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Tibia Nostalgia - How was Tibia on 2003/2004?
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Warning: long post. I got too nostalgic and wanted to tell a story of my time starting Tibia in 2004.
I started playing Tibia in late July of 2004, just before the 7.3 Summer update and I'll be honest with you, I don't remember much of it.
I was that guy that didn't care much about computer games, I'd be the one that would go over friends houses and play on the N64 Goldeneye or Gamecube TimeSplitters. If I were on a computer, I'd be playing either Neopets or I Spy.
However, the first day I ever played Tibia was vividly memorable. I was at my friends house playing Goldeneye on N64, I remember it was me vs. him in the Temple level. Some moments later, he pulls out his cool laptop (he was in the laptop program in junior high, they were considered "cool people" just because they had laptops, but I didn't have one) and showed me a game, Tibia. He makes my own account for me, I still remember it to this day, 4570864 (it's long deleted due to inactivity). He asks me to give him a name for my character, I wanted something from Fire Emblem GBA game that I just got, which was Legault. He decided not to write that name for me because he couldn't spell it, so he just came up with Jarvon. Lo and behold, my first Tibia character ever was Jarvon, an inhabitant of Trimera.
I couldn't get online immediately. Back in the day, there was no waitlist, it was whoever logs in at the same time as an empty spot was available first gets on. So, it was a lot of typing the account number and password and pressing enter. My friend (who introduced me to Tibia) gives me a tasker program that would automatically type my account number and password and press enter, and get me online at ease.
My first week of Tibia was mostly in Rookgaard, I didn't get to main until early August. I remember the day I arrived to main. I had my dad's laptop with Tibia installed on it. I was sitting on the kitchen table with 2 of my friends over, all eating hotdogs while watching me play. As I arrive to main, I was in Carlin; one of my friends ask if he could play; I said no. My dad comes in and boots me off the computer to let my friend play. Of course, my friend who never played Tibia before, asks me how to attack monsters. After I teach him, he jokingly attacks a player and gets me white skulled and killed. I remember it, I wanted to cry. I quit that character right on the spot.
Fast-forward a week ahead, it was my brother's birthday. He had a bunch of his friends over as well as our cousins. I don't remember how it went, but they all gathered around me while I played Tibia and most of them grew interested in it. It was about 11 guys, a couple played and quit after a week; a few more quit a few months later; but the remaining 6 (including my brother) have stayed together with me for the next 10 years. All of us wanted to play together on a brand new world and so we did, we started Xantera (which had just opened that Summer).
As said before, I don't remember much of the early days. I do remember that we did nothing but hunt Edron goblins for a month. We got to around level 30 there. Oh, I forgot, it was around Labor Day (early September 2004) when I was brave enough to ask my dad to type in his credit card information on the web to get me premium. That same day, I went over my friends (one of the original 6) house to show him my premium account and the cool "goku outfit". He immediately begged his mom to get premium on the spot. So yeah, from that point on, we discovered Edron and its awesome goblin cave. The rest of 2014 was cloudy, I don't remember much other than getting excited over seeing high levels (Primavero Turi'el, Drunk Turi'el, Buwem, Jauxs, Xanters, etc). Finally, to end 2004, we bought a house in Darashia; remember, Darashia came out that Summer update, so it was all brand new for the most part.
Here is us, celebrating our awesome 5 months to start off Tibia!
(screenshot taker is one of my friend, Mouse emperor. Haldier is his younger brother. Xanteral, in orange outfit, is me)
Here I am today, 10 years later, on OTLand still enjoying one of my most favorite games I've ever played.
I started playing Tibia in late July of 2004, just before the 7.3 Summer update and I'll be honest with you, I don't remember much of it.
I was that guy that didn't care much about computer games, I'd be the one that would go over friends houses and play on the N64 Goldeneye or Gamecube TimeSplitters. If I were on a computer, I'd be playing either Neopets or I Spy.
However, the first day I ever played Tibia was vividly memorable. I was at my friends house playing Goldeneye on N64, I remember it was me vs. him in the Temple level. Some moments later, he pulls out his cool laptop (he was in the laptop program in junior high, they were considered "cool people" just because they had laptops, but I didn't have one) and showed me a game, Tibia. He makes my own account for me, I still remember it to this day, 4570864 (it's long deleted due to inactivity). He asks me to give him a name for my character, I wanted something from Fire Emblem GBA game that I just got, which was Legault. He decided not to write that name for me because he couldn't spell it, so he just came up with Jarvon. Lo and behold, my first Tibia character ever was Jarvon, an inhabitant of Trimera.
I couldn't get online immediately. Back in the day, there was no waitlist, it was whoever logs in at the same time as an empty spot was available first gets on. So, it was a lot of typing the account number and password and pressing enter. My friend (who introduced me to Tibia) gives me a tasker program that would automatically type my account number and password and press enter, and get me online at ease.
My first week of Tibia was mostly in Rookgaard, I didn't get to main until early August. I remember the day I arrived to main. I had my dad's laptop with Tibia installed on it. I was sitting on the kitchen table with 2 of my friends over, all eating hotdogs while watching me play. As I arrive to main, I was in Carlin; one of my friends ask if he could play; I said no. My dad comes in and boots me off the computer to let my friend play. Of course, my friend who never played Tibia before, asks me how to attack monsters. After I teach him, he jokingly attacks a player and gets me white skulled and killed. I remember it, I wanted to cry. I quit that character right on the spot.
Fast-forward a week ahead, it was my brother's birthday. He had a bunch of his friends over as well as our cousins. I don't remember how it went, but they all gathered around me while I played Tibia and most of them grew interested in it. It was about 11 guys, a couple played and quit after a week; a few more quit a few months later; but the remaining 6 (including my brother) have stayed together with me for the next 10 years. All of us wanted to play together on a brand new world and so we did, we started Xantera (which had just opened that Summer).
As said before, I don't remember much of the early days. I do remember that we did nothing but hunt Edron goblins for a month. We got to around level 30 there. Oh, I forgot, it was around Labor Day (early September 2004) when I was brave enough to ask my dad to type in his credit card information on the web to get me premium. That same day, I went over my friends (one of the original 6) house to show him my premium account and the cool "goku outfit". He immediately begged his mom to get premium on the spot. So yeah, from that point on, we discovered Edron and its awesome goblin cave. The rest of 2014 was cloudy, I don't remember much other than getting excited over seeing high levels (Primavero Turi'el, Drunk Turi'el, Buwem, Jauxs, Xanters, etc). Finally, to end 2004, we bought a house in Darashia; remember, Darashia came out that Summer update, so it was all brand new for the most part.
Here is us, celebrating our awesome 5 months to start off Tibia!
(screenshot taker is one of my friend, Mouse emperor. Haldier is his younger brother. Xanteral, in orange outfit, is me)
Here I am today, 10 years later, on OTLand still enjoying one of my most favorite games I've ever played.
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