Archiving the history of the video game Quake 2: created by id Software; customized by the Quake 2 community.
"An increasingly larger proportion of women are getting onto the net and gaming. It has indeed been predicted, by a certain magazine which I have now forgotten the name of, that by 2002 there will be more women using the net than men and as a result more will be involved with online gaming... We will soon discover that females in game servers will become the norm..."
"Atomic Pop Panic: Dr. Atomic vs. The Hitmen--a total conversion of the Quake II engine with all original maps, monsters, and weapons. Join Dr. Atomic as he battles the Hitmen through the nightclubs of Neo Los Angeles and back to their space station."
"These days from all around me, I hear of 'windows' and a 'mouse', of brand names, some are 'Apple', wish I knew what it's about. I hear they've some connection, with strange things they call computers, which will give you all the answers, but to me they're just confusers. I've seen folk press some buttons, words appear and sometimes numbers, they seem to spring from nowhere — it surely makes me wonder. Sometimes I've asked a question, they just turn to this machine, press a button here, a button there, they find the answer there, it seems. It's really quite amazing, they don't even have to think, they tell me what I want to know, I don't have time to even blink. One day I'll look right through the window, perhaps I'll see before my eyes, this mouse they always talk about, for he must be very wise." —Hilda B. York, of Millers Point, fascinated by what she reads in Icon, was moved to write this poem, 1998
"That's right, the Strogg have been defeated in every Quake 2 mission pack you've played. Now its many complexes and fortresses are under a new invasion from hoverboarders eager to find some new terrain. Not being one to miss out on this opportunity, I've set up a custom board shop in orbit above Stroggos. From there I build, design, and receive new custom graphics and styles from all over the known inhabited systems. If you know of a style that's not in our selection, we (you and I) can custom make it or have it ordered from some of the most talented people in the business. Custom painted boards start with stock 2.0 decks just released this season."
"Pete: I started mapping for q2 initially. I bought death match maker from a local shop and had a play with it and created a few maps . Then I thought about coding... I downloaded the compiler and the source and had a look at the source, which is just C. Initially I started with small chnages, but then experimented with more ambitious ideas. then on to q3..."
Donde Quake 2? 