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What was your first online gaming experience?

I can't remember if it was the first but Subspace was up there

So was this game http://battlecity.org/
except it looked worse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_City_(open_source_game)

Yeah I guess the original was dead by 1998... I wish I could find out when it started.

Subspace aka Continuum
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BattleCity (you got orbed? lawl, fail)
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1995 MajorMUD

MajorMUD itself was initially offered as a separate game module for the MajorBBS. Despite its significant price tag (nearly $1000 USD for a 256 user version),[1] MajorMUD was noted by Logicom to be one of the most wildly popular packages to MajorBBS sysops. A total of 9 expansion modules, or "mods", were released over a period of several years, each in kind for an additional fee to the system owner.
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Had clans, had PVP, had ganking, had rare drops, had teamchat, etc.

Really it had all the aspects that made modern MMO's popular a few years later.
 
1993-94
The Sierra Networks social gaming. I will forever remember the little animation of the signal bouncing as it connected to the network.
Shortly after that it was DOOM.
 
I think it was Unreal but I don't remember to be honest. I used to play a bunch of other stupid games back in the late 90s on my PC so it could have been a stupid game.
 
MrCookiepants said:
Ugh. There's always people like you.

Online wasn't a big part of console gaming until the mid-00's. Most people just played split screen with siblings or friends well into their teens.
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I'm not saying it's a bad thing, just saying! Interesting to see people's first foray onto the web. Understandable how, for those who didn't have much exposure to PC gaming, it would come much later.
 
Oh man squidy, I just nostalgia'd hard at that subspace pic.
 
I think it was playing pool on jippi during an IT class, well I say playing it but there were a lot of people more interested in the chat(a/s/l?).

The first proper game was Counterstrike at a mates house, I wasn't too keen on the idea of standing around having a meeting with the rest of my squad so I just ran off and got shot, after a couple of similar attempts I wasn't allowed to play any more in case I damaged his online reputation (or got him kicked off that server?).
 
PC wise - RuneScape on 56k. Only thing my PC and connection could handle. Even paid for a membership back when it was $5 (?) a month. I was pretty good at it. Had a lot of $$$. I actually logged into it recently. According to the clock, last time I logged in was over three and a half years ago.

Console wise - Probably UFC Undisputed 2009 on 360. I dabbled online with other games but this is the one where I played the most online going for the '100 ranked wins' achievement. Wound up getting it, going 100-60-something before retiring.

Since then, I don't even bother playing online unless it's with friends and that's even few and far between.
 
XBand on the SNES! I remember being a decent Street Fighter player in the beginning, then getting my ass kicked by a player called the Duke of Figaro. He introduced me to combos in Street Fighter 2, I had played for years never knowing about combos! I remember being in the Weekly Top 25 (I think it was).
I also enjoyed Super Mario Kart, Mortal Kombat 2, Killer Instinct...ahh the memories!
XBand was my introduction to the Internet actually, I didn't have a computer until about a year after XBand.

Press Up, up, up!
 
Sulik2 said:
Shadows of Yserbius on the old Sierra Online network. Pay by the hour too. Those were terrible days.
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I remember Compuserve and GEnie were often like $4-5 PER HOUR. And then they would charge per hour for the games on top of that. Prodigy and eventually AOL were absolutely insane when they came out with all you can eat monthly pricing.
 
I want to say I played Killer Instinct over X-band way back in the day.

Otherwise I'll go with Warhawk about 6 months after PS3 launch, sweet, glorious, Warhawk.
 
I'm surprised at the amount of people saying Phantasy star online on the dreamcast. That was my first online experience too. Not a single person in my locality had even heard of the game.
 
This program called Kali which allowed us to get games going for all types of games. At the time back in the day we used Kali to play Doom I/II, Decent I/II, C&C etc...
 
It was definitely Starcraft. My first ever MMORPG though was Runescape. I also remembered loving this game similar to Starcraft called Star Command.
 
South Africa - around the year 2000, hooked up a 56k modem, somehow got my hands on a copy of Ultima Online, played the trial, it was incredible. The characters were talking to me, and I spoke back, the very first thing I did, was get undressed, stood in what seemed to be the town square, and begged, worked out beautifully, but if I can recall correctly, I think I stole something and was slain right after that.
 
Quake way back in 1996. Then Unreal Tournament. Probably why Shooters are so popular...our games evolved from them. Hell we are still using the quake engine today in some current gen games (heavily modified of course).
 
World of Warcraft. Sucked literally 2-3 years of my life away. I always had shitty internet so online games were never as appealing to me.
 
resistance fall of man.

the customizability of almost everything meant you could tailor the game to play how you wanted to.

still one of the finest mp experiences i've ever had, and not just because its dear to my heart being the first.
 
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Back in the mid 90's sometime. Didn't really enjoy it and just did it to see what it was like. I was pretty young, though.

I would give a few other things a try back when I was a PC gamer, but I didn't really enjoy anything til I was playing Halo 2 on my friend's Xbox. I really got into it proper with Forza 2 and Modern Warfare.
 
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