What were your fave online games growing up?

[EmpressAJ]

I can’t believe I’m getting emotional talking about online games 😂🥹 I guess sometimes I do miss being a child

[TheeTrybrid]

Omg games 2 girls was my shiii growing up !!!🤩 the dressing up games were my fave!

[DizzyDesii]

Games 2 girls, myscene, purble place, jumpstart preschool, omgpop pool

[abc3643]

They didn't exactly have on-line games when I was growing up because the Internet didn't become public until I was 30.

HOWEVER, in colleges and elsewhere, there were local networks that did have games that people would code themselves. One that was very popular was Star Trek written in BASIC. I played a variant of this on my TRS-80 very often.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(1971_video_game)

This was an excellent game. To kids today, it might be boring because there is no animation and, worse, you have to actually think, but it was definitely a good game. If you really want to know what life was life before the Internet, play it.

Here's the BASIC code.

http://www.vintage-basic.net/bcg/superstartrek.bas

Here is a somewhat more modern (graphically) variant of the game which you can play online.

https://sladesys.com/startrek/gui.html

[TheSpaceGnome]

Broadband internet wasn't available until I was a teenager, and mobile internet didn't exist at all until long after reaching adulthood.

I played offline games as a child, primarily on gameboy, nes, snes, sega genesis, sega saturn, and the original playstation, and as a teen and young adult it was mostly ps2 games. Most of those games are still play worthy today and I still have access to them though, so I don't "miss" them because I still play them.

The earliest online game I recall playing was the original starcraft on pc, which I still play, but not often because I have better games now.

[TheSpaceGnome]

I also went to arcades a lot as a kid, but after ps1 came out there was less reason to go.

[Nattek]

Online? Well, I guess 'Descent' and 'Doom' were capable of online play via dial-up. A couple years later I got into playing 'Starfleet Command' online via Sega's website 'Heat. net'. Eventually 'Quake 3 Arena' (or the 'Urban Terror' mod) became a thing and was great fun if you had the Internet.

Is my age showing? look those game titles up and then answer that. While you're at it, look up the games 'Solar Winds: The Escape' and 'Frontier: Elite II', neither were online playable but were some fun solo play if that's your thing.

[AviatorTom]

I'm older, we didn't have online games when I was growing up. We played card games (Poker, Uno, Crazy Eights) and board games (Chess, Checkers, Risk, Monopoly, Life).

When arcade games came out, Centipede and Asteroids were my favorites.

[WhiteSteve]

I was grown up by the time there was really any online gaming, haha.

[overthinkergirl]

fireboy and watergirl, also some restaurants with pinguins

[Nikki1989]

I never played games growing up, they bored me to tears. I was more interested in music, art, and literature.

[EmpressAJ]

Okay 👍🏽

[ChiTown33]

I didn't have one. The internet didn't really become a thing till the mid 90's even still I never even had a computer till after 2000.

But the first game I became hooked on was was Diablo 2 LOD.

[CozyCoffin]

I don't recall playing any only games until "Call of duty world at war" came out fir the PS3 and that was after I got it handed down when my father got a PS4.

[Ms_Facesitter]

Tekken 5. You can imagine my excitement for the upcoming Tekken 8 in a week :-)

[butterly248]

Memories

[butterly248]

Girls to go games, start doll, club penguin etc. Also ❤️

[najekim]

Had real games with friends outside when growing up.

[EmpressAJ]

So did I but I’m sorry u only got to experience technology when u became old. Hate that for u

[Dnice1]

Run on cool math

[NathanDavis]

Bomberman (NeoGeo)

[jahaims]

Runescape