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Looking back at our networked favourites
DARRAN JONES
NICK THORPE
TIM EMPEY
When this magazine launched, online multiplayer gaming was still a minority pursuit and – on consoles at least – was still a new and exciting feature. Today, online multiplayer is in everything from the Switch versions of SNES games to colossal hits like Fortnite. With that in mind, we reminisced about some of our formative experiences of taking on the world.
NICK
Can you remember the first game you played online? Mine would have been ChuChu Rocket! on the Dreamcast. It was good fun, but it has a lot more lag than when you play offline.
DARRAN
I would have played Quake on the PC but I didn’t enjoy it as my PC was rubbish at the time and I was constantly getting trounced by my opponents.
TIM
For me it was Burnout 3: Takedown. I used to share a house with a guy who worked on XBM so he had his Xbox and broadband working. It was actually really exciting, especially when I won a few races – heartpounding stuff.