EPTMy first competitive game was CS 1.6. It was in 2003 (ish), so I'm not claiming to be an old school gosu who played since beta. I persuaded my brother to illegally download it for me, because I didn't have any money and he had figured out how to torrent. I would have bought it on steam but mum never let me use her credit card T.T even after spending hours pleading for her to spend 10 bucks on runescape membership.
I patiently watched CS download at 10kb/s, my brother loaded it up with Daemon tools, and I was ready to own some noobs. But of course, valve had a tight security system and I could only play in an empty server, but that was good enough for me. It finished and:
![[image loading]](http://img.brothersoft.com/screenshots/softimage/c/counter-strike-219141-1236837699.jpeg)
awwwww yeah
I spawned on what I later identified as Cs_assault. I didn't know the wasd setup, so i mashed buttons and tried to figure it out. The arrow keys didn't work and I had no idea what to do. For those of you who don't play CS, If you idle the knife long enough, your guy plays with it in his hand, turning it horizontal.
from this
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to this
![[image loading]](http://ranger.gamebanana.com/img/ss/skins/thm__6335-.jpg)
I hit the shift key and the knifed moved. For some reason, my 8 year old brain recognized it as throwing knife mode. And of course, that was fucking awesome.
In retrospect I think the bootlegged version didn't work, because I spammed every key on that keyboard and nothing happened. But I still was interested in CounterStrike, so I cut a deal with Mum, I would give her 10 dollars of my own cash AND do a night of ironing if she bought me this game off the internet. She did so and I figured I would be pro and playing for SK gaming in no time.
I downloaded and booted up the legit game on my dad's laptop. He was very protective of it, it was dell and he figured that more money spent meant a better computer. Despite his constant warnings that it cost three thousand dollars, I snuck it on there.
I didn't know what ping was, so i joined any old server. I played on some american server so I must have averaged around 300 ping. The map was De_inferno, I walked into library and decided it would be a good place to set up. No enemies were around so I decided to make some friends. I hadn't changed my name because I didn't know how.
I was a guy called Player, with 300 ping, camping library while the bomb was being planted at banana and for some reason, I got kicked from the server.
Part 2 features a young Froggy entering the magical World of Warcraft and, more importantly, discovers Starcraft pro-gaming.
