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Originally Posted by Tuma
Slingo
omg holy **** slingo
I think it was probably Doom II for me. It wasn't truly "online" yet, as the only places that had high speed internet were pretty much college campuses and you had to figure out how to download and install an add-on to play a crappy online game, but my first year in college, my friends and I discovered a) Doom II and b) that you could play on the dorm LAN.
I remember the alpha nerd of my hall, the kind of guy who wore kimonos around the dorm, had a ratty mustache, and was offended if you didn't know computers, had the game and installed it on everyone's PC (I say everyone, but back in the late 90's, very few college students had their own computer - it was a handful of us).
He was the best in the dorm at first, since he was the only one who had played it, but I soon overtook him to the thrill of the rest of my dormmates (dude was a dick). From then on, we played all the time. My grades actually suffered because of it.