I went to a boarding school that had a very nice LAN, so I got my friends into half-life multiplayer and we all LANned it up playing regular Half-Life multi-player in the winter of 1999. The maps bd_arena, crossfire, and bootcamp are still very fond memories of mine, but eventually regular death match got kind of boring. Alas I read about CS in a PC Magazine of sorts, and decided to download the game. I downloaded CS Beta 6.1, gave it to a friend via our LAN, and then he burned it on CD. I spent that whole day running around to different rooms trying to get people to install the game just as I had done with Half-Life during our exam week That weekend we had a HUGE four person game that well never ended, cuz none of us wanted to stop playing. I remember when we found out that Sub machine guns were not the only good automatic weapons, as we learned the magic of the assault rifles. Towards the end of the year we had about 12 regulars, unfortunately many kids would phone cheat (since talking on phones was free) and I had no clue about mp_forcechasecam or anything like that. My most fond memories of this beta: the map cs_docks (it was the first map I played) and the scoped Colt M4A1 that could zoom in like the AUG or SIG. Hehe I also enjoyed the map de_hoth, although if I played it today I would think it was horrible. Anywho by my senior year my school had over 100 players, and Two 32 player servers which were almost always filled. Ofcourse me and a few guys I knew had reserved spots on one of the servers
-[MwR]Skipper