it's not really surprising a bug like bunny hopping would exist, either. You have to realize at the time that everyone was coming from Doom and was still using

it's not really surprising a bug like bunny hopping would exist, either. You have to realize at the time that everyone was coming from Doom and was still using keyboard movement. I was using keyboard movement in Quake. It wasn't until I joined in with a few friends in QuakeWorld that someone said "hey, you really need to start using a mouse to play." You could get away with keyboard in single player, but even back then you would get stomped by the mouselook players. What's amusing is you could always tell the keyboard players back then, by the way they slowly turned around. Anyway, playing with the mouse was a new thing. Mouse acceleration, dpi, etc. were all just experiments. Introducing a new way to move would surely uncover bugs hidden in the physics code that simply weren't possible to hit with keyboard movement.