Total Annihilation

[keslake]

Anyone remember or played this game in the late 1990's ?

Use to hang around on BT Wireplay back in the day, great community.

[CJ1987]

keslake said:

Anyone remember or played this game in the late 1990's ?

Use to hang around on BT Wireplay back in the day, great community.

yeah ive still kept my copy as its an epic game

[PugwasHDJ80]

i still play it

and total anihilation 2

[keslake]

Wow, great to see someone remembers it !

Wonder if there are any old faces on here from the Wireplay days ?

[Use Psychology]

ahaha

i remember wireplay

i used to play qwtf though, never played TA online.

[Famous Graham]

Use Psychology said:

ahaha

i remember wireplay

i used to play qwtf though, never played TA online.

Q2CTF & Lithium for me, but that was right at the end of Wireplay's popularity. Swiftly moved onto Demon/Barrysworld etc.

[iwantagta]

IIRC there was a thing called "The Can" which was solid.
Great game. If only I had a better PC than a 133, it ran a little slowly at times!

[keslake]

I am trying to remember the payment scheme for it, did we pay by the minute or something stupid ?

Damn, when isdn phonelines first appeared i used to rack up £400 quarterly bills on Wireplay !

Then came Broadband...Bliss :-)

[keslake]

Yeah, makes you chuckle with the machines we had then.

I was using a P2 300mhz with 256 meg of ram.

Someone had 512meg ram and his game loaded about 15 secs faster than anyone else playing.

[Famous Graham]

keslake said:

I am trying to remember the payment scheme for it, did we pay by the minute or something stupid ?

Damn, when isdn phonelines first appeared i used to rack up £400 quarterly bills on Wireplay !

Then came Broadband...Bliss :-)

Monthly sub and a regular phone number (rather than free or local) iirc?

[Famous Graham]

Ah no, special rate number, no sub

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DashPod/Wireplay

[keslake]

That's the one, good man !

[Use Psychology]

it was 2.5p a minute i recall.

i was a great sniper in qwtf and then everyone started to get ISDN and I started to get destroyed rather quickly.

i got in so much trouble for the phone bills i'd rack up.

[franki68]

Was amazing game.

[keslake]

I sometimes used to play online using Microsoft's server ...Zone.

Much preferred Wireplay though as not so many Yank kid's who pulled the plug if they
were going to lose.

[keslake]

http://forums.wireplay.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?231-...

[durbster]

TA was a great game. I never played it online but was a member of Wireplay, which then becamse Gameplay.com at the height of the .com frenzy, and then gradually faded away. It was an excellent platform they had but perhaps a little ahead of its time.

[keslake]

Just started a new thread re: Wireplay.

Was superb back in the day.

[BarbaricAvatar]

Probably the best RTS ever. I used to think i was pretty good back in the day until i went online and got my arse handed to me. The tactics that worked for the single player campaigns were useless when it came to playing against humans.

[vladcjelli]

Still got my original copy.

Anyone going to set up a server for nostalgic multiplayer?

I tried it once, and as mentioned above, found my posterior presented to me in no uncertain terms. Must have been cheating, no way he racked up that many units that fast.