![]() For some reason, I now had one of the best RTS games released on PC, and I played the heck out of it.Ī few years later, my family upgraded from dial-up to ADSL, and I experienced my first real online game. ![]() It might have been Corn Flakes, or perhaps even Coco Pops, it doesn’t matter. I got my first copy of Age of Empires in a box of Kellogg’s cereal. ![]() I'm pretty sure I can drive an actual warthog better than I can drive Halo's Warthogs.Īge of Empires - Sam Chandler, Guides Editor Hee hee hee… WHACK! But nothing was better than getting that sticky grenade kill. I even liked Capture the Flag, just because I could whack some dudes with the flag. No, it wasn't quite like Goldeneye, but I loved the good times with Halo 3 anyway, whether it was Team Slayer, Oddball, or King of the Hill. I remember my thinking at the time being, "It's just like Goldeneye, right?" Besides, I was less worried about Master Chief's story than I was about jumping into the online space and getting my multiplayer game on. Had I played the previous two Halo games? No, but that wasn't going to stop me. I wanted to be one of the cool kids who were playing Halo. I wanted something that was capable of going online. It wasn't until I picked up my QA job with THQ that I felt the need to get back into the game. I might have played video games since I was five years old, but there was a long period after high school where I fell out of gaming. Halo 3 - Ozzie Mejia, Which Halo came out this week again? I didn’t get a decent PC until a few years later when Quake launched. I had a Mac Plus at the time, so I had to jump on my friend’s computer when they were taking a break. It was awful, but it motivated our crew to start up LAN party weekends. It was probably a few weeks later that our group of friends tried out online play via phone modems. My friend got a Pentium computer for his birthday just in time for Doom’s launch. The first time I saw Doom was a religious experience. Question: What was your first online gaming experience?ĭoom - Asif Khan, Has played online games with a 28.8 modem Once you've ruminated over our entries, tell us: Read on to learn about our expeirences in those and other online (and "online") arenas. Or maybe you had better luck than some of us had connecting our modems to play early FPS titles like Doom and Duke3d.exe. What we want to know is, what was the first game you played by connecting with another person who wasn't in the same room? Did you play Halo 2, one of the earliest Xbox Live-compatible games and newly released this week on PC as part of the Halo Master Chief Collection? Maybe you rolled around in the MUD with multiple other users in a text-only dungeon. Now, we're using the term "online" loosely here. Yes, in this week's Shack Chat, we're reminiscing about our first online gaming experiences, abysmal though many of them were. That was just my modem trying and failing to connect to my friend's phone line so we could frag each other in Doom II. The service never managed to get out of the red despite high user numbers, however, and it was eventually bought by GameSpy, which combined it with its GameSpy Arcade service.SCREECH. At the height of its popularity, it had well over 10 million members that were registered and was seeing more than 200 million minutes of gameplay every month, on average. Like the MPlayer online gaming model itself, the service was one of the pioneers in the industry. The gaming service’s most popular feature was arguably its voice chat service, branded HearMe. When subscribed as a Plus user, gamers could access certain games unavailable to the free players and could also resources and special gaming events (such as Web tournaments) exclusive to them. It originally started out as a subscription service from the Mpath Company with the slogan “Wanna Play?” Later on, as the service began to gain steam, free game services were added and the subscription service began offering the premium gaming access privileges to users, with the subscription renamed to Plus. MPlayer was an online multi-player gaming service that used both the subscription and free gaming models.
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