Archiving the history of the video game Quake 2: created by id Software; customized by the Quake 2 community.
The South African Quake scene in the early 2000's is broadly featured with a special focus on the Valentine's Day 2000 "first of its kind" Wedding on a GameZone Quake 2 server between BadBoyBubba and db_High. South Africa LANgames website is included in the archive, with many photos of South African Quake gamers who attended LAN parties in 2001 and 2002. Thank you for reading and hope you enjoy the deep dive! -Donde
PCXL Magazine October 1998: PGL Tips from the Pros or How to Make a Load of Cash Playing Quake II When you’ve gone blurry-eyed from sitting in front of that monitor for eight straight hours, fingers unresponsive to anything but flying rockets and the sight of an enemy, you’ve got to question whether there’s a …
Killer Kousins Quake 2 clan Clan Killer Kousins (KK) started in the summer of 2000 when cousins Kong and Sprout had just entered the gaming community. The only game both had was Quake II. In spring of 2000, they discovered multi-player and quickly became addicted to it. After awhile, Kong and Sprout felt it would …
QuakeRant: Why I Hate "The Edge" by Andrew R. Southwick Why I Hate "The Edge" (q2dm1) Points of Argument Easy to control -- the RL has only one access point, grenades suck, the chaingun is in a severely weak position, and the grenade-launcher platform commands almost all of the other weapons. The railgun--the single back-side …
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"Welcome to Riding the Rocket. Riding the Rocket is a Quake II challenge website - each week an easy and a hard challenge is posted, and players submit demos of them attempting the challenge with (usually) the most stylish entrant winning. The challenges generally involve some sort of trickjump, being a simple rocketjump or doublejump to a more advance circlejump or bunnyhop. An ongoing bot challenge section also features, where the current high-scorer must be dethroned. Also, viewers can submit challenges any time and if they're suitable, will feature as a future weekly challenge."
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