PC Nostalgia (Pick a moment in time)

Torn between 1999 and 2003.

1999: Half Life, DM, TFC, Unreal Tournament and Quake 3 Arena. Oh and the original Counter-Strike Betas! It seems strange that I'm no longer interested in multiplayer, but back then these games and communities were excellent.

2003: KoTOR and GTA Vice City. Enough said!
 
VincentHanna said:
Today is fine

My PC is more stable and easier to use than its ever been in my previous 24 years of PC ownership. Most games I can play with a wireless Xbox pad now, graphics are better, story's are more complex.

I'd love to have the spare time and responsibilities (less) that I had as a teenager but Windows 10, steam and modern games are just less hassle.
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Yeah, I wouldn't go back. They were simply experiences back then. Some were a real pain in the ass.

Remember when most game devices were serial port?

 
Ultima Underworld. Me and a mate (with help) did a 48 hr non stop weekend playing that and we were blown away.

In fact that early era of PC gaming there were some amazing first experiences like Doom and Quake which you can never repeat
 
1. I would say the first time I loaded up a Magazine CD containing some game called Command & Conquer (RTS) whilst I was at Uni. I spent hours playing the 3 GDI missions on it and the final mission introducing you to 'the oblisk of light' was terrifying as it ripped through your mini on-screen army. This was my first RTS experience and I was engrossed in this new genre.

2. Being introduced to Ultima Online (MMO) thanks to Halfmad on this forum. When an old gaming friend introduced me to it I laughed at it's rubbish isometric visuals of the time but was curious as this was very popular going by the various UO newsgroups at the time. Got killed by a cat on my first day and after that was hopelessly engrossed in the world's lore and the game along with it's skills. I spent about 6-7yrs playing it on Europa and met so many amazing people - a lot of whom aren't with us anymore :( Watching the in-game elements change over the years, and yet its visuals (thanks to the playerbase) remain the same i.e dated was something I shall not forget.
 
Working all summer and saving every penny I earned for a £600 pile of **** 233 mmx, 128mb, 6GB HDD. Best day of my life! Played a lot of Sim City on that thing.
 
AlphaDawg said:
If time machines existed and you could go back for a day at what point would you like to go back too?

Mine would be the college days when I first got my PC. 2006-2008. Playing loads of Crisis,Left 4 Dead, Footy manager. Throughout the night with my whole desk covered in cheap energy drinks and junk food. Think I had a AMD 4200+ dual core CPU with 2GB RAM with a HD 3870. The good old days not a care in the world! Sign of getting old maybe. Thought it be a good thread for people to share their fond memories!
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I think this is more to do with your college days than the specific PC and games. I think it would be just as fun if you were 10 years older, going to college (or more accurately not going to college) in 1998 and playing Thief, C&C Red Alert etc...

For me it would either be when I was about 10-12 years old playing games like Driver, MOHAA, C&C Red Alert, Grand Prix 2 after school without a care in the world! Or perhaps a few years later at university. I remember times like a friend introduced me to Oblivion one evening and I don't think I went to sleep at all that night. I upgraded from an Athlon x2 5200+ /8600GT to a i7 860 / ATI 4890 and was floored by the difference in the latest games.
 
Spring - Summer of 2003 which consisted of playing RuneScape every night after school for a good 4 hours at a time and driving my Mum up the wall with hogging the phone line to use the internet (back in the days of dial up).

Summer of 2007, around the same time of finishing my final exams during the second & last year of college - getting into, playing WoW and eventually having 7 hour gaming sessions a night. Time during this period really did fly by as the next thing I knew it was September and had to sign on for the first time, luckily I got my first full time job within a few weeks :)

Those were my golden days of gaming, I still game now when I find the time to - though now having a family myself takes presidence :)

Liam.
 
Kainz said:
1. I would say the first time I loaded up a Magazine CD containing some game called Command & Conquer (RTS) whilst I was at Uni. I spent hours playing the 3 GDI missions on it and the final mission introducing you to 'the oblisk of light' was terrifying as it ripped through your mini on-screen army. This was my first RTS experience and I was engrossed in this new genre.

2. Being introduced to Ultima Online (MMO) thanks to Halfmad on this forum. When an old gaming friend introduced me to it I laughed at it's rubbish isometric visuals of the time but was curious as this was very popular going by the various UO newsgroups at the time. Got killed by a cat on my first day and after that was hopelessly engrossed in the world's lore and the game along with it's skills. I spent about 6-7yrs playing it on Europa and met so many amazing people - a lot of whom aren't with us anymore :( Watching the in-game elements change over the years, and yet its visuals (thanks to the playerbase) remain the same i.e dated was something I shall not forget.
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Knew you'd be on here talking about Ultima mate ;) Yes I'd rewind to then too, or perhaps to when Half-life deathmatch was THE game to play and we had the old AGHL game newgroup matches. Epic times, sadly don't seem to have the AGHL screenshots anymore :(
 
LEK-89 said:
Spring - Summer of 2003 which consisted of playing RuneScape every night after school for a good 4 hours at a time and driving my Mum up the wall with hogging the phone line to use the internet (back in the days of dial up).

Summer of 2007, around the same time of finishing my final exams during the second & last year of college - getting into, playing WoW and eventually having 7 hour gaming sessions a night. Time during this period really did fly by as the next thing I knew it was September and had to sign on for the first time, luckily I got my first full time job within a few weeks :)

Those were my golden days of gaming, I still game now when I find the time to - though now having a family myself takes presidence :)

Liam.
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"Daddy/Mommy I want to game!"
 
1998 - Half Life (not '99), Total Air War, Delta Force (voxels man, Voxels!) played on a "Time" pre-made PC with a Slot 1 Intel 800mhz CPU (A cpu which fit into an ISA style slot) *just* before the first refrigerant cooled 1ghz PC's came out.

Some of my best PC games times where those games, EPIC!
 
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