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ITT it's 2003 and you just booted up your Dell with Windows
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ITT it's 2003 and you just booted up your Dell with Windows XP, what are you playing?
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ragnarok online
habbo hotel
newgrounds
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Space Cadet Pinball
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>>341881081
>Dell
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pinball u pleb
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>>341881081
Warcraft 3 and Diablo II

And having a lot of trouble running Might and Magic VI
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>People born in 2003 can legally post on /v/
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Nigga I was like 5 I was playing GBA
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>>341881081
suvival project
conquer
tibia
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Quake 3 Arena
NeoPets
Starcraft
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Empire Earth
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>>341881081
C&C Generals
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>>341881238
My fucking African American family
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>>341881350
underage b&
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>>341881350
>GBA
>5

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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I'm playin' fuckin' renegade
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already did that other day, actually. installed 7 over xp on an old latitude d600 for a client
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>>341881081
Civ III
Age of Empires 2
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>>341881081
final fantasy XI
now i want to die, thanks op
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age of empires 2 and dank as fuck flash games.
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>>341881517
>people who were 3 when the GBA was released are now old enough to browse 4chan
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>>341881340
>people who don't now how to read are allowed to post on /v/
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>>341881081
Morrowind at 15 fps
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I had an HP in 2004 and it was The Sims 2 for me.
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Diablo 2.
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>>341881238
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxy0UTYP1iE
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>Halo: CE with mods
I unwittingly await anxiously for the Custom Edition
>Unreal
>Descent 3
>Need for Speed 3
>Battlezone
I'm ready to fucking DIE now.
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>>341881856
He's having a go at you, mate. Don't be so gullible.
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>>341881332
Good shit!
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>>341881081
Rollercoaster tycoon 2

That game was the shit.
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crysis
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>>341881081
-world of warcraft: alpha
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I can't even remember what I was playing PC back then, I dident play much as a kid, was always on my Snes
Pic related comes to mind
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>>341881081
Quake 2 because kernel32.dll is missing or damaged apparently and no other games run.
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>>341881081
Frank's Adventure on Newgrounds
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>>341881934
Fucking Oasis m8
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There will never be a game like it again
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>>341881934
Patterson! run through that minefield!
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>>341881081
Diablo 2
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>>341881238
>ywn play Space Cadet Pinball for the first time ever again
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subspace continuum, and HOLY SHIT it's on steam now

http://store.steampowered.com/app/352700/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6QDH9BcdbE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6QDH9BcdbE
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I played and replayed Freedom Fighters. I still do.
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I had a screenshot of my desktop in 2003 hosted on my old ImageShack account. Just loaded up the site to find every single one of my 600+ images between 2004-2010 are all gone unless I pay them $50.

I fucking hate the internet nowadays. Faster and faster, and full of more bullshit than ever before.
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>not Compaq

cmon man
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>>341882576
>you'll never show the free move cheat to your class ever again
>yfw you will never be the coolest person in the room ever again
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Nothing right now, OP.
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Starcraft
HL1
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>>341881081
C&C generals, modded with progen
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>>341882669

I still have my Compaq keyboard from 1999 and it works perfectly.
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>>341881081
Red Alert 2, Asherons Call, and Diablo 2 LoD with friends... Miss those days
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>>341881081
Serious Sam the First Encounter
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>>341881081
Neopets
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Rollercoaster 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtYHLsXb0NE
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>>341882703
>ATI
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This german piece of artistic engineering.
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>>341881081
> Dell

That aside Id probably be playing EQ or DAoC
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>>341881719
Fucking this. :(
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>>341881081
halo 1
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and Unichat

In my defense I was 13 and didn't know what a furry was, just that I got to play cool characters
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>>341881526
My African American slang word.
>We'll never have a proper renegade game ever again (X is okay, but it's missing something...)
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>>341881081

Fuck you I was using a Compaq, Dell pcs are fucking garbage.
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Coldsnap.
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>>341881081

Ragnarok Online, Gunbound, Counter Strike 1.5 and Warcraft 3.
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>>341883268
Furcadia and Unichat*
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>>341881081
Wintermaul TD
I never had XP though
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Dress-up games on newgrounds.com
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>>341883363
>>341882890

mah nigga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDIjeMm0KIY
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>>341881081
runescape
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Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness and SimCity3000, plus a bunch of Newgrounds flash games i hardly remember
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>>341882014
OH MAN, NEED FOR SPEED HOT PURSUIT 3. HOLY SHIT. That game shaped me into the man I am today, and Rom Di Prisco by Romulus 3 was the catalyst.
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Just the typical stuff really. Penguin chat, habbo hotel, runescape, sacrificing virgins, random flash games, StarCraft, but more often Warcraft 2
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EA games offcourse! They make the best games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nenKmGOwjlM
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>>341881081
>implying I had windows XP


It was windows 98 and I was probably playing AOE 2 religiously.
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>>341881081
MOTHERFUCKIN BATTLEFIELD 1942
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this shit
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>Got broadband at 2003
>Downloading obscure Finnish freeware games off Jonneweb all day erry day
>Chugging Euro Shopper cola like a madman
>Lan parties over at bros at weekends
>Hijacking school network for some glorious Liero and Quake 3 Arena matches
>Discovering the joys of internet porn
>Embracing Jonne lyfe to its fullest

Why did it have to end /v/?
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>>341882669
Why do people like old Compaq's? My only experience with them is my family had a Compaq desktop in the mid 2000s and it was trash. Am I just too young to have experienced Compaq's glory days?
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>>341883648
This man or woman knows what is happening.
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>>341881081
Nox
Diablo 2
HOMM3
Warlords Battle cry
Populous the beginning

These were my staples for years.
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only the finest of racing games
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>>341881517
2003 was 13 years ago anon, hes 18 now
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>>341881526

Oh man, I was so looking forward to Renegade, but the single player campaign was such a fucking letdown. The stuff they had at the beginning of development sounded so good.

At least the multiplayer was ok.
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Connect 4 in club penguin, all day long
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>>341883936
Did you say bad words?
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The only games I was playing then was Pokemon Crystal my cousin gave me and some 101 Dalmatians game for the Gameboy color. I wasn't super young (I'm 21 now so you can do the math), I was just behind the curve.
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>tfw I was a console kid
>my first pc was in 2007
I missed all the fun of online
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Need for speed hot pursuit 3
Renegade
Battlefield 1942
Space cadet pinball
Some really old game, not sure if it was a windows bundled game, where you were a pirate (I think) and you had to travel around a map that looked like minesweeper trying to find treasure and defeat mutiple bosses. Terrible description, but that's the best I can do
Need for speed porsche unleashed
Need for speed high stakes
And probably a lot more I can't remember

Someone hold me I might cry.
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>>341881081
morrowind
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>>341881081
Adventure Quest.
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shattered galaxy I think.
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>>341881081
Counterstrike 1.6. That was all I played and I loved it, even though I don't touch counterstrike now. It seems too "competitive" now.
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GTA vice city
Counter Strike 1.6
Warcraft 3
Splinter Cell
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Ragnarok Online or Zero Hour.
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Emulating GBA and SNES games.
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>>341882686
Wait nigga, there's a cheat for Space Cadet Pinball? How do you do it?
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>Dell
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any half life mods I can find
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>ctrl+f Runescape
>0 results
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fooling around in graal online with the other loser kids in our low playercount server

maybe trying out some of that ragnarok online all the cool kids on forums were talking about
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>>341884460
I forgotthe code but it lets you control the ball with your mouse
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>>341881081
Warcraft 3
Warrior Kings
GTA 3
Hitman Silent Assassin
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>>341884541
All these fucking years and I never knew, I'll have to try and track down the code.
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>>341881081
at 15 fps because my computer was a piece of shit
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Surely playing return to castle wolfestein and commandos
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>>341884521
>F3 runescape
>3 results
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>>341881081
Dungeon Siege, my man.
>tfw playing online with the broken English of a 9 year old
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>>341884521
>implying 90% of the people in this thread didn't start playing Runescape until 2005/2006
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>>341881081
warcraft 3
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>DEFEND ZEE OBJECTIVE
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Tiberian sun
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I was loading cheats for my gamecube and gba in 2003

Also playing flash games, my PC had onboard graphics

Man time flies fast I feel as if it were yesterday. A simpler life
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Tzar, capturing an enemy muslim castle, producing muslim peasants to make them build their relic producer building, crank it up to max op, then equip another peasant with that world ending relic and making him wreck the whole enemy base
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>>341884501
scientist massacre
scientist hunt
opera
the specialists
wanted (? that western thing)
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>>341884701
>Dungeon Siege
My nigga.

Did you play and complete the first one? Did ya get the Axe of Kill Kill Carnage?
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>>341881081
Final Fantasy 3
SNES games were about all I could play on my PC in 2003
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>Sim City 2000
>Space Cadet Pinball
>Freddi Fish
>Old online games my dad let me play over dial up
>Played some blues clues game with my sister

I was 8, I didn't even have a console until 2004 being the PS2. Didn't really start playing vidya until I was 9.
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Wolfenstein enemy territory for sure, still the most fun ive had in an fps.
>when you learn how the mortar works
literally insta win


>>341884701
i only played it after the game dungeon video but man is the original dungeon siege fun, it only makes the later games feel even more disappointing after playing it.
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>>341884615
good to see someone else realizes you only need to press one key for search
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>>341881081
SNES and GBA roms
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>>341885165
are you sure
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>>341882703
>Maher's Digital World
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>>341881081
Tibia
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>>341885252
The pixel quality doesnt react properly to my pc's teraflops of computer power, its obvious
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>>341885000
>Did you play and complete the first one?
Never did, frienderino. Furthest I remember going was that snow area, which thinking of it was probably about halfway through the game, if not less. Talk about attention span.
>>341885160
>it only makes the later games feel even more disappointing after playing it.
Damn right. I remember trying out DSII, but it wasn't even close to the fun. A third came out too, right? Never even tried that one.
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>>341882330
This. Fucking this. Best Lego game ever.
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>>341885160
>wolfET
>mortar
My fucking nigga
The mortar's explosion looks so small, yet it's deadlier than artillery strikes. I wish mortars would come back in games.

WolfET has a lot of depth to it, even to this day.
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Bush Shoot-Out - A free Shoot 'Em Up Game - Miniclip
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>>341885496
yeah, the second was pretty bad, but the third is literal trash. it plays like a really shitty baby diablo, you get one character and run through a shitty bland story
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>>341881081
>ITT it's 2003 and you just booted up your Dell with Windows XP, what are you playing?
>Dell
>implying I didnt build my own PC in 2003

MOHAA
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>>341885478
Alright I just thought maybe someone could tell by the pixels.

Damn its been a long ride.
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i remember this shit right here, you could mortar that one little gap in the wall from your base all day and just get fifty kills a match easy if you had somebody giving you ammo. the amount of information ive retained from so much of this game kind of worries me, like when im fifty will i still remember getting mad that nobody would give me ammo when i was killing their entire team every time they spawned?
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freewebarcade.com
Armorgames.com
addictinggames.com
projectcheese.info (to get by school blocking system)
Adventure Quest (tfw no $35 for Guardian account)
I got hooked with Free Realms, had highest level ninja and fighter
Hundreds of point and click games and escape games
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Jak 2 Renegade
NFS undergound
Ratchet and clank

I was a sonygger back then.
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>>341885992
>He didn't buy a guardian account with his summer job money
>he didn't get sick ass armors and got to be Artix's bff
lol pleb
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>>341883834
>tfw can't get it to run on modern pcs
I just want to feel the sunshine
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>>341881206
this
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>>341881081
starcraft diablo 2
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>there will never be an OS as comfy as Windows XP again
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>>341881081
COD 1, and Enemy Territory.
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>About to boot up Warcraft 3 for the first time, not knowing what awaits me when I start checking out the "custom maps" on battle net

I honestly took it for granted.
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>>341886328
Fuck off with this meme
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Sims 2

Or Gals Panic in MAME if I'm home alone
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>>341881081
Bloodborne.
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>you will never go back in time to 2003 to fix your whole life
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>>341886692
he's gone so far in the future time reset and bloodborne is on windows XP
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>>341886270
>>341881206
What exactly do you do in Habbo?
>inb4 /b/ nonsense
I remember it, but I didn't take part in it. What exactly is the point of the game meant to be (if it is a game at all)?
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>>341886880
you make a house and rp that's what I remember
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>>341881081
Vietcong
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CHOOSE YOUR CHARACTER
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>>341881081
>Dota 5.84
>Utopia
>Ogame
>Diablo 2
>Freespace 2
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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 mah boi
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>>341881081
>2003
Ultima Online
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>>341887383
ugh I mean to say RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
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Stepmania 3.9
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>>341887319
me on the right
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>>341881350
Same. Warioland 4. Such a good game... So many good memories.
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>>341884947
I wasted so much of my like on The Specialists

most of that was role play but goddamn I was good at that fucking game
I could kung fu anyone to death
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