What was your first online Multiplayer game?

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Having had some nostalgia in this thread What got you onto PC gaming? Maximum Triceratops post about the first multiplayer experience had me thinking what mine would have been and how I felt at the time

For anyone that has seen me online won't be the least bit surprised that it was Battlefield 1942.

I can remember been amazed that I was playing a game (on a 56kb dial up modem! - later my first broadband connection) against people from all over the world. There was infantry, jeeps, Tanks (that Tiger Tank tank on Battle of the Bulge!),artillery (remember how the snipers could spot for you) airplanes (fighters and the B2), submarines and destroyers. Still hasn't been surpassed by any BF game for the range of vehicles. Not to mention the mod scene at the time was amazing.

Some great games (and some awful ones - not even rose tinted glasses will convince me it was perfect).

This was also for me the first time I started playing regularly with people online, joining XDC 'clan' and having fun in a team game. 14 years later still enjoy gaming and still playing with some of the same people in XDC! 14 years well spent :D

So what was other peoples first game and what can you remember feeling at the time?
 
Quake was my first online I think - its a long time ago. Not my first multiplayer game though as played a few on LAN before that.
 
My first multiplayer game was on console, Chu Chu Rocket on the SEGA Dreamcast. However, as I mentioned in the 'what got you into PC gaming thread' when I played BF2 and BFV on my mates PC I was hooked!
 
I used to play a lot of quake 2 in the office at lunch times with my co-workers years back, but actual online was probably quake 3 arena which I found pretty dull TBH. Then star trek elite force voyager on the barry's world servers. Had a 256K cable modem and a geforce 256 DDR, so I was the LPB with a fast GPU that everyone hated. Then return to castle wolfenstein for more of the same.

The game that really got me involved with a community and then into a clan was crysis where I played the beta and release to bucket levels. Power struggle was my favorite mode, it was somewhat like battlefield.
 
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Delta Force Land Warrior was my multiplayer game on PC , seen it down in my mates house and i was that amazed by the thought of playing against real human players , that i went out and bought a PC ) the very next day.

Havent looked back since , think that was in 2000. Stayed up until 5am for weeks playing that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEXxQWjo65w
 
Not sure, I was young-ish and have a terrible memory but would hazard a guess it was one of the old CnC games, Red Alert or RA2 perhaps.
 
Counterstrike was my first online game, I think it was in 1999/2000 but I don't really remember. 56k modem on ICU24 (possibly incorrect but it was something like that) which cut off for after 2 hours. I do remember thinking that the game was utter rubbish, I ended up playing on a team who got wiped out by a German guy on our team, another German on the other team was doing the same thing to his side, they would then meet outside the dust CT spawn and just dance around for the remaining round time.....rinse and repeat for hilarity.

Something must have grabbed me though because I played CS pretty solidly for 11/12 years, on and off for another 4/5 after that.....sad but true.
 
The Legend of Mir 2. I was fortunate enough to have a 512kb cable connection back in 2002, so I spent many, many hours on the game without the frustration of the connection dropping out.

Level 40 Taoist on the Phoenix server :D
 
Probably Ultima Online in the late 90s - great game, although playing with a 56k connection that cut off every 2 hours was a bit of a pain, but so worth it.
 
UT99.

Boy was my first online game a shock. I had no notion of what 'ping' was. On a 300 ping, you see the gun animation and then the projectile comes out seconds later lol.
 
I remember trying to play Counter Strike online first, but couldn't get it to work. So my first online game was Medal Of Honor Allied Assault. I managed a few rounds in dial up which totally hooked me. After that I upgraded to broadband internet because dial up was to unreliable to get a decent game without rubber banding all over the place.
 
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