You got me thinking like you have internet that needs coins
You got me thinking like you have internet that needs coins
I remember in 2002 I actually had to use AOL. We were at a training base in BFE central-ish Florida, and that was the only reliable option; even other dial-up services weren't as reliable.
I downloaded music on dial-up but I never played games on it. I waited until I went to college and had access to their T1 line. First game I ever played online was Unreal Tournament 1. Got my @ss handed to me, and it was those college years that taught me that I'm an offline against-the-bots player. I've rarely played any other games online since. A few matches of some of the Halo games, CoD4 on a PC server called Grumpy Old Men Gaming (miss those guys!), Hawken when I was an alpha and beta tester, and maybe a few scant others. I'm not really an online multiplayer guy.
I had a client like that in the late 2000s! I worked for a private medical/nutritional practice as their IT guy, and they did this sh1t! I kept trying to teach them that they only needed the broadband connection but they would say sh1t like "but then I can't access my email!" and other excuses, even though I showed them countless times how to access everything they needed only with the broadband connection. Hilarious when you're not the one dealing with it, frustrating when you are.
I had an absolute blast playing UT and UT2003 in LAN matches. But discovered a crazy thing. My main PC was a Celeron 700 MHz (Coppermine) and I had a spare Pentium (maybe 133 MHz. It's all hazy at this point). The matches were fun and I was winning often enough to keep me interested in going. Then the other guy bought a P4 Northwood 2.4 GHz and suddenly, I felt like a chicken running for my life. I would frantically do 360 degree turns and would only sometimes catch glimpses of my opponent right before I got slaughtered. And of course he refused to swap PCs. That made me lose interest pretty quickly. Both PCs need to be similar in specs otherwise you won't even see what hit you. And online play is all about lag. The only online game I would play is turn based strategy against another human. Don't trust fast paced multiplayer action games to be fair due to the crazy amount of external factors.
When I first got back into PC gaming I had a prebuilt from BB called VPR Matrix which was all-in-all a pretty solid machine. Over the years it served as my introduction to (then) modern systems and over 5-10 years I upgraded/replaced virtually every part of it. The last processor it got was one of those and yeah, I loved it. I've still got that machine tucked away in the closet with no plans to ever get rid of it.
I remember doing a lan with... what was the game... Counter no not counterstrike. IT was that era but a build your base sort of game... red alert but not red alert.
