"Where have all the campers gone? Lag time passing. Where have all the campers gone — Long time ago? Where have all the campers gone? Blown to fragments, every one! When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?"
Category: The Quake 2 community
The Quake 2 community — featuring player’s philosophies, revisiting the websites of Quake 2 clans, and returning to the scenes of all-night LAN parties — here are the human stories behind the game. Thank you to so many people, all around the world, who have made and continue to make Quake 2 the most fun game to play on Stroggos — and Earth! You are appreciated.
Master Blaster: They call him Doomgod, by Lawrence E. Joseph — Saturday, January 4, 1997
"They call him Doomgod, the one who can kill blindfolded. He defanged the Cobra and snuffed the magician known as Merlock. But Dennis Fong, 19, is no Terminator. He's a popular student at the community college in Los Altos, Calif., where he lives with his parents and does (most of) his chores. So why does he go by the name Thresh, as in threshold of pain?"
Pro gaming: Where the really great players are, by Matt Richtel — New York Times, Thursday, November 26, 1998
"Kurt Shimada is shaking with joy, disbelief and a twinge of guilt. Moments ago, in the preliminary round of the computer game championships, he didn't just beat but demolished Dennis Fong, who happens to be the Michael Jordan of computer games."
TECHZONE: Net gamers in league of their own, by Kenneth Li — New York Daily News, Sunday, December 14, 1997
"Don't play games with Bridget Fitzgerald. By day, Fitzgerald, 20, a mild-mannered pixie-looking student in baggy overalls, suffers for upwards of 13 hours strapped to a viola as a freshman at the Big Apple's world-renowned Juilliard School of Music... Fitzgerald — known online as Tonka — whispers, almost inaudibly: 'Who can I kill today?' That's her only warning to the soon-to-be smoking carcasses dumb enough to cross her path on the Net in the game Quake."
Make friends all over the world, and blast them into the next — The Guardian, Thursday, January 23, 1997
"If you want to dip your toe in the water of online gaming rather than take the plunge right away, you could pay a visit to the Shoot'n'Surf Cafe in London, or a local equivalent. For 3.5 to 5 pounds an hour, you can experience multi-player gaming and get the benefit of expert tuition."
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