A few weeks ago I asked if anyone wanted to see old video of Quakeworld I recorded back in the day and generally about nostalgic gaming recording, and got some positive replies.  Last night I copied my Quakeworld VHS tapes onto DVDs and surprisingly the video was already formatted well for Youtube so I uploaded a bit.
 
I always enjoyed making a record of my gaming, and I'd watch it over and over (usually in the background to other gaming).  I never had a camcorder until recently, but I would use VHS or audiocassettes to record my game playing.  These videos are obviously more valuable to me than other people, when I watch any of these I get a flood of memories and emotions.
 
Early internet gaming, especially Quakeworld - because it was my first internet videogame, is especially powerfully nostalgic to me.  At the time of this recording I had a really ratty gaming PC, but I had just gotten a 3dfx graphics card which doubled my framerate in Quake, uppded the resolution to 640x480, increased graphics quality substantially, and generally made the game much more playable.  In early 1998 I got a more powerful PC.  I also played a good deal of the original Team Fortress during this time but sadly never recorded it.
 
At the time of this recording I had been on the net for about a year and was still getting into the groove with it, the net was absolutely fascinating to me.  I bought a very good book on TCP/IP networking and learned a lot over time.  I would spend some of my spare time on Palace chat (a really old chat program), and Geocities chat (RIP Geocities :( ).  I also had all the consoles, and I was probably most interested in Sega Saturn because that's the last one I got.  I got the 3DFX card about a month after Goldeneye for N64 came out, so that helps me figure out when abouts this video would have been taken.
 
  

A few weeks ago I asked if anyone wanted to see old video of Quakeworld I recorded back in the day and generally about nostalgic gaming recording, and got some positive replies.  Last night I copied my Quakeworld VHS tapes onto DVDs and surprisingly the video was already formatted well for Youtube so I uploaded a bit.
 
I always enjoyed making a record of my gaming, and I'd watch it over and over (usually in the background to other gaming).  I never had a camcorder until recently, but I would use VHS or audiocassettes to record my game playing.  These videos are obviously more valuable to me than other people, when I watch any of these I get a flood of memories and emotions.
 
Early internet gaming, especially Quakeworld - because it was my first internet videogame, is especially powerfully nostalgic to me.  At the time of this recording I had a really ratty gaming PC, but I had just gotten a 3dfx graphics card which doubled my framerate in Quake, uppded the resolution to 640x480, increased graphics quality substantially, and generally made the game much more playable.  In early 1998 I got a more powerful PC.  I also played a good deal of the original Team Fortress during this time but sadly never recorded it.
 
At the time of this recording I had been on the net for about a year and was still getting into the groove with it, the net was absolutely fascinating to me.  I bought a very good book on TCP/IP networking and learned a lot over time.  I would spend some of my spare time on Palace chat (a really old chat program), and Geocities chat (RIP Geocities :( ).  I also had all the consoles, and I was probably most interested in Sega Saturn because that's the last one I got.  I got the 3DFX card about a month after Goldeneye for N64 came out, so that helps me figure out when abouts this video would have been taken.
 
  

haha that is classic man!  Thanks for letting me in on this, would have never saw it otherwise. 
 
Quake 1 was the first internet games I played also!  Its halarious that you mention both Team Fortress and high pings.  I played the Team Fortress mod for quake all the damn time it was awesome, healing peoples with your axe as a medic was awesome and hilarious. 
 
I also was insanely jealous when peeps would join game with sub 100 pings (early cable internet users).  Most of the users I played with at the time hovered around 100-300 ping as we were all on dial up.  I remember when Goldeneye came out and I hated it.  I could not understand why all my newbie school mates loved that game.  It was so damn slow paced and terrible compared to Quake multiplayer haha. (looking back it was because a lot of kids didnt have a computer to run a game like quake) 
 
anyway thanks for posting was fun to look at oldschool DM levels

it was because a lot of kids didnt have a computer to run a game like quake

i remember playing quake deathmatch on my friends older brothers pc a long ass time ago. mustve been the first online game i ever played since it was long before i started playing online

Nice video. :D
 
I don't have any old Quake recordings, but I currently have the Quake expansion packs installed and plan on playing them before the end of the year.

The sad thing is wall textures in games have still barely changed. Hopefully DX11 with tesselation will change that. 

If anyone wants the nostalgic dose with slightly less eye sores try DMC. Valve should update it for Source. Of course there's always Quake (III) Live.

For comparison I remember custom Day of Defeat mappers (much more modern game/mod) limiting themselves to 5 MB of textures per map for optimal performance x)

" The sad thing is wall textures in games have still barely changed. Hopefully DX11 with tesselation will change that.  "

I remember when quake came out and you needed to have that DOS TCP/IP stack.. I had a 14.4k modem and it was so awesome. I used to hang out on the Efnet #quake channel around 1995.

To celebrate Quake 1 TNT, I suppose I'll bump this thread with a NEW VIDEO!