Games

This was the best way to game with and chat with friends. I miss those days.

Also, GameSpy arcade. My parents had McAfee blocking the internet, because the literal first thing I did was save porn to "My Pictures" directory. But it only blocked the browsers. So I used the built in web browser in GameSpy to download Star Wars BF2 mods, amongst other things

Xfire was my bastion with my totally legit copy of Call of Duty 4.

Didn't they have custom skins because I remember messing around with that and rocking some cool skins...?

Oh, I remember. Some of the games I played a lot would just crash if I had Xfire running in the background.

How about even older: HEAT (HEAT.net)? https://web.archive.org/web/19970601031026/http://www.heat.net/

I was an mplayer user. They had plenty of quake team fortress servers.

Bring it back :(

A blast from the past. Totally forgot about it existing until this post.

Wow this brought back memories of making bank in clan COD tourneys(=USA=). It was too easy back then, now gamers practice 6 hours a day.

I used this daily, had so many hours logged pre getting everything on steam. Was actually just talking about it not that long ago, was such a big part of my highschool years.

Remember installing it from my Medal of Honor disk. Was it Pacific Assault? I don’t remember.

I remember it being a thing I didn't use. It was like a voice chat/messenger thing with a built in game browser like GameSpy, right? I used TeamSpeak and some other tool mostly over xFire. I didn't know anyone else who used xFire so it was kinda useless to me. A lot of communication apps in the late 90's/early-mid 2000's had that unfortunate downfall for me. No point in using something nobody I would talk to uses 🤷🏻‍♂️

This came up in convo with a co-worker recently. I had completely forgotten about it until he mentioned it and then, suddenly, a flood of memories came rushing back.