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KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
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join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
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reply to drslash

Re: 300bps modems

I never had a CompuServe account, but knew a few people who did.

First service I had was Prodigy..... It was cool, but I was in college and money was tight and I shut it off.

Later I got Sierra Online right as it relaunched as the INN "The ImagiNation Network".... Anyone remember that? One of it's highlights was you could play the game "Red Baron" online. Boy you guys think lag is bad these days.... LOL.....

I think that was the beginning of "online gaming". I had it maybe 2 years and then I got my first dial-up Internet account. I still remember when KALI came out and I could play Warcraft, Warcraft II, DukeNukem 3D etc online.

/nostalgia
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"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini

Kearnstd
Elf Wizard
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join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ

i had Descent II and it had KALI support though i had no clue what it was at the time lol.
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tim_k
Buttons, Bows, Beamer, Shadow, Kasey
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join:2002-02-02
Stewartstown, PA
kudos:13

reply to KrK

said by KrK:

I never had a CompuServe account, but knew a few people who did.

First service I had was Prodigy..... It was cool, but I was in college and money was tight and I shut it off.

Later I got Sierra Online right as it relaunched as the INN "The ImagiNation Network".... Anyone remember that? One of it's highlights was you could play the game "Red Baron" online. Boy you guys think lag is bad these days.... LOL.....

I had CompuServe for a couple months, I couldn't justify the price and dropped it. I did have Sierra Online. During the special pricing I think it was something like $15 for 30 hours/mo. I was in a Red Baron squadron, but didn't play it too much, lag caused too many problems. I also think in those days you paid extra if you used a 2400 baud modem. To this day, the best game of Hearts I ever played was on Sierra. There were some expert card players there. After the special pricing, I went with the cheapest plan since getting 30 hours was way too high. But I worried so much about going over my limit, which was just a handful of hours per month, that I dropped it.
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quarkmachine

join:2003-02-12
Derby, KS

reply to Kearnstd
Descent II was my first online gaming experience... I think I paid 20$ for a "lifetime" membership to KALI. Seems so long ago.
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"Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now."



Demon666666

@gotdns.com

reply to KrK
First online game?

Apple IIe, America's cup.

Beat that bro. A sailing simulator played against another person via a 300BPS Hayes modem.

If you mean more than one person, you are probably right.


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