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I was suprised to see these boards back up, I'm even more suprised to see my account survive :D
As far as I can tell:
Wireplay (online gaming platfrom from BT - the referred 2 early dayz above) went to Gameplay (lost interest sorry), and now it's gone back to Wireplay...
Does anyone actually remember the Wireplay dayz?
I was on Wireplay before I even knew what the internet was, it was only a few months after installing Wireplay before I had my first internet account (AOL - what a n00b I was).
I actually prefered Wireplay and couldn't grasp what the internet was there for (as all my gaming needs was thru Wireplay)...
So.. any Wireplay girlz or boyz about still? Loved playing Red Alert, I probally 0wned a few of you (and visa versa).
Few names I remember:
Jammy 56 (RA tourny leader)
Littlejam (his son)
Vorloth ;)
loooads more too...
Damn I miss those simple days, such good memories. I miss my tesla rushes on V3, sigh...
Emohawk
Pixie Pete
05-01-2003, 00:48
I used to play Actua Soccer 2 through Wireplay in it's dial up form...don't think that makes me very old skool though. :)
Actua Soccer 2... them was the dahys..
ParaSitius
05-01-2003, 16:00
I was a Duke Nukem 3D player meself.
Mister666
05-01-2003, 17:42
Makes me feel like such a n00b. :cry:
I didn't even play a game online until early 2000 when I was working at Gameplay, didn't have internet access at home until 2001, dialup at home was such major comedown from the 10mb leased line we had at Gameplay.
Still, 'them were the days' as they say. :)
ahh Duke 3D... them was the days :E
hehe, I could never get my mouse to work with Duke 3D, but I loooved playing it all the same... Shame you lot always 0wned me though :rolleyes:
Emo
Duke was my first wp game aswell, never did get the hand of the mouse-keyboard control, cos i thought "pffffff this will never catch on"
:E
how wrong was i :P
And u used to have to ring people up to there houses to play without wp ro the like. MEGA phone bill times :)
Delta K7
07-01-2003, 10:50
i played on old(ish) Wireplay..especially the client - it was decent...
WP had the best servers and i didnt lag much but then gameplay had to go and shut it down. hated them for that and haven't bought a game from them since :rolleyes: (id just joined WP servers aswell :() after that i played on uk2 servers - they were second best then (can u believe it?). their IPs changed and i didnt want to have to wait to ping all 20000000 servers just to be able to play on them. then i got their IPs and they were laggy as....
then WP came back and i was happy :D
(ish)
GameGuru
07-01-2003, 15:21
Originally posted by Delta K7
WP had the best servers and i didnt lag much but then gameplay had to go and shut it down. hated them for that and haven't bought a game from them since :rolleyes:
Yes, blame a company (Gameplay Ltd.) that had nothing to do with Wireplay's eventual downful (Gameplay PLC.)
That'll show 'em!!!!
:rolleyes:
schmoely
07-01-2003, 18:08
I remember playing bat n ball when Wireplay started on the Atari 2600
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh
Those were the days
Heh, WPTFC person here :}
Joined around the time TFC came out, IIRC. Back in the good old days when it was "Oh, shove a CS server up, someone might play it...
Delta K7
09-01-2003, 14:25
Originally posted by GameGuru
Yes, blame a company (Gameplay Ltd.) that had nothing to do with Wireplay's eventual downful (Gameplay PLC.)
what is the difference between Ltd and PLC? tell me! isn't gameplay ONE company?
mr_grumpy_man
09-01-2003, 14:34
Gameplay Ltd (Technically Gameplay GB Ltd) is what *was* the mail-order side of Gameplay.
Since Gameplay went tits-up, the mail-order business was bought out by management (I think) and now has fack all to do with Gameplay PLC - which is a shell company with some money and an abismal share price but which doesn't actually *do* anything.
Gameplay GB (http://www.gameplay.co.uk) are good guys.
Gameplay PLC is still run by the "muppets" who successfully managed to run the old Gameplay into the ground.
communal toilet
09-01-2003, 14:54
/me fluffles mgm
Thas right
I work for Gameplay GB Ltd
The company who seemingly destroyed wireplay worked for Gameplay PLC and are no longer associated with our company
We are meerly an independent retailer trying to offer gamers competetive prices and great service
:)
In short .... Wub!
:D
Delta K7
09-01-2003, 14:58
yay! so if i buy games from gameplay.co.uk and the number to ring up (i don't have it any more because i see no gameplay ads in pcgamer any more :() it wont go to the "muppets" but to you?
mr_grumpy_man
09-01-2003, 15:02
Gameplay GB is certified Muppet Free.
They should have that on the website somewhere...
communal toilet
09-01-2003, 15:02
lol
indeed.. we were in December issue of PC Gamer I believe
and the one before
Tel Number is 0845 345 4440 (local rate)
www.gameplay.co.uk
We 0wn :D
:)
Delta K7
09-01-2003, 15:18
yay yay yay me buy... when i have money :(
Custodian
09-01-2003, 18:28
I'll not buy from a company that has an anti-muppet policy.
That's down right muppetist.
Equal Rights for Muppets !!
Mister666
09-01-2003, 18:56
I do believe this is the first AND second time I've ever seen a serious post from teh Com Bog. :O
/me dies from shock
communal toilet
10-01-2003, 08:54
:E
I have to get someone else to post it for me ;)
:D
Originally posted by communal toilet
:E
I have to get someone else to post it for me ;)
:D
where's my money then comm_bog? :E
I remember when this forum was just one huge field of grass....
depending on which type of grass, that was either a week ago, or three years.
;)
I remember Jammy he used to run the RITV leagues
Scarily, I can remember writing large chunks of the Wireplay client code back in those halcyon days... must be getting on for 8 years ago now... :eek:
Phil.
phlash, AHH AHhhhh, he's gonna code miracles...PHLASH....
I....it was just lying there ;(
Pop Culture Monkey
29-01-2003, 13:07
Originally posted by ParaSitius
I was a Duke Nukem 3D player meself. MUD2 for me, with the occasional game of Rumble here and there later on.
Quake 2 for me, stick me in a corridor with a railgun and even in my script kiddie days I could have done pretty well.
ParaSitius
29-01-2003, 18:05
I actually tried to play MUD2. Gave it a couple of attempts but at the time I found it too bewildering to play. All text and no graphics which I hadn't seen since my speccy days.
phlash, AHH AHhhhh, he's gonna code miracles...PHLASH....
Heh heh, nice.
GameGuru
29-01-2003, 20:35
Originally posted by Pop Culture Monkey
MUD2 for me, with the occasional game of Rumble here and there later on.
Hmm, strange that...
Never remember seeing you playing PCM, when did you play and under what alias? I'm sure I'd remember you playing if I did at the same time, you're not the easiest of people to forget ;)
Pop Culture Monkey
29-01-2003, 20:57
I played as 'Darkside' and 'The Authority' and I was ****ing awful.
Actually, I oughta go back to using 'The Authority' as an alias.
GameGuru
30-01-2003, 02:39
You couldn't have been as bad as me. I played as a PP and still managed to get killed by a boar when I was a priest.
I played under the Alias 'Anarchy' was while MUD2 was free, played it non-stop for about 5 months.
They were good days :)
Mister666
30-01-2003, 18:08
Originally posted by phlash
Scarily, I can remember writing large chunks of the Wireplay client code back in those halcyon days... must be getting on for 8 years ago now... :eek:
Phil.
:O
Phlash! Hello m8ey, I remember you from when I was on the Wireplay Helpdesk. Wasn't your brother one of the coders too?
Hope things are going well for you. God, it's almost 2 years to the day since Gameplay Plc (spit) got rid of all the WP Helpdesk and half the other GP staff (was Feb 2nd 2000 when that happened).
I thought I was 'old skool' WP staff but you just put me to shame. :E
Yup - Stuart was on the team in BT before we woz sold off to create gameplay.com.. he posted recently as Slash909..
I ought to say that you guys ran a decent helpdesk too - only bothered us techies 10 times a week :cool:
Phil.
Air Attack since around the end of '98.
Pixie Pete
09-03-2003, 00:43
Originally posted by GameGuru
I played as a PP
:O
Meanie. :cry:
OuTCaSt [Clans.Many]
12-03-2003, 09:59
i played Quake, Duke3D, TA, the occassional bout of MUD2 (all under the alias Omega_Madcat) and Air Attack under the alias Steel_Talon.
UKTwister
12-03-2003, 20:15
I played a bit of Links2001 and Virtual pool 2... Oh and annoyed the Gamepro's too :p
i've played so many games on WP since august'98 it's unbelievable...
quake, quake2, jk1, air attack, RITV, what was that little ickle dinky racing game with the basic 3d graphics called where the cars were in shapes of a ufo and little truck and others like that???, q3, half life, jk2, duke3d (bloody pipe bomb spammers), the original unreal (loved this to bits) and UT...god, the list goes on.
them was the dhays as razz so eloquently put it. :)
Neophyte
14-03-2003, 00:43
Original Unreal servers are back btw!!!! :E
Originally posted by khazmash
what was that little ickle dinky racing game with the basic 3d graphics called where the cars were in shapes of a ufo and little truck and others like that
You mean Big Red Racing?
BIG RED RACING!!!!! :D
/me fluffles breath
the glory days of the 56k. ;)
Originally posted by kaszmash
BIG RED RACING!!!!
Ohh! Look what's in my CD rack covered in dust:
One of the original 1995 BRR CD-ROMs from the Wireplay test lab. Marked "WP049 Property of Wireplay Publisher Support Team.." , perhaps I should have given that back sometime :)
Phil.
(Not sure it'll run propertly on XP though..)
OuTCaSt [Clans.Many]
26-03-2003, 11:40
hehe i just found my old wireplay EF2000 cd from 1996 in a pile of old junk (old dos based and win95 games... like desert strike and c&c)
GER_Defiant
13-05-2003, 13:06
(Just visiting.......)
Ritv rulez da world :cool:
Russia, germany, UK, US (short time), japan, france ......
Ask me again for it, when the soure code's free :D
Arachnamus
15-05-2003, 21:23
I got introduced to wireplay by a m8 of mine back in... ooooh 97 or saiing, something like that, before I had any sort of internet connection. We played TFC mostly (nothings changed) at his house. Then when I finally did, around 2000, it was freeserve and I had a ping of 1300, so I still couldnt play.
Finally in jan of 2001 I got ADSL and havnt looked back. Now I'm the mediocre player you see before you.
I can remember getting inserts with magazines promoting Wireplay... Sure it was WP.?. Wireplay still remains in a lot of peoples hearts as an 'original UK community'.
**long sigh glances to floor shuffles feet and looks up again**
Your round innit!?
:E
Originally posted by EZTiger
I can remember getting inserts with magazines promoting Wireplay...
Indeedy. The experience of walking into WH Smiths, looking at the magazine racks and realising that a million cover CDs had our code on was unique and rather cool ;)
**shuffles back to smelly old gits corner **
Still your round though.. :dog:
Arachnamus
18-05-2003, 10:53
*sits at the middle age table, not old skool enough for the oldies and too aged for the newbies*
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