Your first multiplayer experience?

[Samnite]

Offline, I remember fighting my brother on Soul Blade a lot. Since I was a kid, I didn't take defeat too well, which resulted in our parents actually chucking the game out.

Online, Call of Duty. The original. On PC. I also played the expansion pack (United Offensive), and my most prevailing memory is of some tosser driving around the spawn points in a jeep and running all his team mates over. We didn't have the means to kick him :/

 

[boyvirgo666]

Goldeneye and pokemon stadium for the n64...oh wait...Joust, sorry it was joust.

 

[RazielXT]

Good old Counter strike, version 1.3 or so. We didnt have pc but went to internet cafes and played for hour. I didnt know you could reload, didnt know you could buy weapons, didnt know anything, first FPS+first online altogether. One hour of sucking with one magazine in little pistol, but it was fun and made me what I am today (game programmer).

 

[Wereduck]

First MP: the original Rainbow Six with a friend of mine via modem. I never suspected it would be so much fun to spend all night exchanging hot lead with someone.

First online MP: Soul Calibur 3. I never suspected it would be so infuriating to spend 2 minutes getting juggle-combo'ed by someone.

 

[Creator002]

Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
Played it at an Internet cafe a lot when I was about 13. Loved it.

 

[jdogtwodolla]

In the same room: Either super mario all-stars w/ super mario world on the SNES or Ms. Pacman on SNES, both with my sister. We used to try to get at each other in the original Mario Bros. game in super mario brothers 3. We pretty much played all those games and pacman together. All I can describe is that they were fun.

Online: I think Halo 3. It was tense for me. I became good enough to Kill the enemy VIP 4 times in under a minute with one life before they could even find ours. I thought that was good considering I don't even play online.

 

[arnoldthebird]

Unreal Tournament, Deck 16.

By far my favourite map from the entire series

 

[HardkorSB]

In any game, What game did you first experienced the competitive side of a Game?

Pong
It was 1989-1990, when my mom bought me an Atari 2600-ish thing.
At pretty much the same time, my friend got a Commodore 64 and we used to duke it out in "International Karate".

I feel old now.

 

[C2Ultima]

First online multiplayer game I ever played was Halo 2. The first online multiplayer game I ever owned for myself was Call of Duty: World at War.

 

[Dr Bodom]

My first ever multiplayer games was Super Mario Bro 3 on the NES but if you meant competitive play then it was probably Mario Party or 007 Goldeneye. First online experience was the original Counterstrike.

 

[Nelle]

Alright. Clarified things again for everyone can share their LAN and Online stories.

 

[PureChaos]

would probably be Super Street Fighter II on the Mega Drive. had some great matches on that. Goldeneye came next but i did REALLY bad

 

[Scarim Coral]

Excluding playing games with my brother I guess playing Unreal Tournament online did give me a scent of online multiplayer when I was playing team deathmatch and I was leading my team since I had the most kills in that level.
Not sure if this count but my first multiplayer that isn't my brother was a few mates playing Mario kart during a friend birthday party.

 

[Windu23]

After school library LAN parties in 1999. We played Tribes 2, with and without mods. Debris is a *****.

 

[Pjotr84]

My first local multiplayer experience in a game was with Tetris on the original Gameboy using a link cable. First online'd probably be Starcraft.

 

[Flames66]

My first multi-player game with friends was a LAN game of Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith. We had great fun with that game.

My first online Multi-player game was Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy.

I think there might be a pattern.

 

[Nelle]

After school library LAN parties in 1999. We played Tribes 2, with and without mods. Debris is a *****.

I think Tribes 2, or maybe the Tribes franchise itself is a very, very underlooked game. I hope when Tribes: Ascend releases. Everyone should have praised Tribes in the first place. Lol

 

[laggyteabag]

Offline - Turok or Goldneye on the N64
Online - Halo 2

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

Offline - goldeneye
Online Counter Strike 1.3

Good times.

I still play Counter Strike 1.6 religiously and I can't wait for Global Offensive.

 

[loc978]

Offline... various arcade cabinets. Couldn't say what the first one was. Possibly TRON. I remember a lot of lightcycle matches.

Online... text-based BBS MUDs, some time in the early 90s. I honestly can't recall the names of any of 'em. There were a lot.