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[batman2million]

Having cable internet is something I’ve come to take for granted these days. Moving into a new sub-division, it took forever for high speed internet to come in my area. Before then, I shared our house line to play my wonderful slew of online PC and Dreamcast games in all it’s 56k glory.

Dreamcast:

Phantasy Star Online 1 – took forever to connect but was fun. First real MMO game I ever played.

PC:

Team Fortress Classic – I remember having 400 ping meant it was a good day.

Counter-Strike

HL: Deathmatch

Quake 3 (Arena?) – It’s insane how fast that game was, even on dial-up connection.

Starcraft – I thought the reason I sucked at this game was b/c of lag. After getting Cable internet, I
realized that wasn’t the case.

I also recall downloading PC game demos, which took forever (~200mb) meaning I had to download it overnight hoping no one calls or anything else interrupts the download.

There was some program my brother found that downloaded the demos and restarted from where they left off in case we lost connection, forgot the name of it.

Oh man, I also remember having to download videos on games from IGN and Gamespot in order to watch them.

Doubt I was the only one here who suffered through this.

 

[strafer]

Counter Strike yeah.

 

[witchedwiz]

ultima online
sweet mother of god

 

[TacticalFox88]

Every online game before broadband became mainstream.

Fucking AOL was....

 

[Canis lupus]

counter strike

 

[AzureSkies]

Age of Mythology.

I'm pretty sure that's the only game we played online until we upgraded to broadband. It actually performed really well on dial-up.

 

[Anustart]

Starcraft, years and years of Starcraft.

 

[JNT]

Quake 1.

 

[iMax]

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault.

 

[dragonflys545]

Diablo 2 and Starcraft.

 

[Santiako]

Chu Chu Rocket, it was so magical. My brother and I played a lot, we learnt to compensate for the ~1sec lag. We were very good.

 

[Dai101]

MOTHER FUCKING QUAKE 3 ARENA!!!! I can't believe the Dreamcast managed to accomplish such a smooth online experience on dial-up

 

[maquiladora]

I remember trying to play Operation Flashpoint online with a 28k modem back in 2001. Man...

 

[Red Chocobo]

Counter Strike.

 

[Smash88]

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear on PC.

 

[Mung]

Doom II, Quake, Xwing vs. Tie Fighter

 

[zakislam]

Counter Strike. Those were the days.

 

[Dictator93]

Doom II, starcraft, Counterstrike, TFC... maybe even 1 or 2 games of CSS even.

 

[codhand]

Chessmaster circa 1993
5600bps

 

[Amneisac]

PC: Command and Conquer: Red Alert

 

[EasyMode]

Quake 2. I have no nostalgia for being a HPB.

 

[soul creator]

Duke Nukem 3D on motherfucking KALI

And yeah, Quake/QuakeWorld, Quake 2, and other assorted games. I also used to use HEAT.NET as my primary online gaming service at one point, lol. Interesting to see that modern Xbox Live actually has a lot of ideas that were first used in services like HEAT.NET

 

[Mesoian]

Every online game on the Dreamcast.

I remember running up the phone bill dramatically playing PSO

 

[suikodan]

First game I played on dialup was the first Warcraft, heck, I even played that game with a NULL modem cable.

Then came
Warcraft 2
Doom
Duke Nukem 3D
Phantasy Star Online
Diablo and Diablo 2
Stracraft

1on1, Dreamcast and Battle.net gaming, memories...

 

[RK9039]

The original Medal of Honor: Allied Assault.

 

[GulAtiCa]

Team Fortress Classic and Phantasy Star Online (GC)

Man, playing TFC on dial up was something else..

 

[Dylan]

Subspace! Always felt more fun on dialup. Don't ask me why!

 

[RedQueensAce]

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault is the one I remember most besides PSO.

 

[Deleted member 57681]

Phantasy Star Online, it was magical. Until today I am amazed how well that worked.

 

[Tayaya]

Phantasy Star Online was probably the first game I played heavily over dial-up. I had broadband by then (Media One Express cable internet circa 1997 or so here in Chicago), but the DC had no support for it.

Before that though I used to play a lot of the id software games via direct-dial with a friend of mine... I remember a lot of Hexen getting played that way.

 

[Phire Phox]

Just some chess game on MSN.

 

[VE3TRO]

Quake, Unreal Tournament and CS.

I remember one match I played on Unreal was a custom map and had like 100 players in and it killed my PC lol.

 

[CrazyGamesDude]

Diablo II and Age of Mythology.

 

[MightyHedgehog]

Everything online before 2000.

First serious online for me was Netrek. Last dial-up game I played was PSO v.1 on the DC.

 

[JordanN]

Around 2003, my friend only had dial-up and we played BattleOn.

 

[NumberTwo]

Madden, that PS2 ATV game, THPS 3. That's all I can recall...

 

[TUSR]

Diablo 1

 

[Deleted member 17706]

I got cable Internet for the first time in late 1998, so I didn't really do much gaming on dial-up. I think all I did was play a bit of Starcraft, and before that Warcraft II doing direct connections with people after exchanging phone numbers in chat rooms.

 

[Thug Waffle]

CS
StarCraft OG/Brood War
A little bit of Diablo II

 

[Arcteryx]

A lot of games, but Counter-Strike is the most memorable by far. I was there from pretty much day-1; sucked having to deal with the occasional LPB(low ping bastard) who joined the server. I think I routinely had like ~250-400 ping.

 

[GenericBadGuy]

Quake and whatever was on the old MSN Gaming Zone, like Jedi Knight.

 

[geeko]

Everquest.

Diablo, diablo 2

Warcraft II

Starcraft

Quake 2

 

[Sylver]

Quake II

Snes9x

 

[Iorv3th]

On Dreamcast:

Phantasy Star Online
Phantasy Star Online v2
NFL 2k1
Alien Front Online

PC:
Age of Empires
Age of Empires 2
Diablo
Diablo 2

 

[Diablohead]

Phantasy Star Online, I dislocated my right knee shortly after the game came out and spent nearly all my sick pay on phone bills for 4 months, it was my life for a good period of time.

Quake 3, was rather good with the lag too when it was all you are used too, played on dreamcast also.

1ns4ne, awesome off road racer with multiplayer features, codemasters were at a high at this time.

UT99, not as much as quake 3 but enough to have fun.

Counter-Strike, spent like 2 days trying to download the 1.4 update to find that 1.5 was then released, thankfully that came on a pc magazine back in the day.

There are many other games too but those are the bigger ones.
Honorable mention: Chu Chu Rocket, F355 Challenge online races, Planet Ring.

 

[famousmortimer]

Duke Nukem 3D on motherfucking KALI

Yes!



I played the original Warcraft 2 (before the windows 95 version) over a 14.4. I would set my game to answer the phone and my friend jack (who now works in industry, weirdly enough) would set his game to call my house. Then we would play the laggiest RTS matches you ever could imagine and loved every goddamn second of it.

We would call each other inbetween matches and say stuff like "OH MY GOD DID YOU SEE THAT WHEN YOU HAD LIKE 10 GRYPHONS AND I HAD TEN ARCHERS THAT WAS LIKE A REAL WAR OH MY GOD OK IM SETTING MY MODEM TO ANSWER AGAIN LETS DO THIS!!!"

 

[partyphone]

I played all kinds of Quake 2, Warcraft 2, Jedi Knight and a little bit of StarCraft.

But then I got DSL towards the end of 1998 and everything changed.

 

[Omegasquash]

Diablo, Warcraft II, Starcraft, Doom II.

 

[j0hnny_385]

Everything from 1994. - 2001. (that's when I got ISDN).
Amazing times. We didn't have anything better.
Going to 56K from 28.8/33.6K felt soooo good.

Warcraft II, Diablo 1, Starcraft 1, Duke Nukem 3D, C&C(s), UT, Q3A, ...

And now, let us honor the Sound of the Gods(TM):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

 

[Linkstrikesback]

I remember gettinc hu Chu rocket for free through some sega promotion, then trying to play that online. By god, the delays were horrendous for what was supposed to be a fast paced puzzle game.