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Games you played on Dial-Up

i remember back in the day to play Descent.. i had to dial into my friends modem just to play! GODDAMN KIDS AND YOUR CABLE DOOHICKEY MODEMS.
 
Duke 3D via dial-up on the 28.8 all day erry day son.

Then someone would call and our match would get fucked up...
 
Tribes Aerial Assault on the PS2 is the one that sticks out for me.

Also played a few Online RTSes, but never that much since I was horrible at them.
 
Counter Strike, Half life 1.

How i ever coped with a 250-300 ping, I will never know.
These days if it gets above 50 I get angry!
 
Command and Conquer : Tiberium Sun back on the PC. Got somewhat decent at the game.
Then for the most part, I played Phantasy Star Online on Dreamcast for far far too long.
 
Phantasy Star Online.

Not only on dial-up - but with FREE dialup. I also, eventually, used SegaNet (OPTIMIZED!!!).

Played hundreds of hours of PSO on dial-up - late at night so my parents wouldn't freak out over using the phone.
 
Warcraft II, Warcraft III, and Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2. Possibly 1602 A.D.

Edit : Oh god almost forgot Final Fantasy XI on PS2.
 
The only ones I can think of were Dreamcast games. Mostly Phantasy Star Online. I remember having to wait really late at night until everyone else was asleep before I could get on for fear of being kicked off by the phone. Not easy when you live with a teenage girl lol.
 
Diablo 1, and Heroes of Might & Magic 3, mostly. I was also addicted to a text-based MUD at the time called Medievia.
 
Doom
Doom 2
Rise of the Triad
Hexen
Duke Nukem 3D
Quake
Quake II (and all his popular mods)
WarCraft II
StarCraft Broodwar

ATZ string motherfucker
 
nfs3 on pc I think, maybe quake 3 and UT too, but I really don't remember. I switched to cable modem around the same time.
 
The ones that come to mind immediately...

Duke Nukem 3D
NASCAR Racing from Papyrus
IndyCar Racing 2
DragonRealms (text-based MUD)

We got Prodigy Internet when it became available and then Road Runner right away once it was released in Orlando. Can't recall exactly when that was.. Diablo might have pre-dated it, but not by a whole lot.
 
Everything through 2005. I used to play Counter-Strike with a 300 ping and still dominate pubs. At local LANs I was unstoppable.
 
Phantasy Star Online
Counter-Strike
Team Fortress Classic
Warcraft 2
Starcraft
Monster Truck Madness
Diablo
Diablo 2

Fun, yet frustrating times.
 
batman2million said:
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.
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I think that was download accelerator. It left off if you lost your connection. There is nothing more heartbreaking than downloading a huge demo and it not working. I remember 20 Mb being a huge sized demo.

Games I played over modem:

Dark Forces II. I loved this game on modem. It was all about that bespin level. So much fun.

Interstate 76. Racing on Load of Asphalt or just doing jumps everywhere. Such a weird/awesome game.

Red Alert I would always win against my friends. They could never get the concept of tank rush.

Star Wars Rebellion. Only once. My friends decided to quit after they took out one of my star destroyers with a single fighter. I had no idea how to attack in the game.

Edit: How could I forget Air Quake? I put hundreds of hours into that over modem. I felt like such a hacker.
 
Diablo II
Warcraft II
Warcraft III
Starcraft
Counter Strike
WoW (for a week before while for the Cable upgrade)
Age of Mythology
Jedi Knight: Jedi Outcast
Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
 
I spent way more than my share of time (over a year, at least, in /played time) on WoW while I still lived at my mothers house. The only type of internet that we could get was dialup. It wasn't as bad as you are probably thinking, either. I also spent an ungodly amount of time playing Star Trek: Armada and Warcraft III.
 
Starsiege Tribes and POD were the only one I played on dail-up - we got some ridiculously fast cable connection (I think it was around 5mbs down) in the beginning of 1999.
 
duke 3d and C&C Red Alert 1.

our parents were trying to sell our house and no one could call to look at it because I was always tying up the line.
 
Only Runescape. My parents noticed how annoying it was to not have phone calls go in/out and switched to Verizon DSL shortly after.
 
I was mainly just playing CS and Ghost Recon back then and very little of anything else online. One thing I do remember, though I am not sure if it was just me, was that Ghost Recon never seemed to lag. With games like Quake, UT and CS a 56k ping had a noticeable impact on your experience playing online. I never had this with the original Ghost Recon. It always played perfectly online.
 
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