Quote Originally Posted by Azazua_azura View Post
Online gaming baxck then was still in early stages. remember this was roughly 2006 the iphone didn't exist yet.
Ha. Haha. Ahahahahaha. That was funny.

Kids these days, sheesh! I've been playing online games since 1995, and online games go waaay back if you count BBS MUDs. In 1995, a program came into wide usage in the gaming world called Kali95 that transformed IPX into TCP/IP, tricking LAN games like Warcraft II into thinking various people on the internet were really on a LAN. I played an absurd amount of Warcraft II with it, along with a bunch of Descent, Duke Nukem 3D, and eventually Quake 2. And then there was Gamespy aimed at FPSs (specifically Quake 1, but I mostly used it later on for Half Life and Counter Strike (Beta)), and then eventually Battle.net for Starcraft.

The first graphical, 3D MMORPG was probably Meridian 59, which also came out in 1995.


But yeah, gaming online on the XBOX360 was terrible because of the XBOX Gold lockout. My girlfriend at the time and I had to get Gold on both of our accounts just so we could play Borderlands 2 with my roommate whose TV was in the same room as mine and on the same network connection, just because he was on a different console =\ Before she had Gold, when it was just me with Gold, I could play with her on the same console, or with him over the network, but not with both at once, if I'm remembering correctly. If we tried, it would complain that her account wasn't authorized to play online games.