game would be either Total Annihillation on Heat.net or Diablo. Sure I played something before that though.....

NS

[TheBaron]

either doom2 or warcraft (1). i know i used to spend a lot of time DL'ing doom2 maps, and its entirely possible i DM'd with someone, i just cant remember any particular time.

first multiplayer game i played a LOT though was TA... man i STILL play that game a lot

[pseudonym]

Doom over my buddies home network.

[Gobd]

The original Tribes, which happens to still be the best multiplayer game ever. I still play it sometimes but all the good people are gone so its not quite so fun anymore. Its amazing that the game is 5 years old and still has a player base of over 1000 people and is still constantly being updated by the community. It also has one of the biggest and best forums ever, tribalwar.com/forums

[drasnor]

It's all about the TA. Hey TheBaron, when are we having that big TA LAN?

-drasnor :fold:

[DOSMAN]

Populus II on my old 486. First network game I've seen.

[Norge]

The first multiplayer game I ever played was the original Diablo on a PII 266mhz/32 MB RAM/4 GB HDD/Win95 computer. It was the game that got me hooked for life :)

Norge

[T-BirD]

If Bezerk on the Atari 2600 had 2 player coop, then that or something else that was on the system in 1982. Otherwise, something on the C64. I'm pretty sure the NES was not my first mp experience...

"Online" tho had to be a direct phone connection to a friend 45 miles away for some DooM action in early 1996. First REAL multiplayer was Quake I online that fall. Quake I - still the best mp game ever (sorry to disagree with Tribes...never really got into that game).

[SimGuy]

Quake in all it's beauty over my old US Robotics 14.4 Modem. :)

PC was a beast for back then:

Intel 486 DX2/66 (Eventually became an Intel 486 DX4/120)
64 MB FPO DRAM (4x16 MB Modules, 70ns)
Intel's 486-GVT Motherboard, 2 PCI, 5 ISA Slots, 4 16-bit ISA with 128 KB L2 Cache Onboard
Seagate Medalist 427 MB Hard Disk, PIO Mode 2
Panasonic 2x CD-ROM
Gravis UltraSound, Full-Length ISA
Diamond Monster 3D 4 MB PCI (Voodoo 1 for 3D)
ATI Mach64 1 MB PCI (for 2D)
US Robotics Sportster 14.4K Hardware Modem, ISA
CompuPartner Radiation King 14" Monitor :)

[CaffeineMe]

Comanche vs. Apache, Long Distance via dialup. Didn't play that real long.

[GHoosdum]

First multiplayer I played on the PC was Descent (using direct-dial modem) on my 486. That game rocked for its time. Only after that did I play Doom over the modem, which was the first game I played regularly. I remember having to call first and say "don't pick up the phone, I'm going to call you with the PC now..."

(post edited for content due to Creep's admonishment below :werr: )

[TBonZ]

Half-Life and still playing it to this day.

[Creep]

mr_bojingles3264 had this to say
What was your first multiplayer pc game you played?


Guess most people haven't read the question, so I'll say it again. The question is what PC game, not CONSOLE game.

Now that I think about it more it would have to have been something like "Lemonade Stand" on a Apple IIe. Ah! The days of 5 inch floppys and "catalog" insted of "dir / ls". Man I feel old now. I actually forget all the games we played in school back then (the retard classes always had an atvantage!) but that one game has always stood out in my memory, prolly because I hated it so much and they always made us play it.

[Gravite2090]

First PC multiplayer game eh?

That was a game I played on the TI 94/a, I cant remember the name. =[

First internet based was LORD, Legend of the Red Dragon on my Pentium 90. I miss the BBS days. Im with Gargoyle =]

[Creep]

I'm going to shoot myself, I swear no one can read anymore............................................................

[TheSmJ]

Creep had this to say
I'm going to shoot myself, I swear no one can read anymore............................................................

;D

[GHoosdum]

Creep had this to say
I'm going to shoot myself, I swear no one can read anymore............................................................

Things get kind of confused after reading 2 pages of posts... sometimes it's possible to forget the exact woring of the OP, y'dig? :eek3:

[Creep]

yea GH I thought that myself, so I reposted the origianl, twice I might add. But it seems that people simply can not read and comprehend a simple sentence.....

[croc_]

Radeon_Man had this to say
Descent on a 200Mhz Compaq/2MB Matrox Video/Win95/56k!

See above on a 350mhz K6-2 w/ 8mb graphics blaster EXXTREME!!(3dlabs permedia II wtfhaxor?!) win95/56k!!

Played a bunch of FPS games on lan also, can't remember which was first.

EDIT: pentium 90 ^

[MetallicaFan]

The First Multiplayer Game i Ever Played was Quake Classic, i used to played it alot when i got dsl, I wish there is a way to make it work on Windows XP.

[drasnor]

Chill out creep, this thread is all about the memories... ;)

-drasnor :fold:

[Gravite2090]

Creep had this to say
I'm going to shoot myself, I swear no one can read anymore............................................................

the 94/a was not a console if thats what your talking about.

[croc_]

oh, and umm I was 12? so like ... 9 years ago? That sound about right for a pentium 90? before that I had a 486 (dx2/66) and before THAT a 286 Tandy 3000 @ 10mhz (If I remember correctly, that was like 13-14? years ago... man my memory sucks for being 21)

On the tandy I had .... wolfenstein 3D DEMO! some bruce lee game ... umm ... yeah ... no internet or modem or whatnot till the p90 tho ....

[GnomeWizardd]

warcrat II ( before Battle.net ) or quake II one of the two on my 450 K6-III processor! God I love the K6-II's

[LawnMM]

Depends what you consider multiplayer. First game I played over the internet with a group of people was Novalogic's F-22 Raptor, which was an awesome flight sim in its day. However, I was playing computer-to-computer over the phone lines with a buddy before that with Jedi Knight and Doom

[Al_Capown]

Gnomewizardd had this to say
warcrat II ( before Battle.net ) or quake II one of the two on my 450 K6-III processor! God I love the K6-II's

Why? I know I wasn't as well versed in technology then as I am now, but from what i've heard k6-2's were the processors that spread rumors all the way through athlon xp's about them running hot.

[GHoosdum]

They also didn't perform as well as their Intel counterparts. Ah the bad old days!

[croc_]

hot and slow?! :O

edit: (not a question.)

[GnomeWizardd]

i meant k6-III not 2 i ment 3!

[Thrax]

K6-III was even worse than the II.

[croc_]

maybe he MENT the athlon?

[Enverex]

No, he probably meant K6-2 or III. Why were the III's worse?

NS

[GHoosdum]

More heat, not much better performance... same clock speeds (450) as the K6-2, lack of support in the industry for the K6-3.

[croc_]

I was joking btw ... nvm. P3's were king back then, but since I didn't have the money for one, it was AMD or CYRIX .... yeah ...

[GnomeWizardd]

K6-III rocked !! I know i went from a 400 to a 450 k6-III then to a 500 and LOST speed so went back to my 450 K6-III

[Enverex]

Thrax had this to say
K6-III was even worse than the II.

Of course it is http://atomnet.co.uk/ss/img/thraxtel.gif

NS

[panzerkw]

Well, I guess AIR COMBAT for the Atari could count, but then there's Super Mario Bros for the NES that my sister and I would play in 2 player mode to see who could beat it first (she did). I used to play my friend in Doom on dial up connection, but the first real massively multiplayer game I played was Air Warrior when it was on AOL (a free to play).