Website nostalgia

Hiijinx · 12 Oct 2017 at 01:13

Drollic said:
Gameplay, what ever happened to them?

Afaik - Gameplay were a Gamestation company as I remember the announcement the admins made, they were being dissolved into the main company.
Later on, Gamestation were bought out by Game.

Sad really, I loved their website, last thing I ordered was BF3 which happens to be one of the last physical games I own.

Pawnless Endgame · 12 Oct 2017 at 01:28

Talking of gaming, does anyone remember Popcap, Pogo and MSN Gaming Zone? Pogo was great for in-browser games i.e. multiplayer MS Hearts! Popcap was their nearest rival IIRC with their in-browser games e.g. Bejewelled. Then Bejewelled etc were spun off as desktop games so not to compete with Pogo any longer. This is going back about 15 years ago now. MSN Gaming Zone was great if you had i.e. Age of Empires II back in 1999 / 2000 and wanted to play against other players over the net.

Clearcut · 12 Oct 2017 at 09:33

Wow. Nearly clicked 'Add to Cart' on the 9800 Pro all over again.

Hades · 13 Oct 2017 at 01:53

Drollic said:
Gameplay, what ever happened to them?

I started out on their servers... Rv[Hades]. I'd been registered and posting on OcUK since Insomnia 99 but moved here full time when gameplay went under. Luckily OcUK had a similar shade of blue for their forums so the transition was easy

Loved gameplay in the early days.

Anyone remember barrysworld???

Drollic · 13 Oct 2017 at 10:21

Hades said:
I started out on their servers... Rv[Hades]. I'd been registered and posting on OcUK since Insomnia 99 but moved here full time when gameplay went under. Luckily OcUK had a similar shade of blue for their forums so the transition was easy

Loved gameplay in the early days.

Anyone remember barrysworld???

Yes, remember it from counter strike days.

iv-tecman · 13 Oct 2017 at 10:58

Hiijinx said:
Afaik - Gameplay were a Gamestation company as I remember the announcement the admins made, they were being dissolved into the main company.
Later on, Gamestation were bought out by Game.

Sad really, I loved their website, last thing I ordered was BF3 which happens to be one of the last physical games I own.

Gameplay was the go to PC games store back in the 90's, sadly last game I got from them I think was far cry, after that I think Amazon for a while then Steam slowly took over .... How times have change. Gamestation shut gameplay down in 2004 where it became game.co.uk I think? Can't fully remember.

LeeUK · 13 Oct 2017 at 11:37

Facebook "acquired" the domain at a later date. Hence why it started out as Thefacebook.

V F · 13 Oct 2017 at 13:51

LabR@t said:
56k.. yer 3p an hour!

Those were the days. Coming home from college to play Quake 3 and Fortress on Barrysworld servers.

Hiijinx said:
The only drivers I ever needed

Fond memories. Loved the Omega drivers on the 9800XT and 850XT PE. I don’t think I ever had issues with those drivers.

Sasahara said:
https://web.archive.org/web/2003100...catalog/Online_Catalogue_CRT_Monitors_66.html

Possible the only page with items that would sell today at the same price.

Mmm those were the days. Ultra Low Latency Corsair LED.

https://web.archive.org/web/2003120...:80/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Corsair_65.html

Interesting how small the graphic card manufacturers were back then.
https://web.archive.org/web/2003120...lockers.co.uk:80/acatalog/Graphics_Cards.html

£247.50 for a Leadtek WinFast GeForce FX 5950 Ultra...