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Posted: 1/18/2024 1:20:15 PM EDT
[#1]
Growing up we played a lot of Goldeneye. Then it was the original Halo when we got our first Xbox.
In college we played a TON of Battlefield 1942 with the Dessert Combat mod. I had a separate computer running Linux that we used to host our LAN games to play this mod. Four of us would play co-op against bots on the server. Fun times. |
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Posted: 1/18/2024 1:20:23 PM EDT
[#2]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The one where I went outside and played war with my friends. |
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Posted: 1/18/2024 1:21:47 PM EDT
[#3]
Growing up would have been the original Ghost recon on the PC. As an adult probably a tie between Arma 3 and Tarkov
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Posted: 1/18/2024 1:24:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The one where I went outside and played war with my friends. We did the same thing... gen x 80s kid here. |
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Posted: 1/18/2024 1:24:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The one where I went outside and played war with my friends. |
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Posted: 1/18/2024 1:28:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Half life mod called Firearms Whoa, completely forgot about that game! Definitely spent a lot of hours playing Firearms and had to go find some YouTube clips to refresh my memory. Back then those were peak gaming days with all the different HL mods. |
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Posted: 1/18/2024 1:33:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Return to Castle Wolfenstein. "Beach" may be the best multiplayer shooter map ever.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGdcJ82-9EEEither side can win if played well. If played well on both sides the outcome is hard to predict. Also, it's ... FUN. Sea Rigs.  Battlefield 1942 - Desert Combat Mod v0.7 - Sea Rigs Map |
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Posted: 1/18/2024 1:34:41 PM EDT
[#8]
Gunship
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Posted: 1/18/2024 1:54:35 PM EDT
[#9]
It was probably a tie between Halo CE and Battlefield Vietnam.
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Posted: 1/18/2024 1:56:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Return to Castle Wolfenstein. "Beach" may be the best multiplayer shooter map ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGdcJ82-9EEEither side can win if played well. If played well on both sides the outcome is hard to predict. Also, it's ... FUN. Sea Rigs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2i6ollHJUsI haven't played both so I can't comment. 
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Posted: 1/18/2024 2:03:28 PM EDT
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War. The kids in the neighborhood used to play "war" with toy guns and assorted milsurp from WWII.
Jesus, I am so thankful to have grown up before video game consoles got so advanced. |
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Posted: 1/18/2024 2:16:40 PM EDT
[#12]
The original Axis & Allies board game in the big box. Sadly I sold it many years ago.
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Posted: 1/18/2024 2:18:26 PM EDT
[#13]
We had:
Dirt clod wars Rock wars Bottle rocket wars We drew the line at pellet gun wars though. |
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Posted: 1/18/2024 2:18:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: War. The kids in the neighborhood used to play "war" with toy guns and assorted milsurp from WWII. , I am so thankful to have grown up before video game consoles got so advanced. I'm sure the advances in video games has had some effect there, but I pin that more on parents being terrified of letting their kids go outside and play unsupervised. We had an NES and a PC and I still would go outside a lot and play with the neighbor's kids and go hiking all over creation. |
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Posted: 1/18/2024 2:19:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We had: Dirt clod wars Rock wars Bottle rocket wars We drew the line at pellet gun wars though. Yall needed some bamboo growing around you. Than you could have bamboo sword-spear wars. 
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Posted: 1/18/2024 2:20:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Wolfenstein 3D Return to Castle Wolfenstein Duke Nukem 3D DOOM this |
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Posted: 1/18/2024 2:23:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I was already old but it would have been Operation Flashpoint. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f3/Operation_Flashpoint_cover.jpg Yep. Good game! I got some time on it before I got married. "Only the dead have seen an end to war" |
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Posted: 1/18/2024 2:27:15 PM EDT
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Day of Defeat in High school
Counter Strike in College Edit: I forgot about Alien Vs Predator. I played a shit ton of that. Used to play dial up directly with a friend and tie up our parents landlines. Still played a lot when it went to GameSpy. |
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Posted: 1/18/2024 2:34:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Day of Defeat in High school Counter Strike in College Edit: I forgot about Alien Vs Predator. I played a shit ton of that. Used to play dial up directly with a friend and tie up our parents landlines. Still played a lot when it went to GameSpy. So YOU'RE the joker that reflexively shoots all the lights to turn them off! 
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Posted: 1/18/2024 2:40:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: So YOU'RE the joker that reflexively shoots all the lights to turn them off! lol. I always played the Marine. People hated the minigun. |
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Posted: 1/18/2024 2:43:39 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/18/2024 2:43:39 PM EDT
[#22]
We had BB gun wars. It was epic.
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Posted: 1/18/2024 2:45:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: lol. I always played the Marine. People hated the minigun. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: So YOU'RE the joker that reflexively shoots all the lights to turn them off! lol. I always played the Marine. People hated the minigun. You mean you didn't like walking on the ceiling and attacking from above?
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Posted: 1/18/2024 2:46:33 PM EDT
[#24]
I loved the Turok series
Eta: not military |
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Posted: 1/18/2024 2:49:12 PM EDT
[#25]
Castle Wolfenstein, Doom, Duke Nukem, Delta Force, Syphon Filter, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault.
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Posted: 1/18/2024 2:50:13 PM EDT
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No FPS when I was growing up, at least none that I can recall on Atari 2600 in the 80s. My first real FPS was Crysis Wars in my 30s. I was (am) very good at it online.
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Posted: 1/18/2024 2:55:13 PM EDT
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I played professional Counter-Strike so probably that.
It was before Steam so it didn’t track hours and that’s probably a good thing. I shudder to think how much time I spent playing that, or simply sitting in IRC servers waiting for someone to answer our calls for scrims. CAL-i++ our server 5v5 de_mapoftheweek |
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Posted: 1/18/2024 3:12:05 PM EDT
[#28]
CS 1.6
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Posted: 1/18/2024 3:31:20 PM EDT
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Quote History@bulump Did you get the MoH? Brings back memories. I was in college when it came out. My roommate had it. Can't remember if it was on cassette or floppy. Floppy I think, but it was so long ago that PCs that could use a TV as a monitor was common. One rule: He'd let any of us other three to play it, but don't leave the TV on. Didn't ask why, didn't care. Easy to comply so it didn't even matter until... I hope I'm remembering this right. We were all in a race to get the MoH. I sucked at it. Still suck at 'video games'. But I had a suspicion--a hope really. We played a LOT. It was pretty easy for even me to get high-up medals, but none of us had gotten the MoH. There was a six pack at stake, so I had planned to stay all weekend and figure out if there's circumstance in addition to skill in getting it. Turned out, it was flying through the shit to get to the objective; not so much what one might assume by being smart and flying around it. After playing about 6 solid hours I finally got it. Problem was, no witnesses. I did what I had to do. I left it on. When Micheal pulled up, Monday morning, I went and sat at his desk in the room we shared. So, when he came up, I was there and said, "Look what I just got!". He was so fucking jealous that he demanded I get up. He sat down and deleted my guy. He said, "No you didn't", very smugly. He flipped everything off and walked off. I was pissed, but I got my revenge in a few short hours, in a very unexpected way. When Lee got there, he was delighted the game was free and went up immediately to play. "Michael!" "What?" "I didn't do it!" "Do what?" "Leave your computer on." I'm thinking my secret is safe (that I left it on), so I'm as intrigued as Michael. We both went up. I figured Lee was kidding because Michael was hell bent on it not being left on. When we get up there, t he TV and computer ain't even on, but burned into the TV screen, is my MoH citation. |
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Posted: 1/18/2024 3:40:41 PM EDT
[#30]
I’m surprised more people didn’t say Medal of Honor Allied Assault. That game had me hooked.
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Posted: 1/18/2024 4:01:47 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: @bulump Did you get the MoH? Brings back memories. I was in college when it came out. My roommate had it. Can't remember if it was on cassette or floppy. Floppy I think, but it was so long ago that PCs that could use a TV as a monitor was common. One rule: He'd let any of us other three to play it, but don't leave the TV on. Didn't ask why, didn't care. Easy to comply so it didn't even matter until... I hope I'm remembering this right. We were all in a race to get the MoH. I sucked at it. Still suck at 'video games'. But I had a suspicion--a hope really. We played a LOT. It was pretty easy for even me to get high-up medals, but none of us had gotten the MoH. There was a six pack at stake, so I had planned to stay all weekend and figure out if there's circumstance in addition to skill in getting it. Turned out, it was flying through the shit to get to the objective; not so much what one might assume by being smart and flying around it. After playing about 6 solid hours I finally got it. Problem was, no witnesses. I did what I had to do. I left it on. When Micheal pulled up, Monday morning, I went and sat at his desk in the room we shared. So, when he came up, I was there and said, "Look what I just got!". He was so fucking jealous that he demanded I get up. He sat down and deleted my guy. He said, "No you didn't", very smugly. He flipped everything off and walked off. I was pissed, but I got my revenge in a few short hours, in a very unexpected way. When Lee got there, he was delighted the game was free and went up immediately to play. "Michael!" "What?" "I didn't do it!" "Do what?" "Leave your computer on." I'm thinking my secret is safe (that I left it on), so I'm as intrigued as Michael. We both went up. I figured Lee was kidding because Michael was hell bent on it not being left on. When we get up there, t he TV and computer ain't even on, but burned into the TV screen, is my MoH citation. yes I believe I did! It t'was a long time ago.....no PC here, Commodore 64  ETA: LOL at the screen burn!! |
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Posted: 1/18/2024 4:17:36 PM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The SAW in that game had the ballistics of a suppressed .32 acp though Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Battlefield 2. There was no better feeling of playing support and sniping enemy players from a rooftop across the map with a SAW. Especially when the other team sent hit squads out after you. It was also pretty awesome laying covering fire with the SAW so your team could cap a flag and have the other team bitch in the chat that you couldn’t use the SAW for suppression. When the entire premise of the class was SUPPORT.  The SAW in that game had the ballistics of a suppressed .32 acp though I've not played it (really!), but I suspect such is a necessary gameplay abstraction, given graphics limitations and how spacious infantry combat today is. E.g., a lot of Operation Flashpoint (with maybe 1080p graphics) was trying to figure out, "Which pixel at 1,200 meters is about to end my life with: SVD, 120mm tank HEAT, PK burst, you name it." And then usually failing, lol. True story though, akin to playing a car racing game for a few hours, and having the reflexes persist when driving your real car (sometimes hilariously), playing OFP for awhile taught you to notice every patch of potential defilade everywhere you went. Fun game. |
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Posted: 1/18/2024 4:22:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Does Red Baron by dynamix count? What a fantastic game that was. Same goes for the aces series. Aces under the deep, with the God's eye stuff turned off, is a stone bitch. Guessing on target height to trig to distance to speed to angle on the bow, and trying to do all of that in a 7 second exposure... toughie. Assuming you even got into the convoy to do it. The Silent Hunter series was fun for that too. |
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Posted: 1/18/2024 4:24:08 PM EDT
[#34]
We called it "outside"
My kid and I played a lot of Lego Starwars |
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Posted: 1/18/2024 4:24:38 PM EDT
[#35]
Does Rush’n Attack count as first person?
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Posted: 1/18/2024 4:28:49 PM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I’m surprised more people didn’t say Medal of Honor Allied Assault. That game had me hooked. I liked running around beating people to death with a potato masher like a club. |
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Posted: 1/18/2024 4:45:47 PM EDT
[#37]
This thread is bringing back a lot of good memories!
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Posted: 1/18/2024 5:01:56 PM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I loved the Turok series Eta: not military Forgot about those, my older stepbrothers had those on Nintendo 64 |
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Posted: 1/18/2024 5:13:18 PM EDT
[#39]
I enjoyed blowing the aliens off the walls with pulse grenades and how angry predators would get when a marine would wreck them.
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Posted: 1/18/2024 5:16:50 PM EDT
[#40]
Tank commander??? Is that the one that came with atari 2600
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Posted: 1/18/2024 5:21:11 PM EDT
[#41]
Doom
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Posted: 1/18/2024 10:04:09 PM EDT
[#42]
Battlezone circa 1980
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Posted: 1/18/2024 10:27:05 PM EDT
[#43]
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Doom Quake |
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Posted: 1/18/2024 10:38:02 PM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The original Axis & Allies board game in the big box. Sadly I sold it many years ago. Still have mine. Although some pieces got lost/melted in my many moves. |
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Posted: 1/18/2024 10:44:38 PM EDT
[#45]
Command & Conquer
C&C Red Alert, C&C Tiberian Sun. Uprising Half Life Quake Doom |
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Posted: 1/18/2024 10:49:34 PM EDT
[#46]
Army
We would run around with toy guns (or just sticks if there weren't enough) and argue wether or not people had been shot or not. |
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Posted: 1/18/2024 10:51:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:  Nice. |
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Posted: 1/18/2024 11:03:17 PM EDT
[#48]
Growing up? The only first person shooter I had growing up was Duck Hunt for the NES.
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Posted: 1/18/2024 11:05:33 PM EDT
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Is "Squad Leader" from Avalon Hill a first person military game?
Because I spent a lot of time playing that with my buddies at OCS in the late 1980s.
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Posted: 1/18/2024 11:07:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The one where I went outside and played war with my friends. I played the one where I swept and mopped the garage, then my father said "You're Infantry now, son." I was so god damned proud. |
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