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GameNET

  • 17-12-2002 9:51pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 166 ✭✭


    does anyone remember GAMENET?

    the dial-up games server, it was around about 5 or 6 years ago, did anyone here use it?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 166 ✭✭BeatTun


    surely im not the only dinosaur here?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,275 ✭✭✭Shinji


    Not by any measure or means - but GameNET still doesn't ring any bells I'm afraid! At that stage... It would have been a contemporary of Wireplay, right? Was it a UK thing?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 166 ✭✭BeatTun


    no it was a small dun laoghaire based server, you subscribed on a monthly basis, dialed into it with its own software (fairly basic dos like software), you could chat on it, and then play up to 4 player games like doom, doom2 etc

    doom (shareware) came with the software, but we started to play games like virtual pool, nascar, and duke3d on it, it was fukkin brilliant fun, someone should start another one up with limited users for games like half life, gta2 etc....kingpin blah blah

    cos u had good bandwitch with a 28.8 modem at the time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,141 ✭✭✭fisty


    i remember it.
    it was like a BBS - you dialled into it and played doom/hexen/heretic.
    I was Olddog.
    man thats going back a while.
    5/6 years ago?
    lol - try 7/8 years.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭theciscokid


    still, it sounded like alot of fun for the time! :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,399 ✭✭✭WetDaddy


    12 years on from the original post; yes, I remember it vividly! :)

    I was a tester with them, which meant they waved the £100 membership fee for me (but we still had to pay per phone call back then).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,960 ✭✭✭✭Zero-Cool


    A thread from 2002 talking about technology from 1996 :pac: I feel old :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,399 ✭✭✭WetDaddy


    sheehy83 wrote: »
    A thread from 2002 talking about technology from 1996 :pac: I feel old :(

    Right on, man :)


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