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In my youth I was too impatient to make it far, but I remember this fondly. And Spectre. Multiplayer Spectre was amazing.

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I played multiplayer Spectre freshman year at college. It was probably one of the earliest multiplayer experiences available to people, period. (NetTrek 3.0 predated it and arguably, Bolo outdid all of these from a fun-ness perspective; all of these were Mac-only).

It was definitely that for me. I was a few years younger, and my dad's office (University campus) was the only place with networked computers I had access to. So we'd get in there and fire it up on a couple of Macs. Initially, the office just had B/W and Greyscale monitors, but the game looked great none the less.

I do recall the network configuration to be a bit finicky, so its possible that we spent about as much time setting it up as we did playing.

Spin Doctor is up there for me too

The original developers ported it to iOS. Spin Doctor by Revolutionary Apps LLC https://appsto.re/us/X06_t.i

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