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[T.K.]

Duke Nukem came around 2 years before DOOM., although it never hit mainstream popularity till 1996.

[Harlequin]

I didn't know that
I used to play them both when I was a little girl. I don't think my mum realised what they were when we got them... I still don't think she knows

[flakmonkey]

Mine is getting UT99 for Christmas. That game was a lot of fun! Now I play UT3, and occasionally go back to UT99 to remind myself of those memories.

By the way Harlequin, where did you get your username from? Your username is the same name of a UT2003 character.

[Miller]

I didn't know that
I used to play them both when I was a little girl. I don't think my mum realised what they were when we got them... I still don't think she knows

LOL!

That is a difficult question to answer, with memory being in the singular form, but I guess I still recall how amazed I was when I got my first WWII FPS for PC, and I saw this enemy soldier blow to pieces when my hand grenade exploded him. LOL! That was hilarious to me.

And I remember the way I felt when I first started the Panzer Elite WWII armor sim for PC and heard the music and the sounds of war in my ears. Cool effect on me, to be sure. And I recall how thrilled I was when I saw Tie bombers bombing some city in Rogue Squadron. That was a Nintendo64 version of the game. I did not even know about X-Wing vs.Tie Fighter PC games with their replay recorder like in Driver and Il-2 WWII combat flight sim games, not mention Rogue Squadron PC version. I was thoroughly delighted to be in Star Wars flying an X-Wing and shooting at Tie fighters.

There are two actions I will not forget from WWII Online, both of which involved being in a German tank kicking ass on the Allies. Dumb luck was with me and it felt awesome. I just showed up by chance in such obviously unwise places that no one seemed to be looking there for enemy armor. I was blowing up vehicles with my main guns and machine gunning infantry. That was really cool because that game is not like some crazy shooter where everybody is killing the hell out of each other like sliding down a slide and then running around to climb back up the ladder. It is a realistic simulation, in which killing one enemy seemed like a big deal to me. You have to drive a long way to a battle or fly there to make a parachute jump, and then hope you can move in and do some damage instead of being picked off by defenders. There were a couple of times I will never forget when I was defending. Man, how easy to sit there at a distance in a Stug-III G and pick off enemy vehicles from 1000 meters and they had no idea where it came from. I almost felt sorry for them, knowing they had just spent a while driving there all for nothing. I know how much that sucks.

Sorry I could not pick one, but those were moments I remember fondly.

Okay, one more, please. I was staying with my family at my uncle and aunt's house. My uncle had some thing called Intelevision or something. All we had was something called Atari 2600 or something. Big difference. He had this skiing game. At the bottom where the finish line was, the posts holding up the banner would get knocked out if you hit them. My uncle and I wondered if the banner would fall if you could come in from the side and manage to sweep both posts out. We spent all night sitting there just trying to do that and never could quite come in at the angle necessary to hit both finish line sign posts. Finally the television picture shrunk into a tiny white circle and disappeared. Then the television no longer worked. About that time my father woke up and came out into my uncle's living room and said, "Wow, you guys are up early."

[Harlequin]

Mine is getting UT99 for Christmas. That game was a lot of fun! Now I play UT3, and occasionally go back to UT99 to remind myself of those memories.

By the way Harlequin, where did you get your username from? Your username is the same name of a UT2003 character.

...I actually didn't know that.
A few places, actually. It's my all-time favourite comic book villain and my favourite Opeth song. I also used to have a lot of them... For some reason, Harlequin just kept popping up in my life. Nothing to do with a video game... Unless she (as Harly Quinn) is in the Batman video game, which I doubt. Most people don't remember her Sorry.

Okay, one more, please. I was staying with my family at my uncle and aunt's house. My uncle had some thing called Intelevision or something. All we had was something called Atari 2600 or something. Big difference. He had this skiing game. At the bottom where the finish line was, the posts holding up the banner would get knocked out if you hit them. My uncle and I wondered if the banner would fall if you could come in from the side and manage to sweep both posts out. We spent all night sitting there just trying to do that and never could quite come in at the angle necessary to hit both finish line sign posts. Finally the television picture shrunk into a tiny white circle and disappeared. Then the television no longer worked. About that time my father woke up and came out into my uncle's living room and said, "Wow, you guys are up early."

LOL! I've played that game! My dad had an Atari from way back when. Me and my brother tried to do the same thing. I don't think it's possible. We must have hit the stupid posts like fifty times, but they never fell Disappointing. We also got obsessed with playing pong... Whenever I see a pong game now, I have to beat it. Psychological conditioning! Lol!
Awesome memories Miller

[bb_42001]

flakemonkey was cleone, he is banned.

[Miller]

LOL! I've played that game! My dad had an Atari from way back when. Me and my brother tried to do the same thing. I don't think it's possible. We must have hit the stupid posts like fifty times, but they never fell Disappointing. We also got obsessed with playing pong... Whenever I see a pong game now, I have to beat it. Psychological conditioning! Lol!

You did that, too? That is funny. And now after all these years, thanks to Harlequin, I have at last found closure in the matter. Bless you.

[Harlequin]

LOL! I've played that game! My dad had an Atari from way back when. Me and my brother tried to do the same thing. I don't think it's possible. We must have hit the stupid posts like fifty times, but they never fell Disappointing. We also got obsessed with playing pong... Whenever I see a pong game now, I have to beat it. Psychological conditioning! Lol!

You did that, too? That is funny. And now after all these years, thanks to Harlequin, I have at last found closure in the matter. Bless you.

I think it's one of those things that you feel you have to do, when the game has lost all interest... "Oh look, I won... again. Time to see how badly I can crash!!!"