your favourite online games

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   Although it was my only regular online gaming experience, mine was
Papyrus's NASCAR Racing Season series distributed by the Sierra
group.  It's no longer  produced now, the rights to NASCAR
having since been given exclusively to the people at EA Sports, but
while Papyrus was doing it, I always thought that it was the best
racing simulator out there.  Back in those days, it wasn't hard
for someone with a relatively slow 56K phone line connection to hook up
on a server with about 20-40 other people and have a virtual stock car
race at Daytona USA or any of the other venues used by the NASCAR
series in reality.  I used to be what people call a "journeyman
driver" who might manage a decent top-5 finish under most conditions,
but rarely competed well enough against the best drivers to win a race,
and the best tracks for me tended to be big ones like Daytona,
Talladega or Indianapolis (all being 2.5 mile  [3.9 kilometer]
circuits) where I had lots of running space.

The only other game with which I had online gaming experience was
Microsoft Games Rise of Nations.  There, it was a brief
foray in which I got to see two "empires" get crushed (me not being
such a strategic/tactical genius against live human beings).

The key limitations for me now are that broadband Internet access in my
area is still prohibitively expensive and that I'm going to be
preparing this year (within 6 months or so) to buy a newer, more
gaming-friendly PC to replace the old P4 clunker that seems to have
problems running the more recent games like Sid Meyers's
Civilization IV with sufficient graphics performance set up. 
Therefore, online gaming isn't something I'm bound to be doing anytime
soon.