ShadoWolf
New member
The title of this competition is an interesting one. Whether or not the guys and gals at Mygaming drew inspiration from Michael Jackson's "Do you remember the time," is another debate entirely. Considering the fact that I've been gaming since I was 5 years-old, the King of Pop has as much to do with my childhood as does gaming.
I started out with platform games, the odd 2 bit machine and of course arcades. As I grew older PC gaming became all the rage. LAN parties, LAN weekends, LAN LAN's. It was a new discovery and journey for us, because we could finally compete with each other, no internet required. And, the game that really fueled this foray into the world of competitive gaming was none other than the original Medal of Honor.
Forget Call of Duty with it's Javelin Missiles and Lux Mctavish. Forget about Battlefield 3 and it's Finger Frostbite Engine and **crashing** ahem piloting F18's. MOH was the grandaddy of them all. I remember the hours and hours of time spent playing maps like the close knit Stalingrad. Thought you couldn't do rocket jumping in WWII based game...think again bucko...MOH was the Quake of WWII Games. It also introduced objective based games like Omaha Beach, where an opposing team had to blow up a pair of guns and the other team had to defend. Hmmmmm setting a bomb to blow up an objective...that sounds familiar....There was also Jailbreak where if you died you got thrown into the opposing teams jail and the only way to bust them out to save them was to flip a switch to bust them out. Spending time in that jail cell with team mates was interesting.........
Throw in a sound an excellent sound system (I could tell which room a person was in on the Stalingrad map based on the sound of their footsteps on wood), cool, authentic weapons and the most fun game play you've ever had...then ladies and gents you have a winner. Back then someone who took a sniper rifle didn't even need to hold a their breath...that's how hardcore WWII snipers were. People rage about hits not being registered when they play now...HA! Try MOH my friend. This game practically invented that issue with an entire clip sometimes leaving your opponent with the a chance to fire a rocket into your face.
There was no need for updates for the game, because what you got was it. No whining about balance issues and def NO ON DISC DLC. The only updates for the game came in the form of expansion releases. My favorite memory of this game was when I climbed a telephone pole and promptly announced to everyone at the LAN that I was the Telkom technician there to fix the line. They all stopped fighting each other...I've never seen so many rockets and bullets fired towards me. If common love for a game can't bring people together, then common hate of Telkom can.
I still refer to this as the Golden Age of Gaming, because it wasn't a gazillion dollar industry then...it was just fun.
And, isn’t that what gaming is supposed to be?
I started out with platform games, the odd 2 bit machine and of course arcades. As I grew older PC gaming became all the rage. LAN parties, LAN weekends, LAN LAN's. It was a new discovery and journey for us, because we could finally compete with each other, no internet required. And, the game that really fueled this foray into the world of competitive gaming was none other than the original Medal of Honor.
Forget Call of Duty with it's Javelin Missiles and Lux Mctavish. Forget about Battlefield 3 and it's Finger Frostbite Engine and **crashing** ahem piloting F18's. MOH was the grandaddy of them all. I remember the hours and hours of time spent playing maps like the close knit Stalingrad. Thought you couldn't do rocket jumping in WWII based game...think again bucko...MOH was the Quake of WWII Games. It also introduced objective based games like Omaha Beach, where an opposing team had to blow up a pair of guns and the other team had to defend. Hmmmmm setting a bomb to blow up an objective...that sounds familiar....There was also Jailbreak where if you died you got thrown into the opposing teams jail and the only way to bust them out to save them was to flip a switch to bust them out. Spending time in that jail cell with team mates was interesting.........
Throw in a sound an excellent sound system (I could tell which room a person was in on the Stalingrad map based on the sound of their footsteps on wood), cool, authentic weapons and the most fun game play you've ever had...then ladies and gents you have a winner. Back then someone who took a sniper rifle didn't even need to hold a their breath...that's how hardcore WWII snipers were. People rage about hits not being registered when they play now...HA! Try MOH my friend. This game practically invented that issue with an entire clip sometimes leaving your opponent with the a chance to fire a rocket into your face.
There was no need for updates for the game, because what you got was it. No whining about balance issues and def NO ON DISC DLC. The only updates for the game came in the form of expansion releases. My favorite memory of this game was when I climbed a telephone pole and promptly announced to everyone at the LAN that I was the Telkom technician there to fix the line. They all stopped fighting each other...I've never seen so many rockets and bullets fired towards me. If common love for a game can't bring people together, then common hate of Telkom can.
I still refer to this as the Golden Age of Gaming, because it wasn't a gazillion dollar industry then...it was just fun.
And, isn’t that what gaming is supposed to be?