GameNET

BeatTun

does anyone remember GAMENET?

the dial-up games server, it was around about 5 or 6 years ago, did anyone here use it?

BeatTun

surely im not the only dinosaur here?

Shinji

Not by any measure or means - but GameNET still doesn't ring any bells I'm afraid! At that stage... It would have been a contemporary of Wireplay, right? Was it a UK thing?

BeatTun

no it was a small dun laoghaire based server, you subscribed on a monthly basis, dialed into it with its own software (fairly basic dos like software), you could chat on it, and then play up to 4 player games like doom, doom2 etc

doom (shareware) came with the software, but we started to play games like virtual pool, nascar, and duke3d on it, it was fukkin brilliant fun, someone should start another one up with limited users for games like half life, gta2 etc....kingpin blah blah

cos u had good bandwitch with a 28.8 modem at the time.

fisty

i remember it.
it was like a BBS - you dialled into it and played doom/hexen/heretic.
I was Olddog.
man thats going back a while.
5/6 years ago?
lol - try 7/8 years.

theciscokid

still, it sounded like alot of fun for the time!

WetDaddy

12 years on from the original post; yes, I remember it vividly!

I was a tester with them, which meant they waved the £100 membership fee for me (but we still had to pay per phone call back then).

Zero-Cool

A thread from 2002 talking about technology from 1996 :pac: I feel old

WetDaddy

sheehy83 wrote: »

A thread from 2002 talking about technology from 1996 :pac: I feel old

Right on, man