Friend of mine actually had hand crank internet. It related to his modem and mouse sharing an IRQ, and downloads stalling if he didn't keep the mouse moving.
Every now and then I get a wild hair and think I’ll join one of the active servers then realize my memories of that game are probably best left in the past, where it was perfect to my teenage mind lol
Battlefield Vietnam was also a great one. My (this is not politically correct I am aware) friends and I would just yell Vietnamese words/sounds at one another from across the room. (GOAT soundtrack as well)
Well if you are still playing and don't want to need to be jacked up caffeine to play (Like modern BF and COD) check out Hell Let Loose. Definitely scratched the BF 1942 itch and then some for me.
Yeah is was such an insane idea to name a drink that, and to make the bottle practically look like a sex toy. It’s still around to this day shockingly.
I may have to check that out, granted most my gaming these days is limited to Resident Evil or Zelda releases.
Same. I loved it too. The one by me would do lock-ins with all the pizza and Bawls you wanted. It didn't last long, but the few years it was around were amazing.
I had a capable PC at home, but my friends at the time didn't. So in service of us enjoying it together, it was cool.
After that, my friends that I had in college, we built our PC's and were there right as the mainstream console games starting to cross over on PC, and through Steam.
We didn't have internet cafes where I am, but I would frequently go to the library to use the internet, and on the occasion I went to the local science centre, I would spend most of my time in the computer section where I could use the internet there, too.
I and a small group of friends would go to a local net cafe to play, mostly, counterstrike. The place was setup with 20 computers in tight quarters all on the same lan. They also had several Xbox and PlayStations setup. Lots of fun for a good half decade.
In 2002, I went on a student exchange thing for a month in Australia where I would use Internet cafes. Stateside, I just used the family computer we all shared in the computer room.
Someone opened an internet Cafe around 2004 in our small town of 2200 people. My brother and his friends went often in the summer to play counterstrike. Idk how he made any money in such a small town. I don't remember anyone being there besides my brother's small group of friends. Before that place opened up, they would carry their PCs to one friend's house and all play runescape together
Card shop + Internet cafe was my main hangout from 99-2001. EverQuest, CounterStrike, and Magic the Gathering from after school until they kicked us out.
Had one down the street growing up unfortunately was too young they had a minimum age rule of like 15 or 16 by the time I was old enough home internet was cheap and readliy available in my area
My town had a great one, we’d play a lot of counter strike, StarCraft, Warcraft 3 and the like. They would have all night sleepovers sometimes where we’d just game all night and get off our gourds on mt dew and other caffeinated beverages in order to stay up. Good times
Had to use these when I went into the army in ‘06. Had never seen a place where you pay for time on a computer till then. Then most people were playing Warcraft 3 or updating MySpace.
Used to game at them quite a bit from late 2000's to early 2010's. Even if we all had our own consoles it was fun to meet in a third space and play LAN games.
Went to one in our nearby city with friends when foal up was still relatively common. A bunch of us had sort of a giant LAN party and it was a ton of fun.
As someone who spent their teenage years in Korea / china in the 2000s, these internet cafes were ubiquitous. So many nights spent skipping study sessions to play CS
I never went to an actual cafe, but did spend money at the internet booths in Trucks Stops. I had to check my hotmail while on the road with my parents.
My friends and I used to meet up at the local internet cafe to play Counter-Strike and Starcraft. We stopped going after some guy got stabbed in the head by a screwdriver by a fellow player in the same internet cafe.
In a very rural town where all there existed at the most was 14k dial-up, an Internet cafe opened up with 256k DSL and you bet your ass they made a shitload of money off of teens wanting to play Delta Force II online mode. https://giphy.com/gifs/Gahw0xYm65DR5vsPWz
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