haha that video is so baaaad. Good article, anyone interested in these days / ID software should read the book Masters of Doom

edit: nvm just saw it linked in the footnote.

Horse...falcon

United States1851 Posts

November 18 2011 05:46 GMT

#42

Thresh went to my high school! Way before me of course but I later heard about him and checked out his exploits. Also Thresh is just such a bad ass name.

Subversive

Australia2229 Posts

November 18 2011 06:15 GMT

#43

Sick article. Thanks Heyoka

Lior

Portugal118 Posts

November 18 2011 07:19 GMT

#44

How the hell did Bill Gates shoot that shotgun without his hands being even close to the trigger?

Cobbbler

United States60 Posts

November 18 2011 07:45 GMT

#45

Lesson Learned: Do NOT interrupt Bill Gates.
Awesome little article Heyoka.
I can't believe something as simple as playing online used to be so complicated.

BBC.807

Norway68 Posts

November 18 2011 07:49 GMT

#46

I was lucky to be playing on the first versions of Kali - it was great times indeed :-)

I remember the feeling of being king of the hill in my hometown, and suddenly get torn to pieces by "newbies" on Case's Ladder:-)

UltimateHurl

Ireland591 Posts

November 18 2011 08:55 GMT

#47

Nice blog heyoka, I'd second the Masters of Doom recommendation, Carmack and Romero are fascinating. That's not the only weird Microsoft PR video Gates did though:

5/5

Slaytilost

Netherlands968 Posts

November 18 2011 10:11 GMT

#48

Nice article, i really liked it

ionize

Ireland399 Posts

November 18 2011 11:27 GMT

#49

Wow, I didn't know anything of what your wrote. My first experience with esport dates back to about 1999, 2000. Thanks for that insane write-up and the effort you put into research. 5/5

MasterZilla

Sweden234 Posts

November 18 2011 12:40 GMT

#50

Interesting blog, takes me back to the "good old days", even though I only played single player at the time (apart from some Duke3D with friends)

On November 18 2011 01:55 amazingxkcd wrote:
Does anyone still play Heretic? It sounds interesting to play.

I play some Hexen from time to time (the sequel to Heretic), not in multiplayer though.

Batssa

United States154 Posts

November 18 2011 18:46 GMT

#51

Good article, well articulated. I'm not quite sure what prompted such a post. I'm not very fond of the "Golden Age of Video Games," and I'm actually quite sick of hearing about it. I'm not sure if people worry endlessly that the players that are just arriving to TL don't "understand" the development that has happened over time, or if it's all in selfish vain, very hard to tell.

Very good and informative article, I was just musing over the abundance of lesser posts with similar topics.

Heimatloser

Germany1494 Posts

November 18 2011 21:51 GMT

#52

tl;dr
...
so bill gates invented e-sports? cool thing! gonna buy me some nokia lumia 800 tomorrow

Fatze

Germany1342 Posts

November 18 2011 23:33 GMT

#53

nice article, dude

Bread779

United States27 Posts

November 19 2011 01:04 GMT

#54

Good article. Next time you should write about the first true eSports event: the Nintendo World Championship!

Mblak

Canada23 Posts

November 19 2011 05:08 GMT

#55

Good article... I remember playing warcraft 2 with my friends over my 14400k modem and getting so angry if someone called our house because it would kick us off.

doktorLucifer

United States855 Posts

November 19 2011 09:31 GMT

#56

Merlock = proto-Idra?

Paladia

802 Posts

November 19 2011 13:42 GMT

#57

Great article. I wasn't involved in the Doom scene but I started playing Quake as soon as qtest and shareware were released and the scene quickly became quite competitive. There, it was always rumoured that the EU scene was far ahead of NA but since internet connections were so crappy back then and the distance was (and is) too far, no one really knew until the 9 vs DR event.

Cuh

United States403 Posts

November 19 2011 18:15 GMT

#58

Wow, really surprised i never heard of that event. Awesome article

Shai

Canada806 Posts

November 21 2011 20:46 GMT

#59

That pic of Romero is identical to Jinro.

infinity2k9

United Kingdom2397 Posts

November 22 2011 01:13 GMT

#60

Thresh once came to the UK to play the winner of an open tournament; he won 50 to -1 on Q2DM1. He was also originally a keyboard FPS player and didn't want to switch.

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