Your first online game?

[Toireht]

I was quite late to the online scene, sense I lived in alaska till 2000. We did have internet but it was a miserable 28.8k, we surfed the net at the speed of slow. We could play over phone lines to each other, but could only really play doom, age of empires, and CNC, but nothing really online with people you don't know.

When we finally came back down to the lower 48 again, we got 56k for about a year. In that year i picked up tribes 2, and tried playing online once but quit cause of the lag. A week later after picking it up we got cable, and thats when I got my first taste of real online play with 32 other people fraggin it out in the tribes 2 world. To this day I still believe its one of the enjoyable online games. It might not be as good as other games out there, but it sticks out more then any others cause it was my first real online experience.

So whats your guys' first online experience?

[Ledhed]

The first one that I really became involved in was Halo PC. Played it a few hours a night solid for about 8 months or so.

Now, it's Halo 2. Go figure.

[Rocko]

Unreal Tournament.

[Pancake Rabbit]

Warcraft 2: Battle.net edition.

[asaraa]

NCAA Football 2004. Great game, even though there was a lot of cheaters. Way better than 2005 or 2006, IMO.

[Negative]

Team Fortress Classic, pure awesome.

[Nogib]

Hard to say what was really my absolute very first online game since it was so long ago, but one of the more notable things that stands out in my memory was the NetMech expansion for MechWarrior 2.

[swetooth9]

counter strike 1.6 or older maybe...i dont remember...

[SatchmoKhan]

I don't remember which was first, but I remember playing Mech Warrior 2 with NetMech and the original Diablo on Battlenet.

[javeryh]

I've never played a game online before. I don't know anyone with a PS2 that I would want to play. I have the network adapter (slim PS2) but it's not hooked up. I keep meaning to but it's going to be a huge pain in the ass. I'm planning on going online with the next gen though so maybe in about a year or so...

[Skylander7]

I did Warcraft II a little bit, but it was Worms Armageddon that seriously sucked me in. I played the game for years. Literally. I also played some of the Janes Flight Sims in the early days when Navy Fighters and Fighters Anthology were around. Damn I miss those days... a bit crazy on dial up. However, the beauty of Worms was that since it was so simplistic, lag wasn't an issue with a dialup connection.

[help1]

MY online (current and previous)addictions:

Jedi Knight 2
Mystery of the Sith
Unreal Tournament
Jedi Outcast
UT2K3
Counter Strike
SOCOM
SOCOM 2
HALO 2

I would play some of the newer computer games like half life 2, but I can only play them on my brothers laptop right now and he is at college so im gonna start playin em when I get a new comp.

[Roufuss]

Quake.

[Inferno-X]

My first online game was a text-based MU*, if you wanna count that. If not, Unreal Tournament. I tried Doom, but only played it a couple of times.

[Strell]

Mad Maze

After that, direct dial-up connections to play against one person in Rise of the Triad and Warcraft 2 (before Battlenet).

Then Subspace/Continuum, the greatest game you've never played. You owe it to yourself to go to www.powerballzone.com and download it and play it. Asteroids multiplayer deathmatch. Absolutely brilliant design. Hard as hell to learn but it's pure old school.

[Apossum]

Capcom Vs. Snk 2 on XBL. Good stuff, still play it from time to time.

[munch]

I used to play jeopardy online all the time. does that count?

[snotnose_colossal]

Diablo or Unreal Tournament

[Darwin23]

nba live 2004. I got the mic and the keyboard when i bought my network adapter. hooked it up and was able to play with a kid from minnesotta. it was so cool to be able to talk to the other player. we were talkin' trash to each other and it was fun.

then i hooked it up with tigetr woods 2004 and played online with a mic. now that was boring. what the hell do you talk about in between shots in golf other than...."that was a nice shot".

after experimenting with that....i stopped using mic online coz' it gets pretty distracting to play sports games with.

[PittsburghAfterDark]

NFL 2K1. My first online addiction was DC's Quake III and I don't even want to discuss my PSO addiction of 2001. It was truly disturbing how much I played that game.

The best XBL games to date, IMHO of course, remain RtCW, Halo 2 and RalliSport 2.

[Odenat]

Starcraft, then Counter Strike, Then the Socom's. I tried halo 2 just to unbalanced for me. Now my current fav is Socom 3

[woobacca]

Halo through XBConnect

[RAMSTORIA]

i cant remember but it was either diablo or quake 2... i think it was diablo, on an old old computer with a 28.8 modem, top of the line in its day

[godhatesjustyou]

Diablo 2.

[Msia]

Quake 2 on PC, PSO on console.

[2poor]

counter strike 1.3

right before the bunny hop was fixed.

[AlbinoNinja]

my first was Age of Empires 2. My older brother and I were a good team, he'd play, and id be there checking team/unit weaknesses for him. I eventually started playing online too, although i didnt get really seriously into online play until Starcraft

[GuilewasNK]

I think it was Quake III Arena on the Dreamcast.

[sblymnlcrymnl]

SoF2 demo online a few times ... and Amplitude once. That's about the extent of my online play.

[jlarlee]

Worms 2 in 99 than CS in late 2000

[Purple Flames]

Phantasy Star Online for the Dreamcast. I still have fond memories of that games...when I don't think of the shitheads with cheat devices that ultimately ruined the game, that is.

[secretvampire]

The original Doom in 1993(?). Damn we played the hell out of that over the modem.

[ryanbph]

My first online experiance that I owned the game and system, was socom...I was hooked like crack on it, hearing birds chirping early in the morning as I was going to bed

[Swift900]

The very first multiplayer game I played via my 28k modem was Duke Nukem. It wasn't online but rather a direct connection to a friends pc through the phone line.

The very first online game I played was Diablo.

My first online addiction came from tom clancy's rainbow six: rogue spear... best tactical fps ever.

[itspaidgasterblaster]

final fantasy XI

[jonny98]

The first game I played online what Novalogic's Delta Force 1 back in 1998. It blew me away.

[hero101]

My first online game was probably Quake II or starcraft. I dunno which came first.

[docvinh]

NFL 2K1. My first online addiction was DC's Quake III and I don't even want to discuss my PSO addiction of 2001. It was truly disturbing how much I played that game.

The best XBL games to date, IMHO of course, remain RtCW, Halo 2 and RalliSport 2.
Been there, done that. I was completely addicted to PSO, until the PK hack started running rampant.

[wildnuts02]

i guess i'm the only one who's first online game was Command & Conquer.

[kaw]

My first online game was a Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) called Barren Realms. This was back in 1995. I was hooked on MUDs (think WoW without the graphics) for about 4 years. Funny thing is I haven't played much online gaming since then

[wubb]

First one I remember really getting into was Warcraft II. Played that on the free Kali servers for hours a day. But with Warcraft II hours could mean just one match... I remember having the beginning routine down to a science.

When I picked up Warcraft III years later I never really got into it online for some reason. Played it probably less than a dozen times online total.

[CYRiX]

Uhh started out with Diablo 2 that my friend showed me, then I started getting into cs 1.6, played that for so long. I got xfire like during the last couple of months before hl2 came up and it kept track of my cs1.6 for those couple of months, and it was over 200 hours! So imagine tha for like 2-3 years. I use to be in a clan and was in cal and had my own server, god it was fun, especially since I had my own server I could boot all the hackers and lamers.

[SierraNight]

Everquest Online Adventures for PS2. I hate admitting that.

Also played FFXI for a while.

However, I was way too addicted to MMORPGs and quit cold turkey about a year ago. Haven't gone back and I'm much happier now.

[azel]

Doom in high school via modem (but is that really, truly online?)

I guess my first real online, mmo-esque experience was with PSO on dreamcast. I, like many others here, were totally drawn into the best totally repetitive game ever made. It paved the way for me to play mmorpg's like EQ and WoW,

Long live Dreamcast Online!!!

[bobthegoat2001]

My first online game was Quake III for PC. I took a computer class during high school (computer techology and networking) and about 75% of the time there we played online games -- mostly Quake III. The class had about 30 people in it. It was funny because even the teacher played it. She'd tell us to go easy on her or she'd give us bad grades.

I liked playing the Team Fortess mod. A lot of people liked being the sniper, so I was always the medic and give them all the virus (which also made it hard for them to snipe since it would constantly kill them and they couldn't hold still).

Good times.

[guyver2077]

nfl 2k1 and quake 3 for dc

[dreamvsps2]

Tribes (l)

[Vyrtigo]

Either Diablo or Quake. Whichever was out first. I don't remember

[Mr Unoriginal]

If we are counting MUDs on BBSes, that would be my first.

Next "first" for me is playing DukeNukem 3d over modem with a buddy of mine.

I used to play a lot of Warcraft II on the Kali servers as well.

[zewone]

Phantasy Star Online for DC.

[projecteightysix]

runescape was my first (lol).
cs 1.4-5 (dont remember. i think it was the very end of 4 that i started.)
then d2 etc.

[Prepster]

Runescape was my first, then Halo, then World of Warcraft, now I don't even play any of those anymore.

[Z-Saber]

I don't know if I can remember my FIRST first, but the first game I ever really got into online was Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight. I played that thing to death. Keyboard only. I was oblivious to the mouse being a gaming peripheral. And then there was the lack of video card, resulting in only 320x200 or something thereabouts for my resolution.

I wonder if Microsoft's Zone still has a (the only) server list?

EDIT: Skimmed a bit of the thread. Is this about MMOs? In that case, my first online game was Ragnarok Online, or Ragnacrack as I call it. I've been in and out of it several times. The game is so stupid, so simple, yet so compelling. It's been calling me lately, but I'm resisting. For now.

[guardian_owl]

The first game I played over the internet (kinda) was the Microsoft flight shooter "Hellbender" I connected with a friend of mines by dialing directly over the phone line. We had a hell of a time getting it working though :lol:. The first game that I played over an organized Internet system is the original Diablo. Followed by Diablo 2 or Half-life, I forgot which came first. But in terms of online playing time, Half-life by far.

I wasted years blowing through at least 20+ different Half-life 1 mods: Battle of the Milinium, Rocket Crowbar, Action HL, Existence mod, Dragonmodz, TFC, CS, Day of Defeat, Bumpercars, Natural Selection, Wizard Wars, Svencoop, "Pirates Vikings, and Knights", Richochet, Gladiator, Vampire Slayers, the Specialist, Judgement, Worms HL, Opposing Forces, Jailbreak, Science and Industry, Snark Wars, The Wastes, Holy Wars, Train Hunters, Braindead, The Battlegrounds (revolutionary war mod), The Opera, Firearms, Global Warfare, Master Sword, Goldeneye, Scientist Hunt :twisted:, Runaway Train, and I'm sure others. There was much fun to be had for that initial 20 dollar purchase of the game from my local, independent used game seller back in 1999.

[levi333]

Age of Empires, 56k.

[Over easy]

Diablo 2 on 56k. Since many people I know what playing it, I picked it up.

Now I am playing WoW and Warcraft 3, but I really don't have much time to game anymore.

[Dogpatch]

Hmmm, have to say Quake II was my first online game. Then a bit of Unreal Tournament, Tribes 1 & 2, Age of Empires 2, Starcraft, Delta Force 2 & 3, Team Fortress Classic, Total Annihilation, and probably a few others. No wonder my wife use to fuss at me. :)

First mmo game has to be WW2Online. Throw in Earth and Beyond, Eve, and Guild Wars.

[dafoomie]

Then Subspace/Continuum, the greatest game you've never played. You owe it to yourself to go to www.powerballzone.com and download it and play it. Asteroids multiplayer deathmatch. Absolutely brilliant design. Hard as hell to learn but it's pure old school.
I played a lot of Subspace back in the day... Usually on ASWZ, but then something else when it went away for a while. I had to stop playing before Continuum came out, though.

My first online game was a Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) called Barren Realms. This was back in 1995. I was hooked on MUDs (think WoW without the graphics) for about 4 years. Funny thing is I haven't played much online gaming since then
I played a SMAUG mud called 7th Circle for about 7 years, starting in about 96/97. If you've been to Realms of Despair, its similar, though less people.

The first game I played over the internet (kinda) was the Microsoft flight shooter "Hellbender" I connected with a friend of mines by dialing directly over the phone line. We had a hell of a time getting it working though :lol:. .
I played that early on too, at least, the demo of it that was bundled with Windows 95.

I can't be sure of which one I played first, but the earliest I can think of are a mud, Warcraft 2 through dialing up another person's computer directly, and a DOS game that I can't recall.

[drsuper23]

First online gaming experience was NFL 2k1 for the Dreamcast. My first addiction was MotoGP for the Xbox, then MotoGP2 and PGR 2 as well. Those were a lot of hours spent playing.

[BustaUppa]

I never attempted any online gaming until we got cable modem in my house, late last year. After I bought a router to get the high-speed connection up in my room, the first game I played online was Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 through Kaillera MAME. First officially-supported online game was Mortal Kombat Deception on XBOX Live. Since then I've spent most of my online time with Halo 2, Smackdown vs Raw, Burnout, and some other XBL fighters. Oddly enough I have yet to use my PC for any online gaming outside of Kaillera... I really ought to put UT2004 to good use but it's just so hard to find the time.

[lordwow]

You youngins... Heretic via Modem, Warcraft 2 on Kali.

[Zing]

In 1995: Descent, using KALI.

[Danro]

Ultima Online

[kaw]

I played a SMAUG mud called 7th Circle for about 7 years, starting in about 96/97. If you've been to Realms of Despair, its similar, though less people.

I think I had visited Realms of Despair at one point. I played the MUD Castle Arcanum (not the Sierra game Arcanum, we had our name first dammit) from 1997-2001, and I'm still an admin there, but I only log on once or twice a year. Back in the day, I always thought the SMAUG codebase was the best.

[CheapyD]

some text based space (way early) MMORPG on compuserve. I forget the name, but it was really addictive. CheapyDad was none too happy when he got the bill.

300 baud modem with a 9 volt battery, bitches!

http://www.atarimagazines.com/v5n8/Volksmodem10.JPG

[Matt Young]

I'm pretty sure mine was Chu Chu Rocket for the Dreamcast. That game was like chocolate chip crack online.

[ViolentLee]

I would play Duke Nukem and other oldschool FPS over modem at my girlfriend's house against her cousin, using her dad's computer. She wasn't very happy when I'd blow an hour and not even look in her direction.

[varsitygamer]

Ultima Online in '99, but Ooga Booga on the DC came shortly thereafter thanks to the fact that netzero could be used on the DC.

i miss those days.

edit: I totally forgot about command and conquer red alert... i guess that was technically online since i remember dialing up my friends to play them over the internet. that had to be like 1996 or 97.

[doomlv20]

Diablo then later Starsiege Tribes, those were the earliest games I played online.

[dafoomie]

I think I had visited Realms of Despair at one point. I played the MUD Castle Arcanum (not the Sierra game Arcanum, we had our name first dammit) from 1997-2001, and I'm still an admin there, but I only log on once or twice a year. Back in the day, I always thought the SMAUG codebase was the best.
SMAUG was far and away more advanced than Diku, Merc, or ROM... Theres still not much out there that can touch it.