i lost.... i lost big time

I remember sitting in the computer study with my class back in elementary school. All the guys in the class sat playing the shareware version of Descent multiplayer. I whooped all their asses, because I was the only one that had the game at home, and the only one that could be bothered to change the buttons into something that allowed me to move around in a more versatile manner in game.
Of course, when they thought the flare was "glowing ninja stars", I had a rather easy time vanquishing them.

Great times dogfighting with this, and I think I played coop too, but it was too long ago to remember. I seem to remember us taking the "you shoot high, I'll shoot low" approach to swarms of baddies. And of course, the always glorius betrayal of your buddy in the last split second before disconnecting by shoving a missile up him.

I haven't much experience in Descent multiplayer, but I love the single player to death.
Not many games have you feeling so bloody lonely, and certainly not in the same sort of scale as Descent.
So many midnight hours burned on Descent. I love it still.

Back in middle school Descent was installed on all the computers and they would let us play deathmatch during recess and lunch (or if we didn't have anything else to do in computer class). I remember how amazed I was with the 6 degrees of freedom the game allowed.

The six degrees of freedom still amaze me! Sure, any space sim has similar movement, but their openness just doesn't have the same feeling as getting (almost, I <3 the map) hopelessly lost in a gigantic, three-dimensional maze.

I played both Descent and Descent 2 on the PS1 many moons ago and I freakin loved em!
Unfortunately, Descent 3 never came out for the PS1, so I never got to play that one.
I'm getting all nostalgic now and am seriously concidering downloading it. Just hope it supports my joystick as I can't see playing this with a mouse and keyboard setup after how beautifully it worked with a PS1 controller!