15 years ago today.....

[UnrealGGecko]

http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articl ... 025055.htm

..... Unreal Tourmament was released!

Unreal Tournament is a first-person shooter video game co-developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes. It was first published in 1999 by GT Interactive for PC.

Initial release date: November 30, 1999

Happy Fraggin' Birthday, Unreal Tournament!!

[ShaiHulud]

Ahh, and how quickly those years have passed. Here's a toast to you, my old idle-time companion

[{S.o.W}DeathMask]

A good companion indeed. I really miss the old days glory...

[papercoffee]

I play UT since 2000 but I discovered the communities just 2008.
Soooo... it means, I totally missed the glory days from the beginning.

[noccer]

Yeah, 15 years for the best game ever

Congratulations


Show Epic your love,
Show your love to UT

Show it to the Serverlist !!



(oh and yes, they have 22 spaces before the Happy Birthday, and i know its not the birthday, but the birthday of the release itself )

[FraGnBraG]

I remember seeing it on the shelves when I went to buy Quake III arena and thinking ""these Epic bozos are copying Id". The main games I played at that time were quake, q2, and half-life. I bought unreal in 98 but could never run it very well (~12 fps, tops) and online *sucked* compared to Quake and later on halflife/CS, so naturally I assumed UT99 would run like shit too, lol!

Well I did get UT during 2000 after i upgraded my PC and graphics. Haha, anybody remember "scimitar"!? That big POS was one of the first maps me and my buddies played all the time lol! I did like all those those huge kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms ("revenge of the small" anybody?), and loved downtown maps (like zeitkind, zaltag, urban helicopter wars etc). Also remember there were a lot of ghandi maps around online (burgertime, toy wars, frogger, etc) got me playing CTF regularly - i thought he was some kinda mapper god, that was before I started mapping myself - then I saw his maps for what they really were, lol!) I must have downloaded every map that came through Nali City during 2000-2001, lol

I do remember the server browsers at the time (2000-2001) peaked typically around 4000-5000 for both UT99 and Q3... which was a lot compared to nowadays when there's hardly any... Keep things in perspective though - back at that time Half-Life + Counter Srike usually had 50,000-80,000 servers, IIRC, which kinda makes UT99 and even quake3 seem pretty unimportant ...

Here's something I found, which might have been typical in early 2003:

[Raynor]

Happy birthday Unreal Tournament!
And happy another 15 years at least =)

[papercoffee]

ghandi maps

Can't remember if I know them ...is there any source for it?
Or isn't it worth the effort?

[Hellkeeper]

It doesn't really strike a chord with me. Maybe because I wasn't there when UT hit the shelves. On the other hand, I wasn't there either when Unreal was released, yet I celebrated it's 10th, so maybe because 15 years doesn't sound as important to me as something like 10, 15 or 20.

Either way, happy birthday UT, there are still a lot of frags to deal out and many flags to seize.

[FraGnBraG]

ghandi maps

Can't remember if I know them ...is there any source for it?
Or isn't it worth the effort?

here's a list of ghandi's ut99 stuff ...
you sure you never played any of these?
this is all from 2000-2002 iirc

[Carbon]

here's a list of ghandi's ut99 stuff ...
you sure you never played any of these?
this is all from 2000-2002 iirc

Make a zip and upload those puppies!!

[UnrealGGecko]

Most (if not all) are available over at UP:
http://www.unrealplayground.com/forums/member.php?u=55

[EvilGrins]

I didn't get into the game when it was first released (got into it the same year but not exactly when it started) though I watched it often enough when my friend was playing the demo on his system. Then I broke up with the love of my life, someone left the game running near me while trying to comfort me, and I've been hooked ever since...

...didn't actually get the Skaarj obsession until a few months after that.

[papercoffee]

here's a list of ghandi's ut99 stuff ...
you sure you never played any of these?
this is all from 2000-2002 iirc

Ah... Burger Wars and 2Chicken-Pancake ... I played them ...they are horrible .

[Carbon]

Most (if not all) are available over at UP:

Many are missing.

@FraGnBraG: Looks like you have a nice organized collection! By mapper...I'm impressed!