I have taken over 450 screenshots to date (what?!), that works out at just under one a day since I started playing in 1996 I think, here’s a few of my favourite tales of fragginess to go with them. First off, some free for alls.
 Prehistoric. Me beats Poor_Monkey in a free for all! For more information on this great Quake player, visit my Poor_Monkey Respect Page. |
 10 April, 1997. The WeedKiller clan were a fun bunch of people, where are they now I ask?! Bongzilla and crew entertained me one night on e2m7 - I think - one of their members used to be in DC too, MrBlobby was his name. And there’s one of the first Irish Quake players, Aqualung, haven’t seen him in a while… |
 18 April, 1997. Ah, the Special Patrol Group, still on the go and one of the first clans we came across on our travels across the water to the zeta and chaos Quake servers in the UK. Those were the times, and that was the place to be. Pings of 40, heaven! |
 16 June, 1997. |
 3 October, 1997. |
 15 October, 1997. |
 22 October, 1997. |
 24 October, 1997. |
 25 October, 1997. |
 20 November, 1997. |
 23 November, 1997. |
 25 November, 1997. |
 28 November, 1997. |
 23 December, 1997. |
 25 January, 1998. |
 3 February, 1998. |
 26 February, 1998. |
 24 March, 1998. |
And here’s some memorable duels. I am positive there are about five times as many screenshots out there of me losing duels as opposed to winning, but anyway why should that stop me posting my faves!
 15 April, 1997. Ah, the good old days! Back when Spud-BB and I used to play with keys, and spend hours on end happily duelling on dm4, and us not looking up or down or using any of that new-fangled field of view stuff. This particular duel (demo on the GI page) did not go so well for Spud, now he could easily produce a screenshot of him doing a much worse job on me, but anyway here’s mine. I think the score was 20 to 1 in this game when Spud decided to do a lava dive, he gave up after losing his frag. Spud has vastly improved since then, beating Sujoy on dm4 last week. |
 26 May, 1997. Back in early 1997, when a QuakeLord player joined into your game, it was more or less a foregone conclusion that he would win the free for all no matter how late he joined in (it seemed to be a QL code of practice for their players to _only_ join into games they thought they could win). QL-LordStorm was the most feared QL player of them all, sporting the title of top UK player for a number of months until DC-Sujoy came to fame. Here’s a screenshot of the great LordStorm beating me on dm2, I remember being down in the minus frags department in this game and fragging LS with my trusty RL to which he replied “Nice!”, and a blinding light shone down from heaven and all was revealed to me, I would become a frag god in the image of the great LordStorm. It hasn’t happened yet but some day I know it will… |
 16 June, 1997. Here’s another of those QL chaps, Ricardo, in a closer match on dm4. I think I might still have been in keys mode around this time, not having made the mouse transition just yet. See those dashes under the rankings headings, that’s what the old version of QuakeWorld used to look like and all I can say is thanks be to Shub-Niggurath that they got rid of the old ranking system in QW, I hated it!! All players had a user number and data on their efficiency, frags, deaths was stored on the central QW master server. I had a minus ranking for the longest time, and no brown GI initials  |
 19 September, 1997. Here’s one of me beating Pio to pulpo on dm4, with an average 3.3 frags per minute. This must have been played on Guns Island QW since GI-MerIDiaN is spectating there, but I can’t remember that much about it. Looks like it was a massacre anyway. |
 27 October, 1997. Can you spot the subtle difference between this shot and the last one? Yes, a bright new red crosshair courtesy of the Newbie Targetting System Pro from the QuakeMarines. The chaps at Id Software soon saw fit to build this into QuakeWorld 2.10 as “crosshair 2″, but for the moment this patch provided us with a much more accurate cursor for aiming. Here’s one of those SAS guys, saw a demo of them being destroyed by QPD in one of the UK leagues, but back then they were pretty hot, I think the SAS_TA were a trainee division so I showed this guy (AKA The Mad Moose, he has a duel server now) how it was done  Nice ping! |
 13 December, 1997. I can’t remember exactly when I started using “fov 110″ but looks like it was around now. This is one of my more successful duels with nD-Zero, he taught me how to lava pop a guy coming out from the bottom teleporter and looks like I showed him how good I was at it here. We played a number of class games on our wonderful LAN connection, getting pings of 30 or less from here to UL and vice versa. |
 1 February, 1998. Regi from Clan Trinity is one of those up and coming players I can see doing great things in the future. In the past few months, he has been playing consistently better and better, and has formed the second division of Clan Trinity (Clan II) to play in the IQCL. One to watch. |
 9 March, 1998. And the redoubtable Mr. Woodlock, AKA Spice-Scary, Amos, etc. I think this game came after he whopped me a bit on dm6, so I was happy to get this particular win and by such a huge margin too. |
Fun to see those. Brings back memories! Wonder if I’ve lost all of mine by now…
GI is Gibbering Idiots, right?
I was Boysen-CB (Clanberries)
No it was Guns Islanders, but I remember the Gibbering Idiots too
That brings a tear to my eyes, seeing the SPG players once again.
I used to play for SPG back in 97/98, SPG_Mutts.
Dont suppose you have any screen grabs from zeta with me on it?
I’m not sure Mutts, but I will check again once I find my screenshots ZIP files again.
So good, so fun…. thanks for the memories
Those were the days. Ah zeta… Ah Zigarat Vertigio…
Bloody LPBs!
Bloody QPD!
Bloody everything!
ex-SPG Chimp
Fantastic stuff - i remember the days of the keyboard only. Controlling your player was a little bit like writing one of those scripts for a classroom robot
Forward - rotate 90 - forward - rotate 90 - select RL _*** oops some fecker shot me already
restart
Forward - rotate etc….
That was real quake play! The mouse stuff just came along and ruined it.
Good to see that QW is still going strong though. Still competitions etc…
Im right back into it, though the reflexes aint what they used to be
ah the old days, those lpbs DC, QL QPD and us, hi to muts nuts n da chimp those were the days…, playing cod2 now, as “Jock”