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Gaming on a 56k modem, who actually did it?

John Rabbit said:
anyone remember Mplayer?
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~~~memories~~~

Quake on a 14.4 modem through MPlayer was where it was at.
 
56k? You guys are young. I had a 300baud modem back in the day for my Apple ][. Connected through my game controller port.

Then I had a Apple Cat 1200baud modem. That was sweet.:)
 
i was so out of touch with pc and the interwebs because my dad never let us use the pc (he said we will use to watch porn ) but in the early? 2000 i played RuneScape that way. i did this in my grandparents house (the only play with a decent pc and that i could use), the billings were of epic proportions too i was so hooked to it with my younger brother
 
It was amazing but sucked at the same time haha (until my parents got a second phone line so we wouldnt be fighting nonstop for phone vs dial up)! Played starcraft, CS, diablo 2, Baldurs Gate 2 and other games on it. It was horrible when a phone call would come through and kick you off!
 
Zeliard said:
~~~memories~~~

Quake on a 14.4 modem through MPlayer was where it was at.
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Mplayer quake was great fun even if the competition wasn't the best. I played on 14.4 there for a bit but got hooked up with an isdn line at some point and was just wrecking fools.
 
First modem was 2400 baud. Don't remember playing any games on it though. Just posting on bulletins via prodigy and compuserve.

Do remember playing co-op doom on my 9600 modem though. US Robotics was the shit during the 28.8 thru 56k modem days though.
 
Two player Duke Nukem 3D co-op locally over the phone lines! It was absolutly awesome. Over the actually internet on a 56k modem, I remeber playing a lot of the original Command & Conquer as well as Red Alert, and the original Quake, a lot of Unreal Tournemant '99, as well as Quake III, Alien vs Predator Gold, Mech Warrior 3 and numerous other games.

I also had a Sega Dreamcast back in the day and spent a lot of time playing Daytona USA 2001 online with the DC 56k modem.

So yeah, lot's of good memmories.


John Rabbit said:
try playing Mechwarrior 2 on a 14.4.

jesus christ.

anyone remember Mplayer?
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I do.

Also, TEN Network!:

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It was my goto place for C&C online, as well as a little Duke.
 
Rainbow Six and Rogue Spear on MSN gaming zone baby. I remember being so ignorant of online play that I'd host "56k only" lobbies lol. Yah like that would make a difference..... Plus both games didn't have dedicated servers so you almost always played with lag unless the host had a T1 or T3 (or insanely good cable connection). Both games also didn't have predictive netcode so you warped all over the place with no smooth transitions...
 
Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
You just resigned yourself to the 200 ms ping in every game. That was as good as it was going to get. You lived with it. I had a lot of fun with a lot of games anyway.
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it just wasnt the 200ms ping though it was the awesome loss of connection because suddenly your mom used the phone to call your aunt

this happened a lot of times when i played runescape and in the WILDY!

good times
 
basic_element said:
First modem was 2400 baud. Don't remember playing any games on it though. Just posting on bulletins via prodigy and compuserve.

Do remember playing co-op doom on my 9600 modem though. US Robotics was the shit during the 28.8 thru 56k modem days though.
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There were some text based BBS games around. Fond memories of dialing into them with my huge 300 baud modem. Good times.
 
56k? i had 28.8k.
i tried bg2 and its shitty gamespy frontend and ut99.
i couldn't handle it and didn't get back until i got cable.
 
I remember playing Quake 3 on a 56k modem after I built my first PC. Was like staring into heaven, a laggy heaven but heaven none the less. Wear your HPB badge with honour! :)
 
I played online games at every baud from 300 up. I used to play nethack on Compuserve servers and various games via Fidonet and other BBs systems. Then Civ and other strategy games on PC, and eventually the early multiplayer shooters. I played the shit out of Quake via modem. And Duke, and Duke variants. And then the Dreamcast. Chu Chu Rocket!
 
Quake 2, Myth.... And i was pretty good in both until my dad took cable from the plug to the computer to unknown location for 2 months due to insane telephone bill :D
 
Cs, starcraft, q2, aq2, ra etc. The good old days when people with ping BELOW 80 would ket a k thx +b :) But we got 10/10 eth at the same time people started getting Adsl 0.5 and yet after that I have still used dial up. Even have a modem today in order to be able to play pso since dc ethernet adapter is so expensive.
 
delta25 said:
hate to break it to ya man, but we're getting old.
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Who knows what's going to happen to us in this age of madness. We are the winning prize in a race between nature and technology. Returning to Mother Earth or living on forever as cyborgs: that is the question.

I really need some sleep.
 
Quake III Arena - I still haven't found a fps experience quite as magnificent as playing Q3A on our 56k Modem. It was the reason we ended up with two phone lines.
 
morpix said:
56k? 33.6 fo life yo.
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Yup, and paid a fortune on it.

xtrasauce said:
Who knows what's going to happen to us in this age of madness. We are the winning prize in a race between nature and technology. Returning to Mother Earth or living on forever as cyborgs: that is the question.
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Simple; if we want to sustain our numbers, it's tech all the way. And that is a wonderful thing. The old pop-culture 'grim future' view got it all wrong.

For the first time in existence, we will finally reach tier 1 civilization within the next century or two.
 
Used to play an unhealthy amount of Gemstone III and later DragonRealms back in the day. Once on DR I went on a paid quest which was basically a small group adventure overseen by GM's which consisted of two 8 hour play sessions over two days. I had to have my mother tell everyone not to call during that time.

Before that I played on Xband a lot. I really miss that. Feels like I'm the only one who remembers it.
 
got level 20+ on warcraft 3 vanilla on my 56k connection before they pussified the ladder and made it so everyone could get over level fucking 13 while still being ass at the same time.

56k connection from sea to USWEST. Ballin
 
my ISP had a dedicated Quake server set up meaning we had pretty steady 190-200ms pings with modems. Mind you this was before Quakeworld meaning no prediction at all, so you were always moving being mindful of the world that was .2 seconds ahead of you. And we were among the lucky ones, really.

Employees would play as admins with 30-40 ping. Severe mockery would result every time we killed one of these guys.
 
Socom on ps2 and Starcraft on pc primarily. They were dark times but when it worked for a few minutes as intended it was something special.
 
My favorites were:
Doom 2
Duke Nukem 3D
Warcraft 2
Quake
Diablo

Did anyone else have a subscription to T-E-N?. I remember being fairly high ranked in Duke3D.

I remember playing a friend of mine in Warcraft all the time but he would NEVER allow the game to finish if I was going to win. He would pick up the phone and start talking to kill the connection. What a dick.

Oh - and don't forget to disable call waiting lol.
 
God I miss 90s PC gaming. There was something just fucking awesome about playing games over a slow ass internet connection. It felt so surreal.
 
xtrasauce said:
Who knows what's going to happen to us in this age of madness. We are the winning prize in a race between nature and technology. Returning to Mother Earth or living on forever as cyborgs: that is the question.

I really need some sleep.
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go to bed you old fuck ;)
 
Tried to play StarCraft online, was pretty brutal. The lag was ridiculous and I got stomped quick.

CounterStrike and Quake were also pretty bad for me. Never got a good connection, mainly since I lived in rural Colorado, so had to try to think a second ahead. Nigh impossible for me to do in a twitch shooter. Got slaughtered in both games.

Played PSO on the Dreamcast with 56k. Enjoyed the hell out of it. Wish I could still play that online.
 
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