I defiantly cut my MP teeth with this game, more so than any other game. The worst part was trying to get the phone line from my bro to play! I don't know if any one remembers but the Demo allowed you to play MP so that's how we played most often because we didn't have a full ver of it for a while and most of our friends didn't have cdroms to install it, so demo mp it was.
The lag was so bad on that 28.8 I had, but it was well worth it. I remember still playing this game at Lan parties in 98 just because every one had it or didn't like Quake 2 over Quakes MP. I know one thing for sure if we didn't have Quake or Unreal pushing 3D games at the time we wouldn't see games as they are now.
I remember finding the hidden Nightmare difficulty and showing my friends that, good times. I was about the same age as Tharic-Nar when this came out and I remember how controversial this was from the music with Nine Inch Nail down to the red blood, can you believe it red blood? Now it takes same sex alien love scenes to get people upset now, how times have changed.
Tharic-Nar I got the updated version that includes OpenGL and allows it to run in Win no problem, I haven't run it in Win 7 64bit but that should be interesting. I read a little while back Carmack's vision for the next Quake, here it is in case any one else is interested.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-06-17-john-carmacks-vision-for-the-next-quake
