UT99 was maybe the first real 3D or graphical game I ever played on a PC.
I mean, I had been a diehard Warcraft 2 fan on the old family HP, and put 100s on hours on it into Diablo 2, Elderscrolls Daggerfall, and Knights & Merchants. I even technically played a bit of Asheron's Call and Half Life, but that didn't work out so great on my cheap Voodoo card for whatever reason. I could play but the framerate was also bad. So, I saved enough as a young guy tree planting every summer though toward finally getting my own real gaming PC.
Spent almost $4000 on my first own gaming PC, almost a third of that on the nicest and one of the biggest Sony Trinitron CRTs I could find. Most of that year, I spent playing Anarchy Online and Dark Age of Camelot, but the first game I got was the original Unreal Tournament.
Never going to forget the first time I loaded into high-res max-FPS first person PC gaming.... As a kid who grew up on Squaresoft and Nintendo.. I never looked at video games the same again.
Needless to say, I'd support any serious attempt at classic arena FPS. Even if I never played it and just out of mere support for the game type and what it meant to me.