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Can we go back to that time?

Amen to that. I got so into UT that I started doing level design and modification of one of the most popular maps on the servers I played. I give you the better-balanced “Rapid Waters Rush”. Enjoy. :)

This was epic. I loved this game so much. Ran it on the dual 3dfx cards if I remember correctly. Using the modified floppy disc drive cable, seem to recall that it all seemed to work quite well, but I could easily be confusing this with playing quake on that setup. Had a 21" monitor too, a viewsonic

I had a 400Mhz AMD and a 400Mhz Intel. Identical specs between them and the AMD stuttered like crazy. I was an Intel fanboy for over a decade after that. The Ryzen series won me back over to AMD.

Best game. Now i wanna play. XD

Unreal then became an engine, changing all of gaming forever.

UT was amazing, loved it. Having spent an age playing multiplayer Quake with the Reaperbot plugin and QuakeWorld on a dual Voodoo2 setup, UT was right up my street after switching to GeForce, though I never played online, it was always with the bots.

My husband still has his Commodore Amiga 2000. I think we bought it in 1991, and it wasn’t cheap!

Until Y2K came and destroyed everything. Planes crashed from the sky, data was compromised, lives were at stake....Wait....Y2K+25 !

I started with doom 1 and 2 and can remember quake 1 that I managed to run with a Canopus graphics 3dfx voodoo card with a wopping 6Megabyte on board! If you launched a rocket you could see the light effect on the wall.I still remember that moment of aw

Insert game

Oops OGL

Fuck I miss that game

needed this today 🫶

the completely clean looking screen kinda ruins the ambience to me

It still is playable today and maintained by the community. New modern renderers (Vulkan) are available, a native ARM version for M-class Macs can be installed... The game is in a pretty good state.

Unreal

I had zero friends to play with me at the time, but 20+ years later whenever Unreal Tournament 2004 comes up in conversation the 13yo inside me gets the biggest grin on their face.

Soldier of Fortune 2 also revolutionized First-Person multiplayer shooters with exquisite Capture the Flag gameplay and easy map building. Plus the Double Helix single player storyline was just the right length.

Me, having already moved on to vehicles and loadouts:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=izno...

I started playing computer games with the original Unreal. I remember getting so excited when a new patch was available for download and couldn't wait to check out if it helped with my fps! Back then my internet connection was 5mps on a good day. UT was few years later for me. The good Ole days.

When you installed it on your uni network.. 👀

100%. The original composers of the music actually just released remade and remixed versions of the Unreal Tournament soundtrack! I've been streaming it a lot at work lately. materiacollective.bandcamp.com/album/tourna...

Best game ever released.

..and then you realized to downloaded a corrupted copy and also the key doesn't work. Dammit Kazaa!

lol JC this image just punched me back into my past

Sadly I never played it, but I do remember thinking that gaming would come to an abrupt halt on 1st January 2000…

www.oldunreal.com/downloads/un... www.oldunreal.com/downloads/un... Just saying.

Yeah Doom was good, Quake was better but UT ruled supreme — that sniper rifle… *headshot* 🤣

I wish.

M-M-M-M-MONSTER KILL!

Yeah, sure, yeah

When the lights go out in the tunnel...

and eventually it lead to fortnight

Epic! And the unreal editor we used back then to build our school is now the unreal engine i use for my next game! 🤩

Old memories unlocked

Yup

Time to play face 24/7

Still playing it.

I played this with a creative monster 3d gpu on my Pentium 2 400 MHz. It worked like a charm..

I wonder if shuuk.GitzZz is here on bsky 🤔

If todays kids only knew this is the origin of Fortnite…

I miss my flak cannon... 😥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbJd...

the first PC game ever with outstanding music.

I was never into FPS but this game was too good.

Still playing it

It was aight. Quake 3 arena with rocket arena mod, and tribes (imo) were better. But unreal tournament was dope. Kids don’t realize this was the original Fortnite.

Oh I knew it! And it was

Over 25 years since I last played it and still have had a better experience

I am the alpha and the omega.

fuck yea

Truth.

Replace that with Half-Life and your spot on.

The year is 2291. In an attempt to control violence among deep space miners, the New Earth Government legalized no-holds-barred fighting. The Liandri Mining Corporation established a series of leagues and bloody public exhibitions.

It was truly amazing. I mostly played with bots rather than online, and I wish more games still offered that.

I liked the story. "We invented immortality machines, so obviously we used it to let space miners let off steam by brutally killing each other repeatedly for entertainment"

Good thing for bots since our household didnt get internet for a long while.

Dude you’re getting a DELL!

Unreal was a game?

Mmmmmmm Two towers in space. First Blood! Double kill *killing spree* Multi kill Ultra kill M-M-M-MONSTER KILL KILL kill kill....

Oh. My. God. YES! LAN parties that ran from Friday evening to early Sunday... Unreal Tournament... Battlefield 1942... Far Cry... Counterstrike (the original) *sigh*

The thing that Unreal Tournament got absolutely spot-on from day one, was the pace of the game. It was utterly frantic, yet perfectly paced.

Unreal 2004 was my jam

Pretty much every day in the 90’s was the best day.

Preach

Same, but make it Half Life

The last FPS I bought. Turns out it's just not a format I enjoy.

I had that exact same tower with a DVD rom in the top storage bay and a R/W in the bottom. I was livin' it up back then.

*accessing nostalgia database* MMMMONSTER KILL! When gaming was pure adrenaline, ridiculous jump physics, and that sweet, sweet announcer voice. No battle pass required, just pure fragging joy. M-M-M-MEMORY UNLOCKED! 🎮🔥​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Confession: I never got into it. XD Tiberian Sun Was my life in 1999 :P

I grew up with the Shareware demo, arguably better than the full release imo. Perhaps its nostalgia but the limited gun selection had incredible balance

I love how this game's motivation was purely just winning the space olympics to get a big trophy. It's the most I ever liked that universe, tbh.

OMG!!! I so loved playing this. And Doom and Quake. ❤️

You my good friend are both a scholar and a gentleman

Thanks, I’m gonna try it!

Man, those LAN parties were lit. I think I still have my original disc stored somewhere. I’d be curious to know if there’s still active servers you can join

and then came the little angry german boy

/cc @tomaspollak.bsky.social #Rampage

I really miss UT!

Holy shit that’s a buried memory

I loved Unreal. My gawd I wish I could play again.

Next up has to be 1994 LAN C&C battles, Descent, and Duke Nukem

It hits hard, 10 years old I learned to edit the autoexec and configsys.bat files to spoof the machine to give me the visual control stick in flight. First win. But when I got my Rapier- aces.

Yeah

My 1st real 1st person shooter so sick

I had a voodoo2, ADSL connection and was the oldest person in our 'clan'

I have time to prevent the timeline Im from.... oh shit is that unreal tournament?

UT 2004 is still a favourite. Managed a go on the predecessor against a few players at Retcon :)

Same. Q3 are a with rocket arena mod so rocket jumps and rail gun shots. I can hear that sound now.

Same! It was ALL about Q3A at the time! Unreal Tournament was kind of a joke by comparison. I mean it was okay but .. it was no quake 3 arena!

😆😆😆

Well you did kinda want to, I would

pretty sure i had that exact setup in 1999 but it was deus ex instead

seeing that, I can hear "head shot!"

That’s how nostalgia feels like

I didn't have decent internet but playing against bots with instagib, slow motion and low gravity like some kind of underwater explosion extravaganza was a great time

I felt that way with the original Half Life.

I still play UT2004 youtu.be/Q5-YSfdJeFY?...

Every work lunch break... Such a well balanced game that even newbies could score a few kills.

I used to play with the other I.T. guys on the work lan back in the day.

Damn! Nostalgia hit hard on this one.