Origins of your SS addiction

[Project]

A friend from a game called Astronest introduced me (DrxAbstract). AN is like Planetarion. SS took a little more skill and supplied immediate satisfaction. I played pub hardcore for 2 months, going over 1.5mil most of the time. Took me 5 resets to get over 1:1 Eventually joined whiterabbits, haven't improved since.

[Agnium]

That fu*king nerd real got it to me....I can't get rid of it....(both real, nor ss)
So thanks real
Revenge is sweet......uhh

[Beef Lo Mein]

I heard pepsi had something to do with SS when it initially came out. Is that true or false?

[Exceed]

Originally posted by Epinephrine
OMG yes Star Control 2 is one of my favorite games of all time. I used to play melee on SC2 endlessly with my brother When I originally found SS all I could think of was "OMG THEY MADE STAR CONTROL 2 FOR THE INTERNET!". The funny thing is the warbird even looks exactly like the Cm'mmr Avatar.

It also reminds me of a classic game called Comet Blasters. Okay it wasn't really classic, and it really had nothing to do with killing other space ships. It was basically astroids for Win95, and you could play up to three players (on same keyboard). Your ships had shields and if you hit your friend's ship with shields on you could make them bounce really fast. So we used to try to kill eachother by bouncing eachother into astroids instead of the intended co-operative astroids you were supposed to play :P

There's also another game called "Spacy" which I like to think of as an inferior SS clone.

-Epi

Never played those other games, but yes, the warbird does bear an uncanny resemblence to the Chmmr Avatar... which was one awesome ship...

The StarCon map in TW is a worthy adaptaion of Star Control 2.

I'd venture to say that much of the TW population got the game from their friends... I introduced SS to 4-5 people... some of them still play and got into good squads... and in turn they spread SS to more people.. mwahaha...

[BooHoo!]

i can'T remember how i found this game

[Desire]

I was looking for some psp trial version or something... then I got to Terrorist squad site and downloaded SS. Here I am.

[Webbb Llama v1.5]

My mom told me about it- she recorded a TV show with a link to the game

[Polar]

How I started playing SubSpace?
SS was mentioned in a finnish gaming magazine "Pelit" in the year 1997 or something. When my friend Miku (Miku19/Phrenitis) got a DSL connection, it didn't work on his P3-700 and he had to use his older P133 and P166 portable (which i use mostly when i play SS . So he needed an internet game that would work on those CPUs. And I remembered an ancient story about a game called "SubSpace", and suggested it. We played it for a while and then forgot it. A few months after that (can't remember exactly) he started playing SS again and now he's addicted. I play SS whenever I have a computer to play it with; in school or with that Miku's portable. I NEVER play SS at home, because i have a crappy 56K modem and live in Finland so I have to pay for being online.

[Beef Lo Mein]

Originally posted by Webbb Llama v1.5
My mom told me about it- she recorded a TV show with a link to the game

No way are you serious?

[PaulOakenfold]

I wouldn't doubt it, I heard about it from TV, i forget if it was ZTV or something else.

[Epinephrine]

Originally posted by Beef Lo Mein
I heard pepsi had something to do with SS when it initially came out. Is that true or false?

I believe Pepsi funded SS in the summer of 1997. They paid for the servers or sponsored them during the last two months that SS was beta. What they got in return was a few weeks of ads inside the zone maps when SS first went pay. It was funny to fly around and see pepsi ads in the background

-Epi

[Pearl Jam]

My story is actually a fairly unique one. Roughly 3 years ago, when I was a senior in high school, I did a research paper on the history of firearms. One of the divisions of firearms I researched were sub-machine guns.

When I typed "sub machine-gun" into yahoo, subspace was one of the matches. I clicked the link.

And now here I am.

[Miku19]

Originally posted by Polar
How I started playing SubSpace?
SS was mentioned in a finnish gaming magazine "Pelit" in the year 1997 or something. When my friend Miku (Miku19/Phrenitis) got a DSL connection, it didn't work on his P3-700 and he had to use his older P133 and P166 portable (which i use mostly when i play SS . So he needed an internet game that would work on those CPUs. And I remembered an ancient story about a game called "SubSpace", and suggested it. We played it for a while and then forgot it. A few months after that (can't remember exactly) he started playing SS again and now he's addicted. I play SS whenever I have a computer to play it with; in school or with that Miku's portable. I NEVER play SS at home, because i have a crappy 56K modem and live in Finland so I have to pay for being online.

Me? Addicted? What a joke!

[Beef Lo Mein]

Originally posted by Epinephrine
I believe Pepsi funded SS in the summer of 1997. They paid for the servers or sponsored them during the last two months that SS was beta. What they got in return was a few weeks of ads inside the zone maps when SS first went pay. It was funny to fly around and see pepsi ads in the background

-Epi

That would be funny if certain people got endorsed by companies and then they have to wear that companies logo as a banner. Kind of like nascar where their car is covered by sponsors.

Oh no here comes the pepsi squad and they look angry

[cheesehead]

Referred by a friend.

I've been playing it on and off for a couple of years. The simplicity of it is what draws me in. 2D kill or be killed, and make sure you're team has the flag. So simple, yet so addictive.

Nothing like blowing people up after a long day of dealing with ID10T's that can't figure out how to use the internet.