Serial link multi-player gaming

[Katzkatz]

Remember that?  Linking up two machines and playing a game?  I done it a couple of times with my Amiga.  Take it around to a friend's house and play.  Of course you had to bring along a 14 inch TV as well.  Anyway, I played : Lotus II, Populous I and II, Stunt Car racer and Knights of the Sky.  Great fun.  I think that Populous II and Knights of the Sky were my favourites though, in multi-player mode.  Just something about them made them so good.

I did player a couple of games on the PC in serial mode.  Doom 1 and 2, as well as Transport Tycoon.  I eventually moved over to using a LAN card, as my PC's serial port was slower than my brother's PC's.   

Anyone else have fun doing that?  I know that Populous I on the Atari ST had serial link up.   

DOSBOX does allow the serial port to be emulated over the internet, so that you can use that way for multi-player.  It looks a bit complicated to set-up though.  If anyone has done it then post up your experiences of it here as well. 

[Rogue Trooper]

Hell yes!.

Back in the day lugged TV and 520STFM around to mates house, niether of us drove and he might have only been up the road, but felt like the longest of journeys.

We linked up the ST's for Falcon, Stunt Car Racer and Armour-Geddon.

Falcon was a blast dog fighting each other, Stunt Car Racer had the most playtime, but we struggled with Armour-Geddon-Link up worked, but we seemed to spend far more time reaching each other on the map, than auctual fighting per say.

[TL]

I did it with Stunt Car Racer on the ST but I don't recall doing it with any other games, my next door neighbour had an ST too which was really cool.

[onthinice]

Always thought it was neat but never tried.

[dougtitchmarsh]

I remember trying a link up game this way and failing. Had hours of fun once I got my first modem and my brother had his, Fifa, PC and 3DFX graphics card. There was also a driving game we played to death but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called.