Too true. I mentioned Delta Force, and that was '98, and I can still remember I had ATT Worldnet dial up. I would stare at the transfer rate and cheer when it hit 5 k a sec.
No, now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!
The game was limited to the local subnet because it used IPX, but I once was able to get a multiplayer game working with some guy at the University of Saskatchewan by experimenting with a program called ipxtunnel which would, of course, tunnel that traffic between our machines. It was laggy as hell but it worked.
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Remember LAN party's? Used to go to one's thrown by all the data center people I worked with in the 90's. Unreal Tournament and Quake were the games of choice then. Big noisy towers and CRT's crammed into someone's basement or garage. That was back when playing a game for 10 to 12 hours straight was no big deal.
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#4416090 - 04/13/1802:57 AMRe: Your first multiplayer experience?
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I worked for a company that produced high end graphics machines. We had about a dozen people that would stay late to play Doom over the building network on 27" monitors. It was awesome.
First time ever (not including coin op arcade games, of course) was playing Doom over a LAN at a store here in Vancouver, called Software Alley. The salesman gave me a pretty severe thrashing, about 25-0 in kills. First MP flight sim was over a serial cable, F-16 Combat Pilot, and there I was rather better, defeating my brother fairly comprehensively. First time playing public games over the Internet was on Quake 2, which even then was awash in team killing morons. First times playing MP over a whole night were in Singapore at the ad agency where I worked. Games of Doom and Marathon sometimes just kicked off at about 11 pm if we worked late on a project.
First time for my daughter was last year, with Star Wars Battlefront (the good one, from 2004). Always wanted to yell, "You're all clear, kid..." etc. to someone, and now I have.
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#4416112 - 04/13/1810:43 AMRe: Your first multiplayer experience?
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Originally Posted by LB4LB
Remember LAN party's? .
Yup, those were great! I even drove up to one in New Jersey in 1993 to play Air Warrior, Doom and Falcon 3.
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There was a LAN party at my house every weekend. Ok,I only had 4 PC's (5 sometimes) but it was the best fun ever!
Favourites back then were BF2,Half Life,TOCA and various other shooters. It was a much better experience when you could taunt your fellow players face-to-face
Mine was Novalogics Mig29/F16/F22 in NovaWorld dial up 56k servers. I was a member of the Fulcrum Squadron (Blade) and I had a blast with the likes of Primal, Yankee, Wired and I can't remember the rest of the Squad. This even lead to RL meetings with Andy(Wired)from England and Billy(Primal) from NC and some really good times together. I could never quite reach the expert skills these guys had and how they got their Mig29s to perform so well. Years after it all was over I found out that most of these guys and other Squads had figured out how to hack the FMs and enhance the flight characteristics. This was something I never new about and never would have done and it made me so mad to know they were subtly cheating all along. Il2 was a first for me in WWII planes and was great fun until cheating took its toll on that MP fun. I have never really been into MP since, which kind of sucks because I had great fun competing with these guys while I was ignorant of their cheating. Such is it with my naivety I guess. Look it had a BOX, CD, a Manual and a Keyboard quick key reference which I still have over my F keys along with the F16, Delta Force, Joint Operations and Black Hawk Down overlay! It is still on steam I think. LOL those were the days and Novalogic was King!.
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Edit: This was when my 3DFX Voodoo5 reigned supreme also!
probably the first one that i actually got to work was Command & Conquer on a null-modem cable. the game came with 2 discs so you could play multi on two computers without buying the game twice
some of the other early ones: Novalogic Werewolf vs Comanche, Accolade's Deadlock, Xwing vs Tie Fighter, Missionforce Cyberstorm - all local network or nullmodem
the first actual internet multiplayer game I played & liked was Joint Operations
F18 Korea,Graphic Simulations on Lan with my dad, got him started at the age of 65 on flight sim, he loved HK and the tutorials, was an aircraft mechanic for the military/civilian for 40+ years. Good times