Probably Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield Vietnam, 15 years ago or so. Ah, the heady days of the internet. It was all spawn camping and lag etc. If someone wasn't moving you didn't shoot them as they were probably typing.

Think mine was Unreal Tournament on the Dreamcast via dial-up. Hell of a faff as it was the U.S. version of the game which meant you had to input all sorts of internet gobbldigook to get it to work. It was genuinely mind blowing getting your head round playing against people from all over the world. 
Then the phone bill arrived. That was even more mind blowing.

Quake III on Dreamcast.  I'd read lots of things about the lag but I thought it played fine.  I got to the point where I could almost hold my own against the M&K players.  Voice chat annoys me.  Even talking on the phone annoys me, so I liked the quick keyboard commenting mid match.

I think, probably, a very laggy CounterStrike which was no fun, and got switched off after a few minutes.

First real memories are co-op Gears of War 2 and Crackdown with Muse, which was followed fairly shortly thereafter by FNF. Pretty decent introduction, all told.

g.man wrote:

Then the phone bill arrived. That was even more mind blowing.

Sneaking out to midnight binge PSO stopped pretty quickly.

Delta Force: Black Hawk Down on PC - IIRCit was only the demo, so I played the single map endlessly on the Stonehill server and got to know the regulars. Many, many hours of fun, no menu down, don't think I ever bought the game - so in that respect the demo was both a unmitigated success and a miserable failure.

Paul the sparky wrote:

Halo 2. Downhill from there really.

Agreed.  Quake III and Halo 2 are the highlights of my online mp career.  If Rocket League had been released on the Oldbox I'm pretty sure that would be up there too.

Didn't go online until the Wii.

Mario Kart was very good. Also enjoyed Boom Street, Tetris Party and Dr. Mario. Had my arse handed to me more often than not but had some victories.

Had my virtual arse handed to me playing The Conduit, Tatsunoko v Capcom and the Mario Strikers game - that was a one off experience not to be repeated.

But not knowing the people I was playing against took the edge off it - could have been bots for all I knew. 

However online doesn't really appeal to me as most of the modern genres such as FPS, GTA etc. don't interest me. 

Had great craic in work with office LAN gaming though. Bit of Quake 2 and a LOAD of Worms Armageddon. We were largely same room though. But given the right set of circumstances I could probably get into to but I don't have the dedication to get good enough or to turn up regularly.


But - for games like Tetris and Dr. Mario - if there was a good matching service I'd probably be more into it as it's a great way to improve.

Shit, I remember Battlefield Vietnam looking alot better than that!

Mine was either Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament. Can't remember which we had installed in the computer labs at uni. Counter Strike was after that.

First online MP on my own console was probably PGR 3 on 360. Never got online for Halo 2.

Technically it'll be either CS or BF at my mate's lan cafe. Didn't get on with CS. enjoyed BF for teh lols.

I think we managed to get PSO or Outrigger working for about 2 seconds on DC once.

But really, Halo 2. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

I think mine was CoD MW on 360 with badgers. I didn't really play online much until then.
I still remember my first match, played with Musechick and Jimmy The Lips.

Oh hang on. WoW. I think that came first for me

Yahoo games were a regular thing at uni. Word Racer was all sorts of awesome.

Warcraft II with Kali around '97. I had to buy a proper license to play more than 10 minutes.
The game got old after a while so I spent a lot of time just chatting to random people.