first game i ever played over any kind of internet connection? direct modem-to-modem Warcraft 2 and Duke Nukem 3d

first game meant to be truly played online? i remember playing Runescape when the patch that introduced Runite and the dragon quest was implemented and there was no 99 smithers , i think the highest at that point was high 80s

Originally posted by allstar101

being only 18 my first MMO was Diablo2 which i can never recall seeing MUN used lol so no idea

that being about 9 years ago now xD

Diablo 2 is NOT an mmo........... there is no MASSIVE multiplayer in Diablo 2...........people who call Diablo 2 an mmo also think anything with more than 2 players is an mmo.........

Originally posted by Zorvan01

Originally posted by allstar101

being only 18 my first MMO was Diablo2 which i can never recall seeing MUN used lol so no idea

that being about 9 years ago now xD

 

Diablo 2 is NOT an mmo........... there is no MASSIVE multiplayer in Diablo 2...........people who call Diablo 2 an mmo also think anything with more than 2 players is an mmo.........

You are correct - D2 was not an MMO - but it was still a helluva great game.

Originally posted by Teala

Originally posted by kasta

 I'm going to have to plead ignorance on the mun thing but since there are some old school peeps in this thread I've got a question.  I know that MUD stood for Multi User Dungeon and MUSH was Multi User Shared Hallucination but what the heck did MOO stand for?

 

MOO = Mud + Object Oriented and was a programming data base language that allowed other users of the MUD to use virtual creted objects.

Thank you, Teala.  I've been wondering what that meant for years. :)

Originally posted by Teala

So if you've been playing MMORPG's online for a long time I have a trivia question for you.  All I ask is that if you do know the answer do not give it away.   If you don't go ahead and post what you think a Mun is.

 

Gemstone 3 was my first MUD.  I remember playing it with a black screen and white text.  I can remember how happy I was when they created a graphical map interface front end.  You could download this program, run it, activate the game and it would give you a little map with an arrow pointing the direction you were facing.  This was my first MMO.

About 10,000 people played it total.  We'd have like 3500 online at once.  I made some really incredible friends in that game.

Simutronics did a good job back in the day.  I miss GS3 sometimes.

Originally posted by Teala

Oh and just like the word grue, some of you have never heard of...

Of course I've heard of 'Grue' but as for Mun, nope, never once in well over two decades of gaming online.

Never heard the term MUN but then I kind of skipped over the whole MUD phase of online gaming anyway.  I'm certainly old enough that I could have played MUDS back in the day but I didn't have a computer at that time and certainly didn't have a internet connection.  In fact, I can remember thinking, "What the hell would I do with the internet." 

Yeah, I missed the whole thing.  Was unaware that it even existed.  It seems funny to me now but I remember telling a friend of mine about this great idea I had that someone could make a game world like our old P&P games and then get other people to connect online to play it.  Heh, had no idea that that sort of thing had already been going on for years in the form of MUDs.

The first online game I played was Diablo and that was at a friends house.  And then EQ at the same guys house.  I remember when he got it and then I remember a day or two later he told me that he had found out it required a monthly subscription and the idea was so new and strange to me I was actually shocked (I missed UO too).

All of that earlier stuff was going on in my twenties and back then I spent most of my free time hanging around in bars or doing outdoorsy stuff.  That entire phase of internet evolution went on without my even being aware of it.

Originally posted by dterry

Originally posted by Zorvan01

Originally posted by allstar101

being only 18 my first MMO was Diablo2 which i can never recall seeing MUN used lol so no idea

that being about 9 years ago now xD

 

Diablo 2 is NOT an mmo........... there is no MASSIVE multiplayer in Diablo 2...........people who call Diablo 2 an mmo also think anything with more than 2 players is an mmo.........

You are correct - D2 was not an MMO - but it was still a helluva great game.

THAT I will agree with.

Originally posted by melmister

Well, not considering BBS..  Asheron's Call was my first.

Legend of the Red Dragon and Exitilus FTW, baby!

I don't remember the term either and played MUDs from way back. The only thing i did through aol back then was play a mud called hmm Dragon's Gate I think it was, until they started charging for it. I do sort of remember  seeing a word similar to mundane, that conveyed the same meaning, but cannot think of what it is. Heh, for all I know, maybe it was mun, but its been a while.

Funny thing is, I can still see the path in my head I took to get to spectres where I charmed one in dgate, lol, but can't remember terminology used.

My first "online" gaming experience was playing DOOM on a BBS with a 9600 baud modem. :)

Originally posted by Nov8tr

My first "online" gaming experience was playing DOOM on a BBS with a 9600 baud modem. :)

Hey!!! me too! that was really something!

i used to down the pc's at school because they were on a bnc ring.  Yes, im not THAT old because I was in high school when PC's first came out.

In grade 2 we had a mouse game that you gave the mouse an x and y co ord and it would move....I got in trouble for giving x 2000000 and y 20343211 ...and the teacher didn't want to turn off the vic 20 and load from tape again.

My first online game was UO over a 14.4 or 28.8 can't remember.

I was talking about icq today and remembered how important that was to play uo lol.

So not THAT old, but def not a newb either.

MUN was in use in my area around the same time that LAN came into the vernacular and took over.  

Multi User Network.

How old school?  Way back...we're talkin Doom over 56k when that was SCREAMING FAST.

Originally posted by Neverblade

MUN was in use in my area around the same time that LAN came into the vernacular and took over.  

 

Multi User Network.

 

How old school?  Way back...we're talkin Doom over 56k when that was SCREAMING FAST.

Wrong MUN. It was the first one I thought of as well, though.

How Oldschool of an Online Gamer am I?

My first home console game platform - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telstar_%28game_console%29

Lol. Played Ultima Online for a little bit, but Everquest on launch day won my heart for years.

MUD = Multi User Dungeon. MOB = Mobile Object.

And the day I stop playing video games and watching cartoons is the day I'm busy pushing up daisies.

I've been playing MMOs since Ultima Online and I have never ever seen anyone use "mun." Not saying that it wasn't used, just that I've never seen it or heard it.

I did witness the birth of the word "pwnt" and the evolution of the word "newbie" though. I think that "pwnt" might have started in CS but I have seen it used a lot in UO.

Originally posted by Teala

You know this was suppose to be a fun thread.   That was it's intent.   But no, some of you have some serious issues because you think people just make crap up and toss it out there.    I wouldn't have started this thread if I thought so many of you are so full of hate you just can't stand it that someone tries to do something fun for a change.   It was a little piece of gaming trivia.    Oh and just like the word grue, some of you have never heard of...it is just as real as the word mun and just because you never heard it doesn't mean it is not a real word or wasn't used.   Look it up.    And next time don't be so quick and judgemental, because sometimes you might actually learn something.

Picking some random slang word and testing who knows it comes off as condescending.

Congrats... everyone now thinks you are the super-cool oldschool online rpg gamer!

Originally posted by Netzoko

Originally posted by Teala

You know this was suppose to be a fun thread.   That was it's intent.   But no, some of you have some serious issues because you think people just make crap up and toss it out there.    I wouldn't have started this thread if I thought so many of you are so full of hate you just can't stand it that someone tries to do something fun for a change.   It was a little piece of gaming trivia.    Oh and just like the word grue, some of you have never heard of...it is just as real as the word mun and just because you never heard it doesn't mean it is not a real word or wasn't used.   Look it up.    And next time don't be so quick and judgemental, because sometimes you might actually learn something.

Picking some random slang word and testing who knows it comes off as condescending.

Congrats... everyone now thinks you are the super-cool oldschool online P&P rpg gamer!

Fixed.

Not to insult you "oldschool gamers" but noone really cares how long you've been gaming. Your opinions are no more valuable then a teen playing WoW. Also stop saying that oldschool games are better then current games. You old people are always going on about how stuff was "better" back then but it's bs and you know it. Now get in your time capsule and go away.

Originally posted by Cyborg99

Not to insult you "oldschool gamers" but noone really cares how long you've been gaming. Your opinions are no more valuable then a teen playing WoW. Also stop saying that oldschool games are better then current games. You old people are always going on about how stuff was "better" back then but it's bs and you know it. Now get in your time capsule and go away.

You're just as bad.

On a side note to other posters. I don't understand why the need is felt to bash a thread that was made for honest fun.  It's not like the OP said old games are better because we're cooler blah blah blah.  Nor did the OP imply that any sort of greatness would flow from our very pores for admitting that we're gamers that have been around longer than you. 

Originally posted by SonikFlash

Originally posted by Cyborg99

Not to insult you "oldschool gamers" but noone really cares how long you've been gaming. Your opinions are no more valuable then a teen playing WoW. Also stop saying that oldschool games are better then current games. You old people are always going on about how stuff was "better" back then but it's bs and you know it. Now get in your time capsule and go away.

 

You're just as bad.

 

On a side note to other posters. I don't understand why the need is felt to bash a thread that was made for honest fun.  It's not like the OP said old games are better because we're cooler blah blah blah.  Nor did the OP imply that any sort of greatness would flow from our very pores for admitting that we're gamers that have been around longer than you. 

Personally, it was the fact that they were basically comparing themselves (AOL P&P Chatroomers) with MUDders who played computer games. Just because you play a P&P RPG and use the medium of a computer being online to communicate, doesn't make it an Online Game. I could play it just as well at my computer in an AOL Chatroom as I could in the middle of the Alaskan Wilderness, so long I had X amount of friends there with me.

Originally posted by Cyborg99

Not to insult you "oldschool gamers" but noone really cares how long you've been gaming. Your opinions are no more valuable then a teen playing WoW. Also stop saying that oldschool games are better then current games. You old people are always going on about how stuff was "better" back then but it's bs and you know it. Now get in your time capsule and go away.

 Hmm a teen playing WoW compared to someone who has been playing games for 20+ years, i'm sure one has more to say than the other. It's not that old games are better than the new, it's just that they felt orignal and more compelling at the time. These days the total abundence of the same type of games to choose from really deminishes that feeling of a unique, fun, and interesting experience.

I used to play a LOT of muds(Gemstone comes to mind), my first graphical MMORPG(ORPG I guess) was The Realm, in waaaay early 90s, I remember being in the beta. It was pretty awesome.

P.S. to the people saying games weren't better back then, it's just nostalgia -- you're wrong

the games were better because the communities weren't full of ignorant jerks that don't care about other players and actually socialized.

Originally posted by Cyborg99

Not to insult you "oldschool gamers" but noone really cares how long you've been gaming. Your opinions are no more valuable then a teen playing WoW. Also stop saying that oldschool games are better then current games. You old people are always going on about how stuff was "better" back then but it's bs and you know it. Now get in your time capsule and go away.

Sounds like someone needs a diaper change.

i'm off to spam /r/ for fran drescher's contact info.