Another intro, The Gimpster sent me this way also after joining the steam group.

Glad to be here, seems a pretty cool outfit so far, enjoying the company.
My gaming pedigree ? ancient.
Commodore Pet in 1980
First PC in 1984
Doom since '93
UO since '97
Playing HL since '98
Several years in CS, Planetside, SWG, EQ etc
you get the idea..... not that I'm any good mind...

better tag my user name. See you in 2fort.
Yer Great Auntie Furrier.

Welcome Aunt Furry.

I love 2fort too.

Hi Aunt.



Yay DooM! My fav sp fps (not 3 tho cos that sucked) Stll play? If you do, try this website. http://www.doomsdayhq.com/ You can download stuff that ramps up the graphics, models, lighting etc and runs it all under XP with custom resolutions, widescreen support etc. Great stuff.

Hello Aunty

Good to see you on forum mate...........

More of a quake man myself.

Please feel free to wear the @H|H reg tags at the end of your name dude.

See you server side mate.

yes forgot quake and q2, I remember playing Doom and Quake on IPX networks using BNC ethernet for day long lanparty deathmatch and .. (you kids wouldnt know about this in this day and age ) co-operative play in Quake against the puter.

Also playing an alpha Q3 with a bloke from Sweden from the clan I was in then, so long ago I cant remember the name. In those days ICQ was the dogs....

Previous clan activity -
CS was the ZHG (Zimmerframe Honour Guard , over 30s clan),
Planetside was XDT and most recently Fight Club
SWG - cant remember... big one tho.
UO - played on Catskills in the states, guild was ?? pre euro release. 14.4k dial up connection to a server in the states... 240ms ping on a v.good day.

Kids? I'm 45 years old! I remember getting the DooM shareware floppy disks of my copy of PCHome magazine and having to un-install Coolspot in order to fit it on my 125mb hdd. My jaw dropped when I started playing and that was it. Hooked on FPS's ever since.

A fellow kid @ 38yrs....

I cant actually remember where I got my copy of Doom ( probably borrowed) but I too can remember the magic of first playing it on my 486/33 Dell with its 120mb HD - it was like nothing else (3d Wolf.. was similar I know) I'd played and certainly the sheer terror of having those giant strawberries after you, or dodging the cyberdemon was a new experience. Playing that Co-op was dead cool - not many things have been as good since..

Whilst we're on a nostagia trip, another game which I loved in a similar way (5 yo on Christmas eve kinda way) was Dark Forces - playing that late into the night to complete a level as you couldnt save - the particular level where you had to break into a prison was very cool. Being 8 when I saw Star Wars pretty much guarantees me to love anything in that vein - I'd tried to a write SW textual adventure program in on my Vic20 in 1983....

Anyone remember the UKDoom league?? I was 'imp eater/ mancubus masher'
headed division 2 for a while in a 2 man team... nearly got crucified by friend's mum for phone bill (some players were US and we were dialling directly to their home number!- u had to trust the ppl u played back then!)