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I did LAN parties in the early '90s when a bunch of BBS nerds would show up at a local pizza joint cradling Mac LCs, IIsi's, and Powerbooks, bust out some Phone

I did LAN parties in the early '90s when a bunch of BBS nerds would show up at a local pizza joint cradling Mac LCs, IIsi's, and Powerbooks, bust out some PhoneNet connectors and play some intense Bolo [0] or Spaceward Ho [1] games. Later, Spectre [2], Marathon [3] Maybe someone would demo some app they were working on in MPW or Think C, or demo a funny postage stamp-sized quicktime (new video format) of an exploding whale or dumb Dan Quayle quotes. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_(1987_video_game) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceward_Ho! [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(1991_video_game) [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_(video_game)

amatecha 3y ago
That sounds like an amazing time. I sunk a ton of hours into networked Bolo, Spectre and Marathon... probably not quite to the scale that you experienced! I often tell people how the game mechanics in Marathon are still present in basically all multiplayer FPSes today- the "Post-Game Carnage Report" exceeds what you even get in many games today, for that matter.