Wolenstein 3D

[frase]

Remeber this game

Romero and Caramack!

 

[Kitten Kong]

Yup, loved that game.

Did you manage to find all the hidden rooms?

 

[frase]

Yea all od them was a mission in itself lol

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Heck yeah.
And "id software"....I blame them for fully hooking me into computers via....addicting to online gaming once the first true 3d environment first person shooter came out....Quake.

Wolfenstein 3D...pretty much credited for being the "first" FPS game...aka corridor game. id followed up with Doom...which REALLY expanded the popularity. They were still really just "2D" environments though, the illusion of 3D.

Another software company came up with Duke Nukem, which accelerated the 2D game engine about as far as it could go as far as FPS games.

It was right around this time I was getting hooked into computer gaming, between Wolf and Doom, Aces over Europe, Aces of the Pacific, and Duke Nukem...I was really starting to get into them.

And then id followed up with the first Quake...with the first true 3D gaming engine. And..I was FULLY hooked. Got into gaming big time, and since Quake 1 got quite popular with online multiplayer gaming...via dial up modem...wow...I was hooked. Joined a clan, played lots of deathmatch games (it's where I got my online alias YeOldeStonecat...our clan was YeOldeMelankees...from A Clockwork Orange, all of us has "YeOlde" in front of our names. I used to be just Stonecat...but, after being a member of that clan, the "YeOlde" stuck with me. )

And then 3Dfx Voodoo cards came out, and the mod for Quake called GLQuake came out, I bought the first Monster 3D card...stuck it in my Micron Millenia P166mmx computer...and holy smokes...my jaw dropped the floor and drool oozed down my chin at the sumptuous gorgeous graphics of Quake 1. My online gaming career had started....with my side business of building custom gaming computers, and building/running some public gaming servers.

Unreal...the next big advancement in FPS gaming, the MMX engine allowed some incredible huge outdoor environments. Unreal Tournament is when my online gaming servers really took off, followed by many of the Battlefield series.

..good times....good times.

 

[Blues]

I remember Doom and Descent back in the day I got into gaming though with Sierra point and click titles like Kings Quest series & Quest for Glory series. The first big 3D PC game for me that I recall was Tribes but it probably stands out as I played it for so long and did some modding on it.

 

[Diggs]

And then 3Dfx Voodoo cards came out

My first graphics card was a Hercules (monochrome). I still have my box cover from my Voodoo3000. That's back when even the packaging was glorified -

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

My first graphics card was a Hercules (monochrome). I still have my box cover from my Voodoo3000. That's back when even the packaging was glorified -

Trying to remember back....the early graphics cards before 3Dfx, ATI, and nVidia TNT.

I do recall a Matrox Millenium with 4 or 6 megs of vram, I had in an HP Vectra Pro, that had a couple of Pentium Pro socket 1....I think 150MHz each. Brother in law of mine was a big salesman for HP and gave it to me. Of course with Windows 95, she only saw 1x socket, so the second one was moot. Originally had NT 3.51 or something.

And then the Micro Millenium P166mmx I had, I had an S3 Virge...I think DX or something...with 4 megs of VRAM.

The first Voodoo cards were daughter cards sorta, pass through for normal graphics, they'd kick in with OpenGL calls.

I remember the Voodoo II and 3 cards...I ran Voodoo II's in "SLI mode"....you ran a pair of them and they this connector ribbon cable that looked like an IDE cable.

After that, nVidia was born, right around the time Quake 2 was becoming big, and I got one of the first TNT cards, Diamond I think, it had...oh I forget how much VRAM, think it was 16 megs and that was mind boggling back then! And the first time I fired up Quake 2 with my first TNT card...oh boy, it looked great! Made the rail gun so much fun!

 

[Diggs]

Here would be early nVidia from my collection. The early video card boxes were huge and their cutouts made nice backings for my shop shelves - chuckles....

 

[britechguy]

I must be the very odd man out in the IT world in that I never, ever had even the slightest interest in computer games, and still don't.

After spending the amount of time I do with these things making a living, I just want to walk away, not stay around them and play with them on my own time.

 

[hiddenpcmaster]

I still play on Steam to this day!

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

I remember Doom and Descent back in the day

Ahh...wow, I forgot about "Descent"....another 3 dimensional engine that you....really had to get the knack of because things moved so fast. I'm sitting here in my chair bringing up memories of the game.

I even picked up a special 360* controller for that game....pretty much for that game only. The Space Orb 360

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

I still play on Steam to this day!

Steam...that came out towards the dwindling years of my gaming, as I slowed down. I think the first game I used that for was Warbirds. Later on, even though when I purchased Half Life on CD, some of the add ons I got through Steam. Not sure, didn't use it much.

 

[Blues]

While I have stuff on Steam mostly I do my gaming through GOG as I am more interested in older and more indie titles the big AAA titles rarely even interest me and even when they do they seems so lacking particularly for the $60 or so a new title cost.

@YeOldeStonecat I think I remember seeing ads for the controller in like a game manual or something.

 

[MichaelBits]

Rise of the Triad was my first shooter.

 

[GTP]

I still play on Steam to this day!

Steam rules!
Other game platforms pale into insignificance compared to Steam.

not stay around them and play with them on my own time.

I currently have 9,589 hours in Left 4 Dead 2.
I collectively have thousands of hours in about a a half dozen other games too.

I think I'll be playing L4D2 on my death bed hahah.

 

[britechguy]

I think I'll be playing L4D2 on my death bed hahah.

Chacun à son goût.

 

[GTP]

Chacun à son goût.

Of course.
I know people who watch cricket, golf and tennis for days on end even waking in the small hours to watch tennis broadcasts.

Personally, I'd rather sit on my front porch and watch my car rust.

 

[frase]

I have 500+ on DayZ, I know you love your LFD2 @GTP

 

[Diggs]

Descent back in the day

I had problems with vertigo and motion sickness trying to play Descent. It was hard to figure out which way was up sometimes.....

I still put in some good sessions on Steam and TF2. My gaming goes back to Far Cry 1. A bit revolutionary at the time with rag-doll physics and the like.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

I still put in some good sessions on Steam and TF2. My gaming goes back to Far Cry 1. A bit revolutionary at the time with rag-doll physics and the like.

I do remember the Far Cry engine. Was it also the first to introduce lingering damage to terraine/objects?