I played the original Quake in college the year it came out. They gave away so much of the game on demo floppy disks that your could play deathmatch for free. W

I played the original Quake in college the year it came out. They gave away so much of the game on demo floppy disks that your could play deathmatch for free. We took over a whole computer room in the journalism school (trash 486s, but nobody really used that room so we were left alone). Quake II was at my first proper job, at DEC. I worked on the server/storage support team. At 5pm when the phone lines closed we'd fire up Quake II on a server and at least 20 people would hang around for an hour or two after work to smoke cigarettes and play Q2. The mods are terrific. One person used a perfectly crafted Homer Simpson mod, complete with sounds effects sampled from the show. Also remember a "Bananas in pyjamas" skin and a small floaty robot (which was a bit of a cheat because it was harder to see than Homer). And the maps! Christ, so many great maps. Some of them are in Xonotic, and I still play DM in them occasionally.