srsly, you are from 1984 and you say you are old? ooh wait, quake 1? so, 1980?
i like quake best as a SP game, with doom2 a close second. doom1 just behind.
i have never played quake MP because we euros had no idea what IDSN was. (most of us didnt even have dialup)
i did play Q3 online in 1998 (?) on my 56k and i logged in to a 220ms server, and i thought i was gonna rape everyone because i had even beaten Xaero at Ultraviolence difficulty and i had beaten Doom2 too!
that feeling lasted about five minutes.
i did not play much Q3 after that because i could not understand why i kept dying (i was playing insta) and i though everyone was hacking because they were going faster than the maximum walking speed of everyone else (=me, who had no idea what strafejump was).
also i played using a trackpad on my mac G3, and if you asked me, i would tell you that "doom 2 was so much better because a real doom player uses the arrow keys - and ctrl to fire - and not the mouse".
i was of the noob.