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Everyone would be crazy about Q3, diablo2, StarCraft, dungeon keeper.. and the list goes on. I would play this with a trusted contact from the web of trust.. if you know what I mean

ok so you would play with a neighbour using Skywire, i m guessing? what would be the benefits?

>>10121672
modern local nets don't even have those games brah.

at my highschool there was always a UT lan game going. would hop in during lunch every day while eating grilled ham and cheese or a calzone. good times

>>10121883
Is anything on earth better than a LAN party with your 10 best friends, snacks, going to sleep at 4 AM and no responsibilities?

I still remember us taking over the dining room tables, buying LAN cables we each had our own one. We were absolute madmen!

>>10121883

wow already getting memories of me playing gta sa on my school laptop back then

CS beta 5.2 - hs_oilrig

TFClassic - concing with medic all over the shit

those were days

rush home from school and get in the game til bedtime, not a care in the world. happy as fuck. bliss. take me back biz

>>10121672
Unreal tournament game of the year edition!!!

Comfy about super bandwidth def. Then the confort of having a network that won't fail, lag or disconnect cause of unpaid bills

>>10121919
>tfw i will never experience that level of comfiness again

>>10121940
Goat

>>10121919
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMPtIhAPnn4

Forgot to add copying all the downloaded music videos and Anime from each other. Was fun af.

>>10121949

when i bagged my mum to get me ISDN so i could have 50ping then would dial up on 2 lines to get 100k download that was the shit until she didn't pay the bill

>>10121959
it was the best of times fren.

>>10121883
ah yes. Golden Age
>>10121919
sleepless nights !!
>>10121939
>>10121940
those were the days mates

>>10121959

>not having a lan party every weekend

Anon, I..

>>10121919
Those were the days. Everyone would bring their cdr stacks with whatever they'd gotten off irc to trade.

>>10121883
>>10121919
>>10121929
>>10121940
>>10121977
def those were the times mates!!!

I'm doing that stuff still 3-5 times a year, LAN parties with 100-200 people are still a big thing here.

>>10121919
kids these days just don't know what they're missing

this one boomer played french/korean MMOs on laggy broadband and loved it
$600 phone bills, and no niggers on the internet. those were the days

Glad to see some of you guys still alive over here, we saw the internet grow up right infront of our eyes. I remember cat memes before cat memes haha

You guys remember playing Fortnite, it was so huge

>>10121919
Oh man... a single tear rolls down my boomer face as I remember drinking Mountain Dew and playing 10 person death match in duke nukem 3d and doom 2 all fucking night

tfw played q3 eurocup


fucking waste of time

Threw the beige boxes in the Taurus wagon and drove 700 miles to Quakecon with a friend when I was 17. It was gaming and piracy nirvana.

33 year old boomer here
grew up with the interwebs, hamging out pm irc, playing q3 serious sam and UT on lan parties with the fellas. those were seriously the best days of my life.

Anyone remember TimeSplitters and TimeSplitters 2?

so imagine having a wireless antena as part of the skywire, and deciding to play one of todays demanding games with a neighbour.. you would just configure your antenas and point them to each other for max speed and accuracy.. then GAME ON BABY!

>>10122125
fuck yeah, IRC days were the days

Whenever we'd get a snow day back in middle school we'd rush home and dial each other up for games of Descent, Duke3d, Quake1. There was an after school Doom deathmatch club in the computer lab too. The memories keep coming.

nostalgia can be toxic as you can see in this thread. those memories are great but dont think about the past too much guys. it will fuck you up. enjoy life now

>>10121672
On bch network with smart contracts, obviously. The entire world will depend on BCH. Roger Ver, Jihan Wu, Calvin Ayre, The 8btc mod (19hZx234vNtLazfx5J2bxHsiWEmeYE8a7k), Jiang Zhouer, the bitcoin.com cofounder, the Coinbase founder - all BILLIONAIRES who can complete the flippening with their own cash TODAY.
They're not doing so because they'd rather invest in BCH adoption. BCH adoption is skyrocketing while btc adoption is dropping.
In a few years both St Kitts and Antigua will use BCH as their main currency (Roger is working on St Kitts, Calvin is investing in Antigua more money than their GDP exclusively because of BCH adoption), Craig Wright will increase transaction counts by circumventing corrupt governments in Africa for money transfers (this one is not certain but very possible considering his funding), Roger is speaking to VIP-s every other day, including Japanese bank CEO-s, stock exchange owners, etc. Brian Armstrong will push BCH and shit on BTC subtly every chance he gets, bitcoin.com wallet is the most popular mobile wallet and it literally shits on BTC, propaganda/censorship effects are fading, Purse just added BCH meaning that normies can use it to get 20% discounts on amazon, Koreans love BCH and they seem to matter at least as much as Americans and significantly more than eurofags, miners are looking for ways to destroy BTC in the next few years otherwise their profits will crumble, LN is proving more and more of a failure every single day, Wright will patent-troll startups into moving into BCH, tipping on github is now possible with bch, smart contracts are coming in November, stress tests are a massive success, charities are popularizing BCH in struggling countries (Venezuela today, others will join in if trouble arises), Free Society project is progressing well, Circle is adding BCH next few weeks, Ayre who became a billionaire from gambling is going to create BCH-only online casinos

>>10121672
Starcraft, Diablo2, Team Fortress Classic.

>>10122003
>>10122011
>>10122056
>>10122073
>>10122096
>>10122125
>>10122150
>>10122172
We will all make it, we have the collective spirit of a entire failed generation channeled through us. We will make it because we must!

>>10122159
oh yeah, long gaming nights with skywire operating on mesh network having finally max speed without load problem
that would be the dream

>>10122217
this fucking planet is toxic id give my left nut to go back to the carefree days of my youth. spending all sunday on the free isdn, Tagging ftps, racing releases on topsites, then go over to my neighbours house to smoke pot and play tony hawk 2. i would give everything to go back my 20s and 30s have beem nothing but misery and this hellish existence gets worse every year.

private internet, maximum speed with Starcraft, CS and Deus Ex
bring it baby

mid 30's here, I started with playing DOOM2 via direct dialup BBS lines (TANGO BBS in Toronto). Most of my friends had computers and we'd also do direct dialup modem to eachother often. Duke3D, Warcraft II, Rise of the Triad were all pretty popular choices..
The internet was born shortly after and even that used to be accessed for me by logging into a portal via the paid BBS subscription.

Soon after came AOL CD's and CompuServe and all that shit.

Canuck here though.

>>10121919
>>10121959
>>10121990
>>10122003
>>10122022
t. boomers on a nostalgia trip

>>10121672
Quake 3 was the best!
Rail only Q3dm17 1v1 and Freezer on Q3dm7

You can still get it for free, just google massacre freezer quake 3 and download it from their page

>>10122159

I can imagine playing CS with a fully connected network all the security and reliability could bring
If I would had the tech we have now, mesh net and all I don't think I would get out from the house for decades

>>10122478
Nostalgia trip or not, those were the real days
Local net you say? Something with real speed and accuracy, someone mentioned skywire antennas. Those would be something

>>10122159
actually skyguy was talking on the skywug forum about developing such a tool. you will use it to find the best nodes in your area and connect to those, as well as set your antena on the right direction for improved signal and speed

>>10122668
for some contemporary games that would require large bandwidth, for sure the antenas would be perfect

>>10122615
ah, yes, dm17 :)) fuck i kept falling off the platforms on that map

Local Net?
Quake Live is on steam, it's basicly Quake 3 Arena and still being played online, mostly Clan Arena (4v4 up to 8v8).

>>10122562
No shit, idiot

>>10122758
i was the guy flying around, with rail gun shots to the ground, across the map

been a real tryhard back then hahaha

duke nukem 3D, team fortress classic, counter-strike, quake, unreal tournament

I miss those days.

>>10122562
Go post on your instagram

>>10121672
>boomer.jpg
Ah, the good old days. Even back then computer games were a social activity where people got together to play multiplayer fps LAN games. Today it seems society is divided and isolated more after the invention of the internet and social media. I wonder what went wrong gents.

Civ, UT, Starcraft, AoE, Warcraft, Command and Conquer, Alien vs Predator

>>10121672
>games
>gaymes
>gay
(You)

>>10121672
>Q3A, UT99, HL, CS 1.x.

Truly the golden age of FPS.

>>10122073
mt dew code red playing c&c red alert

>>10123607
>WC3, SC, TA, C&C
and the golden age of strategy/RTS I guess.

>>10123458
Counter-strike 1.3, starcraft etc were epic mutiplayer games. I think when it wasnt socially acceptable to dedicate your life to gaming then like minded people had to stick together in LAN centres. Also made screen cheating easier. Nowadays its cool to be a gamer but peoples hearts arent in the game its more due to the addictive grind reward system and pay to win games nowadays that have no soul. Purely addiction like gambling. World of tanks, war robots etc.

>>10123664
Shit forgot about TA and TA kingdoms

>>10122557
My friend and I used to watch his dad play rise of the triad, he wouldn’t let us play because he didn’t want us to fuck up his save lol.

>>10121672
Major boomer spotted.

we re gonna play these old timers on Skywire like crazy :D it s gonna be another protocol but we re still gonna call it the LAN party

CS 1.5
Red Alert 2
Command and Conquer Tiberium sun
Rise of Nations
Simcity 3000
Simcity 4
Rome total war
Perfect Dark
007 Goldeneye

Those were the days

>>10123937
007 goldeneye was amazing. So many memories. Right in the boomer feels.

>>10124004
perfect dark with dat expany pack tho

>>10123937
>>10124004
31 year old boomer here

my negroes

This thread made me proud to be a boomer!

I bet none of you faggots played Kingpin: Life of Crime
fuckin multi player was dope, bagman game mode kinda like capture the flag but with a safe and bags of cash, lel

>>10124116
>Kingpin: Life of Crime
pic related

no descent?

>>10123688
The grind is terrible. I tried that new Quake but the gameplay was mediocre and just disgustingly focused around Pavlovian loot crates.

played ut99 last night after quake champions died

>quake II over hamachi
>starcraft II over phone directly
holly shit I am a boomer aren't I ?

OpenTTD (Transport Tycoon Deluxe) is my favorite boomer game. It's like virtual model trains mixed with turbo autism optimization. Love the 90s style graphics as well.

Goldeneye, TFC, Quake 3, Starcraft, C&C, AvP, and the GOAT late night LAN game, motherfucking MOHAA.

If you graduated from high school anywhere from late 90s to early 2000s (basically pre-web 2.0 bullshit) you experienced the true golden age of multiplayer gaming with all of its clunkiness and glory.

Goddamit you did it dickheads

Secretly writing out strategies during class for this game.

Autistically keeping al the spawn time records written on my notepad.

>>10124116
my nigga of course I played it and I even bought it on GOG a cpl of years ago to play it again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jadxTFqyhRM
that first track though. sound of summers.

>>10121959
>mfw when sharing animu over irc and playing fps over lan

i spent an insane amount of time playing quake 3 since the OSP era

I was so good at it, I wish it was being played for million dollar tournaments instead of the shitty ass fortnite, i would be a rich celebrity

I hate normies, they killed actual competitive games too. the latest quake (champions) sucks and isnt even popular.

overall i wasted my youth playing that game, but then again i wasnt a chad so i didnt have chances going out at night to fuck hotties. if anything it made me autistically competitive and perseverant in other areas (like buying and holding bitcoin for instance)

>>10124251

Fuck yeah.


I'm autistic about trains and building efficient networks. This tickles my brain.

>>10121672

In middle school I was a level designer for a game called Graal Online, I also played a lot of Half Life: Team Fortress and Counter Strike

i spent an insane amount of time playing quake 3 since the OSP era

I was so good at it, I wish it was being played for million dollar tournaments instead of the shitty ass fortnite, i would be a rich celebrity

I hate normies, they killed actual competitive games too. the latest quake (champions) sucks and isnt even popular.

overall i wasted my youth playing that game, but then again i wasnt a chad so i didnt have chances going out at night to fuck hotties. if anything it made me autistically competitive and perseverant in other areas (like buying and holding bitcoin for instance)

Halo CE, blood gulch

another webm showcasing real hand eye coordination

i WILL be rich from bitcoin, i must be reedemed, normies ruined the once promising idea of esports with normie games and i wasnt able to make money playin q3 because by the time i turned 18 to travel to tournaments it was too late, replaced by shitty games
also i didnt have good ping until later on

FUCK

im going to destroy all these normies when im rich as fuck in 5 years

i will host big quake tournaments

BUSINESS AND FINANCE

>>10125065
>boomers getting together excited to talk about the old games they loved and the reasons they loved it, the new games they don't love and the reasons they don't
>hmm surely there's no business opportunity here, better yell BUSINESS AND FINANCE
ever wonder why games are shit? because you can throw organic free market research in people's face and they'll yell it's irrelevant. then they'll clone whatever is popular and wonder why it's not working
stick to shitcoins, son

>>10124987
Play Quake Live.
I do, have 3000h on the clock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u65C-b_Jt5M

Played Everquest on dialup.

>>10123689
That soundtrack is still the best in the genre.

https://youtu.be/BxAdOQtAFEs?t=433

>>10125167

Trying to explain how cool shit was in the 90s before 9-11 to a Gen Z is like trying to explain colors to a blind person

>>10124987
fortnite is popular because the skill floor is very low while maintaining an extremely high skill ceiling.

also its way more interesting to watch people get outplayed in the mental game through solid decision making then having 100% of the game be aim based like quake

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>>10122042
holy shit I forgotten how white the internet used to be

>>10124182
the best of the best. old boomer here. descent pisses on all.

>>10125313
>100% of the game be aim based like quake
so you have no fucking idea how to play 1v1 quake

>>10126121
>aim
>shoot
???

>>10121672
I used to play multiplayer doom 2 in cooperative mode using a direct dial up connection (in 1994). Then I moved on to Quake. I played quake online and through a LAN with my friends as well. I also played Ultima Online a lot. At some point I grew up and got sick of computer games, though I still play Brutal Doom sometimes.

AMA.

>>10125313
>run across the map for half an hour
>kill 2 people and die

>>10126620
have you beaten doom 2 on nightmare?

OG Doom SHAREWARE, doom 2, Duke nukem 3d (so underrated), played the hell out of return to castle Wolfenstein on LAN...now that's an experience.

>>10126674
Of course. It's not that hard.
I find Brutal Doom on realism + tactical modes to be more challenging these days.

Hexen was my shit.

snif

>>10126786
how about nightmare doom 2 with 2x monster damage AND speed AND no reload/one life? how's that for a challenge

Good times

>>10126848
I haven't tried that, but I like playing Brutal Doom in realism mode (damage is 900% higher).

>>10126848
I have been gaming since the 80s and played the hell out of doom 2 and is rather put a Qtip up my peehole than do this.

1.6 with dust2 and assault on repeat and battlefield vietnam

>>10124528

Remembering everyone spamming the lean at the start of every match in MOHAA still makes me smile.

>>10125060
lmaoooo adapt or die

>>10126705
shake it baby
you wanna dance?

Check out halomd.net to play classic halo multiplayer on a Mac.

>>10126960
or when a starcraft match was trying to start but couldnt because of lag and everyone losing their goddam minds in the chat
>Extra High Latency

>>10126859
Oh fuuuck. Bloodfin server baby

>>10127456
>Extra High Latency
Holy shit I forgot about this. I always had to set it to use that since I played over dialup on Battle.net. I actually lobbied my parents to get an extra dialup ISP for a better 56k connection.

If you were lucky enough to have a clan and meet up for a LAN tourney, this was the most fun I ever had gaming. Tribes 2 as well.

>>10124987
There's probably a 1 cubic inch section of my brain still allocated to pro-q3dm6 and Q3 in general. No regrets.

>>10128179
My fucking nigger

>>10122150
jo beth casey. still seek out her r34

>>10122150

#2 is up there with my all time favourite games. Damn it was good.

>>10126879
The 80s you say ? Was ecstatic when I won this

>>10126879
The 80s you say ? Was ecstatic when I won this

>>10121672
>on the neighbourhood local net
What the fuck are you talking about? In the first world, we don't network our houses together, we pay for a direct connection to the internet.

>>10122615
Q3A hook&rail fag here. shit was tight.

>>10126777

But how could one blockchain this?

the specialists mod

I want to go back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0pStxKAI_A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adtMJly42hg

>>10123937

>SimCity 3000

When I was a young Gen Xer in my mid teens, the anticipation for this game alone gave me beautiful dreams based on promo artwork.

32 year old boomer feels.

The pre jew/11 times were the best.

I used to compete internationally in quake 1 (quakeworld), I went to a specific university and did a course that I had no interest in just because the best players were there and there were different student villages that were all connected via a lan. Fuck it was great.

'The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return'

>>10121883
I got unofficially uninvited from the university UT club for not sucking enough to play with the retards.

Fucking cucks all they knew how to do was jump around like idiots, not one person could dodge worth a shit

>>10125060
Is that you on both wemb's? Those are some really good shots, wp.

I actually got laid thanks to q3a, it made me go out to net cafes with some outgoing classmates, they introduced me to some girls, sealed the deal.

Late 90s/early 2000s was a great time in general but the great games themselves made it even better. I wish there was a good FPS you could play these days, it's all dota dota dota now

>>10129889
right in the feels

>>10126534
>what is item timming
>what is positioning
>what is generally thinking and outsmarting the player

seriously, fuck off

Tribes 2.
Starcraft
Dota1
CS 1.5 then 1.6
:[

FPS games started going downhill since quake 2. They became more forgiving, less hardcore. Todays games are a joke in comparison. If any game gets release with powerful guns then kids will start crying on reddit and the developers will nerf the game making it into more of a random chance who gets the kill.