This is absolutely incredible: someone recorded themselves playing Quakeworld back in 1997, then preserved the recording this entire time!

For all I know, I was one of the people he was playing against in this video; from the day QTest hit to even after Quake 2 came out, I spent hundreds of hours playing Quake deathmatch. My 14 year-old self even ran a clan-- called "The Assassins", with the name suffix "[ASN]"-- with over fifty members at its peak! I organized all of the matches, maintained the roster, wrote and maintained the web site, and so on. I wish I had preserved the site... it used a frame for the menu, with animated GIFs that I'd made in some program in OS/2. I had a MIDI file of Yuzo Koshiro's "To Make the End of Battle" playing in the background, which became our defacto clan theme song...

I also continued my tradition-- established with Wolf3d and Doom-- of making first-person shooter levels. In fact, I remember the first ever custom level for Quake, which someone made by reverse-engineering how the engine's BSP code worked. It was just a single room, but I was blown away by it anyway.

My proudest moment was when I was recruited by one of the top clans in the country during an impromptu match, where I went toe-to-toe with one of their leaders. I wish I remembered the name of the clan, because I sure do remember the guy and his playing style... I turned him down though, I was kind of getting "out of the game" at that point, in lieu of Quake 2.