GOG is having a great sale and I thought it would be a good time to hand out some keys to classic games! These are games that are lined up for a bounty in the future, so maybe this will encourage some brave warriors :)

I remember reading about Die by the Sword in PC Gamer and thought it looked AMAZING! It was one of the first games I purchased for my PC in 1998 and I played it a ton. The weird thing is, I didn't really play much of the story mode. I mainly just played deathmatch with bots and with friends over LAN using my awesome parallel cable (yeah!) after I bought my second PC in 1999. I played through the Dreamcast-exclusive spiritual successor, Draconus: Cult of the Wyrm, earlier this year and it reminded me I never actually finished this one.

To enter this giveaway, you'll need to post what your favorite '90s multiplayer game was. I'll randomly choose a winner from those that post. You'll just need to post by 11:59pm EST on 11/19/16 to enter.

PS If you win the key, you're not under an obligation to actually accept the bounty, but it's strongly encouraged

Some gameplay for anyone that might be interested in this one:

Man, what's up with these giveaway threads getting no love!?

While it wasn't my favourite game specifically for multiplayer, it was up there along with games like co-op Duke Nukem 3D, co-op Doom/Doom2, and Firepower 2000 (Don't judge me! It's fun)

That game is Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries.

My computer was old, slow, and crappy. Only good for playing older Sierra games up to King's Quest 6. 7 was right out of the question, that's how crap it was. My hard drive was so small, I had to delete virtually everything apart from windows 3.1 and DOS so the Mercs install would fit. Unsurprisingly, the game did not run well on my machine at all. In fact, I could "play" the single player campaign slideshow for about 2 minutes before my machine would die a horrible death and reboot itself.

The online multiplayer on the other hand was a different story altogether. It ran very stable (albeit around 7fps) and as a result of my strugglePC's craptitude it wasn't sending my coordinates in a timely manner to the other folks playing. I was effectively invincible due to being so laggy. Yes, I was that player who would jump and skip around seemingly like some kind of hacker ensuring that any shots taken against me were in vain.

It was well after everyone moved on to the new hot thing in gaming that I discovered my pc's "turbo" button (yeah, I had one of those too!) was wired backwards, so even though the display indicated it was "on" it really wasn't. A lot of the unplayable games I had given up on suddenly were playable after collecting dust, years after the fact in some cases.