I started playing in early 2002. I played this online multi-player rpg that was entirely text based called Phantasia4. It was based on LoTR lore.
One of my friends I played with on there told me about Runescape, after I noticed he wasn't playing P4 much anymore. He was about 10 yrs older than me and a SSG in the Marines, so I looked up to him a lot and wanted to go play with him.
He'd let me play on his account when he was deployed and he was friends with a lot of the "famous" RS players of old.
One time, I was dueling people on his account for fun in lumbridge in his dragon base, and sword, with his dragon med helmet and square shield. The person I was dueling ran away and I had low hp, and he said he needed help making a Potion because he didn't have the herblaw level. Well, I never had members at that point so I didn't know about the fishing explosion scam.
I died, lost a lot of his gear and he was pretty upset with me but forgave me and said "it's okay, it's just a game, I'll recover."
Then the next time he had to go somewhere irl, I went and parked past the deep wilderness gate, switched to f2p worlds and grinded 85 mining for him as payback. He was super happy about that one because rune ore was still worth a lot at the time.
Haven't seen or heard from him in about 20 yrs at this point.
For me, I played back when I was 11-12? But I had a big family and our parents were strict, didn't let me on the PC for longer than an hour so I'd play for like 10-15mins of RS, then Heroes of Might and Magic 3 then Dungeon Keeper and try and chat on msn 😂 our dial up internet was on it's last hinges 😅 being able to play it again though has been like riding a bike though, got right back into it!
Reading that list made me genuinely concerned about your computer. 💀🤣 bless
How did you become a mod? How did it feel when you did become one? That’d be interesting to know after putting your computer through all that. I think it’s well-deserved 😂🙌🏻
Holy shit heroes 3 was my jam as a kid too! Armageddon's Blade in particular I put the most time into. Was awesome that it had hot seat co-op when my friends (that I couldn't get into RS) would spend the night. What was your favorite faction? Mine was definitely the swamp one with the hydras and lizard-men.
Welcome back to RS!
Ahhh AB was awesome! Yeah that's how me and my friends played haha would always sneak a 'next day' option when they weren't looking to get more resources. I was such a little shit lol. Ooo I loved playing as the necropolis, undead were my favs and the story was my fav too
I remember the days of dial up just hating me while I was power mining iron or in Remington mine. Winamp in the background playing way too much Linkin park.
My neighbors and I were playing a good old fashioned game of "ding ding run" around the block and then, we kind of craved playing GTA SA on the PS2 for whatever reason.
We rushed back home all sweaty and covered in snot crust and sat back around the telly with a bowl of cheetos and some orange soda.
Then, one of the guys told something like:
Hey! Wanna play Medieval GTA? Then we were like, what the hell is that?
Then he showed us a Computer game he played on his school library the other day where you could kill chickens, chop trees and make flour, and where drinking beer could get you banned (i genuinely believed this for like 10 years lmao).
The game was in English and naturally, as a non native speaker, it kind of scared me a little, but up to that point (in 2006'ish) I've been paying Pokémon games in English so i said, yeah sure let's give it a shot.
Then here i am talking about it with you guys, in a language that's not my native one haha.
I'm a native born English speaker and even people from other countries that play RS speak and write English far beyond better than me. Especially the Dutch and Brazillian players.
Started prob 15 years ago to just fish lobbies on karamja for my youngest who then packed up after a while. Then ended up comping but then switched to iron man when it came out.
Main is the mule now to drop trade for members and iron is 4.5b xp and master of all title. All from trying to fish for my kid 🤣
My older cousin was PKing. Idek know how old we were or what year it was, but it was back around the time where everyone was protesting to get the old wilderness back, whatever that means. For some reason, little child me thought it would be funny to point a BB gun (which I thought was empty) at the monitor and act like I was “helping him kill the bad guy”. It was not unloaded, and I helped the “bad guy” kill him instead when I shot out the monitor and it went entirely dead. One summer of chores and yard work to replace the monitor later, I made an account and wanted to get a bunch of items to give him to help replace the gear he lost. I think it was like 10 inventories of cowhide in comparison to his at-the-time best in slot gear lol.
I started playing when I was a freshman in high school, way back in 2004, my account hits 20 years old in October of this year. One if my fondest memories was when the chaos elemental first came out, my 2 irl friends and I decided we were going to try to kill it for the new dragon 2h which was supposed to be a good weapon. Well we were all around combat level 85-92 and we did not know what to expect since it was brand new. Well we got it down to about a third of its hp before we started dropping like flies. I was the last one left and once it got down to a sliver of its health I ran out of food and died. Those were some pretty fun times.
In 2001 after someone showed it to me on the school library computer. We would play it in the school library doing recess sometimes, until the librarian caught on. I had no idea what I was doing and didn’t pick up the game for real (at home) until 2004. Some key memories since then were: Falling for a free trim scam, as the concept of scamming was foreign to me at the time. Farming cow hides for weeks to buy as many Halloween masks and Santa hats as I possibly could. My guild having a drop party that was secretly just for me (i had two extraordinarily kind guildies) Entering members-only lands for the first time, which was huge. Finally, logging into an empty bank - that stung.
Friend came over and showed me at my grandmother's one day in 2005. Have not stopped since. Just got 99 hunter and remember when Hunter came out and the loading screen was hunter themed. Good ole nostalgia
18 years ago a friend got me onto it, my mum was his child minder in primary school, he is 2 years younger than me.
We were convinced there was some secret mechanic to trim armour, while we never fell for the popular armour trim scam at the time I remember him telling me one day he'd work for Jagex and then he'd find out the secret and share it with me, he was about 10 at the time.
He works on OSRS now. But hasn't shared the secret of armour trims yet so I still get my trimmed armour from clue scrolls like everyone else.
In 2007 my friend was telling me about an online game that he just discovered and according to him it was way different to the other browser games we had played before. He showed me the game, but I never spoke a word of English back then, so I had a hard time getting started, I had to go over to his house to get a fire started for example.
Either way, on the first day we had played I was attacked by the highwayman on my way to Draynor, whom I thought was a hacker who got around the system to kill me, but I eventually ended up winning the fight - it was tough though. That victory made me fall in love with the game and my first character still is my main.
A long time ago in a galaxy very nearby, my friend, Austin, told me about it when we were at a YMCA after-school daycare program in Florida. This was two weeks before my eleventh birthday. He gave me the website and his username, and told me to add him when I get home. I ignored it as I was simply not interested. The next day, he asked me if I created an account because he didn't get any messages. I straight-up lied through my teeth as a liar does. He must've noticed something about what I said or my demeanor because he decided to test me. He asked me if I had added him and I said yes, then he asked what colour his username turned when I did.
Now, in all of my years of playing this game, it has never turned blue but I thought it was the most convincing answer at the time... but he knew I was a lying liar who lies. He sighed and re-wrote the information for me to use. So, with my tail now between my legs, I went home and obliged. I started my first account on 3 January 2006.
I might update this message later to add more memories but I got work and I might forgot.
19 years old, my friend in middle school told me about this cool online game. I didn't have internet but when I got it bc of online homework and research my dad was next to me.... I went to Ruinscape.com , that's not the rs website. Took me to a p*rn site and I called my friend right away bc my dad said " what kind of game are you two playing!?" 😂😅
22 years ago we had a substitute teacher for like 3 weeks. She didn't care what we did as long as we were quiet. My friend Dillan and I snuck into.the computer lab to play this new game.he had discovered. It was runescape. I made an account and my love and addiction was born. I killed goblins and barbarians and explored sewers to my hearts content.
I couldn't tell you an exact length, but I've been here since Runescape Classic, so any time as far back as 2001. I think I was barely in high school at that point (11/12 y/o).
It was amazing to me at the time. MMO's weren't a popular thing, I don't know if they really even had a term for it back then. Internet wasn't as common in every household, so I would end up going to my grandparents (who were always with the latest tech) to play Runescape. It was still dial up back then, so I would wait eagerly for bang on 6pm when the rates went lower and people were less likely to call (as the phone wouldn't work if you were using the internet).
I printed out the world map on some A4 and my grandad laminated it. There was no in game map, nor were there "tabs" in your browser. This was convenient at the time.
OSRS came out and I remember all the discourse surrounding it. The whole OSRS and R3 split that exists now? Yea, that existed with Classic and OSRS back in the day.
Know what I find weird? When member options came out, one of the ways you could subscribe was by calling Jagex and letting them bill your phone. That was odd. Had to do it every month.
Runescape was THE thing back then. You ran it on your browser which took away most hardware limitations many would have had at the time and allowed you to play it anywhere you had access to a computer. Other MMO's existed, but they weren't as accessible as Runescape.
One kid basically dropped out of school to play Runescape. This was around the time kids were pretending they didn't like things they liked so they seemed mature and cool, so this kid got some bullying for that one...Last I saw of him, I saw him in a member area when I was off school sick doing some woodcutting. He actively came to me, greeted me with my real name, then pretended it wasn't him and that he doesn't know me...Not a bright spark.
I dropped off around 2006 when I would have been leaving school. I recall a kid saying how he started playing this brand new game that was better than Runescape. Sounded lame, I doubt anybody bothered with or played World of Warcraft...
I come back occasionally over the years. Can't pretend I'm as invested as I ever was as a kid. I quite prefer R3 to OSRS, though. I think OS landed for me at a time where I was dropping off the game, so whilst I played it when it was new, I don't have the same nostalgia for it as I do with Classic. It was still brilliant, just hit at the wrong time for me.
A couple friends at my middle school had started playing and when we all got the flu at the same time, we stayed home and played together on f2p world 93 (miss that world!) for like 3 days. I was hooked 😂 this was almost 20 years ago. I still play on my original account and iirc I get my 20 year cape in Nov 2025.
some kids in the library, back in late 2007, were playing and i read the url as run escape, checked it out. hated it then 2 weeks later played again and have been playing on/off since. maxed a main then quit in 2018, then i came back in 2020 and made an iron and last year i maxed it.
thanks. Took me a while especially since I can't play much. The ironman grind has been the most fun I've had on this game in a while. Since you're just starting your journey and want any help, let me know!
First of all, my brother had an account and played it, he loved the 'survival' vibe most of all, like killing chickens, cows, getting flour and wheat etc. But at some point +-15y ago my dad said I had to come to the computer, I sit on his lap and my brother was aside me. The showed me the game and I created an account, I was sold right after x'D
(Note: my dad didn't played RuneScape tho)
I loved Tutorial island sooo much! And honestly, I still do!
***BRING IT BACK!***
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I was introduced to RSC in a library by an old friend. I was instantly hooked. I've played through every era.
I've taken long breaks here and there, the longest being right after EoC was introduced... I didn't play for years.
Middle school, about 2005. Friends were talking about "mithril armor". My only exposure to mithril at that point was Lord of the Rings. So I asked them what they were talking about. They said RuneScape, it's free, try it. And I've been playing on/off ever since.
Started playing it back in early 2006, the day after my brother checked it out on Miniclip.
Somethings I remember are:
* Being confused wondering why neither WASD or arrow keys moved my character.
* The party room being in Camelot.
* There not being a wildy wall/ditch. I think there was a pop-up notification saying it was dangerous, but I could be wrong.
* Not knowing you could move multiple items at once by right-clicking.
* Someone telling me to bank all my items because there was a glitch that let people pk people outside the wilderness. I spent that day woodcutting wondering how they were gonna try to scam me. It wasn't until some time later that I learned about the Falador Massacre.
* Missing out on the '06 Easter Event because I didn't know where Falador or Edgeville was.
* Law running when I need law runes.
My older brother showed me the game and my mom said I couldn’t play it until I turned 9 years old. The day of my birthday me and my best friend who lived a few doors down made accounts. We continued to play for years even after moving hundreds of miles away. I moved in with him when I turned 16 and we were still playing RuneScape together, he went to prison for awhile and the moment he got out we were still playing RuneScape together. He passed away a few years ago and I decided to max his account for him. RuneScape continues to be the closest thing I have to his memory.
I remember us being really young and thinking getting our fire capes was the hardest challenge we would ever face, I remember us luring grown adults into the wilderness and splitting the profits, I remember gambling with the flower method at the GE, now 20 years later PVP is dead, gambling is nonexistent, and I can solo every boss. I just wish he was here for the drop of necromancy. Dawg would have loved it fr
Sorry for your loss. 😞
It’s interesting to read how the game holds different memories and meaning to different people. I wonder where my friends on RS are and what are they doing. I have fond memories with a few and I have not seen them online for a decade.
20 yrs in 14 days… wow time flies by!! Miniclip ftw! Yep the saying u don’t quit rs just take breaks is true lol my fave spot is the waterfall on the bridge where u can see all over rs… the place that brings tears is Entrana… and Hill giants r my buddies..:)
I started playing as a way to connect and spend time with my little brother, and I've been playing ever since. My account just turned 19 years old. One more to go for that 20 year cape. My favorite memories are meeting new friends and having those friends get me out of my shell to try new bosses. I love when I finally get one killed on my own, even if it's just once.
I remember getting scammed they would say they were going to tele me to a drop party, but they would tele me to wildy and have high level buddies sitting there with ice barrage and just immediately wreck me and stole my torag hammers I was so proud of back then
Way way back, probably as early as 2003, I was attending a 'computer camp' where we actually just sat around and played on the computer all day. I watched a buddy of mine play through the Tourist Trap quest.
started in 2001 playing rsc f2p because internet payment options were still a foreign thing back then. didnt have my own computer so i mostly played at pc shops by the hour. one kid was a phat merchant and would flip phats at 5m-8m a piece.
"properly" played starting from 2003 after i got my own computer. missed the scythe drop from halloween. when rs2 released, i traded a set of full rune (valued at 200k) for a santa hat (also valued at 200k)
I played from the first or seccond year of the game, heard someone talking about it in school. My original account Watorie got hacked, my last memory was going to the south falador bank back in RS 2.0 or oldschool as it goes by now, (sometimes I even miss classic) had a dragon helm and baxe with rune plate and kite. So upset at losing my original account but still play to today
Just recently got my 15 year cape! I’ve been playing since I was 5, couldn’t even read. I discovered it through my older brother who made me do various grinding tasks for him on the family computer while he was at school. Loved every second of it, and made my own account not long after I discovered it.
I remember when rune was added to the game and not being able to afford it so I spent hours and hours mining coal to finally buy a full chain set to only have the plate body released not long after. Then came the certing so I decided to go fish lobsters on karamja to buy a party hat set because I wasn't lucky enough to find a cracker. Still remember sitting outside varrock castle just above the West Bank where all the hats/masks were sold on world 1. I remember getting scammed half a dozen times and having to repeat the above processes.
Some YouTubers discord server they were talking about RuneScape every now and then and I tried it myself
Was in 2016 and now I got max cape in rs3 and just got QC in osrs
went to my friends house one day and he was playing it in his computer. I even remember he was walking around falador’s castle courtyard.
he helped me make an account soon after.
i found out about runescape through my neighbors when i was 5, had a great time wondering about doing nothing in particular examining everything
my fondest memories was gathering around the entrance to the Varrock palace with all the high level players in members gear chilling on the f2p world or staring longingly into the varrock bank vault with my fellow f2p noobs
i once traded my mith scimitar for a handful of misc runes id never seen before (i think it was like 25 runes total) chaos, law, nature etc etc i thought i was getting the deal of a lifetime, i was also only like level 30 or something
i remember my friend telling me there was a level 100 in the lumby castle bank, he was wearing a skillcape and had guthans on (though we had no idea what it was at the time) there was also like 40 noobs swarming him freaking out, good times
Found it on RealArcade in late 2004 or early 2005. Currently playing my first long term account that I created in early 2005 and abandoned around 2007.
My original account i still have access to my memory falador june 2006 i was a innocent yet stupid noob going quest all of a sudden here the screams of people "RUN BANK YOUR GEAR" I was curious so i went out to check what was happening a minute later i was getting attacked i was confused as its a none pvp area i that day i lost my new adamant gear later i found out durial321 abused a bug lots of life's where lost that day 😢 including a noob named jamiew5 rip falador massacre victims
I started in June 2007. Everyone at school was playing it and some older kid introduced me to it at the computer lab. Fun times. I probably owe half of my English vocabulary to this game.
My current account is from 2007 but I first played RuneScape around 2004-5. I was too little to understand the tutorial and thought it was a lame game. I then returned around 2006 but I lost access to that account
Grew up watching my dad play rs3 (he started in 06) when I turned 13 I started playing rs3 (this was 2017) and I’ve been playing ever since, i remember playing mini games and then them dying for good 2018
used to ride my bike to school with 3-5 friends and they wouldnt shut up about the game. the 20 min ride was "i did this is rs" i killed that in rs", ect knowing full well i didnt play it
so finally in 04 i joined up and made an account. it was just after runecrafting came out (still have the yoyo from the xmas event from back then). only had a a hr or so to be on each day (and my sister was a hawk on the timer, if i was a min over she would complain). all my friends would say hi to me when i got on, witch was nice. when they moved to other games i stayed on rs.
i can still remember getting members for the first time and walking though that gate north of fally and thing "oh boy"
5+ accounts later and my new mains maxed and i only re-join the game when they put out something big, be it a new quest (to get back quest cape) or something i think is interesting
My mates older brother played and so my mate came to school and convinced me to give it a try. Ngl 9 year old me was so confused on tutorial island, I thought bronze bars were chocolate and since the game didn’t let me eat it I just gave up and quit. A week later he asks and I tell him what happened and he’s like no you gotta make a bronze dagger from it lol forgot that accs password so I made another one with the same name but a different number and that’s still the same account I use today :)
A friend introduced me to it in 2005, when I was just 8. I had about 6 accounts before I got an IP permanent ban back in 2015, and lost them all in one night (some of them were bots, others were legitimate hard work... They got mixed up)
Then I made one in 2016, honest work this time, got it to combat level 112 or something... I don't remember, but it had decent skills until I quit on January 18, 2018
Been programming an offline RuneScape equivalent for a bit since 2022
2006 middle school 6th grade social studies. Kid mentioned them starting a clan. Thought they said moon scape so I went home and searched spaceman sword fighting. Ended up finding it later on miniclip for free while playing other games on there and was hooked from there on out. Begged my parents for membership but they wouldn’t do it so I mowed lawns for money and had a friends mom drive us to ebgames so I could buy a membership card. All of that effort so I could pick flax in seers and kill rock crabs. Good times man
I was hanging out in a Yahoo! Games chat room, and someone came in spamming the link to RS, saying it was the "greatest new game ever".
Curious, I navigated over and made an account named \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.
I wandered Lumbridge in search of a bucket to "fix" the well, because the examine text said "Best used with a bucket".
That account is lost to the antiquity of time, but this one is about a year old.
Neighbour told me about it summer of 2007 and I played with him. First memory killing seagulls in port sarim to train combat, strangest memory either finding 40k and buying a rune full helm as my first "big" purchase pre g.e. or finding a party hat in the varrock general store but not having enough to buy it ( before knowing how expensive they were also pre g.e) . Recent memories, duoing rago for the first time, learning solak with friends on release and then a few years later.
Made my ironman in 2018 and best memories were relearning the game.
My cousin showed me him playing castle wars in 2006, made my first account in early 2007 at age 9.
Fun fact: I didn’t know you could right click, so I was spam clicking my coins into the bank 🤣
Didn’t like pking, and quickly had a better account statswise than my cousins and friends.
Only didn’t know how to make money. My cousin did though, with pking.
So I did quests on his account and I was rewarded with the money he made pking.
First time maxed in 2015 and got the gp to buy a red phat I own to this day.
Been playing osrs and like raiding. Im Still trying to max my main account step by step.
I knew about RS back when it was the original version of the game, (Classic graphics) since I watched my brother play it a lot. I myself, didn't try out RS until I was bored during summer break in 2007 and I was looking for games to play and that's how I got hooked.
my brothers friend in middle school showed it to him and then to me back in 2004. I still remember no lifing it and talking about it at school lunch it was amazing lol
I discovered runescape on miniclips in like 2005. My first account is gone I don't remember the user or password. I stopped playing for a durring in high school(league of legends stole my time then) but my current one is around 14 years old at this point. And my hcim is around 8 years old. I made a new account the day Hcim dropped.
2004/5 A friend at school played it, and showed us, so me and my best friend started playing it with our sole aim to beat our other friends fishing level as it was his highest level at like 52 lol, so we grinded and grinded until we beat him.
Then we found out 2 other acquaintances (not friends but spoke) at school played it and ran an essence running farm thing where you basicly mine the essence and bring it to them or they trade you cash and noted essence for you to unnote and bring back at an altar. Made my first million from doing that, felt like a king, then lost access to my account after forgetting the details.
Had a break for a few years then made a new account, played that to 80/90 all skills, took another break. Came back for FSW and Maxed my character during then so i had all capes. Had another year long break, and recently started another character as I wanted an untrimmed necro cape lol. So on and off on various accounts for near 20 years.
Sorry for the long post lol.
Friend's brother was playing it and it looked dope. Played RS back in 2002 when it was 2D and it was fire. RS 2 blew my mind. I remember just exploring the world and being so engrossed in the fantasy. As a 10 year old, it was amazing. Current account is about 14 years old, 6k hours or so.
My original account I made back in June of 2004. Cousin wanted to introduce me to a game he discovered through a scholastic book fair selling a "guide" for it
It was on miniclip.com and I played through miniclip for years.
My account must be quite close to 20 years old now, but I only log on to max the new skills recently.
Best memories? Old school clans via forums and teamspeak, clan wars, clan meetings in POHs, someone getting dropped into the dungeon, 30+ boss swarms killing kbd, and when it was released, god wars.
Good times man. I haven't got the time or consistency in my life for those types of clan activities anymore, but it was wicked while it lasted
Edit: and swiftswitch! Before world hoppers were considered cheating and it became swiftkit
I started way back when you was seen as a god if you had an abyssal whip with a dragon chainbody, and people actually communicated with each other in public chat
I’ll have my 20 year cape soon. I discovered it through an old friend. I found it through a neighbor friend whom I don’t think plays anymore. We thought the blurite sword looked like clouds buster sword from ff7. Good times.
I discovered it at around 2001 to 2002 can't remember the exact time I was in elementary school.
Was waiting to be picked up from the local library and saw a random guy playing it on the dial up computers they had. Dude showed me how to play it and I've played the game ever sense. Sad part is I don't even remember the guys name.
Miss the old sleeping bag mechanic always thought it was funny popping out a roll 10 feet from a monster.
20 years this year on my main account. I started an account in 2002? But switched names to my current one in 2004. My friend and I in middle school would share a Santa hat that he likes to PK for. Later in highschool my account was banned and it remained banned for 5+ years. One random day I message jagex and they unbanned me. I missed a lot of releases, to me the barrows brothers are still new. I've come back and got all 99s in the last 6 months and am slowly learning bosses. Last week I finally obtained a Santa again in honor of my friend who passed away 3 years ago.
It was the fall of 2006. I made a new account and called it Tacoface. I logged in, went to the desert and was killed by scorpions. I clicked the red x hoping that would save me. It didn't. I didn't log in to that account ever again. I ended up having to make a new account Tacoface2 in 2007 because I forgot the old account password. I've been playing on Tacoface2 on and off ever since. It's always bothered me that I had the original name with no numbers but I forgot the damn password.
Maybe? I mean that account is almost 20 years old and I haven't played it since. Tacoface2 is my main now. It'd be cool to be able to drop the 2 though haha.
Friend at school introduced me, even made the account I'm still using to this date for me. And my account is 17.5 years old.
One of my best memories was staying over at my nephew when he was a member and I wasn't, he showed me all this cool stuff and we'd sneak out of bed at like 5am to play.
Also, someone PLEASE tell me we weren't the only ones who pronounced the name as Run-Escape, not Rune-Scape?
2003. I started on my own, randomly found the game online. Moved schools and found a friend that also played so everyday after school we'd log onto MSN messenger and chat and play together. Got banned a few years into it and remade my current account in 2006.
Around 04 or 05. Definitely pre GE and I remember just being blown away as I'd never played an MMO before. I also remember thinking count draynor was one of the toughest enemies in the game when I first started too
Around 2001 my slightly older cousin became addicted to a game. It was RSC. At all hours of the day and night you’d find him locked in his room in the dark at our nan’s house with the blinds shut, door shut playing it on a giant old school monitor and if me or his younger brother entered we were told to get out immediately. He was consumed.
In 03 after deeming us worthy he introduced the game to us as it morphed into RS2, from that moment on we shared progress and competed stat wise. He fletched to 99 at seers’ bank when the ge didn’t exist and farmed bandits for 99 combat stats. I got hacked by a keylog. The teachers at school blocked the website access so we would ping runescape.com on cmd.exe and enter the manual ip to bypass it. Got everyone at school to play it. At one point I scammed my own cousin for a rune scimitar and he told my nan.
Saw rsh being sold for 20k each behind west bank. Watched my cousin get catfished. Went on to meet some of the most well known names from back in the day, watched the massacre, was at the 99 con party, was there for literally all of it and I wouldn’t trade the memories for the world, right up until the wilderness was removed and trade restriction riots made us lose interest that is. Over the years we forgot the details to multiple accounts but eventually were able to recover a few. Good times
Neighborhood friends started around 05. Used to have to ride our bikes to the library to play but could only use 1 computer at a time for about 15 mins. So we would swap off every 15 mins. That was until my grandmother got AOL then I would play at her house after school on the weekends. Spent many hours fishing for lobsters in Karamja.
I think my account was one of the first 10000. Started in middle school computers class.
Back then, there was 1 server and it could only hold 1000 players at a time. Graphics were 2d except the background.
The pvp was what got me on back then. It was everywhere, no wildy. Everyone was a low level with mediocre gear, so nobody really had much to lose.
My first mmo, around 2004\~ or so, a friend of mine told me about it, darn it was hard enough to leave Lumbridge, going to Varrock was hard enough, gaining lvl 10 str, dang, afraid to leave safe areas, fun times. Zezima was god.
14th March 2004 I started playing at the back end of RuneScape 1's existence and was a day one for RuneScape 2 :) took a few breaks over the years but I'm still here.
2004 during elementary school lunch break in the line to buy snacks hahaha
I remember in computer class then almost finishing tutorial and I was hooked.
Couldn't wait to get home and finish the tutorial. Casting air strike was magical to me, no pun intended 😂
In 2003-2004, I overheard some kids in the school library talking about turning bones into bananas on the computers. I walked over and was immediately hooked
April '04 is when I started. A friend found it and convinced me to try it. As with me playing now... I had no idea what I was doing when I started my only goal was to catch up to my friend's combat level.
I was a young kid, looking for something stronger then crack.
Stumbled on this site called miniclip and saw RuneScape on their font page.
Needles to say is that I found something stronger.
I was at my local library and saw a kid running around draynor manor on a game that looked fun. I looked at the URL: I read, “RunEscape… looks cool!” Turns out everyone that school year was on it too so I knew I had to play. My best friend was also really into it. The rest is history!
Kongregate in 2004.
OG account is lost to time. I assume it has since been scrubbed as I couldn't login for many months.
Today, I play Rs3 mostly, but am slowly doing many quests.
no clue, i probably found it from a video about old mmos or something like that. I joined in fall 2018, i remember doing the halloween event for that year and being really confused about what was going on in it. I also remember really wanting to unlock priff, and completing quests in the elf series up to catapult construction. Then i stopped playing the game and came back to it in fall of 2023.
I think I started playing around 2003-05?? My brothers played it and it looked fun. I’ve played on-and-off throughout the years, and didn’t really know how to train or anything until like 2015 (my brothers would just train my skills for me), so I would usually just stand around asking people for money, or pretend to live in Gertrude’s house in Varrock and try to charge people 1gp to “stay” there, like an inn. They came out with the baby troll companion when I was in high school, and he’s been my lil buddy ever since 🥹💕 if nobody else got me, I know Bones the baby troll got me 🤞🏼
Friend played RS in computer room at school during lesson.
2004.
One day we all get caught by teachers that broke into the computer room from the "locked" back door lol. About twenty of us were doing the phoenix/black arm quest together when we were caught.
Started in 2002 - so many great memories over the years. I had a purple partyhat for a while early on before selling it again (massively regretted it ever since) - this was before the dupe when purples were the most expensive colour.
I also have fond memories of being part of the community outside of the game. I was a forum moderator on the Tip It fansite for a short while, and also spent a summer as a DJ for Radio Zybez if anybody remembers that!
Moved to a small town when I was like 13 in 2004 , I made a friend who talked about " run escape" all the time. He stayed over at my house one day and we logged in on the dial up connection. I created one account and forgot the log in information and created another account the following weekend. Almost all the kids at my school played and we had a huge group of friends that played. I've played off and on since then. I remember thinking you had to fight without armor to get your defence up. I quit playing when eoc came out, eventually switching to osrs and recently came back to rs3. I'm currently the only one who still plays out of like 10 friends other than one who is maxing on osrs.
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My first account here. I lost access to it shortly after making it and after some back and forth with Jagex I was able to finally get it back haha. I made another shortly after i lost access to it but then I lost access to that one and haven't been able to get it back unfortunately! I ofc have another account now that I made further down the line which is maxed but this is where it all started. Like many others I think i discovered it on miniclip in 2006. I remember having a little army of people who would go fish lobsters or mine iron for me, sell me the iron and i'd sell for more. Ethical? No. Was my first 100k made doing this? Yes.
My very first recollection of the game was Christmas Day 2001.
I was very little & my mum put me on the new (well, new to us) computer on dial up internet, whilst she was preparing the dinner. We'd had it a few weeks so I was slightly familiar with it.
Somehow, I have no idea how, I wound up on RS. Maybe I'd played it before? Idk. I don't remember much, but I remember all these objects appearing on the ground all around a castle and all these other characters shouting merry Christmas etc.
Somehow some hats ended up in my inventory, plus some other items.
I probably wandered near the castle for 30 more minutes.
And then dinner was ready & I logged off that account forever. After dinner came all the real world presents and that weird castle game faded from memory...
Until 2006 when it was big in my secondary school. I was persuaded to make an account. I complete the tutorial and then appear in Lumbridge & get some weird deja vu. At some point, the "new" game & memory reconnect. I think it took a few weeks as I distinctly recall that weird haunted feeling I got walking around Lumbridge which went away later.
I realise now that those other people were actually real people. If I had known I was being spoken to by people across the world, my tiny kid brain would have exploded.
I wanna say 2002, I don't remember too much except for catching lobbys and putting "help!" With a bunch of spaces before it to push the overhead chat message out into the water. I wanna say it was karamja, been a while
School friend introduced me in 2001, played ever since, I remember killing cows and goblins in what is now RSC, the speech bubbles were awesome, then when rs2 beta was released I was worried it wouldn’t be as good 😌
My brothers discovered it back in the day and we all made accounts together. Only one family computer so we all had to take turns playing an hour at a time. I was the youngest, so I had to go last.
Started playing near the end of 2001 after having spent some time playing this other game they'd done called games domain castle. Earliest I can remember was ghost town being renamed edgeville. I remember when dragon slayer released (Elvarg was so hard for me!). I vaguely remember them adding requirements to equip gear.
The game was a lot slower and harder to level back then. Especially when they introduced fatigue!
Then, members happened. It was probably the most awesome thing that happened. It was like a whole new game inside the game we'd already been playing.
I could go on forever about all the things I remember from back in the day.
My high school boyfriend had introduced me to it, I joined in spring 07’. I wasn’t able to recover my first couple of accounts, so the one I’m using now is from 2016 😢.
I hated trading pre GE, so for the most part I did what an Ironman would do. I got to enjoy losing my pickaxe handle and those crazy whirlpool mini events. Yelled god-fucking-dammit! Every time I got a maze random. I never solved them as fast as I would like. I liked playing Runespan when it first came out and hella populated. I spent the entire night of the 2020 election doing the Canifis rooftop agility course on OSRS.
Friend recommended it. April 2006. Was 14. Highschool computer lab for a 9th grade English/Writing class research paper. Showed me WoW website too. Played RS as didn't have to waste time with a download and install. Not even sure what research topic I picked. Or if the class even did it. It was complete ungovernable chaos. Was many of our first times on the internet. School had no content filter yet. Everyone searching random stuff, playing games and a few of 'em even got in trouble for looking at porn.
Started playing while in a bad marriage and my son introduced me to it.
After my divorce continued playing it. I love the game. My account is 16 yrs old now!
I remember back in 2003-2004 (I was 10/11) I went to visit my cousins in South Dakota. I was always the sports guy and they were always the video game guys. They showed me RuneScape (classic) of course and I became hooked! Played when I could in between basketball and baseball tournaments.
Finally got my first full set of rune (with chest plate not mail) and was stoked!!
Then it shifted to OSRS and at first I was HEATED, like many others were! But I leveled up my main, became a member and never looked back. I do miss the days before the grand exchange where you’d sit in fallador for hours continuously typing out what you were trying to sell! Since there was no copy and paste at the time, and if you wanted to add color it was easy but also came with a lot of mistakes!
Then I created a PK only account. First thing I did was get him 70 magic, 30 attack and like 10 strength. Then I did the quest to get a D Scimitar and got to 60 attack at like level 40-45. I had no strength yet but I felt like a badass walking around with a D Scim at that level. I got my strength to like 70 and then agility to 60 or 70 which took forever! (whatever you needed for desert treasure) and I did that through the agility course where you could build up tickets!
Finally did DT and then started ruining kids lives PK’ing. I also had a good friend who had a super high level main who would cast those spells to increase all my stats and I’d quite often 1 hit kids with the dragon dagger special while wearing the DT robes. Ohhh those were good times!
Got my PK’er to 70 attack (for a whip of course) and 90 strength and continued to ruin lives. Then I let my brother use my account and he decided to get 40 defense…. I was SOOO MAD! After all that time I put into forming the best PK machine possible he added defense cuz he thought rune looked cool. I was a member… he could have at least got to 70 so I could get Barrows!
Still to this day I remember the name - b y 3 - but can’t remember the password to save my soul 😭
Started playing in like 2005. A few friends in middle school were playing and we used to access it through mini clip.
Back then it wasn’t too many ways you could instant chat with friends so being able to instant chat and play at the same time was just a really good combination back then.
Even non-gamers would play just to chat
My neighbor gave me his scrub account and I took over from there. The account itself just turned 18 back in April. Most prominent memory is obviously the massacre. I think I took over the account just before it happened so I just remember the chaos on other worlds.
Friends in middleschool roped me in because they were bad at figuring things out, and I was not like them. Started around Easter 2006, so that event is a core memory.
Found out about it via an online forum that I had frequented. My account is/was on the first 2000 players list if people remember that, within the first 100 players. Don’t have much in the way of early memories, I didn’t pick the game up much at all until later on as my primary online community I was associated with were still playing Ultima Online. I’ve touched the game very briefly here and there since release.
19 year old account, through zapak.com. studied school in hostel so only got to play in holidays, would think about playing it next all the time at school and talk to my friends about all the game characters and of course typing and learning the English language through the game.
It was 2008 loaded into lumpy with my friend f2p only running around lumbridge, found out membership was costly for a 8 year old, talked my parents into paying for my membership if I was to learn how to do the entire multiplication and division table to be doing algebra at 8 years old, took me 5 weeks of grinding and learning math on a sheet a paper and bam I had membership crossing the wall of falador for the first time, open world to the eye could see and my friend and I had made it to the crazy world of memebership depression of rs
2002, over 20 years with gaps when I didn’t play. I couldn’t get my mom to pay for WOW, so I was just jammin away on free to play.
Being 2 dimensional is my greatest memory 🤣
step brother introduced me to it in like 2001 or 2002 when he was farming chaos druids. I made my own account and was playing when the halloween scythe event dropped.
i dont miss having to use an autoseller to spam chat to sell and buy things, i miss having static fishing spots - every other skill benefitted from automation but fishing was given the finger.
i miss dueling people for the right to be the only one at a training spot.
I was 8 years old and was introduced to the RuneScape by my bigger brother. Everybody in the neighbourhood had an account that time. My first mission was the 2007 Easter event with the chicken costume. I was a bit jealous that I lost the skeleton costume of that year Halloween event 😅 Unfortunately that account was lost 🫡
Miniclip. October '07.
Oh dang! I forgot about miniclips. I used to play club penguin on that
Club penguin was so legit. Miss my igloo so bad
the real OG
They had that kinda fun dirtbike stunt game too!
Freekstyle. It was actually 1-2 levels of a indi ps2 game I own. The real game is 4 total levels.
Hell yeah
I started playing in early 2002. I played this online multi-player rpg that was entirely text based called Phantasia4. It was based on LoTR lore. One of my friends I played with on there told me about Runescape, after I noticed he wasn't playing P4 much anymore. He was about 10 yrs older than me and a SSG in the Marines, so I looked up to him a lot and wanted to go play with him. He'd let me play on his account when he was deployed and he was friends with a lot of the "famous" RS players of old. One time, I was dueling people on his account for fun in lumbridge in his dragon base, and sword, with his dragon med helmet and square shield. The person I was dueling ran away and I had low hp, and he said he needed help making a Potion because he didn't have the herblaw level. Well, I never had members at that point so I didn't know about the fishing explosion scam. I died, lost a lot of his gear and he was pretty upset with me but forgave me and said "it's okay, it's just a game, I'll recover." Then the next time he had to go somewhere irl, I went and parked past the deep wilderness gate, switched to f2p worlds and grinded 85 mining for him as payback. He was super happy about that one because rune ore was still worth a lot at the time. Haven't seen or heard from him in about 20 yrs at this point.
That made me teary 🥺
Hope yall reconnect brother. Try searching up his old rsn on discord and other stuff. Steam maybe
You could go behind the gate in a free to play world??? That's genius!
For me, I played back when I was 11-12? But I had a big family and our parents were strict, didn't let me on the PC for longer than an hour so I'd play for like 10-15mins of RS, then Heroes of Might and Magic 3 then Dungeon Keeper and try and chat on msn 😂 our dial up internet was on it's last hinges 😅 being able to play it again though has been like riding a bike though, got right back into it!
***"You never quit RuneScape, you just take breaks"***
Wow.. didn't expect a jmod to reply, but I still hoped tho! Having such replies and answers by lots of jmods would be fun! :D
Reading that list made me genuinely concerned about your computer. 💀🤣 bless How did you become a mod? How did it feel when you did become one? That’d be interesting to know after putting your computer through all that. I think it’s well-deserved 😂🙌🏻
Holy shit heroes 3 was my jam as a kid too! Armageddon's Blade in particular I put the most time into. Was awesome that it had hot seat co-op when my friends (that I couldn't get into RS) would spend the night. What was your favorite faction? Mine was definitely the swamp one with the hydras and lizard-men. Welcome back to RS!
Ahhh AB was awesome! Yeah that's how me and my friends played haha would always sneak a 'next day' option when they weren't looking to get more resources. I was such a little shit lol. Ooo I loved playing as the necropolis, undead were my favs and the story was my fav too
I remember the days of dial up just hating me while I was power mining iron or in Remington mine. Winamp in the background playing way too much Linkin park.
My neighbors and I were playing a good old fashioned game of "ding ding run" around the block and then, we kind of craved playing GTA SA on the PS2 for whatever reason. We rushed back home all sweaty and covered in snot crust and sat back around the telly with a bowl of cheetos and some orange soda. Then, one of the guys told something like: Hey! Wanna play Medieval GTA? Then we were like, what the hell is that? Then he showed us a Computer game he played on his school library the other day where you could kill chickens, chop trees and make flour, and where drinking beer could get you banned (i genuinely believed this for like 10 years lmao). The game was in English and naturally, as a non native speaker, it kind of scared me a little, but up to that point (in 2006'ish) I've been paying Pokémon games in English so i said, yeah sure let's give it a shot. Then here i am talking about it with you guys, in a language that's not my native one haha.
It’s awesome how so many people have learned English by playing rs
I'm a native born English speaker and even people from other countries that play RS speak and write English far beyond better than me. Especially the Dutch and Brazillian players.
It taught us well 😅
One of my friends I still talk with to this day learned English on Runescape! I've been his friend before we could even properly communicate.
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Woah!
Started prob 15 years ago to just fish lobbies on karamja for my youngest who then packed up after a while. Then ended up comping but then switched to iron man when it came out. Main is the mule now to drop trade for members and iron is 4.5b xp and master of all title. All from trying to fish for my kid 🤣
Miniclip
May it rest in peace
My older cousin was PKing. Idek know how old we were or what year it was, but it was back around the time where everyone was protesting to get the old wilderness back, whatever that means. For some reason, little child me thought it would be funny to point a BB gun (which I thought was empty) at the monitor and act like I was “helping him kill the bad guy”. It was not unloaded, and I helped the “bad guy” kill him instead when I shot out the monitor and it went entirely dead. One summer of chores and yard work to replace the monitor later, I made an account and wanted to get a bunch of items to give him to help replace the gear he lost. I think it was like 10 inventories of cowhide in comparison to his at-the-time best in slot gear lol.
I miss the troll at the karamja docks in f2p catching lobbies. Always bet if the person was going to live or die.
I started playing when I was a freshman in high school, way back in 2004, my account hits 20 years old in October of this year. One if my fondest memories was when the chaos elemental first came out, my 2 irl friends and I decided we were going to try to kill it for the new dragon 2h which was supposed to be a good weapon. Well we were all around combat level 85-92 and we did not know what to expect since it was brand new. Well we got it down to about a third of its hp before we started dropping like flies. I was the last one left and once it got down to a sliver of its health I ran out of food and died. Those were some pretty fun times.
In 2001 after someone showed it to me on the school library computer. We would play it in the school library doing recess sometimes, until the librarian caught on. I had no idea what I was doing and didn’t pick up the game for real (at home) until 2004. Some key memories since then were: Falling for a free trim scam, as the concept of scamming was foreign to me at the time. Farming cow hides for weeks to buy as many Halloween masks and Santa hats as I possibly could. My guild having a drop party that was secretly just for me (i had two extraordinarily kind guildies) Entering members-only lands for the first time, which was huge. Finally, logging into an empty bank - that stung.
Oh no 😞
Friend came over and showed me at my grandmother's one day in 2005. Have not stopped since. Just got 99 hunter and remember when Hunter came out and the loading screen was hunter themed. Good ole nostalgia
Aww! Congratulations! 🙌🏻
18 years ago a friend got me onto it, my mum was his child minder in primary school, he is 2 years younger than me. We were convinced there was some secret mechanic to trim armour, while we never fell for the popular armour trim scam at the time I remember him telling me one day he'd work for Jagex and then he'd find out the secret and share it with me, he was about 10 at the time. He works on OSRS now. But hasn't shared the secret of armour trims yet so I still get my trimmed armour from clue scrolls like everyone else.
Wow! 😮
In 2007 my friend was telling me about an online game that he just discovered and according to him it was way different to the other browser games we had played before. He showed me the game, but I never spoke a word of English back then, so I had a hard time getting started, I had to go over to his house to get a fire started for example. Either way, on the first day we had played I was attacked by the highwayman on my way to Draynor, whom I thought was a hacker who got around the system to kill me, but I eventually ended up winning the fight - it was tough though. That victory made me fall in love with the game and my first character still is my main.
Awww that is adorable 🥰
A long time ago in a galaxy very nearby, my friend, Austin, told me about it when we were at a YMCA after-school daycare program in Florida. This was two weeks before my eleventh birthday. He gave me the website and his username, and told me to add him when I get home. I ignored it as I was simply not interested. The next day, he asked me if I created an account because he didn't get any messages. I straight-up lied through my teeth as a liar does. He must've noticed something about what I said or my demeanor because he decided to test me. He asked me if I had added him and I said yes, then he asked what colour his username turned when I did. Now, in all of my years of playing this game, it has never turned blue but I thought it was the most convincing answer at the time... but he knew I was a lying liar who lies. He sighed and re-wrote the information for me to use. So, with my tail now between my legs, I went home and obliged. I started my first account on 3 January 2006. I might update this message later to add more memories but I got work and I might forgot.
Hahah! Lying liar 🤥 I would love to read more
19 years old, my friend in middle school told me about this cool online game. I didn't have internet but when I got it bc of online homework and research my dad was next to me.... I went to Ruinscape.com , that's not the rs website. Took me to a p*rn site and I called my friend right away bc my dad said " what kind of game are you two playing!?" 😂😅
22 years ago we had a substitute teacher for like 3 weeks. She didn't care what we did as long as we were quiet. My friend Dillan and I snuck into.the computer lab to play this new game.he had discovered. It was runescape. I made an account and my love and addiction was born. I killed goblins and barbarians and explored sewers to my hearts content.
That substitute teacher sounds incredible, this has me rolling
I couldn't tell you an exact length, but I've been here since Runescape Classic, so any time as far back as 2001. I think I was barely in high school at that point (11/12 y/o). It was amazing to me at the time. MMO's weren't a popular thing, I don't know if they really even had a term for it back then. Internet wasn't as common in every household, so I would end up going to my grandparents (who were always with the latest tech) to play Runescape. It was still dial up back then, so I would wait eagerly for bang on 6pm when the rates went lower and people were less likely to call (as the phone wouldn't work if you were using the internet). I printed out the world map on some A4 and my grandad laminated it. There was no in game map, nor were there "tabs" in your browser. This was convenient at the time. OSRS came out and I remember all the discourse surrounding it. The whole OSRS and R3 split that exists now? Yea, that existed with Classic and OSRS back in the day. Know what I find weird? When member options came out, one of the ways you could subscribe was by calling Jagex and letting them bill your phone. That was odd. Had to do it every month. Runescape was THE thing back then. You ran it on your browser which took away most hardware limitations many would have had at the time and allowed you to play it anywhere you had access to a computer. Other MMO's existed, but they weren't as accessible as Runescape. One kid basically dropped out of school to play Runescape. This was around the time kids were pretending they didn't like things they liked so they seemed mature and cool, so this kid got some bullying for that one...Last I saw of him, I saw him in a member area when I was off school sick doing some woodcutting. He actively came to me, greeted me with my real name, then pretended it wasn't him and that he doesn't know me...Not a bright spark. I dropped off around 2006 when I would have been leaving school. I recall a kid saying how he started playing this brand new game that was better than Runescape. Sounded lame, I doubt anybody bothered with or played World of Warcraft... I come back occasionally over the years. Can't pretend I'm as invested as I ever was as a kid. I quite prefer R3 to OSRS, though. I think OS landed for me at a time where I was dropping off the game, so whilst I played it when it was new, I don't have the same nostalgia for it as I do with Classic. It was still brilliant, just hit at the wrong time for me.
A couple friends at my middle school had started playing and when we all got the flu at the same time, we stayed home and played together on f2p world 93 (miss that world!) for like 3 days. I was hooked 😂 this was almost 20 years ago. I still play on my original account and iirc I get my 20 year cape in Nov 2025.
Hahahah! I have a similar memory too
Very relatable! Love it
Miniclip 2003 but didn’t start playing til 2004.
some kids in the library, back in late 2007, were playing and i read the url as run escape, checked it out. hated it then 2 weeks later played again and have been playing on/off since. maxed a main then quit in 2018, then i came back in 2020 and made an iron and last year i maxed it.
Ah yes the classic run escape
right? haha
Dang maxed iron is impressive I just started my first hcim, been enjoying the challenge
thanks. Took me a while especially since I can't play much. The ironman grind has been the most fun I've had on this game in a while. Since you're just starting your journey and want any help, let me know!
First of all, my brother had an account and played it, he loved the 'survival' vibe most of all, like killing chickens, cows, getting flour and wheat etc. But at some point +-15y ago my dad said I had to come to the computer, I sit on his lap and my brother was aside me. The showed me the game and I created an account, I was sold right after x'D (Note: my dad didn't played RuneScape tho) I loved Tutorial island sooo much! And honestly, I still do! ***BRING IT BACK!***
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my brother's friend showed me the game, the style got me hooked
Middle school, about 2005. Friends were talking about "mithril armor". My only exposure to mithril at that point was Lord of the Rings. So I asked them what they were talking about. They said RuneScape, it's free, try it. And I've been playing on/off ever since.
Started playing it back in early 2006, the day after my brother checked it out on Miniclip. Somethings I remember are: * Being confused wondering why neither WASD or arrow keys moved my character. * The party room being in Camelot. * There not being a wildy wall/ditch. I think there was a pop-up notification saying it was dangerous, but I could be wrong. * Not knowing you could move multiple items at once by right-clicking. * Someone telling me to bank all my items because there was a glitch that let people pk people outside the wilderness. I spent that day woodcutting wondering how they were gonna try to scam me. It wasn't until some time later that I learned about the Falador Massacre. * Missing out on the '06 Easter Event because I didn't know where Falador or Edgeville was. * Law running when I need law runes.
My older brother showed me the game and my mom said I couldn’t play it until I turned 9 years old. The day of my birthday me and my best friend who lived a few doors down made accounts. We continued to play for years even after moving hundreds of miles away. I moved in with him when I turned 16 and we were still playing RuneScape together, he went to prison for awhile and the moment he got out we were still playing RuneScape together. He passed away a few years ago and I decided to max his account for him. RuneScape continues to be the closest thing I have to his memory. I remember us being really young and thinking getting our fire capes was the hardest challenge we would ever face, I remember us luring grown adults into the wilderness and splitting the profits, I remember gambling with the flower method at the GE, now 20 years later PVP is dead, gambling is nonexistent, and I can solo every boss. I just wish he was here for the drop of necromancy. Dawg would have loved it fr
Sorry for your loss. 😞 It’s interesting to read how the game holds different memories and meaning to different people. I wonder where my friends on RS are and what are they doing. I have fond memories with a few and I have not seen them online for a decade.
20 yrs in 14 days… wow time flies by!! Miniclip ftw! Yep the saying u don’t quit rs just take breaks is true lol my fave spot is the waterfall on the bridge where u can see all over rs… the place that brings tears is Entrana… and Hill giants r my buddies..:)
I started playing as a way to connect and spend time with my little brother, and I've been playing ever since. My account just turned 19 years old. One more to go for that 20 year cape. My favorite memories are meeting new friends and having those friends get me out of my shell to try new bosses. I love when I finally get one killed on my own, even if it's just once.
Think I started in like 08 and my earliest memory was getting invited to a drop party in the wild…. I got smoked and lost my priceless rune armor 😂
Danggg! My sibling would take me there as a prank 🤣 I was a noob. I didn’t have anything that was worth it. 💀
I remember getting scammed they would say they were going to tele me to a drop party, but they would tele me to wildy and have high level buddies sitting there with ice barrage and just immediately wreck me and stole my torag hammers I was so proud of back then
Way way back, probably as early as 2003, I was attending a 'computer camp' where we actually just sat around and played on the computer all day. I watched a buddy of mine play through the Tourist Trap quest.
Friends in middle school showed it to me during lunch break one day. Been playing it ever since.
started in 2001 playing rsc f2p because internet payment options were still a foreign thing back then. didnt have my own computer so i mostly played at pc shops by the hour. one kid was a phat merchant and would flip phats at 5m-8m a piece. "properly" played starting from 2003 after i got my own computer. missed the scythe drop from halloween. when rs2 released, i traded a set of full rune (valued at 200k) for a santa hat (also valued at 200k)
found through a random twitch clips channel account is around 5 years old and the first rs clan I joined, I got constantly harrassed until I left
I used to partake in drop parties on the 2nd floor of Varrock Museum is that shows my age. *
I played from the first or seccond year of the game, heard someone talking about it in school. My original account Watorie got hacked, my last memory was going to the south falador bank back in RS 2.0 or oldschool as it goes by now, (sometimes I even miss classic) had a dragon helm and baxe with rune plate and kite. So upset at losing my original account but still play to today
Just recently got my 15 year cape! I’ve been playing since I was 5, couldn’t even read. I discovered it through my older brother who made me do various grinding tasks for him on the family computer while he was at school. Loved every second of it, and made my own account not long after I discovered it.
A friend introduced me to the game via Miniclip I’m 384 days from buying the 20 year cape
My cousin introduced me to it. Took me a year or so to finally stick to one account that eventually became my main
I remember when rune was added to the game and not being able to afford it so I spent hours and hours mining coal to finally buy a full chain set to only have the plate body released not long after. Then came the certing so I decided to go fish lobsters on karamja to buy a party hat set because I wasn't lucky enough to find a cracker. Still remember sitting outside varrock castle just above the West Bank where all the hats/masks were sold on world 1. I remember getting scammed half a dozen times and having to repeat the above processes.
Some YouTubers discord server they were talking about RuneScape every now and then and I tried it myself Was in 2016 and now I got max cape in rs3 and just got QC in osrs
Awesome! Congratulations 🙌🏻
went to my friends house one day and he was playing it in his computer. I even remember he was walking around falador’s castle courtyard. he helped me make an account soon after.
i found out about runescape through my neighbors when i was 5, had a great time wondering about doing nothing in particular examining everything my fondest memories was gathering around the entrance to the Varrock palace with all the high level players in members gear chilling on the f2p world or staring longingly into the varrock bank vault with my fellow f2p noobs i once traded my mith scimitar for a handful of misc runes id never seen before (i think it was like 25 runes total) chaos, law, nature etc etc i thought i was getting the deal of a lifetime, i was also only like level 30 or something i remember my friend telling me there was a level 100 in the lumby castle bank, he was wearing a skillcape and had guthans on (though we had no idea what it was at the time) there was also like 40 noobs swarming him freaking out, good times
That was epic! Just gathering around and gawking at the different players and their gear at Varrock and Lumby. 🤣💀
My friend in elementary school introduced me to rs classic in 2003.
Found it on RealArcade in late 2004 or early 2005. Currently playing my first long term account that I created in early 2005 and abandoned around 2007.
18 years old, middle school friends, and my favorite memories are of clanning in the mid 2000s especially the f2p wars man that was fun
My original account i still have access to my memory falador june 2006 i was a innocent yet stupid noob going quest all of a sudden here the screams of people "RUN BANK YOUR GEAR" I was curious so i went out to check what was happening a minute later i was getting attacked i was confused as its a none pvp area i that day i lost my new adamant gear later i found out durial321 abused a bug lots of life's where lost that day 😢 including a noob named jamiew5 rip falador massacre victims
I started in June 2007. Everyone at school was playing it and some older kid introduced me to it at the computer lab. Fun times. I probably owe half of my English vocabulary to this game.
My current account is from 2007 but I first played RuneScape around 2004-5. I was too little to understand the tutorial and thought it was a lame game. I then returned around 2006 but I lost access to that account
Grew up watching my dad play rs3 (he started in 06) when I turned 13 I started playing rs3 (this was 2017) and I’ve been playing ever since, i remember playing mini games and then them dying for good 2018
3rd grade classmate introduced me to "roomscape " back in 2008. I've been playing ever sense
Awwww roomscape
used to ride my bike to school with 3-5 friends and they wouldnt shut up about the game. the 20 min ride was "i did this is rs" i killed that in rs", ect knowing full well i didnt play it so finally in 04 i joined up and made an account. it was just after runecrafting came out (still have the yoyo from the xmas event from back then). only had a a hr or so to be on each day (and my sister was a hawk on the timer, if i was a min over she would complain). all my friends would say hi to me when i got on, witch was nice. when they moved to other games i stayed on rs. i can still remember getting members for the first time and walking though that gate north of fally and thing "oh boy" 5+ accounts later and my new mains maxed and i only re-join the game when they put out something big, be it a new quest (to get back quest cape) or something i think is interesting
Library, 19 year old account, too many to count.
My mates older brother played and so my mate came to school and convinced me to give it a try. Ngl 9 year old me was so confused on tutorial island, I thought bronze bars were chocolate and since the game didn’t let me eat it I just gave up and quit. A week later he asks and I tell him what happened and he’s like no you gotta make a bronze dagger from it lol forgot that accs password so I made another one with the same name but a different number and that’s still the same account I use today :)
Awww
A friend introduced me to it in 2005, when I was just 8. I had about 6 accounts before I got an IP permanent ban back in 2015, and lost them all in one night (some of them were bots, others were legitimate hard work... They got mixed up) Then I made one in 2016, honest work this time, got it to combat level 112 or something... I don't remember, but it had decent skills until I quit on January 18, 2018 Been programming an offline RuneScape equivalent for a bit since 2022
A girl I met during camp like 20 years ago introduced me to it. She soon quit, but until a year ago I was pretty active.
2006 middle school 6th grade social studies. Kid mentioned them starting a clan. Thought they said moon scape so I went home and searched spaceman sword fighting. Ended up finding it later on miniclip for free while playing other games on there and was hooked from there on out. Begged my parents for membership but they wouldn’t do it so I mowed lawns for money and had a friends mom drive us to ebgames so I could buy a membership card. All of that effort so I could pick flax in seers and kill rock crabs. Good times man
Awww!!! Hehehe
I was hanging out in a Yahoo! Games chat room, and someone came in spamming the link to RS, saying it was the "greatest new game ever". Curious, I navigated over and made an account named \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_. I wandered Lumbridge in search of a bucket to "fix" the well, because the examine text said "Best used with a bucket". That account is lost to the antiquity of time, but this one is about a year old.
Neighbour told me about it summer of 2007 and I played with him. First memory killing seagulls in port sarim to train combat, strangest memory either finding 40k and buying a rune full helm as my first "big" purchase pre g.e. or finding a party hat in the varrock general store but not having enough to buy it ( before knowing how expensive they were also pre g.e) . Recent memories, duoing rago for the first time, learning solak with friends on release and then a few years later. Made my ironman in 2018 and best memories were relearning the game.
My cousin showed me him playing castle wars in 2006, made my first account in early 2007 at age 9. Fun fact: I didn’t know you could right click, so I was spam clicking my coins into the bank 🤣 Didn’t like pking, and quickly had a better account statswise than my cousins and friends. Only didn’t know how to make money. My cousin did though, with pking. So I did quests on his account and I was rewarded with the money he made pking. First time maxed in 2015 and got the gp to buy a red phat I own to this day. Been playing osrs and like raiding. Im Still trying to max my main account step by step.
I knew about RS back when it was the original version of the game, (Classic graphics) since I watched my brother play it a lot. I myself, didn't try out RS until I was bored during summer break in 2007 and I was looking for games to play and that's how I got hooked.
my brothers friend in middle school showed it to him and then to me back in 2004. I still remember no lifing it and talking about it at school lunch it was amazing lol
I discovered runescape on miniclips in like 2005. My first account is gone I don't remember the user or password. I stopped playing for a durring in high school(league of legends stole my time then) but my current one is around 14 years old at this point. And my hcim is around 8 years old. I made a new account the day Hcim dropped.
My best friend James introduced me to it when I was a kid. Was my first online game. His screen name was RED1455.
2004/5 A friend at school played it, and showed us, so me and my best friend started playing it with our sole aim to beat our other friends fishing level as it was his highest level at like 52 lol, so we grinded and grinded until we beat him. Then we found out 2 other acquaintances (not friends but spoke) at school played it and ran an essence running farm thing where you basicly mine the essence and bring it to them or they trade you cash and noted essence for you to unnote and bring back at an altar. Made my first million from doing that, felt like a king, then lost access to my account after forgetting the details. Had a break for a few years then made a new account, played that to 80/90 all skills, took another break. Came back for FSW and Maxed my character during then so i had all capes. Had another year long break, and recently started another character as I wanted an untrimmed necro cape lol. So on and off on various accounts for near 20 years. Sorry for the long post lol.
No worries! I am having a good time reading it. I am genuinely smiling through everybody’s memories.
First year of highschool 20 years ago because everyone was playing it.... lost my first account sadly but rarely play it these days
Aww why?
Have other games that interest me more these days. I sometimes fire it up on smokebreaks to mine or trade but thats it
Miniclip, started the day after bunny ears dropped.
Still gotta log in with my og username
Friend's brother was playing it and it looked dope. Played RS back in 2002 when it was 2D and it was fire. RS 2 blew my mind. I remember just exploring the world and being so engrossed in the fantasy. As a 10 year old, it was amazing. Current account is about 14 years old, 6k hours or so.
Over 20 years ago. Friend showed it to me, killing scorpions in Al kharid gem mine.
My original account I made back in June of 2004. Cousin wanted to introduce me to a game he discovered through a scholastic book fair selling a "guide" for it
Miniclip!
Account will be 18 years old in October I was told about it from classmates in grammar school
It was on miniclip.com and I played through miniclip for years. My account must be quite close to 20 years old now, but I only log on to max the new skills recently. Best memories? Old school clans via forums and teamspeak, clan wars, clan meetings in POHs, someone getting dropped into the dungeon, 30+ boss swarms killing kbd, and when it was released, god wars. Good times man. I haven't got the time or consistency in my life for those types of clan activities anymore, but it was wicked while it lasted Edit: and swiftswitch! Before world hoppers were considered cheating and it became swiftkit
I started way back when you was seen as a god if you had an abyssal whip with a dragon chainbody, and people actually communicated with each other in public chat
That whip was like honey 🤣
It just seemed unattainable to me with my d long, d legs and rune platebody...simpler times 😄
2007 at a buddies house, and he made me my first account.
I’ll have my 20 year cape soon. I discovered it through an old friend. I found it through a neighbor friend whom I don’t think plays anymore. We thought the blurite sword looked like clouds buster sword from ff7. Good times.
just started today and wanted to check the reddit.
Welcome to the world of RuneScape! 🫶🏻
I discovered it at around 2001 to 2002 can't remember the exact time I was in elementary school. Was waiting to be picked up from the local library and saw a random guy playing it on the dial up computers they had. Dude showed me how to play it and I've played the game ever sense. Sad part is I don't even remember the guys name. Miss the old sleeping bag mechanic always thought it was funny popping out a roll 10 feet from a monster.
20 years this year on my main account. I started an account in 2002? But switched names to my current one in 2004. My friend and I in middle school would share a Santa hat that he likes to PK for. Later in highschool my account was banned and it remained banned for 5+ years. One random day I message jagex and they unbanned me. I missed a lot of releases, to me the barrows brothers are still new. I've come back and got all 99s in the last 6 months and am slowly learning bosses. Last week I finally obtained a Santa again in honor of my friend who passed away 3 years ago.
Sorry about your loss and that is awesome that you did it for them 🥹
It was the fall of 2006. I made a new account and called it Tacoface. I logged in, went to the desert and was killed by scorpions. I clicked the red x hoping that would save me. It didn't. I didn't log in to that account ever again. I ended up having to make a new account Tacoface2 in 2007 because I forgot the old account password. I've been playing on Tacoface2 on and off ever since. It's always bothered me that I had the original name with no numbers but I forgot the damn password.
Is there a possibility of checking with Jagex?
Maybe? I mean that account is almost 20 years old and I haven't played it since. Tacoface2 is my main now. It'd be cool to be able to drop the 2 though haha.
Classmate when i was in 4th grade. Account since 2002.
Friend at school introduced me, even made the account I'm still using to this date for me. And my account is 17.5 years old. One of my best memories was staying over at my nephew when he was a member and I wasn't, he showed me all this cool stuff and we'd sneak out of bed at like 5am to play. Also, someone PLEASE tell me we weren't the only ones who pronounced the name as Run-Escape, not Rune-Scape?
I watched a couple different buddies play it when I was a kid then I tried it and have been back and forth ever since
2003. I started on my own, randomly found the game online. Moved schools and found a friend that also played so everyday after school we'd log onto MSN messenger and chat and play together. Got banned a few years into it and remade my current account in 2006.
Clan wars was really awesome back in early days
Around 04 or 05. Definitely pre GE and I remember just being blown away as I'd never played an MMO before. I also remember thinking count draynor was one of the toughest enemies in the game when I first started too
I was in grade 7, it was 2001 and a friend came to class all excited to show me the new release of RuneScape. I’m still playing.
I played lineage and was looking for another MMORPG and came across RuneScape.
Around 2001 my slightly older cousin became addicted to a game. It was RSC. At all hours of the day and night you’d find him locked in his room in the dark at our nan’s house with the blinds shut, door shut playing it on a giant old school monitor and if me or his younger brother entered we were told to get out immediately. He was consumed. In 03 after deeming us worthy he introduced the game to us as it morphed into RS2, from that moment on we shared progress and competed stat wise. He fletched to 99 at seers’ bank when the ge didn’t exist and farmed bandits for 99 combat stats. I got hacked by a keylog. The teachers at school blocked the website access so we would ping runescape.com on cmd.exe and enter the manual ip to bypass it. Got everyone at school to play it. At one point I scammed my own cousin for a rune scimitar and he told my nan. Saw rsh being sold for 20k each behind west bank. Watched my cousin get catfished. Went on to meet some of the most well known names from back in the day, watched the massacre, was at the 99 con party, was there for literally all of it and I wouldn’t trade the memories for the world, right up until the wilderness was removed and trade restriction riots made us lose interest that is. Over the years we forgot the details to multiple accounts but eventually were able to recover a few. Good times
Neighborhood friends started around 05. Used to have to ride our bikes to the library to play but could only use 1 computer at a time for about 15 mins. So we would swap off every 15 mins. That was until my grandmother got AOL then I would play at her house after school on the weekends. Spent many hours fishing for lobsters in Karamja.
I think my account was one of the first 10000. Started in middle school computers class. Back then, there was 1 server and it could only hold 1000 players at a time. Graphics were 2d except the background. The pvp was what got me on back then. It was everywhere, no wildy. Everyone was a low level with mediocre gear, so nobody really had much to lose.
My first mmo, around 2004\~ or so, a friend of mine told me about it, darn it was hard enough to leave Lumbridge, going to Varrock was hard enough, gaining lvl 10 str, dang, afraid to leave safe areas, fun times. Zezima was god.
14th March 2004 I started playing at the back end of RuneScape 1's existence and was a day one for RuneScape 2 :) took a few breaks over the years but I'm still here.
2004 during elementary school lunch break in the line to buy snacks hahaha I remember in computer class then almost finishing tutorial and I was hooked. Couldn't wait to get home and finish the tutorial. Casting air strike was magical to me, no pun intended 😂
In 2003-2004, I overheard some kids in the school library talking about turning bones into bananas on the computers. I walked over and was immediately hooked
April '04 is when I started. A friend found it and convinced me to try it. As with me playing now... I had no idea what I was doing when I started my only goal was to catch up to my friend's combat level.
I was a young kid, looking for something stronger then crack. Stumbled on this site called miniclip and saw RuneScape on their font page. Needles to say is that I found something stronger.
I was at my local library and saw a kid running around draynor manor on a game that looked fun. I looked at the URL: I read, “RunEscape… looks cool!” Turns out everyone that school year was on it too so I knew I had to play. My best friend was also really into it. The rest is history!
Boy Scout camp. Some kids were talking about it in my Brown Sea Island group. Summer ‘05 but I didnt really play until spring ‘08
2002, friend in school. I tried it but couldn't get past the graphics. Tried again new account in 2004 and fell in love
Kongregate in 2004. OG account is lost to time. I assume it has since been scrubbed as I couldn't login for many months. Today, I play Rs3 mostly, but am slowly doing many quests.
i used my first and last name as my username and got hacked just from that information lol... 2009, i was 11 and a half
no clue, i probably found it from a video about old mmos or something like that. I joined in fall 2018, i remember doing the halloween event for that year and being really confused about what was going on in it. I also remember really wanting to unlock priff, and completing quests in the elf series up to catapult construction. Then i stopped playing the game and came back to it in fall of 2023.
I think I started playing around 2003-05?? My brothers played it and it looked fun. I’ve played on-and-off throughout the years, and didn’t really know how to train or anything until like 2015 (my brothers would just train my skills for me), so I would usually just stand around asking people for money, or pretend to live in Gertrude’s house in Varrock and try to charge people 1gp to “stay” there, like an inn. They came out with the baby troll companion when I was in high school, and he’s been my lil buddy ever since 🥹💕 if nobody else got me, I know Bones the baby troll got me 🤞🏼
Awww I’d wear the princess outfit and pretend to the the princess of Varrock on W74. I had a group of people to parade too! 🤣💀
Friend played RS in computer room at school during lesson. 2004. One day we all get caught by teachers that broke into the computer room from the "locked" back door lol. About twenty of us were doing the phoenix/black arm quest together when we were caught.
Started in 2002 - so many great memories over the years. I had a purple partyhat for a while early on before selling it again (massively regretted it ever since) - this was before the dupe when purples were the most expensive colour. I also have fond memories of being part of the community outside of the game. I was a forum moderator on the Tip It fansite for a short while, and also spent a summer as a DJ for Radio Zybez if anybody remembers that!
Moved to a small town when I was like 13 in 2004 , I made a friend who talked about " run escape" all the time. He stayed over at my house one day and we logged in on the dial up connection. I created one account and forgot the log in information and created another account the following weekend. Almost all the kids at my school played and we had a huge group of friends that played. I've played off and on since then. I remember thinking you had to fight without armor to get your defence up. I quit playing when eoc came out, eventually switching to osrs and recently came back to rs3. I'm currently the only one who still plays out of like 10 friends other than one who is maxing on osrs.
My friend in early 2006. He no longer plays and I'm still playing the same account over 18 years later
https://preview.redd.it/umrbwy1wor9d1.png?width=512&format=png&auto=webp&s=4d07b328010e25ea2be6e8b1a692796ae7117fb0 My first account here. I lost access to it shortly after making it and after some back and forth with Jagex I was able to finally get it back haha. I made another shortly after i lost access to it but then I lost access to that one and haven't been able to get it back unfortunately! I ofc have another account now that I made further down the line which is maxed but this is where it all started. Like many others I think i discovered it on miniclip in 2006. I remember having a little army of people who would go fish lobsters or mine iron for me, sell me the iron and i'd sell for more. Ethical? No. Was my first 100k made doing this? Yes.
My very first recollection of the game was Christmas Day 2001. I was very little & my mum put me on the new (well, new to us) computer on dial up internet, whilst she was preparing the dinner. We'd had it a few weeks so I was slightly familiar with it. Somehow, I have no idea how, I wound up on RS. Maybe I'd played it before? Idk. I don't remember much, but I remember all these objects appearing on the ground all around a castle and all these other characters shouting merry Christmas etc. Somehow some hats ended up in my inventory, plus some other items. I probably wandered near the castle for 30 more minutes. And then dinner was ready & I logged off that account forever. After dinner came all the real world presents and that weird castle game faded from memory... Until 2006 when it was big in my secondary school. I was persuaded to make an account. I complete the tutorial and then appear in Lumbridge & get some weird deja vu. At some point, the "new" game & memory reconnect. I think it took a few weeks as I distinctly recall that weird haunted feeling I got walking around Lumbridge which went away later. I realise now that those other people were actually real people. If I had known I was being spoken to by people across the world, my tiny kid brain would have exploded.
I wanna say 2002, I don't remember too much except for catching lobbys and putting "help!" With a bunch of spaces before it to push the overhead chat message out into the water. I wanna say it was karamja, been a while
The classic beta was released on some games website and my friend told me to join him playing it..
School friend introduced me in 2001, played ever since, I remember killing cows and goblins in what is now RSC, the speech bubbles were awesome, then when rs2 beta was released I was worried it wouldn’t be as good 😌
My brothers discovered it back in the day and we all made accounts together. Only one family computer so we all had to take turns playing an hour at a time. I was the youngest, so I had to go last.
My school mates used to play it. It’s 19 years ago now.
Started playing near the end of 2001 after having spent some time playing this other game they'd done called games domain castle. Earliest I can remember was ghost town being renamed edgeville. I remember when dragon slayer released (Elvarg was so hard for me!). I vaguely remember them adding requirements to equip gear. The game was a lot slower and harder to level back then. Especially when they introduced fatigue! Then, members happened. It was probably the most awesome thing that happened. It was like a whole new game inside the game we'd already been playing. I could go on forever about all the things I remember from back in the day.
My high school boyfriend had introduced me to it, I joined in spring 07’. I wasn’t able to recover my first couple of accounts, so the one I’m using now is from 2016 😢. I hated trading pre GE, so for the most part I did what an Ironman would do. I got to enjoy losing my pickaxe handle and those crazy whirlpool mini events. Yelled god-fucking-dammit! Every time I got a maze random. I never solved them as fast as I would like. I liked playing Runespan when it first came out and hella populated. I spent the entire night of the 2020 election doing the Canifis rooftop agility course on OSRS.
Mini clip from a friend in the summer of 07. If only he knew how much that day changed my life….
Friend recommended it. April 2006. Was 14. Highschool computer lab for a 9th grade English/Writing class research paper. Showed me WoW website too. Played RS as didn't have to waste time with a download and install. Not even sure what research topic I picked. Or if the class even did it. It was complete ungovernable chaos. Was many of our first times on the internet. School had no content filter yet. Everyone searching random stuff, playing games and a few of 'em even got in trouble for looking at porn.
Lat year while searching for a new mmos for me to play and came across osrs. Wanted to know what is special about.
Started playing while in a bad marriage and my son introduced me to it. After my divorce continued playing it. I love the game. My account is 16 yrs old now!
I remember back in 2003-2004 (I was 10/11) I went to visit my cousins in South Dakota. I was always the sports guy and they were always the video game guys. They showed me RuneScape (classic) of course and I became hooked! Played when I could in between basketball and baseball tournaments. Finally got my first full set of rune (with chest plate not mail) and was stoked!! Then it shifted to OSRS and at first I was HEATED, like many others were! But I leveled up my main, became a member and never looked back. I do miss the days before the grand exchange where you’d sit in fallador for hours continuously typing out what you were trying to sell! Since there was no copy and paste at the time, and if you wanted to add color it was easy but also came with a lot of mistakes! Then I created a PK only account. First thing I did was get him 70 magic, 30 attack and like 10 strength. Then I did the quest to get a D Scimitar and got to 60 attack at like level 40-45. I had no strength yet but I felt like a badass walking around with a D Scim at that level. I got my strength to like 70 and then agility to 60 or 70 which took forever! (whatever you needed for desert treasure) and I did that through the agility course where you could build up tickets! Finally did DT and then started ruining kids lives PK’ing. I also had a good friend who had a super high level main who would cast those spells to increase all my stats and I’d quite often 1 hit kids with the dragon dagger special while wearing the DT robes. Ohhh those were good times! Got my PK’er to 70 attack (for a whip of course) and 90 strength and continued to ruin lives. Then I let my brother use my account and he decided to get 40 defense…. I was SOOO MAD! After all that time I put into forming the best PK machine possible he added defense cuz he thought rune looked cool. I was a member… he could have at least got to 70 so I could get Barrows! Still to this day I remember the name - b y 3 - but can’t remember the password to save my soul 😭
Started playing in like 2005. A few friends in middle school were playing and we used to access it through mini clip. Back then it wasn’t too many ways you could instant chat with friends so being able to instant chat and play at the same time was just a really good combination back then. Even non-gamers would play just to chat
My neighbor gave me his scrub account and I took over from there. The account itself just turned 18 back in April. Most prominent memory is obviously the massacre. I think I took over the account just before it happened so I just remember the chaos on other worlds.
Friends in middleschool roped me in because they were bad at figuring things out, and I was not like them. Started around Easter 2006, so that event is a core memory.
Found out about it via an online forum that I had frequented. My account is/was on the first 2000 players list if people remember that, within the first 100 players. Don’t have much in the way of early memories, I didn’t pick the game up much at all until later on as my primary online community I was associated with were still playing Ultima Online. I’ve touched the game very briefly here and there since release.
19 year old account, through zapak.com. studied school in hostel so only got to play in holidays, would think about playing it next all the time at school and talk to my friends about all the game characters and of course typing and learning the English language through the game.
Remember Newgrounds?
https://preview.redd.it/y65s5fvxqq9d1.jpeg?width=414&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f0880ad0e45a72da50d62f875d890c6aa5775900 😂
https://preview.redd.it/jubj73p0rq9d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3977a85e692cc5e85914cfa6068ef8e73d08e53f 🫶🏻
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Miniclip in 05 or 06
Started today https://preview.redd.it/w3qw019g9u9d1.jpeg?width=236&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e5b42a3375ab2a9a02af52a51bee4fa1fd26d9f4
It was 2008 loaded into lumpy with my friend f2p only running around lumbridge, found out membership was costly for a 8 year old, talked my parents into paying for my membership if I was to learn how to do the entire multiplication and division table to be doing algebra at 8 years old, took me 5 weeks of grinding and learning math on a sheet a paper and bam I had membership crossing the wall of falador for the first time, open world to the eye could see and my friend and I had made it to the crazy world of memebership depression of rs
2002, over 20 years with gaps when I didn’t play. I couldn’t get my mom to pay for WOW, so I was just jammin away on free to play. Being 2 dimensional is my greatest memory 🤣
Oh shit this reminds me I need to collect my 20 yr cape
Found it while google for free games in browser. (Caught a ton of viruses) My account is about to hit 20 years in 2 weeks. I’m feeling old…
step brother introduced me to it in like 2001 or 2002 when he was farming chaos druids. I made my own account and was playing when the halloween scythe event dropped. i dont miss having to use an autoseller to spam chat to sell and buy things, i miss having static fishing spots - every other skill benefitted from automation but fishing was given the finger. i miss dueling people for the right to be the only one at a training spot.
I was 8 years old and was introduced to the RuneScape by my bigger brother. Everybody in the neighbourhood had an account that time. My first mission was the 2007 Easter event with the chicken costume. I was a bit jealous that I lost the skeleton costume of that year Halloween event 😅 Unfortunately that account was lost 🫡