1st Online Gaming Experience?

Gandalph

I need to know your 1st online gaming experience and how it was for you! Would be interesting to see were most Irish gamers started.

Personally I am not certain of mine, seen as I live in the country I did not get broadband until pretty late. I remember trying to play everquest on dial up...was not pretty!

But my 1st proper experience I think was in an internet cafe playing world of warcraft, I was blown away by the fact that these things I was interacting with were other people & I would just follow them around for ages.

When I eventually got broadband I lived for CoD:MW1, to say I was addicted was an understatement.

It completely opened up a new world to me, I find it hard to play single player games anymore.

Sabre0001

My very first was back in the good ol' days of MSN games - can't remember the "zone" name. Played Checkers and was able to join lobbies of Midtown Madness quickly and easily. Also gave Quake 2 a bash - mainly FFA on custom maps...

56k connections though :x

Magill

Age of Empires II ! Was class...

dRNk SAnTA

Sabre0001 wrote: »

My very first was back in the good ol' days of MSN games - can't remember the "zone" name. Played Checkers and was able to join lobbies of Midtown Madness quickly and easily. Also gave Quake 2 a bash - mainly FFA on custom maps...

56k connections though :x

The Zone! Now that was the craic! My first proper online gaming was with Rainbow Six Rogue Spear (awesome game!) on the Zone. Remember all the rooms that used to be called "CABLE ONLY! NO NEWBS!" and Id sneak on with my 56kewl and pretend to have broadband. If anyone questioned my ping I'd just attack the host and say he must be the one without cable.

Great times. Ended up starting my first clan, Da Syndicate (I was like 12 or something), learning html, building first website, entering ladder games and all that. Brilliant. Still have a great friend in scotland from that time and that was probably 10 years ago now.

Overheal

I would have to consider it to be the Jagex castle, playing Monster Wars or Cyber Wars or whatever the hell it was called. Probably one of the first people to discover Multiboxing, since I was one of the few people playing from a library with roundtables where you could easily be in reach of 5 PCs to be logged into a 6 player game, it made it real unfair to the other guy so I eventually just dialed it back to 2, it seemed like enough of a competitive edge.

Then there was Half Life deathmatch..... I won't go there. It was epic don't get me wrong, but I got my ass kicked more often than I got flow.

ShadowHearth

I am not Irish, but back from where I came my first online experience was quake 2. First it was in Internet cafes. Then I got my own all might pentuim 1 200mhz 32 ram and 2mb gpu!!! It could not run quake 2 on 640x480, but **** that! I was. Playing a slide show, but it was from my home and I was happy as pig in ****!

If you haven't lived with 36k modem, you havent lived at all!!!

3.4kb/s download speed! Savage!

CORaven

Was a console player with some PC games growing up, but it was years until I played an online game. My first ever was playing Metroid Prime Hunetrs in a café with wifi. I enjoyed it, but as I did not understand lag I thought some people were cheating. Good fun though.

Icyseanfitz

where im living only got broadband in the last 7-8 years :rolleyes: so the first proper mp experience i had was counter strike source

Mr E

Doom in college. Good times.

ED E

Cant be sure, was probs CS but it could have been before then. We used to LAN age and EE, but I never played them online even though we had 56k and then were one of the first to get broadband.

The Floyd p

Cod4

swiftblade

Start Wars BF 1 . Ended up in a gaming clan too from it. Miss those days

Spunge

Playing some UT and CS about 10 years ago in the internet cafes.
Then a few years later playing Guild Wars and Eve on dial-up.

good times
huge bills

BopNiblets

Played either C&C Red Alert or Total Annihilation over dialup with my friend down the road, where I'd call his phone in the game, I think he rage quit when I nuked him

Then Counter Strike (original) while it was in early versions, and CS: Source when it came out.

Canis Lupus

I thiiiiink it was Tachyon: Beyond the Fringe. It played really well on my terrible terrible modem connection.

MyKeyG

My friend and I used to play Age of Empires death match every so often. I can't remember how we did it exactly but I remember having to enter his phone number and my modem would dial up directly to his a few doors away. That was back around 95.

Creamy Goodness

quake with a 28.8k modem, christ i feel old now and i'm only 25

RobertFoster

I don't really remember. It could have been the original Call of Duty, but I must've played games online before that. Fairly sure I dabbled in Commandos and maybe Quake, but they must not have have made an impact.

Played COD to bits, and I transitioned from dial-up to broadband while playing. I think it helped my timing and upped my game

richymcdermott

Call of duty 4 , twas magicial

chin_grin

LAN gaming count? I remember staying back a few night to play some CS. I still sucked but it was the camaraderie and slagging during and after that I enjoyed.

Have to say I'm a bit of a late comer (heh) to actual online gaming. Think the first game I decided to brave online against strangers (danger!) was Halo Reach on my shiny xbox! Yeah. Forget fashionably late. I arrived when everyone was passed out on the couch.

Sarky

Ah, Dark Forces 2, 56K modem, lag, CHETARR SKUM and my little brother being infuriatingly better than me.

Good times, good times...

krudler

on pc, quake, the miracles of dialup internet from indigo. on console, cod4 really, had hopped in and out of a few things before that but hadnt put any time into them.

gizmo

Hmm, first time ever was Doom in my cousin's computer lab in college...I think I was about 10? :pac:

After that it was a sporadic mix of Quake in school and early CS betas in the internet cafe in town. Ah, the joys of not getting broadband at home till the mid-2000s.

bobbytables

My first experience was playing Doom, circa 1995 in Net @ccess cyber cafe in Galway city. About a dozen familiar faces would show up in there after school. It was great craic, especially this time of year. You mightn't even know the name of the person that just joined in, but everyone was welcome & really sound. The fee for staying there all day varied from free to feck all depending who was working & the level of craic that was had. When you walk past it (in the old malt arcade in Galway) you'll still see the original Doom murals painted on the wall inside.

Great memories.

In college it was Quake(world) & UT by the time I got my Bachelors degree. Good fun, but much more serious.

Burgo

gizmo wrote: »

Hmm, first time ever was Doom in my cousin's computer lab in college...I think I was about 10? :pac:

After that it was a sporadic mix of Quake in school and early CS betas in the internet cafe in town. Ah, the joys of not getting broadband at home till the mid-2000s.

Pretty much the exact same as myself!

cherryghost

UT 99. God those were the days.

jesus_thats_gre

First multiplayer LAN experience was the original Doom...

The over a phone line one was Quake 1.

Potential-Monke

CoD4 was my first proper online game, but i do remember playing against people on that miniclip games where you use a pool queue to hit O shaped discs onto a scoring field and attempt to knock the opponents off at the same time.

I lived in the sticks so my first proper broadband was when i moved to Waherford 4 years ago. Man i missed so much...

Chavways

COD WaW in February 2009.Broadband was introduced in our area very late to say the least.

Professey Chin

Quake 1 in an internet cafe.
Got killed many times very fast, got pissed off, quit and then went to the tcc website
(I was about 10)

Patsy fyre

Played a few games on PC for was very much hit or miss on a dodgy connection.

First real proper experience was playing team slayer on halo 3. Classic, fun times

IgsTer

Wolfenstein Enemy Territory back in 05

FearDark

I used play on the zone! My first online game was called "Tanarus" around 1997/98... Completely changed the way I looked at games, I played that game until the server was shut down last year. Still miss it, you play a game that spans 13 years you make a lot of friends. Nothing will ever replace that game for me, these days I dabble in Call of Duty games online and while the games are infinitely better I don't seem to get that same buzz I did from a windows 95 chunky outdated game

Oh and I first started playing it on a 14.4k modem... how on earth we managed to play games on those thing I'll never know, when I got my 56k my life changed forever!

This is the only clip I can find on youtube of an actual battle going on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5TlBs-zLCw

RichT

Yahoo Pool

CptMackey

Counter strike 1.4 on pc on a 28k dial up modem. I used to pray that there were no updates because it would take all day and if somebody rang

Happy days

Nerdkiller1991

I only ever got broadband way back in August of 2007, so I was quite late on the online scene. Hell, my first online game didn't come until February of next year, when I first played Sega Rally (very underrated multiplayer game). After that was CoD4 (which I didn't enjoy very much), but I really didn't start getting into online until I came across Warhawk for the very first time. Man, there were some good times on that game.

YouSavedMyLife

Age of Empires back yeors ago on a 56k. Was on my brothers puter as he moved back to my house. Was only a wee lad and i remember i was shaking with excitement at the thought of playing with another real living person!

mewso

Quakeworld with a bunch of irish online players some of whom decided it would be a good idea to set up a discussion forum for quake. Ridiculous idea.

refusetolose

MOHAA

exciting stuff

Chavways

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

I only ever got broadband way back in August of 2007, so I was quite late on the online scene. Hell, my first online game didn't come until February of next year, when I first played Sega Rally (very underrated multiplayer game). After that was CoD4 (which I didn't enjoy very much), but I really didn't start getting into online until I came across Warhawk for the very first time. Man, there were some good times on that game.

Only got broadband in February 09.Seems like us Clare people were some of the last to get it.

o1s1n

The first one I can remember would have been Half Life DM around the late 90s. Still play it to this day!

refusetolose

Chavways wrote: »

Only got broadband in February 09.Seems like us Clare people were some of the last to get it.

i was playin mohaa on 56k

no problem

partyatmygaff

MSN Zone games and the likes of "Internet Checkers" back in the (Not so) good old days of Windows ME. Being six years old I thought they were just bots. I just couldn't imagine that I was actually playing against real people.

Nerdkiller1991

Chavways wrote: »

Only got broadband in February 09.Seems like us Clare people were some of the last to get it.

UPC has still yet to leave Shannon, to my knowledge. Hell, I've yet do get Next Gen Broadband from Eircom, so yeah, Clare does seem to get the royal screwjob in these things.

Varik

Tribes (not sure if it was 1 or 2), sneaked up on another player who was watching the sky and not the ground (enemies can come from any direction in tribes, usually from above or skiing right at you) spent a bit of time crouch in front of him before killing him, it would never happen with a bot and i loved that.

A lot of UT, some CS (not much) and loads of Age of empires ( you could pause the whole mp game and each time you did a few people would try to unpause it at the same time and re-pause it again).

Played a lot of UT in transition year as well.

Chavways

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

UPC has still yet to leave Shannon, to my knowledge. Hell, I've yet do get Next Gen Broadband from Eircom, so yeah, Clare does seem to get the royal screwjob in these things.

What is this next gen broadband you speak of? It is unheard of in these parts.

Nerdkiller1991

Chavways wrote: »

What is this next gen broadband you speak of? It is unheard of in these parts.

Oh, Eircom said that they would upgrade everyone to 8Mb broadband in the near future (they were doing all those ads on TV, quite a few months back). Still not upgraded, yet.

Jet Black

Perfect dark zero on the 360 when it was released. Only got internet in 2005. Played LAN games since the late 90s though.

Duggy747

I think it was Unreal Tournament or Rainbow 6. Would always host a match on The Zone since matches would play better.

I was almost Asian-like on Rainbow 6, was always funny watching people rage about cheating.

UT99 was the bee's knees, though. CTF on that level that floated in space with the 2 pyramids either side and pure mayhem in the middle.

Jordan 199

TOCA Race Driver 3. Competition was tough but it was very enjoyable.

KIERAN1

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

Oh, Eircom said that they would upgrade everyone to 8Mb broadband in the near future (they were doing all those ads on TV, quite a few months back). Still not upgraded, yet.

I believe my first online experience was playing Gears 1. I still play it today.

Eircom are broke they've no money to invest in broadband really. Their only pumping money into certain broadband projects in the hope of taking business from UPC ..

Ya the ads that claim Eircom customers return after leaving!! I wonder about those ads been right and genuine? Look i wish i could get rid of these clowns, but am stuck, because nobody else can provide the same service were i live. Their service isn't great mind you ( 7 down and 312kb upload) but what i find funny is them describing this as super fast broadband! Were do the managers of Eircom live, a cave?