(June 4, 2009 at 9:34 pm)Samson Wrote: Oh, if you want to go old school, that is not a problem. I've used the same and dos was my friend/enemy back in the day....I was around the same age as you when I got my first computer, which was around 1980 .....Just wish I would have had a mouse with it.......LOL
As far as today, I've been part of the same gaming clan since 1999 in a game called Counter-Strike. I'm an Admin and own one out of our 3 servers and one website for this...We try and put together at least 3 Lan games per year... Matter of fact we have our next on July 18th. We usually get a turn out of 80 to 100 people, but we have had as low as 50. (The most to date was 243 ppl)...
Back when we started the group Windows was the current waterfall for users in mass majority, so this was what we went with. And if I remember correctly Half-Life did not have a Mac version for online gaming of CS back during that time. We have simply "Followed the leader" since.
I just spent 8-10 hours a day playing Age of empires 2, every day online for 4 years and then I spent a year and a half playing Call of Duty 2 for 12-16 hours a day and got top 20 ranked on Xfire - but - it was only on two specific sets, rifle only and deathmatch only (not separately, combined).
I have spent most of my life playing Age of empires two...lol...and 2nd most playing Call of Duty 2 perhaps lol (would have been more if I kept it up).
I stopped late 2006 because I lost my computer, among other non-computer related problems I had which I won't go into. Good job I stopped really cos I wasn't really going anywhere!
And there were no tournaments for Call of Duty 2 deatmatch only that I could find....especially that were also rifle only! - I was also used to 1 or two specific servers where I ranked all my kills up! Lol.
I am more familiar with computers than I am with the outside world. That's for sure - I'm not saying that's a good thing! Just a true thing lol.
Oh and when I used Dos and 3.1 when I was 6 I had a mouse LOL - I also learnt to touch type fully within 30 minutes on the first day of trying lol
- and I have never used less than all fingers and thumbs, right from the beginning. In fact - I'm more comfortable with typing than I am talking.And finally, on the matter of going to school (lol) I only went to school for a year. I was home-educated. So much more time for computers lol! (too much hehe).
And finally: I used to own an uncountable amount of PC games (mostly from the 90s). Not anymore cos I lost them all along with my previous comp
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