What was your first online experience?
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Earliest I can remember was Halo 3, probably played quite a few random free mmos before that though.
Command and conquer red alert, Dial up connection. Showing my age i think. My mate Ian was invincible at that game. Within ten minutes of starting he'd have some impenetrable fortress up and running. What a freaking sweet game though.. AFFIRMATIVE, YAH OK, LETS DANCE,
As best as I can remember something I did when I was 6, I'd say it was a kind of a text-based gambling game. BBSes eventually utilized a number of door games [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door_game], but this particular BBS predated even that practice by years. So it wasn't one of the greats of the BBS era like Legend Of The Red Dragon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Red_Dragon] or Trade Wars 2002 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_Wars_2002]. Thus, my first "online" game was probably an early rudimentary text-based game concept - and probably predominantly single player given that these early phone-line based BBSes only had one incoming connection at a time. Something like Tic Tac Toe would be an example.Nutcase said:
Perhaps a better example of a truly "online" game was my brief stint with GEnie [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEnie] and their online game offerings, including a modified version of Mechwarrior PC [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplayer_BattleTech:_EGA]. (Something I played very briefly because GEnie had a tendency to make players pay by the minute back then, and during one weekend I quickly ran up a $400 bill that, after a tearful confession, my parents were fortunately able to talk them out of.) That would be quite a few years later, but it was definitely a precursor to our Massively Multiplayer games of the current day.
Of course, none of these games ran off the Internet, as it didn't really catch on with the general public until the early-to-mid 90s.
Does LAN count? In that case it was Rainbow Six Vegas. Not sure which one.
If LAN doesn't count then CoD4.
If LAN doesn't count then CoD4.
The first game I played over a network was Doom (fax modem direct dial). Duke 3d was the first game I played online (though internet commit) - that was quickly followed by Quake and the original TF.