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[-] sep@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

Crying!
I do not remember the year. But i think we played dune and command and conquer. using null modem serial port links, and long homemade cables. I had a machine with 3 serial ports. A few years later we upgraded to a thin lan nic using coax and a hub with a coax port. For those with cat cable nic.
Played Red alert, red alert2 then a decade stright of playing CnC renegade and wolfenstein ET on the internet. Then the battlefields series ehile that was fun. Nowdays Helldivers 2 almost scratches that itch. It just needs a 32 player rush mode ;)

[-] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

Such great games.

My friends and I were too poor/parents weren't nerdy enough to get into PC gaming. So we had red alert set up on two PlayStation 1s with a link cable, and two big ass CRTs pointed opposite of each other.

[-] sep@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Never got into consoles. My parents saw the utillity in a computer. And now i have 25 years in tech ;)

[-] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I was to young to get the networking screen in just the right settings when me and my brother were playing Red Alert. Luckily for me, 3 streets over, the dad of a friend in class got it set up over there, so i did get to experience it once or twice!

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 months ago

I had access to a very similar setup in my friend's older brother's basement. Lots of Need for Speed and Total Annihilation played in that basement 🥹

[-] sep@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I forgot about total annihiliation!
Was never big on car games since supercars 2 on amiga ;)

[-] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Look up Beyond All Reason for a very competent FOSS remake of TA!

[-] sep@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Ohh looks slick. Bookmarking this for later ;) thanks!

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