Happy Birthday Quake!

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Chris Thornett - 22 June 2009 - 5:03pm

 

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Happy Birthday Quake! June 22nd, the day after the longest day or, more importantly, the 13th birthday of Quake. It isn't so much the single player game that I induces waves of nostalgia for me, but that one word - 'Qtest'.

I look back now and find that I can't think of any online game that was such a bitter-sweet addiction, able to serve up hit after hit of balls-out, high speed twitch fragging. I'm sure there must have been, but it's like Quake sucked the rest of 'em out of my noggin. It was a crazy time. I had friends who went out and blew their student loans just to get a home PC powerful enough to play Quake on a piddly little modem connection. And some just dropped out of their studies completely lost in the throes of deathmatch fever. Perhaps this was the start of the perpetual upgrade train for gamers? But for many it was definitely the 'big bang' of online gaming.

Id we salute you!

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Jedburgh (not verified)
22 June 2009 - 5:18pm

Staying up until 3AM

Staying up until 3AM downloading it from Compuserve. Just about getting it running on my Pentium Overdrive box. That first Fiend scaring the crap out of me. Copying it onto a bunch of floppies to take into PCF the next morning, then finding that Paula had downloaded it on our whizzo office network two minutes before I got in. Those were the days :D

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