Some of you may know/remember how addicted I was to Quake 2, err, 7 years ago (wow, I feel old). Since then my Quake 2 site has stayed online, but I lost touch with the people I used to play, and after a while all the servers shut down. Until now.

At the weekend I had an e-mail out of the blue, from someone in my old clan THG - he has set up a reunion site for all the players from the old Force 9 servers. There's a forum in there, and we've had a few games on the server quake2.muttsnutts.com.

And I've remembered how bad I really was. I'd got a bit cocky playing newbies on the school LAN, but there was a chap on the server yesterday who was a good player - to say I got beat on the second map would be a fair statement.

Firing up Quake 2 was great. It has been installed on all my machines since I first got it in 1998, and running around the levels everything came flooding back - it was like I'd never left. Only this time it was at a good resolution, and with pings under 500.

One thing I regretted, especially against the good chap yesterday, was that I never made friends with the railgun. If you gave me a railgun, put me 5ft in front of a barn and told me to hit the side, I'd probably miss and down a passenger jet. The only people I ever managed to hit were the ones who were moving through water. I used to blame it on the terrible lag I had on my dodgy phone line where I could hear women ordering lingerie, but with a 2mbit line I can't hide behind that any more. I have to admit it - I just can't rail.

Ahh, this all brings back so many memories! Good times. If any of you used to play online games and were part of a community, I'd strongly recommend you try to look up some of the old faces, see how they're getting on and what they're up to now, and arrange a little re-union match. It's a lot of fun.

And if you're reading this and you used to play on the Force 9 servers, go to thugsters.co.uk and log in!