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Ancient Multiplayer Games
theSquid
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I'm thinking of setting up a LAN with my friends, as I generally do every year, and lately I've been putting in themes to the LANs, seeing as I honestly find having a few rabid idiots forcing everyone to play Halo and BF2 over and over again fucking irritating.
In any case, something I tentatively have in mind is the idea of an old school DOS era multiplayer LAN (*maybe* Win95 era) The thing is I have a pretty short list of games that would work.
Just so you know, you don't have to question me about the logistics, I have pretty much all the ancient hardware I need.
Possible games I have in mind so far are:
DooM
VGA Planets 3.1
Railroad Tycoon 2
Civ 1/2
Worms
Master of Orion 2
PS Mind you, I'm not entirely sure, aside from Doom, MoO2 and VGAP which of these have proper multiplayer modes.
So, any other DOS-era MP games? The older the better!
EDIT: Multiplayer being defined here as requiring an Ethernet connection of some kind between two or more computers, not on the same keyboard. Otherwise I'd be putting SF2 on the list or something.
In any case, something I tentatively have in mind is the idea of an old school DOS era multiplayer LAN (*maybe* Win95 era) The thing is I have a pretty short list of games that would work.
Just so you know, you don't have to question me about the logistics, I have pretty much all the ancient hardware I need.
Possible games I have in mind so far are:
DooM
VGA Planets 3.1
Railroad Tycoon 2
Civ 1/2
Worms
Master of Orion 2
PS Mind you, I'm not entirely sure, aside from Doom, MoO2 and VGAP which of these have proper multiplayer modes.
So, any other DOS-era MP games? The older the better!
EDIT: Multiplayer being defined here as requiring an Ethernet connection of some kind between two or more computers, not on the same keyboard. Otherwise I'd be putting SF2 on the list or something.
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One of the old Civ games?
Civ 2 had multiplayer from the start.
You can a get an opensource clone of Civ2 called "freeciv" for well.. free.. has multiplayer.
You already have Doom. Between Doom, Ultimate Doom, Doom II, and the millions of campaigns, maps, mods, 3d modes and addons, I could enjoy a weekend long LAN of nothing *but* Doom, but maybe that's just me.
If you want to advance a little further, Quake is still excellent. If you want some team gaming, try a CTF mod or, better yet, Team Fortress!
I'll go one generation of Quake further, to Quake II, for the simple fact that it has Action Quake 2. Countless hours were lost upon that game.
Oh, old-school iD, how I miss thee!
Also War II, Quake, MoO II, and many others mentioned here.
Diablo 1 and X Wing vs Tie Fighter if you're willing to pop into early Win 95.
Like, duh.
Perhaps a bit late Win-95, but Alpha Centauri can be great fun. Spaceward Ho! 4.0 is also quite fun, and a good bit of ally-dickery can be had. ("Oh please mr. ally, may I have 10,000 metal to build a fleet to defend myself with?" Ten turns later 'mr ally' losses his home planet so suddenly to a fleet of your dreadnaughts he doesn't even get a battle report beyond "Uhm, we died..")
The old Command and Conquers as well.
STEAM
And yeah, I'm generally going for pre-95, but I may reconsider, especially if said game is DOS-based anyway
EDIT: Does C&C run in DOS mode? What about Red Alert?
fuck this game is still awesome
I never asked for this!
MotoRacer (not the sequel)
NetStorm
Screamer, Screamer Rally (not sure if they have multiplayer)
Racing:
Hi-Octane
Slipstream 5000, might suck without a good joystick, not sure.
Strategy:
Settlers 1&2
Rampart is a whole lotta fun but I'm not sure if it supported network play.
Other than that it's basically a bunch of flight sims and sports games.
Dungeon Keeper.
Woah woah woahwoahwoah. Woah. DK had MP?
Seriously. Some of the best MP can be had with this game. OP should be ashamed for not even mentioning this and Duke Nukem.
Yes.
yeah, i never got it to work though
Xbox : gunst4r
Wikipedia link
I'm pretty sure it has LAN play.
Also, Theme Hospital!
Duke3D
and Hi-Octane, which to this day remains my favorite Racing/Action game of all time.
Not really ancient, I guess, but it's been years since I played 'em; since Bungie.net was shitcanned in fact(fuck you bungie!). You can still play them though. I forget how, exactly, but its through marius.net [sp?] or something. Maybe someone else can help me out
This.
Can trade TF2 items or whatever else you're interested in. PM me.
Do it. Theres lasers everywhere!
Some of the best LAN games that ever lived.
Until someone breaks out the Bertha's. Then it's really on.
Dungeon Keeper 2 works well multiplayer, DK1 is a bit of a fucker to get running nowadays:
Rise of the triad
Doom
Fatal Racing
Populous 3
Carmageddon
Monster Truck Madness
Worms doesn't have TCP/IP play I don't think, just hot seat. Worms 2 does iirc
Command and Conquer
Quake
Quarantine
I agree with the Screamer games, but I'd include Screamer 2 as well, I have a soft spot for it
Hexen/Heretic
Did Abuse have multiplayer?
Syndicate Wars
Magic Carpet 1 and 2
PSN: SirGrinchX
Oculus Rift: Sir_Grinch
Man I loved me some Scorched Earth. Set the weapon level to high and drop a large nuke and watch it slowly expand to cover the entire screen. Christ I'm old.
Nuke their power plants!
Fuck, I wanna play this now. Great. ARGH.
Mr Grinch, you have spectacular taste.
Quarantine? Fuck yes.
Most everyone knows about Quake so I won't talk about it.
Fatal Racing was a crazy high speed stunt racing game...each track had some feature that made it absolutely brutal.
You can still find the demo, which works for up to 8 people I think, and has one track. The track features a twisted ramp that makes you DO A BARREL ROLL in midair, and if you don't leave the ramp at the proper speed you either crash into the pit below the ramp, or land upside down on the other side.
The cars take damage as they're rammed into things, and over the course of a race if you don't bring your car into the pits for repairs, they'll gradually get slower and slower, start smoking, start flaming, and ultimately explode in a gratifying ball of flame...for which the last person to damage you gets credit!
I wish beyond I don't know what that I still had my full copy, but my brother lost it. Family sucks sometimes.
Oh, extra bonus: If you can get your hands on a retail copy, I think you can have up to 16 players on a LAN with only the host requiring a CD. Everyone else just needs to have it installed.
Moby has some screenshots here: http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/whiplash/screenshots