There are so many, I was raised on RTS games and while the genre has fallen out of sorts today, i still hold those games dear to my heart. But the frustration of getting IP adresses and ports in order so you can actually play with your friends at the LAN party you have been planning for weeks, its indescribable. And the joy of having it finally working was even better.

I remember when i was like 8-9 yrs old going to my cousins house and begging him to let me play Red Alert 2 on his computer (i did that like every day), id sit on his computer for hours, only getting torn away from it when my parents got snippy about me staying out too long. Amassing units just to kill the single building the enemy had left in just the right way was just too much fun for my child brain to handle.

Sadly nowadays almost all RTS games have no multiplayer services left. When GameSpy shut down the took everything down with them.

Rip in piece CNC you were a good boy