1998 was a phenomenal year.

started high school then!

1999 was great as well
probably the last year that id gave one flying fuck about the quake franchise

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This bus I need.

CompUSA HAHA... where I played XBox for the first time.

I started in early 2013 for ql, late 2011/early 2012 for q3 vs bots.

Probably 98-99, duke nukem, bw and quake 1 single player. Keyboard only lol.

quake1 shareware on my pentium 90 was my first quake experience ;)

when I was 5 years old my dad and his friends had a huge lan party on release and theres pictures of me playing somewhere

Pics or it didn't happen.

I'll look around for them sometime soon. No guarantee I still have them.. they might have burnt down with the old house a few years ago

Pics or it didn't happen (of the burnt down house)

I could get a picture of the basement that is filled in with dirt now the next time I go up to mow the property.

Introduced like, heard about the game, played it actively, gave it a first try?

PC Gamer magazines made sure everyone was introduced into quake with advertising and lots of demo version and especially lots of centerfolds.

Other than that same as kkk_storm, played lots of doom and its counterparts (hexen, blood etc)

ok played

yeah pc gamer did have alot of articles and stuff for quake, where i learnt/read about AWSD and mouse movement, team fortress and QW.

WSAD pff, Arrow keys for the win, is the way I started in Quake:)
Mainly as mouselook wasn't something I used. I don't even know if it was available when it first came out. So used the Del Ins Home End Pgup Pgdn for up and down movements.

TBH I Still prefer the ZX Spectrum keys of of zx and pl :)

I used arrow keys when I first played, until I read about mouse and aswd

qaop space for me. :)

anything with an "o" an "a" and a "p" in it, shows ur age ;)

I feel like I got an amazingly long way with arrow keys -- I can remember winning deathmatches on E1M1 before I know about mouselook.

I agree. Might be down to the constant speed of the cl yaw & pitch. I remember mouselook was very hard at first.

Still way better than todays console joysticks. Mice ftw

God yeah I rem all those pics from PC Gamer, your flooding all the memories back, with bluesnews,and gamespy.

spacechamber 1999 vs bots.

2005 being taught cpm movement by THERAILMCCOY

There is a special place in my heart for fiends and shamblers.

Family ordered our first PC sometime in 1997, a friend lent me his copy of Quake so I had it before the PC arrived. Straight on it when the PC arrived and straight into multiplayer that night.
Was a beast at the time - intel 166 mmx cpu, 2mb graphics, 32mb ram!

Had played some wolf 3d and doom some years before on my uncles PC.

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First PC 1999 if I remember correctly. It had preinstalled demo of q3 :O
dm17 with bots > life

You should be awarded for your comments. Pure gold 99% of time.

This is the 1%.
Also git ELO kid Kappa

Played q2 at a friends house in a three PC lan. Got hooked. Got my first pc 98. No internet though, so I downloaded q3 demo at school when it was released and brought it home on ~30 3˝" floppy disks. It took me more than a month of trying before they all worked and winzip could read the whole archive.

Reminds me of a time when I duplicated my installation of Big Red Racing on a friends PC by transferring it file by file over MSN Messenger, giving him strict instructions on the folder structure.

Worked on first time though :p

Haha. Memories. Q3Test was first released on Linux if I recall correctly. I downloaded Redhat Linux via 56k modem to get a taste of this game as early as possible. It took me an entire 7 days to download this install that fit on a single 650mb CD. I forgot entirely about this until you mentioned the floppys.

Btw my Dad introduced me to DOOM Shareware when I was 14. We were so intrigued, dad bought a second pc, and we learned how to network them (through DOS at the time of course.) I still remember the very first time in DOOM 1 E1M1 looking at dad through the game. Oh how the tactics began evolving. We also wound up with 4 pcs in the house once DOOM 2 was released, and APCI DOOM so the whole family could play together. We even played for a couple years with Joysticks, LOL.

This makes 21 years of my 35 year old life. Doom 1, 2, Quake 1, 2, 3, 4, QL. I have never really played any of the other FPS titles, things just never 'felt' right.

Try the original painkiller

This is probably the one single title that did indeed have a very nice feel, and fast as can be. None of my friends / lan partners at the time were interested so it wasn't an option

i downloaded atleast one (or two?) q3 test builts and the q3 demo on a 33.6K modem. my parents were in utter shock and disbelieve when the phone bill came :d didn't stop me!

uau! such a work, it happened with me with 5 discs, image 30! hahah! HF!

Then you really are a maniac!

Well, he's fazz.

you could've just bought a pc game magazine and install it from accompanying cd.

yea because pc game is available in every country 1998

You don't make sense.

also, why the fuck am i replying to a comment like that, jesus christ whats wrong with me

Sweet nostalgia. Look at those beautiful particle effects, the explosion that forces Michael Bay to his knees in worship, the dark and gritty Lovecraft environment. I can hear everything going on in this picture.

same! reminds me of being a kid with my brother again :)))

i'm seriously thinking about getting a shambler vs ranger sculpture made from spawning pool studios. shit will be like $3k though

http://www.figurerealm.com/userimages/customs/46000/45971-1.jpg

http://www.figurerealm.com/userimages/customs/46000/45516-2.jpg

I've actually emailed the maker of the shambler but they said it was a one off and won't be making it again.

I want a real sculpture that captures the intensity of the battle. Shambler about to lg a nigga, and ranger jumping in the air with the axe in both hands comng down on it.

That's $$$

the pictures are no longer valid i wanted to see!

explosives vs shambler? what a scrub

The q1 map test was my first exposure to quake, took ages to download it from a local bbs.

I remember hearing about Quake in 1997, didn't play it until 1998, was hooked on Q3 since release.

this picture is priceless

Started playing q3 vs bots in 2008. Signed up for QL on Feb 25th 2009 or w/e the first Day of open beta was.
Imported my very first original copy of quake 3 arena from the uk borrowing my uncles credit Card in 2011.

I remember my local LAN "cafe" having its own qwtdm clan and having tryouts locally (the leader was the owner). I won the tryouts and got in the clan, first ever clan match played early 97 and the report is still somewhere online :D

whats quake?

Urban legend, like leg day.

In 2001 when we got a celeron366+tnt2 rig with a whole bunch of games. It was almost like on that old "quake is for everyone" advertisment, the whole family was staring at q3 amazed by the cool 3d graphics going on while my dad tried to shoot down sarge on power station. :D

1996 - one week after official release

i knew about qtest, but didn't download, i stuck with duke nukem/doom.
i downloaded quake1(warez :P) from an irc bot about a week after it released. i played quake multiplayer for 6+ hours on the first day that i got it. most amazing gaming experience i've ever had, i'll never forget it

2011 :(

I was introduced by my uncle, he played quake 3 when I was like 6-7, and watching him raging at the game was so funny.

i remember going to best buy in 1999 and buying quake 3 arena and then playing it with people from quake3world.com forums! fun times :) that and using icq to arrange games haha

2008, was given a beta into Quake Live by a fellow Team Fortress Classic player

:D

I still remember playing quake1 for the first time on my friends computer in 1997.. i was so amazed my mouth was wide open (didn't even notice until he brought it up :) ). I've played Duke3d before.. but quake had a whole different (better) feel to it.

Played a lot of Q2 single player later... i've downloaded a ton of SP maps from planetquake site..
My online gaming started in mid 1999 with Q2 CTF on (MSN gaming) zone.com (anyone else tried that?).

In August of 1999 i've downloaded a Q3 test version with my 56k modem.. i remember that took forever :)
I kinda liked it (altho i still preferred q2 back then) so i bought it when it came out..

around 1999. told my friend to burn me a few games.. one of them was quake3. got hooked instantly!
my 2 brothers and I used to play instagib q3dm17 all day long on gifford.co.uk servers. awesome times!

anyone remember the quake1 shareware crack?
you could use a crack to install quake1 and every id software game if you had the shareware cd. came in handy after my hd crashed

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started with quakelive in 2009, cpma in 2010, and been hopping between the two ever since, although my heart will always belong to cpma cpm <3

QTest on a bunch of floppies. Q1 on even more floppies when it was released. I resisted QW for a while but moved on to that -- I don't know why I thought it could be worse than dialup NetQuake. Went to my first LAN and watched people like Reload and Hoony play. Subscribed to a dialup ISP that ran a whole lot of QW servers, run by a guy who had "QUAKE" license plates on his car. Joined a clan, had a few matches, left to start my own. Ran my first 2v2 competition with the grand prize being a 56k modem. Bought a Voodoo2 card and dragged all my friends over to show them how round my particles were. Made a mod that made nails stick in walls and explosions have shockwaves.

Q2 on the day it was released but still mostly playing QW -- I'd usually just load up Q2 so I could smash my English teacher around The Edge to prove that real Quakers played QW.

Q3Test, running around through orange fog at about 15fps. Q3 on the day it was released, on a CD that I've still got around somewhere, even after 10 years, 3 girlfriends and 4 houses in 2 cities. Still played more QW though.

Q3 again when the QW scene got a bit too quiet for me in Australia. Introduced to CPM through OSP, lost my first game 57-0, getting spawn raped on T4.. but it had the speed I'd been missing so I was hooked immediately.

Annoyed people with "callvote mode CPM" for a few months before finding out CPM had it's own mod. Played CPMA almost exclusively except for the occasional VQ3 CTF. Spent an hour practicing Tele -> YA on CPM1, again and again until I nailed it. Ran local competitions, started updating the CPMA website for them, joined the development team, kept playing. Introduced noobs to the game, helped people get their game set up right, ran some servers. Beat everyone in the scene except for nagash.

Now working on Reflex because I fucking miss those days and that style of gameplay so I'm betting all the money I have that other people do too.

Regardless of what happens from this point: Thanks guys, it's been a blast. I've now been a Quake player for more than half my life.

Bought a Voodoo2 card and dragged all my friends over to show them how round my particles were

hehe, yeah.. i was also more fascinated by how much better the game looked with glide than software render (quake2). Friend of mine was asking me what did i actually gain by buying a 3D graphics card.. and since i didn't even notice fps increase my answer was: "well the the blood is round now".. and he was like.. "what is wrong with you" :)

It also had transparent water!

that was a big deal back then!

good story bro.gl w/ reflex

where is my boat?

i had surgery on my finger... i cant game for a while :((

B< get better

i'm on it

I miss BarrysWorld. :(

That was one hell of a good load of servers, and web stats.

And cheap, too! I used to rent a Q3 server with some friends and we only had to put in some pocket change every month. ;)

Aww man the good old days :) and all the Leagues and everything, so smart. Jolt was another one. Seen some other threads in QL re reduce servers for cost balance, seems like a load of bollox to me.

That doesn't affect me the least... Amazon now offers free servers for 1 year. So I still get my fix, together with my friends. ;)

Number of servers? and locations? Cus that could be a nice starter pack for some game launchers..

1 server, must be a micro-instance. You can leave it up 24/7. But be careful to keep within the Free Tier limits or they may charge you.

Locations:
US East (N. Virginia)
US West (Oregon)
US West (N. California)
EU (Ireland)
Asia Pacific (Singapore)
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
Asia Pacific (Sydney)
South America (Săo Paulo)

More info:
http://aws.amazon.com/free/
http://aws.amazon.com/game-hosting/ (this one is just a curiosity ;)

Nice timing mentioning Amazon, did you know something was happening elsewhere?

What with their takeover with twitch these numbers of locations and options should increase.

They have really shown their hand now, seeing the potential revenue in the gaming industry. Hope what you said about "free Tier Limits" doesn't hit too hard in twitch!!

I've been using Amazon's free server ever since QL dropped Linux support and I had no idea they'd buy Twitch, though I really don't think that that will have any impact on Amazon's service.

My first time playing Quake was with Quake 2 at a friend's house when I joined an online FFA match on q2dm1 (the edge). My friend at the time taught me some of the basics, including bunny hopping and rocket jumping. It was also the first time I think I ever really played an FPS game with a keyboard and mouse. I had always enjoyed the classics in the genre like Doom and Wolfenstein 3d, and then later Duke Nukem 3d.

Playing Quake 2 online as a teenager was an awesome experience, as I loved the fast-paced gameplay and competitive, skill-based nature of the game. My parents' computer was rather old, so at first the only way I could play Quake 2 was at my friend's, plus he happened to have dialup internet for online play. I was able to get into Quake 3 shortly after it launched by begging my parents for a newer PC. I think we got a p3 550mhz and voodoo3 rig and soon after that a broadband cable internet connection in the year 1999-2000ish. My friends and I would play on Mplayer (remember that? hehe), and then I later discovered IRC, joined a clan, and played a lot of duel, CTF and some TDM.

I don't really play Quake anymore, but the game has a special place in my heart ;p I think I still hope that the scene will grow again one day for a fast-paced fps (hopefully a new Quake), as I miss the active community that existed back in the late 90's and early 2000's for Quake, and even games like UT.

Prolly 96 or 97 remember playing ctf when it still was keys instead of flags, good times.

I was given Quake 2 on the N64 when i was 5. then when Quake 3 was a new game i watched my dad play the single player mode. when i had my own computer, i got one of those PC gamer cd discs with a demo for Quake 3 inside. played it to hell. I also found a cd of Quake 2 on the pc, since then i was never able to find it. i also got the original quake when i was 11 back in 2005.

i started quake live online when the open beta was released. so much for a nostalgic moment.

Quake 1 with my brother when i was 12, it was awesome i can still hear the nades resonating with-in the holow rooms of q1.

Before that i was watching my brother play doom which scared the living shit and before that wolfenstein which was scary to me aswell since i was a little kid.

Now i own 90% of quakelive population with my rockets, so i have this going for me, which is nice.

My cousin showed me Quake 1 somewhere between '97 and '98, but I didn't touched Quake (1-2) myself until somewhere between 1998-1999. Later I remember I downloaded Demo Version of Q3 with a 56k modem; took me about 4hours or so, it was summer so it should be in 2000... Ball mouse, 15' crt... Didn't know I was playing something that will continue playing 14 years after... :')

I bought quake 3 in France probably in 2001, because it was not allowed to be purchased in Germany under the age of 18. But never really played it because I thought it was lame; I played UT99 and CS 1.0 at the time. Q3 hadn't even the possibility to headshot, so why should I bother, right? Only when I was at a LAN party in a mates cellar, I installed q3 and started to play a little bit of singleplayer, because my mates were playing strategy games, and I for the hell of it could not be bothered to play those at the time. It was in the magic summer of 2003, a couple of weeks later, quakecon was up and I somehow got to know about it, because I was looking for a config for quake at the time and landed on planetquake.de. I watched Z4muz vs. Zero4, cheering for the European in the final - this is when I was introduced to quake.

Late '96.

If we consider only Quakes;

At first, after classes in grade school there was a regular LAN with Q1 shareware. 486 DX2/66 was the most powerful rig, which I tried to book whenever I could. >: ] This went on for 3 years. Played with keyboard only for some time then eventually changed to mouse.
Then I got a PC at home (after the 386 DX-40) which could run it in software mode. 386 DX-40 ---> 486 SX-33 ---> AMD 5x86/100, hell yeah.

Later on Q2 demo in '98 on the brand new PII 333 Celeron. I was in awe, that it runs. Ofc net nowhere near. A bit later on, I managed to get the full version.

Then Q3Test, and a bit laters, got Q3 in '99 December. Was totally hooked. I clearly remember playing the game on a PII 333 Celeron A + 128 MB SD + integrated 8MB SiS + Voodoo 2 Vulcan G 12 MB (later on, a 16 MB TNT 2 Vanta + additional 64 MB RAM). It was so awesome in Glide. VOODOO LOVE FOR ETERNITY.
Pretty much played this until 2002, only against bots sadly.

In 2000-2001, we were regulars at a netcafé, spend countless hours there, 3-4 times a week. We played Q2, CS 5.0 beta and Starcraft most of the time.

Had a break between 2002-2006, then I found myself playing Quake 1 again on LAN vs a friend, quite frequently. And at home vs bots.

Then I watched Mercurial and I was so fuckin hyped, that Q3 came back again. And the obsession with Quake movies. Hell, those movies (and Quakes in general) REALLY affected my taste in music.

Some LANs vs the same friend, a few online games here and there. I was introduced to OSP and lolExcessive. Played some CPMA and Spiterbot mod as well.
2006 is also the year, when I started being a cfg whore and bought my first serious mouse, an MS IME 3.0 with a QcK mini.

Then Q4 came, 1 day later, it was finished on hardest difficulty.
I played this on LAN with my friend a few times. Got some online games as well with Q4MAX, but not so much. Just loved crouch sliding and the teleporter / jump pad physics though. But I realized that my main Quake is still the 3rd.

In early 2007, started to play DeFRaG (besides OSP offline and rare online). Did mainly CPM runs until late 2009, with ridiculously low sens w/o accel (65 cm / 360 with a WMO on an Everglide Titan). Still got some awesome demos, though my main problem was inconsistency.

Then registered QL in 2009. Played quite some games until August of 2010, when RSI came and I took a 1 year break. Sadly, got my OWN net connection very late; in 2010 September. In September of 2011, started playing again on my old account.
Since 2012 April, I play quite frequently, mostly FFA though - but I'm a duelist at heart. And a TDMer.
In early 2013, I played QW too for a few months. Mainly offline to get accustomed with it, then a few online games.

Up until this day, considering my every account (including the deleted ones), I have roughly 2.1 months playtime in QL in the last 5 years.

tl;dr: Quaker from almost the very beginning, quaker until the grave.

THIS IS AN ART, A RELIGION. THE ULTIMATE APOTHEOSIS OF FPS SKILL - WITH DeFRaG ON THE TOP OF THE ICEBERG.

1998 playing Q2 on lan instead of going to school, had to repeat the grade because of that, it was worth it :)))

I remember reading the plans and prehype before release, wetting my pants. Then QTest, loved the ambient, the sounds, 3d items woot! Full game come and i came. Then one day i went to a friends house and he had a voodoo and showed me glquake, that day i felt like omg arcade, smooth graphics on a pc, sweet! Convinced my father we needed it for the pc to work better blah blah (bunch of crap ofc) and boom! my first 3d card and quake to play. Only when seeing Doom3 alpha i again felt like i was watching a pc gfx revolution, yes there have been many evolutions but seeing glquake for the first time was a thing of magic. Also remember my first Quake lan, the only guy smart enough to use mouse look owned the crap out of everyone with his rockets.

Fuck im old now

Still VGAQuake @ 320 x 240 FTW.

Got my first Computer around 1999 and the nice salesman gave a copy of q3 with the purchase.

With my first computer the nice salesman installed a copy of doom shareware with other games. Shortly after trying it some times and getting frustrated, i got so hooked i rarely played other games.

I remember playing first Doom 2, then Quake 2 and genuinely feeling scared from the spooky atmosphere and being amazed with the graphics. The next game that did that was Unreal. I haven't had a similar feeling since...

Growing sucks, less melatonin, dmt, etc production = less spooky atmospheres and amazement.

The Ravenholm part and some of the other zombie sequences in HL2 did kinda revive those feelings for me slightly.

tru dat

uve ruined first page

lol

Yeah, must have been like that since yesterday. ;)

good stories

...bros.

quake 2, summer 1998, shortly after our family bought first pc. i remember i didn't know how to install drivers for riva 128 graphic card and had to ask some it guy, who lived on my street. first time seeing q2 with hardware acceleration = $$$

Doom demo on linux 1997 or so made it all happen. Immediately fell in love with the shotgun.

2008, got introduced to Quake by Silencep. March 2009 I registered an account on QL. Best decision making in my quake-career so far!

Better late than never Prophy <3

I will be playing soon on a quake lan near you in 2021 when im 5up3R1337

GO PROPHY GO

1999-2000 reges. der

My dad got a burned CD around year 2000. It was a forbidden CD and I was not allowed to play the game on that CD. I did and it was Quake 3. My mind was blown!

quake 1. was never able to really play it until like 1999 though. stupid 486 / 33 mhz.

You forgot to click the TURBO button!

This

:D

My turbo button got jammed :/

dreamhack winter 2013

;( i missed everything....

ITT: showoffs

started off in quakelive or q3? lol
hate to break it to you, but only quake1 is real...

The time I realized what Quake is other than playing vs some bots randomly was probably sometime 2006, but I'm a curious dude and I definitely researched enough to know QW well enough ;P

I didn't know QW till 2007, when I finished my quest to get a stop to ESWC and I "failed" I got a bit frustrated, so my cousin said: Dude the perfect game for you is QW, play it! …Then I realized what I was missing.

Congratulations u were my #20,000!

pardo me, in what?

In slight relation, djWHEAT and Slasher did a fairly long interview with Thresh on Live on Three this night. Guessing VOD's will be up soon.

www.twitch.tv/onemoregametv/c/4960052?t=1h

remember having to use icq?
loved it when it first came out, i gave it another shot in the 00s, but spammers made it unsable.
i can still remember getting on icq and talking tf strategy with my clan, it feels like it was yesterday, but it's been almost 20 years :O

Late 99, my brother had q3test on his pc and I snuck into his room when he wasn't there to play it. He had invert on his mouse settings as we both used to play a lot of games like freespace and so I got tired of switching away from invert and stuck with it. Eventually managed to get a copy of the demo onto my PC and as soon as I realised the whole 1v1 system of winner stays on, where you have to spec and the best guy gets to stay playing.. I started playing like 5-6 hrs straight after school every night until I was a top3 1v1 player on q3demo. Unfortunately I then had a break because I was around 12years old and I couldn't convince my mum to buy me an 18+ game when Q3 came out, so I didn't get to really touch it again until 2003. But multiplayer games that filled that gap: Diablo 2 (really huge addiction lol), EverQuest (pretty huge addiction also), CS, TFC, Warcraft 2 and probably others I'm forgetting right now.

Aww man, I had similar experience as well. Mom was against flying gibs and blood, but luckily dad knew his way with the config :D The game looked like legos to me afterwards back then.

+ for wc2 ololo LOK-TAR

I played lots of tie fighter and so play with invert too.

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somewhere in other timeline ddk's mum let him have the game

he dominates quake 3 duel

he become fatality

I voted 2006-2010 because I didn't start playing online until QL open beta but my first experience with Quake was around 1996-1997. My aunt's boyfriend had Quake on his PC and directed baby byce to it to keep me occupied and I guess I played it a lot because he just gave me the CD. Those 12-polygon rottweilers were really fucking scary at the time. :(

Quake 2 came out, didn't like it, still don't like it, it's lame. I played Quake 3 enough to beat the single player matches, figure out you can hold a strafe button while you're jumping to go a little faster (had no clue what strafejumping was) and find out you can't play online on dialup with 300 ping. Then I forgot all about Quake, but it lay dormant in my He4rT until QL came out.

2000-2001 by decoyroy

bought a PC Gamer magazine and along came Quake 1 demo with other goodies on a CD. probably late 96 or beginning of 97. it was a snowy day.
shitscared when dad say'd BOOH at that zombie-water-map.

have you guys watched a demo of cooller beating cl0ck on aerowalk by 1 frag in the overtime by hitting cl0ck with a railgun just a mile second before the cl0ck's rocket hit cooller?(fixed)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmoKmDmZVV0&t=14m15s

this one :)

I read that as cl0ck's rocket was gonna hit cl0ck -_-

"have you guys watched a demo of cooller…"

according to my knowledge it would imply that the person in this occasion is literally COOLLER.

He meant this: "before the cl0ck's rocket hit himself" ;)

but i mentioned cooller at the beginning of the phrase, the subject in question is cooller, this is not german neither other germanic language, in this case english is very specific, and as same as many other vicious people commit mistakes like that all the time. english comes from germanic root too, but it was "latinized" a bit during the the just a little before the middle ages where the only people who were written were from the church(mostly).

honeslty? i hope I'm wrong cuz i want to learn new things, after you get some knowledge and confidence, which is pretty tough after a while.

The issue is you personalized an object when you used "himself" to refer to it. That could lead the reader to infer that the rocket hit the shooter, who was in this case the subject.

i will ask my friend who runs a english school here, this also have capitalized me a bit.

i remember also that many people make mistakes by using: at, in and on. even native speakers commit those mistakes.

fixed :)

actually it wasn't a milesecond before the rocket hit cooller. The rocket DID hit cooller and he was left with 4 HP.

After buying a p2 350 with voodoo 2 I discovered Q2 lithium and regular DM about 6 months later. I think it was 98, those were the days.... Didnt play Q3 for years just because Q2 was that awesome.

I cant see me ever stopping playing doom and q1-3... just the ultimate games in my opinion in single and multiplayer, such amazing games in their own right but also offer a pretty much never ending supply of custom content.

started playing quake in 96 and q2 in 97? i think thats when it came out ? quake3 in 99 but computer could barely get 30fps
started playing cpma around 02 - 03 and have been hooked since.

i have doom2 quake, q2, q3, q3tin unopened still with factory seal .

how the fark do i upload a photo on these forums ?

I heard about q3 the first time by reading a random magazine not related to videogames. Could have been around 2002.

It had an article about "the cyberathletes", in wich they briefly described the game and the fact it was one of the games played at the Cyber Olympics (i don't remeber wich ones, i think it was WCG ).
It had exactly 3 screenshots in it, all in third person, and i was impressed by the graphic, the bullet marks on the walls, the strange exotic look of the in game characters. No bright skins, it was the maxed out graphic.

It was all new, i had never heard of game competitions. My pc couldn't handle it, it was a pentium 3 with a 1000 hz processor but an 8 mb crappy integrated video chip. 128 mb ram. (120).

So for years i could only dream of all those fancy games like Halo 1 and Tomb Raider, and stuck to play fake 3d rts, worms, and metal slug.
One day i found a copy of quake 2 in a computer game shop. I bought it, it cost me 19.99 euro because it was a collection of 4 games. It was around 2003-2004 (!)

I loved the single player. The atmosphere, the music, the strange enemies, the heavy, dirty, thick weapons. The bfg was mind blowing. And how the hand changed its position randomly while standing still.



The game was also extremely long, something in the 20 hours range i think, but it took me more becuase i had no experience with fps, and i explored and tried everything.

The final boss battle was awesome.

I didn't have internet connection (!!) so i never played it online.
finally around 2006-2007 a friend gave me a cd with q3.
I installed it, and it worked! 45 fps, even! I still didn't have internet, so i had no clue about cfgs and optimization. I played with medium settings, always against bots.
I still remember the fear i had of playing the Doom character at Nightmare difficulty on q3dm6. How good it was to beat him and that fucked up sick aimbot that is Xaero on his small final map. Good philosofical statements in the chat spams, tough. I even wrote down some of it.
Fast forward, some years later got a connection, my mind was absolutely blown when i first saw Fatality vs Aim ( XD) . The final weapon combo... how? He must have had a sick mouse scrolling! Or... maybe he assigns weapons to his keyboard! Woah.
Downloaded his cfg, it was all wrong for my mouse and gear.

Continued messing around with bots for a couple years until i got the possibility to play online. Good Excessive Plus memories.

cool story, good read

started off with doom 1/2 and duke3d in the late 90's. friend played online dm17 instagib ffa's in early 2000 (lol56k), but i kept playing ut99 vs bots for a year. i actually think ut99 offline was better than quake offline, blasphemy i know!
but then internets came and i never swapped quake out for anything else :D

damn that 45 fps though. p200 with an awesomesauce monster 3dfx 4mb gfx card. r_picmip 16 actually gave more fps back in the day :DDD
voodoo 3dfx 16mb upgrade was so damn amazing. its funny to think how great game quality progression was back then. brings back some good memories writing this down, and memories of how retarded i was as a kid :>

Nah, i think everyone can agree that UT99 had better bots.. after all, AI was based on reaper bot (one of the best quake bot!).
Playing assault offline was still quite entertaining i must say.

My dad bought quake 1 on its release in Germany 1996(?). Having played doom and wolf3d before, quake 1 totally knocked me out of my shoes as a kid back then. Same with quake 2 on my 3dfx (colored lights, woohoo) and later quake 3 as my first multiplayer game. I doubt any game will give me such a feeling again.

oh damn how could i have forgotten about wolfenstein 3d! played some of that on the school computers. good ol 3.5" floppies :>

was a wow player in 2006 until my mates showed me get quaked 3 at school which completely blew me away (still does). was hooked on it from then.

i haven't played quake in years but i want to get back into it once i sort my life out a bit.

some dude I believe they call him FFS*LUCKY introduced me to quake. Since then my life went downhill. Well it already was ;p

i was introdced by tyronne

My brother once brought home some copy of Quake I. I played keyboard only against bots on start. I think it was a Commodore with a Cyrix 100 MHz processor.
Some time later in 1998 my math teacher gave me a copy of Quake II, and I played on Lithium servers with him. Slowly got introduced to real Quake II (no runes, hooks) a few months later, and I played on battleground/tourney servers only from then on.
Started with a bit of OSP in 2002, but quickly found the /callvote promode 1 command and got introduced to CPM later. Was really hooked on that gameplay/mod from the start.

Awesome math teacher you got there Sander :]

1996.

Quake was just...brilliant.

I was into doom and dn3d on lans when Q arrived. Boy, that speed, climate, weapons...you just cant describe it. Even after all these years this game still oozes a dense, putrid aura of magic and specific climate.

Shambler. Nuff said.

After that it was a constant fragfest...QW, Q2, Q3...all the mods...

And now QL. Weird guns, weird map choices, weird physics, no gibs, no satanistic/questionable imagery. How mighty have fallen.

2010 with QL
Nothing much to say. I gradually went from a total noob to a slightly less noob player.

You can always cheat to get better!

Well I already do according to many players.

YOU MUST JOIN GREEN SERVERS!
]:-{

Started quake in 2013 after watching a dKsl movie.

played quake on my friend's pc in the late 90s. he built his own computer - wtf?

player q3 in 99 against bots only as a kid, but started online play qith ql when it launched.

Saw Qtest in computer shop, two dudes were gibbing each other on end.bsp, got Q1 soon (but finished campaign only in 2010) and have quake logo tattoo since ~2005.

cousin bought a mag which had q2 demo on it for playstation (circa late '98. mid '99.?) we trashed it on split/screen and then did the same when q2 was released, cause none of us had pc's back then

everything else is history....

Introduced very early, right after release, started too late.

Started with Q3 online with modem on good old vacuumcity ffa server :) 100+ ping, lowfps but still fucking much fun

2012 still beat the crap out of 1999 old farts

lies =)

















































<3

cu in FFA <3


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He has severe global aphasia and partially paralyzed after 4 cerebral embolism, so it's not an option.


You spend your goddamn money.

Waited up the night qtest was released.

how'd i miss this poll?

I bought the first Quake as soon it came out back then, still being used to play Doom 1 & 2 and 'aaaah mein Leben' -Wolfenstein style, only x-axis shizzle.
In Quake 1 you had to press a button to enable free look.
So I played the entire game with a matchstick sandwiched next to that button to pin it down.
For a long time I was convinced matchsticks were the greatest invention of all time.
Hope this gets me a place in the coolest category of all.

Through my brother around 1997, he could afford a computer.

As a kid, I remember dreaming of buying a computer so I could play Q1 on it. I had it all mapped out what minimum specs I needed to have for it to run and how much it was going to cost. Although I couldn't afford it as I didn't have any money and my parents were poor. I figured a pentium 75 was enough to run.

I was a very lonely child :(.

It was about mid 1997 when my neighbor told me about Quake 1 (shareware). We would play against each other by using the built in modem option, normally I would be the one dialing in and little did I know that the host had 0 ping so I was always at a disadvantage with like 250-300ping, but I didn't know so I still had fun. Then we would network against each other, but not through ethernet since I didn't know back in the day, we bought a null modem serial cable to connect via LPT1 port, I think my ping was a lot better and I was able to win. A few months afterwards I moved and didn't play anymore and I thought I wouldn't play Quake again, and my friend called me up and tells me "hey I found a patch so we can play online! (quakeworld)" and im like okay, i download quakeworld and joined the first server and the first thing I remember is that I didn't know what the hell to do, a guy with some skin looks at me and blows me up, and i am like whoa !!! ... and even though I Was a keyboarder ... I had a great time playing and it was smoother finally able to play online and not be ice skating. I still play Quakeworld to this day, but that first year will always bring great memories, made a lot of good friends.

Late 1997, still playing... for 18th years this Xmas

2011..... with ql......
R.I.P.

Feb 2002 - present

2006 - 2010 quake. doom before these years... great games, the base of all fps!.

q3 e+

2014!

2006-2010, but only because i was born in 1996:)

1997, at gaming club. Good old days. <3

I still have the computer I played q1 on, apple imac lol :-D

Maybe I'll do a video on it. Navy seals mod is sick!

This was also the first online multiplayer experience, needless to say the telephone line was often occupied.

2006. When quake 3 was still being played. Sold a lot of warez copies of that shitty 3d arena game without any story or complexity.

That day, i bought a lot of cocaine thx to carmack.




















Well, not really. Just played it on 2009-10

2000 Q3 <3

b4 was Q2 ( AQ2) + Q1 + first was 1996or97 Duke Nukem >_<

i started from late 2013!

1996 !!!!

q1 and q2 multi at college in 97, only play demo q3 ;x and really start quake in multiplayer at quake 4 launch

I first tried Quake3 in 2000. Then my friend showed me UT with Aimbot and it was it totaly amazing... Always HEADSHOT. I played maybe for 10 years this headshot game... Now i play kvejk again (without cheats now).

You filthy

when i fucked your mom

I'd say 1998 or 1999 with Quake 2, back then I didn't even have internet, I discovered it by playing in a cyber-bus that my 6 years older cousin (who was I believe 15 or 16 back then) was helping running. God, now that I think about it, a cyberbus ? So effin' cool.

So yeah I had already been nerding doom 2 as a kid but then I discovered internet itself and this epic game called quake 2. A few months later I went to the store looking for this game because I remembered having the time of my life playing that game with real people on this LAN-bus. I stumbled upon Quake 3. Oh my lord I had found its newest sequel ! Installed it and played the fuck out of its single player. I remember we were having dinner or something with my parents and sister and I would eat megafast then go back to playing the bots in the arena.

Some time later, not long, I got internet aswell and started looking for a multiplayer experience. Found some FT servers. Met very nice people much older than me, who taught me how to strafe and circle jump. Joined a clan, learned my first few english words for the binds our clan used (need help, please thaw me, etc.). Spent countless hours on public servers playing either freezetag, CTF or 'trickjump' maps like JJM for instance.

This is also where I met spartie, way before he became a famous figure I remember fighting with him for top spot on public FT servers. Then OSP got FT, joined the OSP bandwagon and discovered CTF, threewave maps, TDM and later on duel.

Could go into much more details but yeah, what a fantastic journey into the best fps game(s) ever. Wouldn't have had it any other way.

This brings back so many great memories and so many players that I haven't heard of for decades now that built my entire Quake experience up to this day.

Btw if anyone recalls those early 2000 days and this map called jjm. There was another map that I never got to remember the name but if anyone could find it I'd be forever grateful. The map was a learning to move kinda map like JJM but two particular things I remember about it are the beginning and the end of the map. At first you had some kind of a free run circuit like in athletism stadiums. And at the end, you'd have quad + haste and a Plasma gun and you had to plasma climb all your way to the top, some kinda huge wall. Then you'd reached the end of the map. If anyone remembers the map's name (.pk3) I'll be forever in their debt !

<3

nice memories my mane =]

early late 90s to 2005

THE QUAKE GOLDEN YEARS

2008 listening to a teammate's hype about the game, eventually watched Spart1e vs rapha at QC09 and to this day I still remember TosspoT and djWHEAT going crazy about the crucial frags from both rapha and Spart1e on dm6.

This is already 9 years old...

1996 - god damn frogbots

I still have an old imac in the attic with built in modem and q1 navy seals mod. Played ffa online on that thing, and I vaguely remember some ctf mod.

I cant remember actually. I was very young

this is amazing. thank you for your valuable contribution.

I have first tried Quake Instagib in 2009 for 1-2 games
I have started gaming in 2010
I have become Pro in Quake in 2011
I have reached Master Level by 2012

Ever since 2012 I have a record of 8000 wins 0 loss in duel
Out of 8000 wins, I have yet to give a single frag away.

All my matches were smooth and clean k.o. with 40-0 scores.

I have taken a break from Quake from 2013 to 2019.

In 2019 my glorious return I came back to see our quake destroyed by a shame of QC and QLIVE.

I took aggressive stance on ID Software and Noob Champions, which got me banned in QC For 13 times in row.

I have recovered most of my power this summer.

I average in Quake 4 Duels, 80% rail and 52% LG over a hundreds of matches.

Its about double-tripple what toxjq or serious could ever hope to hit.