Who remembers MPlayer.com

[ultimatebob]

I certainly hope that I remember Mplayer.com, considering that I used to work there.

You might have seen my "DeadlyDAN" account floating around the various game forums while I was doing QA testing. I had to test every single one to make sure that it worked with our software. It wasn't as fun as it sounds, trust me. We had a LOT of games on that service, and many of the lesser known titles sucked.

I quickly learned to use a different account most of the time, though, since people would always PM me for free Plus accounts

I also helped run their beta test team. It was a sweet gig, since you got free t-shirts and a copy of all of the new retail games a few weeks before they went live on the service.

 

[ultimatebob]

Never used it.
Heat.Net however, brings many memories...Netfighter(yum!!!), Plane Crazy, Vigilance,

Little known fact... Heat.net used Mplayer's software. They just changed all the artwork and logos to a different color scheme.

 

[StrangerGuy]

The oldest online game system I used was WON.

 

[rivan]

The Zone was also a great place to play the ORIGINAL MW3, as in Mechwarrior 3. Multiplayer games were lots of fun. You had about 8 to 10 mechs playing on teams in a battle to the death or free for all.

I played the hell out of both MW3 and MechCommander on mplayer

 

[Twista]

The oldest online game system I used was WON.

Wow, i forgot all about Won. This thread is bringing back all the memories

My first clan in gaming was [TTC] on Quake 1 :| memories.

 

[Cal166]

Wow, i forgot all about Won. This thread is bringing back all the memories

My first clan in gaming was [TTC] on Quake 1 :| memories.

[007] for me, good memories.

 

[TurtleCrusher]

Way to make me feel old...

 

[bfdd]

this guy remembers. Anyone else play 10six on Heat?

 

[Worthington]

Kali anyone? Used to use that for some Descent Multiplayer.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Ten Network for Total Annihilation......

I also played Duke Nukem death matches on TEN. The funny thing was that everyone was on dialup so it was frequently lagging. They solved this by using an "alien face system". If your connection was poor you got a dark grey alien face. If it was good you got yellow. If it was great you got a green face and a special sound effect.

Ah the good ole days....

 

[ultimatebob]

I also played Duke Nukem death matches on TEN. The funny thing was that everyone was on dialup so it was frequently lagging. They solved this by using an "alien face system". If your connection was poor you got a dark grey alien face. If it was good you got yellow. If it was great you got a green face and a special sound effect.

Ah the good ole days....

Ah... good 'ol "Mr. Bandwidth". Damn, I hated that guy back when I was on a 28.8 dial-up connection.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

mplayer? Hmph damn kids.



I do remember using kali to play duke3d lan matches...

 

[Dominato3r]

Gamespy is terrible. Anyone who played Rise of Nations would agree.

 

[Gillbot]

I also played Duke Nukem death matches on TEN. The funny thing was that everyone was on dialup so it was frequently lagging. They solved this by using an "alien face system". If your connection was poor you got a dark grey alien face. If it was good you got yellow. If it was great you got a green face and a special sound effect.

Ah the good ole days....

Shotgunned 56k connections FTW!

 

[bfdd]

Gamespy is terrible. Anyone who played Rise of Nations would agree.

truth

 

[KaOTiK]

Mplayer is where I use to play Rainbow Six. Had a lot of good times on that service.

 

[slightlyhuman]

Wasn't the zone a place with multiplayer game rooms for things like chess and backgammon?

that and ANTS. serious competition in that game back in the day!

 

[Pocatello]

Oh yeah, I remember. Good times.

 

[Ichinisan]

Wasn't the zone a place with multiplayer game rooms for things like chess and backgammon?

I played Quake II on MSN Gaming Zone.

 

[:emaN resU]

[007] for me, good memories.

[007] Topgun ? Stinger? I think I remember playing quake against those guys.

 

[ConwayJim]

Heat.net

 

[Tweak155]

I also played quake 2 on msn gaming zone.

 

[QuantumPion]

Used to play Descent, C&C, Warcraft 2, NetMech, etc over Kali. Trying to get PPP to work over dialup in DOS was no trivial matter, lol.

I vaguely remember Mplayer, it had like a red colored interface and chat rooms and voice com too I think. I never used TEN or WON because they cost monthly subscription. I can't remember what games I was playing over Mplayer though.

 

[lupi]

After the net started getting hot and you didn't need kali anymore,mplayer and the zone made online multiplayer gaming really fun. A shame that those services were taken down.

 

[Kev]

I had XBand for my SNES. I was ranked #1 in my region for MKII