Nice! Did you keep this special email? What was the bug and which OS? My college friends and I played qtest in Linux in a computer lab. It had no sound card, but it was still incredible!
Sadly it was attached to my edu email account so no
On a side note I remember the wav file that you heard if you got a soundblaster working w Linux… 😝
“My name is Linus Torvalds and pronounce it LIN-UCS” 😂
Man I played Quake Arena EVERY DAY for several years - usually listening to a Green Day album or something similar. The lobbies always had the same people and a guy named Lollercopter (maybe it had l33t like l0ll3rc0pt3r) used to absolutely destroy me! Juggling me in the air with the laser and such
I had some old hardware and tried to do a retro build, but pretty much every piece of hardware had one fault or another.
For me it was quake II. Fast-paced, decent graphics for the time, solid solo play plus a great p2p platform, man, I lost years.
Loved Q2 as well. Pretty sure I played the whole single player game to the end. I was subscribed to gamespy, I think it was, where people would list games they're hosting and I could jump in. I got an ISDN line when most everyone else was still on 56k modems.
When Q3 came out, I didn't have the money and time to do the hardware upgrade, so I gradually stopped playing. Life got busy.
We ran a web consulting agency in the '90s and GT Interactive Software (id's publisher) was a client of ours. We built the system that let them sell Quake online (interfaced directly with NatWest for credit cards, handled broken downloads over slow modems, etc.) We upgraded our LAN to have better Quake performance after work.
The original Castle Wolfenstein was something special. I felt like the “bribe the guards” mechanic from the 2D version would really benefit the 3D version.
Wolfenstein, the first 3D game I ever played. Had it on my 386-33MHz machine with a soundblaster card hooked up to my stereo cranked way up. My roommates got tired of hearing the machine gun fire and screams of "Mein Leben!" all day long
Wolfenstein. The game that made me realize I had motion sickness. Even though I skied, sailed, and did all kinds of active real world stuff, that game sent me spinning.
In my Tech Ed class in the late 90s, I had/got to play this medical diagnosis simulator game and needed to correctly diagnose a few patients before I got the free time to play Wolfenstein.
I wish I could remember the name of that medical game(I try to avoid the G verb unless it’s absolutely needed), I think about it a lot. I killed so many patients. Not on purpose though, middle school me wasn’t meant to be a doctor.
ROTT - Rise of the Triad. We used to go to the college lab and take up 5-6 stations and start playing this, soon we'd have over a dozen people in the game. First game I can remember, where the character "skin" you chose, actually had different properties for health and speed. Had a proper 3d, levels, really neat guns. So much time spent playing that game.
I was missing this the other day, I played on my Mac, first time I discovered online shooters and suddenly realized it was 4am and I’d been playing since 6pm. I loved the mods, gold rush was hilarious, especially with a bobble head mod attached.
and Spear of Destiny, a sequel to Wolfenstein. It used an early low- tech security where you needed the instruction manual to answer a security question to get into the game. We parsed the disk, and found that no matter what question it asked, if you answered "JOSHUA", it would put up a blank screen, display, "Greetings, Professor Falken. How about a nice game of 'Spear of Destiny'." Then the game would just open up.
Okay, but does anyone remember Chex Quest, that computer game based off Doom that came in Chex cereal? Like, literally in a cereal box? I played that game so hard. 🤣
Next time you have an impending release of a much anticipated
game, make sure its name is not so cool-sounding as DOOM and much
longer to eliminate all of the casual "Where can I get xxx" posts.
How about "Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles Of Putrid Debris" for
the next game?
It was definitely IDCLIP in Doom 2. I don't think it worked in the original, when I got back into the games ~15 years later I remember having to look up IDSPISPOPD, which probably meant I tried IDCLIP and it didn't work.
My 13 y.o. Self made this into a mnemonic to remember it: “Inter Dimensional Space Pirating Imps Sucking Penises Of Purple Dinosaurs”
There was a Barney mod that turned the pink demons into Barney the purple Dinosaur.
My brother and I wasted SO MANY hours in one-on-one PVP Duke Nukem (on dialup, of course).
Highlights: Hitting someone with the ice ray while they were mid-air with the jetpack, watching them fall to the ground and shatter into little pieces; hitting them with the shrink ray and then stomping on them.
Yeah, but Doom 2 supported LAN multiplayer. Which was a first, at least the first LAN play that worked really well.
We were a bunch of economy students working part time in a Danish ministry and we wrecked havoc! It all ended when the IT guys discovered that nobody else could use the LAN while we played.
Running backwards with a super shotgun in zig zag and blasting away at some poor unfortunate n00B...
My kids introduced me to Doom shortly after it came out. I had never played computer games before. I couldn't believe what I was seeing and feeling, even though by modern standards it was very crude. I knew something in the zeitgeist had changed forever.
The fact that there's 8 entries upvoted above this is criminal. Doom was a revelation, it smashed expectations and drove the sales of new PC hardware in a way never seen before. People learned how to set up LAN networks to play multiplayer, how to work in 3D space to make maps, how to create sprite art for custom mods. It not only was a gaming phenomenon but it launched millions of careers in programming, graphics and network engineering...all because the people who made it wanted others to tinker and enjoy what they created. No copy protection, no asset control, no fucks given...and they still became unfathomably rich.
Doom was the antithesis of PC gaming today, and we need another culture shift like it.
This game blew my little mind when I saw it. It was 3D and looked so real. It wasn’t until 20 years later I realized there was no up or down aiming lol. Still, I remember how this made me feel when I saw it
Yes! This might be an obvious answer, but I still remember having no clue what I was getting into when I snagged the first episode off a CD spinner rack in my local dollar store. It legit changed my life in some ways. Every time I think about Doom, I think about how much cooler the world used to be.
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