I'm a huge fan of the early real time strategy games, and I still play them occasionally to this day. I recently introduced my 7-year old to Dune 2 and he had a great time playing it. It might not...
I'm a huge fan of the early real time strategy games, and I still play them occasionally to this day. I recently introduced my 7-year old to Dune 2 and he had a great time playing it. It might not be as a good of a game as the more polished later games of the genre, but the simplicity of the mechanics and the small number of units makes it well suited for a little kid. We moved on to playing Warcraft II in multiplayer mode, which is great fun as long as I don't win too often.
Thinking back to the 90s, my first (pre-Internet) multiplayer game experience was playing Warcraft with a friend from school over a direct modem-to-modem connection. I would call my friend on the phone, ask him to start the game and then end the call. He would start Warcraft in a host mode, where his computer waited for an incoming call, and I would launch Warcraft on my computer and tell it to dial my friend's phone number to connect. It was a pretty involved process, but the ability to play a game remotely was a new and exciting experience.
I also want to want to point out that Jimmy Maher's filfre.net website is an amazing resource. It's truly an example of the best of the Internet: a long-running website created by someone who really, really cares about the subject. I often think about it and other similar sites whenever I start feeling discouraged by the direction of the rest of the web, and it gives me some hope.
Oh the memories! Back in college, we would drag our desktops (complete with CRTs) over to someone's apartment, network it all up with 10BAESE2 (don't forget a terminator!), and play 8 player Red...
Oh the memories! Back in college, we would drag our desktops (complete with CRTs) over to someone's apartment, network it all up with 10BAESE2 (don't forget a terminator!), and play 8 player Red Alert until the sun came up the next day.
I'm a huge fan of the early real time strategy games, and I still play them occasionally to this day. I recently introduced my 7-year old to Dune 2 and he had a great time playing it. It might not be as a good of a game as the more polished later games of the genre, but the simplicity of the mechanics and the small number of units makes it well suited for a little kid. We moved on to playing Warcraft II in multiplayer mode, which is great fun as long as I don't win too often.
Thinking back to the 90s, my first (pre-Internet) multiplayer game experience was playing Warcraft with a friend from school over a direct modem-to-modem connection. I would call my friend on the phone, ask him to start the game and then end the call. He would start Warcraft in a host mode, where his computer waited for an incoming call, and I would launch Warcraft on my computer and tell it to dial my friend's phone number to connect. It was a pretty involved process, but the ability to play a game remotely was a new and exciting experience.
I also want to want to point out that Jimmy Maher's filfre.net website is an amazing resource. It's truly an example of the best of the Internet: a long-running website created by someone who really, really cares about the subject. I often think about it and other similar sites whenever I start feeling discouraged by the direction of the rest of the web, and it gives me some hope.
Oh the memories! Back in college, we would drag our desktops (complete with CRTs) over to someone's apartment, network it all up with 10BAESE2 (don't forget a terminator!), and play 8 player Red Alert until the sun came up the next day.