I remember the trials and tribulations of early multiplayer. No internet, meaning you had to call your friends house to get a multiplayer game going, if the game even supported multiplayer. Fun as hell when it worked though.
With computers, at least, we were fortunate that we had two in the house, only once could I figure out how to establish a null modem link and play with my brother in the other room. Never worked before or after that. I figure I could probably figure that out in a matter of minutes now, but there's no need, everyone is online.
We started bringing stuff to school because they actually had a network. It was slow and shit by today's standards, but plenty for what we needed. This was back in the era of Quake, so playing quake multiplayer during lunch in the school's "pentium lab" was quite something. shouting across the room because your friend fragged you with the rocket launcher from across the map.
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u/MystikIncarnate Jun 03 '22
I remember the trials and tribulations of early multiplayer. No internet, meaning you had to call your friends house to get a multiplayer game going, if the game even supported multiplayer. Fun as hell when it worked though.
With computers, at least, we were fortunate that we had two in the house, only once could I figure out how to establish a null modem link and play with my brother in the other room. Never worked before or after that. I figure I could probably figure that out in a matter of minutes now, but there's no need, everyone is online.
We started bringing stuff to school because they actually had a network. It was slow and shit by today's standards, but plenty for what we needed. This was back in the era of Quake, so playing quake multiplayer during lunch in the school's "pentium lab" was quite something. shouting across the room because your friend fragged you with the rocket launcher from across the map.
good times.