/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5452845
Not wide open, but half open.
And its lovely.

>>5452808
> beta3 version of the map
> three weeks before shareware release
> 7 weeks before mail order release of the full version
Back in 1996 I knew vaguely of quake coming out but I was informed even more vividly of Diablo and how cool it looked.
My dad didnt have a good computer really it was kinda middle of the road, we had a 486/40mhz for a long time and eventually he dug into a credit card to get a 586/100mhz...
Not a Pentium mind you, but a 586 which is some weird middle of the road level of performance between a 486 and a Pentium.
And we used that until the end of the millennium.

Mostly as far as retro games go I mainly played Doom 2, Rise/Triad, Heretic Shareware, Warcraft 2 Expansion, C&C/RA, Duke3D, and Xcom TFTD. And I did alot of modding on those but it was lightweight stuff
No multiplayer.
Except on a few rare occasions I played deathmatch with a kid across town over modem. And I completely demolished him in Rise/Triad, Duke3D, and Heretic.
I was a geek in a small town and there really werent any other geeks around to get a Lan going.

Quake 2 was my first introduction to quake, because of a local small tech expo showing it off in multiplayer. I got the demo for Quake 2 which kinda sucked but it was okay enough, just the first two maps of the game and it even lacked the walking Tank enemy which was supposed to be on the map and it would spit errors for not being able to find the assets for it.
After awhile I bought Quake 2. And after I played it abit I got curious about Quake 1.
So I snagged the software version of Q1 sometime around 1999 or '00 as an Afterthought.
(keeping in mind the software version has no music)
I wasnt impressed with the weapons or the lack of a BFG. So I didnt care to see 3 more episodes of it. In 2001 I found a full version of Quake1 on an ftp site and downloaded that. It didnt have music for it either.
My experiences would say Quake1 is a bastard stepchild of FPS.

>tfw too embarrassed to buy video games