Your first multiplayer experience?

[Nelle]

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.

Familiar with TRON on Vectrex?

 

[Mafoobula]

I MIGHT have played Battle Toads, but my brain could be repressing those memories. I know for a fact my brother and I enjoyed Battle Toads Double Dragon quite a bit. We might've played Double Dragon, but I don't immediately recall that one, either.

 

[Braedan]

First one that I can actually remember? This is online of course, since the first offline game I ever played would be Super Mario Bros, and that would be boring as an answer.

Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2.

I was a monster at that game.

I'm sure I've played others before this, I just can't remember any.

Captcha: lardy-dardy

 

[ace_of_something]

If you don't mean online that would be playing as luigi on Super Mario Bros on the NES. Luigi was better his fireballs were green man.

Otherwise... I'm not 100% sure but I think it was either Warcraft: Orcs and Humans (orcs are the best!) or Deadlock: Planetary Conquest (go Cyth!). Not sure which one came out first. It was awesome on both fronts. I think i started playing them simultaneously. I remember it was on dial up and every time one of my (many) brothers picked up the phone I'd lose the connection and get all sorts of pissed off.

I kind of want to play Deadlock 2 now.

What ever happened to complex turn based strategy is that still a thing outside of Civ series?

 

[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.

Familiar with TRON on Vectrex?

Nope. Had to Google Vectrex. Never heard of it before. I played in nickel arcades, before I even had a 2600 (which was my first console).

 

[Skillock]

Quake.No wait,Diablo on dial-up!

 

[Bvenged]

First ever MP experience, eh?

Hmm, well for online, maybe it was Command and Conquer: Renegade; or Everquest 2; or Unreal Tournament; or Runescape. I'm not quite sure.

I honestly cannot remember my first offline MP experience. I could bend the rules a bit and say:

When I was 4 years old I pushed the arrow keys for my dad when he used to play the original Rainbow Six games back in the early 90s. I also remember playing the N64 with my uncle and brother when I was about 8 as well.

So does that count? Gamers are everywhere in my relatively small family. I was never short of anyone to play offline with throughout my childhood. Over-saturated with memories of offline play is why I can't think of the first.

 

[Limecake]

Counter-Strike - the original? Which version is that? I started playing CS since beta 6.7 (or whatever the version number was - definitely it was 6-point-something). There was also CS beta 5 around, where you had to press a button to see your money, but I never played that myself. I still remember the terrorist escape maps...I miss them, I thought they were good fun - I'm not sure why they were dropped.

I wish I could remember I think it was around 1.4 or 1.3 definitely after the game had been released, I actually played counter strike before I played half-life. I was in the 6th grade when I started so I don't really remember specifics.

It was definitely before they added riot shields, and I do remember the VIP maps. I wish more people had played interesting maps instead of de_dust and de_dust2. I also played starcraft and command and conquer around this time but I can't play RTS games worth a damn.

My dad was really into computer games when I was a kid so I would always play the games he'd play.

 

[Deadyawn]

Sonic the hedgehog 2. Sure it was co-op but I count that. Those were good days. remember when sonic was good?
Anyway, as far as online is concerned I don't do that very often. First time would probably be...Halo 3 at my friends house.

 

[ChupathingyX]

Offline was Crash Team Racing, which I still play offline with friends.

Online was either Dawn of War for PC or Resistance: Fall of Man for PS3.

 

[DoPo]

Counter-Strike - the original? Which version is that? I started playing CS since beta 6.7 (or whatever the version number was - definitely it was 6-point-something). There was also CS beta 5 around, where you had to press a button to see your money, but I never played that myself. I still remember the terrorist escape maps...I miss them, I thought they were good fun - I'm not sure why they were dropped.

I wish I could remember I think it was around 1.4 or 1.3 definitely after the game had been released, I actually played counter strike before I played half-life. I was in the 6th grade when I started so I don't really remember specifics.

It was definitely before they added riot shields, and I do remember the VIP maps. I wish more people had played interesting maps instead of de_dust and de_dust2.

The reason I asked is because pretty much all new versions before 1.6 did something different. That is 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 and so on. I remember 1.5 rejiggled quite a few stuff, at least compared to all of the previous 1.X versions. It was only topped by 1.6, and there are no other versions, as far as I know. There are 1.6.X or something and some custom modifications of it but not a 1.7 and above. I had almost stopped playing CS when 1.6 came out.

And I wasn't talking about the VIP maps. The terrorist escape ones - es_, were a bit like the opposite of VIP. The terrorists start off with now weapons (only a knife) and, I believe armour. They then have to go find some weapons and equipment and get to the escape point. The equipment was usually a bit out of the way, so thy had to choose either to hurry to the escape point or to waste some time but get weapons and stuff. In a way it was like playing hostages making a break but the CTs have to shoot you.

Those maps were totally removed some time during the beta versions - they never made it within two major releases of 1.0. I believe the VIP ones are still around, as in they are shipped with the game, but nobody plays them.

 

[Tazzy da Devil]

Mine was probably Sonic 2 on my old Sega. I used to play it with my little brother as a kid.

 

[Starik20X6]

Mario Party 1. The first game I had for my N64, which was the first console I owned. Still remember firing it up and being awestruck. Later that same day we got Mario Kart 64. Good times.

I hardly ever play online, I've never really had the want or need to. I've always had my brothers around for multiplayer, and when they aren't around I've got more than enough single player games to keep me occupied. I just don't find online gaming as fun as playing with people in the same room.

 

[Guffe]

Goldeneye was my first really competitive game which I assume was alot of peoples from my generation.

This for offline. I think most people have this one on their list as you said.

For online it was Warcraft III Battle net.

 

[Denamic]

Quake 1 on glorious 56kbit/s.
It was terrible and awesome at the same time.
Later on, there was some mod for it that had chakram-like weapons that could decapitate people, or even dismember them in amusing ways.
Like you could chop both their arms off without killing them, and they couldn't do shit other than run around and bleed all over the place.
That was beyond awesome.
For offline, it would be some game I can't remember on my cousin's Amiga.
I was like 5 years old.

 

[Buizel91]

Halo 2...it's the game that got me into gaming, simply because the controlls were easy and the multiplayer was fun as hell.

 

[PBMcNair]

splitscreen co-op: Streets of Rage
splitscreen versus: Medal of Honor, PS1, whichever one let you play as Winston Churchhill, who my brother insisted on using, and we then had a bunny-hopping bazooka fight....hilarity ensued.

offline versus: Counterstrike: Source. Two nights a week for most of a college year.
online versus: TF2

 

[Ytomyth]

Does Mario Bros. on the NES count? You could play with more than 1, in turn.
Otherwise it would probably be Bomberman on the SNES, loads of fun I've had with that one.

First online experience was Diablo II though, fun on a dial-up with 0.1 FPS due to a computer that couldn't actually run it.

 

[legendp]

I am only 17 (almost 18) so the games on my list are not exactly that old)

lan multiplayer would be age of empires 1 pc
splitscreen multiplayer, mario kart 64
online multiplayer: halo 1 PC
CO-OP: Ratchet and clank gladiator ps2 (also known as dead lock, or number 4) (I played halo 2 for like 1hour before that at a freinds house, but for a full playthrough it was ratchet)


There may have been one before that but I can not recal, I have always been more of a single player game person (with things like co-op added in).

 

[Hawk of Battle]

Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo.

For first online, probably Red Alert 2.