Gaming Nostalgia Story Time - Screenshots of bygone days and fond memories with friends.

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Fek

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Hello, friends.

I was sifting through a (very) old image archive and happened across some inspiration for this thread. I'd wager many/most of you around here have been gaming for a decade or two (or more..) at this point. Do you have any tucked away places with screenshots from ye olden days when you had way more free time and spent it gaming with friends? Let's share some memories - I'll start:
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So once upon a time long, long ago in World of Warcraft, you could get on top of the main entrance to Ironforge. This in itself is novel, but hardly all that noteworthy..unless you knew what went on just outside of this gate. You see, the Alliance would spend their idle time dueling each other in the space just below where my party is perched (as noted by the red names below us). And as most of you probably know, the loser of a duel would end it on 1 HP.

But why would that matter? We're far too high up to be in spell range, right? Well, skills like Blink, Charge, and Feral Charge had a curious property - they negated fall damage.

So!

We'd watch from afar as people flagged for PvP would duel, wait until the loser was nearly defeated, and then pounce from above with the Warrior, Mage, or Druid. They'd land on the poor sod below, instagib him, and likely clap the other duel participant (lacking cooldowns and low on hp) before being wrecked by the Ironforge guards and other players. A short corpse run and a Warlock summon back to the top allowed this to go on for fucking hours and on more than one occasion.

Was it incredibly stupid? Yes. Was it hilarious? Yes.

This, dear friends, is a wonderful memory of mine. I hope you found it entertaining. I'd love to hear some of yours - just make sure you remove your usernames and other personal bits from the screenshots!
 
My cousin and I had a great setup for playing split screen, we had this thin corkboard that we would prop up against the screen as we both sat either side of it to prevent screenwatching. Horizontal splits were easiest as we would stack DVD cases either side of the TV up to the split, then place the board on them and use a broom to prop up the end of it, like so:

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The top screen player would have to sit on a high stool, the bottom screen player on a pillow on the ground.

We played so much fucking 007: Nightfire and From Russia With Love like this.

I don't think we ever perfected vertical splits but I also don't recall any games we really liked that had vertical splitscreen so it was whatever.
 
24hr 2fort server at TF2 launch. Waiting 10 minutes for the map to load on my dogshit PC. Back when there was only a server browser, no hats or killstreaks. People just played for fun. And the main menu looked like this.

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I miss it so much. Beating portal for the first time was a great experience too, the orange box was such a good deal at launch.

Earlier than that, Albatross18/Pangya was a great South Korean golf game that is defunct now, GunZ was accidentally one of the most technical and competitive games ever, and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory was so much fun going on all the crazy servers with custom maps, having your main menu change to some crazy clan's menu every time you joined a different server.
 
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Not a gamer really, but I do remember being a rogue semi-troll (the good kind), semi-helpful user in Habbo Hotel.

Most of the time I would log by myself and venture into rooms with unknown people, then LARP/play along, all in good faith, depending on the setting & conversation.

A lot of people (mainly south americans) would be roleplaying as being a couple, and they were the most boring ones, they were just sitting there without doing anything or following the conversation in any remotely interesting way.
 
Minecraft is a big source of nostalgia for zoomies like myself. Back then my big brother used to troll the shit out of me for believing in herobrine, so he would build random creepy shit and watch me freak the fuck out.

I also used to freak out over anything slightly odd, because that was herobrine’s doing of course.
 
Sometime in the summer of 1997. As many times before, little me was invited by a rich classmate to come over his house and spend the morning playing with him, his older brother and his neighbors. He had an SNES plugged into his living room's big 20'' TV and a sizeable collection of games. We spent the whole morning taking turns in Super Mario Kart, NBA Jam, Super Street Fighter II and Killer Instinct.

Pause for lunch at my own home two streets afar, then I returned to the rich kid's house for more vidya fun. This time, he brought a freaking Atari 2600 with almost every neat game for it. Then all the spent time staring at vibrant colors at a CRT, screaming and laughing my head off made me develop a headache. I complained of it, the host's mom gave me an Aspirin, my headache went away... And in 10 minutes I felt my face bloat and my breath become coarse. The kids and the mom became concerned and told me to get help, so I ran pell-mell to my house. I was almost blind from the bloating and legit feared for my life for perhaps the first time that I could remember.

On that fun day, I discovered I was allergic to Aspirin. It started with a fun romp on a Super Nintendo and ended with me literally held back by my own mom and by nurses so I could get an anti-allergen shot.
 
Mike Matei's Penis said:
24hr 2fort server at TF2 launch. Waiting 10 minutes for the map to load on my dogshit PC. Back when there was only a server browser, no hats or killstreaks. People just played for fun. And the main menu looked like this.

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I miss it so much. Beating portal for the first time was a great experience too, the orange box was such a good deal at launch.
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I played on community servers religiously for the first year or two I started playing TF2 in 2013.

So many classic community servers (remember Dispenz0r's Fun Server?) and gamemodes (Deathrun, Classic VSH, Classic Freak Fortress, TF2Ware, etc) gone like tears in rain; all those moments relegated to mere memories. I had so much fun back then, it firmly cemented TF2 as my favorite game of all time.

I miss it so dearly.
 
Does anyone else remember an old Halo rumor of "ghost" players on certain maps? In Halo 2, Lockout had an especially famous one that I spent hours trying to find many years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-ud6SLS0iI

I still don't know if this was real and what caused this. I thought of this recently after playing Halo 2 again.
 
Reminds me of the PS2 era when me and my cousins would freeplay GTA:SA and would cause as much chaos as possible without the infinite health cheat, in which whenever one of us die, we would change players. It was hilarious: one of us died because a fire truck rammed him while another died because a tree failed to render while flying a hydra and another died because they used the explode everything cheat and they got caught in the explosion. Absolutely retarded. Absolutely funny.
 
About a week ago I woke up on my day off of work and looked outside to see fresh snow on the ground and big fluffy flakes falling from the sky and I stood and watched for a moment, then got really sad and nostalgic. I dug through a bunch of old boxes, almost lost hope until I saw one the three handles from a N64 Controller poke out from under a coat, tossed the coats out and boom, there was my brother's old N64, and after a some more digging I found it.
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Every year during winter I always think about Harvest Moon. It was always a game I played on snow days as a kid. For a moment it felt like 2000 again.
It got me actually excited for Christmas this year. Haven't felt that in a good while.
 
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