It’s heartbreaking almost to see the game we once loved in front of us in still image format. We can physically see it, remember it, but never experience that same feel playing in this great time again. We are lucky enough to say we did experience it though, something modern players will never know
When I was a kid all I did was to play flash games on websites till I found RuneScape, at that time I didn't knew how to read English, so I got stuck at tutorial island for 3 days on 2007 lol. Mined iron ore for days to buy a full black g then get scammed with a normal full black, also gave my full time which cost me 100k to a guy with full saradomin to trim my rune set XD Since I couldn't read English, I had to find guides of quest in my language so I could do them, that was fun. Nowadays quest dialogues in mmorpgs are skipped like in 99% of the time
@@savagesock3598 you'd be able to go to the Varrock king spot and hop to find a few worlds that had high risk pking going on when wild cam out. Made half my friends list like that and went out with dope big groups. Best days of rs for me followed by the release of osrs.
Yeah I agree on the server I was on I went to the wild all the way to where those devil things spawn and didn't see a single person. Yeah I remember when I played in 2007 the wild no matter what world you where on always had a lot of people.
lol i don't believe for a second that he was actually a soldier. we were mostly dumb kids on this game back then, he probably thought that it would get him free stuff or something.
Aaron W holy shit I know right that completely hit different when he said it, I used to be SO curious bro and wonder heavily how it would be if I was a member and use to want to know how the other side of RuneScape looked like so bad
I use to think there was a secret way for me to get in I was being all creative and then some asshole would come up and say you gotta pay to be a member noob
My saddest moment was in 2005 in one of my first days of playing. 7 year old me fetched bananas in Karamja for 30gp each full inventory. I finally got to 1000 coins and was so happy. Only to get killed by a Karamja snake soon after. I was in tears, it was so unfair.
It trully was the "cluelessness" what made this game so great back in the day. Best memory of Runescape I have to this day, was when I started playing for the first time... spent nearly whole week playing, but actually never left Lumbridge... my friend told me to make some money so the only way I knew to make money was killing goblins. He didn't tell me how much is that and how should I do it, so I picked my Bronze Sword, Bronze med helm and wooden shield and started stabbing those green fuckers to death. He told me that I have to make money for a Rune set. After like 40 hours of killing goblins (only picking up the gold drops) I had few k in my backpack and taxi'd someone to varrock. There at the west bank a guy was selling Rune set so I traded him, he put the whole set there and I offered my few k I had. He declined the trade and wrote "This isn't enough, give me more" After few minutes of me trying to explain this is all I have and it is A LOT OF MONEY, I don't know if he was a noob like me or just a really kind person and gave it to me for the money I had. For nearly 5 months I had the rune set in my bank and I was leveling my defence to 40 with the bronze sword I had AND on stab. After that when I was finally able to equip it I couldn't equip the platebody where I don't know how I didn't noticed that I needed the Dragon Slayer quest completed. So there I was with a panic attack writing on support that my account is bugged and I cannot equip Rune Platebody even though I'm level 40 defence. To this day I have their response on my email since I screenshoted it to my friend and send it to his email so he could translate what they've replied (I had only a basic knowledge when it came to english so not only was I learning the game, but the whole language too) I wonder if they would send the same response as they did to me back in the day... because they've explained in-depth what I need to do so I could equip the Rune Platebody. God bless these memories and if anyone read it whole, please do share some of your memories... I'd love to read them
im newer player, started only about a year ago. i remember being so scared to fight those cows close to goblins cuz whenever i tried to they beat the crap out of me. i also remember just going around asking what GE is and after going over there and reading every response from the bank guy to learn what it is still having no clue lol.
I remember my first time going into the wilderness, i was 7 and decided to "team up" with a player about 15 lvls higher then me. First thing he does is start going north, and im following along looking at the scenery. We got to the ghost shack by the black salamanders and he turned on me! I freaked out and started running south, eating my tuna for all they were worth, but alas his maple shortbow was too good for my 23 hp. And i lost my full mithril and my prized adamant dagger. XD good times, pretty sure i cried over that betrayal and made me sketchy to team up with anyone since.
I was a complete noob for months when i started, in like 2006. Had no idea how to make money and was basically the coolest guy in my school because I had mith helm and skim. Then one day a guy approached me and told me he was going to pay me 100gp each for iron ore, and I was like wait so i can get 100K!!!!!!!!!!! if i mine 1000 ore? I snuck in the computer room that night when my nan went to bed to farm iron ore at alkharid mine in f2p all night and sold him the 1000 ore for 100k and i thought I had literally made it in game by doing that. some of the best time in my life.
@@emsbikestories2491 Damn literally like this I was sneaking in living room throwing blanket over the TV so I could play some more Battle City or Contra on my polish bootleg NES console
I used to sit and farm cows for hours on end and think I was a beast in my full black armour. The fun of not knowing what to do was what it was all about. After a few months you got you head around stuff and like most got your full rune and couldn’t equip the plate body due to the quest hahah. So many memories of been a noob it was great. Sit in my room watching rsmv and grinding like mad, miss those days.
This was the best time of my life. Going out with ur friends, coming home, and playing RS the whole night. This was the Time, when flax picking was a good way to money I was so proud when i was able to wear blue d hide.
Crazy how much my gameplay has changed from wayyyyyy back then when I was young (back in 06-08 or so, and now. I feel way old but I definitely remember picking flax at a time and when I thought I wanted to get 99 mining from rune ores (lol) never got past 70… f the skill. Got 99 wcing though doing magic logs for 90 percent of it. What a waste of time but the good ole days
Found the whole set dropped on lumbridge on my first day of membership and i was like BEST DAY OF MY F***KING LIFE. Years later i did the quest and it was like the easiest piece of equipment to get, dropped right after the quest ended lmao.
I remember getting from 2 mil up to 3.5 mil by merching whips and robin hood hats in Fally gardens world 2. I was so excited that I had all this money, I dropped it on the floor to see what the stack looked like with a view to pick it back up again. The game froze and logged me out. I desperately tried to enter my log in details as quickly as I could before it appeared to other players. The second I logged back in I saw it appear, and some level 105 in a santa hat ran over and picked it up. I begged him to give it back but he didn't believe that it was mine and told me to do one. I didn't log back in for another year.
That sucks! I’ve dared myself to temporarily drop items in the past as well but I was always worried that could happen lol. Do you play old school or when did you stop playing?
yo bro ik this was three years ago but i did the exact same thing my brother merched some items at fally until he got me a whip, which i wanted so bad but could never get enough money to get one. so first thing i did was take it to pest control. wanted to see what it looked like on the ground and the game ended. probably the worst day of my childhood life 😂
My close irl friends told me about the game back in 2006. When I first started playing I remember being too scared to go any further than lumbridge. I'd kill goblins with the basic loot I got from tutorial island and thought that goblin mail was a super wicked drop and would run to the general store immediately and sell it, that's how I made my money. After about a week of playing I saw my sister (who also played with me and my irl friends) walking through Al-kharid, fascinated, I asked her how she got there.. She showed me the way and when it was my turn on the computer I vividly remember running straight there and after about 2 minutes of exploring I died to a scorpion by the mine. I lost everything I had and was absolutely devastated and cried for about 20 minutes and swore I'd never play the game again. My sister saw me and asked why I was crying and when I told her what happened all she said was "Why didn't you bank anything?". Ffs I didn't even know there was a bank. I still play off and on and to this day that memory haunts me every time I pass that stupid mine. I also remember killing cows for hours for my first mithril scimmy and not long after I obtained it I died in the wilderness to a pker, needless to say i cried once again and swore never to play but sure enough, here I am. = ]
I was training with a rune halberd at ardy zoo - I thought that was peak legend back then because it could hit quite high. This guy comes up to me and is super friendly, we chat for like half an hour and he compliments me on how high I can hit. He is curious as to how much he could hit and asks if he could borrow it. I was tentative, told him how I struggled to trust people because I'd been lured into the wildly 8-trillion times. He reassured me with his friendly charm - took it, hit the grizzly bear a few times, acted as if he would give me it back after then logged out. 80k that took me half a year to earn, gone. So sad.
damn man i feel bad for the peoiple who didnt experience this....cant believe its been 14 years...makes me so sad :( i was 10 years old when i started in 2006
Can we please have more content like this? I wouldn’t even mind an hour long video with this type of content but even more detailed. It’s fascinating. I played at that time and was an absolute noob. I love the memories this video reminds me of.
The coolest part about runescape back in the day was the free trade system. You can see in multiple screenshots people saying things like "Spending 1m". That's such a cool idea. This guy has money and has no idea what to spend it on and you can just trade him and see what he offers for your items. There is no grand exchange. There are no set prices. You barter or come up with your own prices. I remember trying to merchant for hours upon hours back in the day just sitting in Falador park or around Varrock bank with hundreds/thousands of other players. There were distinct areas meant for certain things to trade. You used to trade saradomin/guthix/zamorak armor north of West Varrock bank. I remember selling barrows armor in Falador park. All the rich bastards would be in certain parts selling party hats, Santa hats, and other rares. Man, good times.
i remember having tens of sheets of papers with prices. lobs 300 yews 300 big bones 200? it was very nice money making to make cakes and lobsters. wich i often did for a clan that was local. also finally being able to make pizza's made me a ton of money. that money i used to buy a dragon dagger and i was so happy. i even made an alt for mining essence to make runes for my clan.
Yes! I can remember watching my friend pk with dds in varrok when we were like 10 OR 11. We use to record his pking on hypercam and freak out when he would spec a 25+25. Wish i still had that computer:P
I remember when construction came out I had a kitchen would throw house parties in my level 25 construction house and tell players to use their valuable item with the table, kick them out of the house and YOINK.. I got banned lol..
I mean there are still around 100 or so playing it on w334 Edit: and yes ice barrage is annoying there but almost everyone has it so diminishing returns are usually bearable with it. Usually. I don't care to actually capture the flag more just chill and kill
Yea it was amazing back in those times. It was always packed to the brim in Clan Castle. I Didn’t even realize I was experiencing a once in a life time thing until now. I recently just started playing last week after not playing since 2009, so much has changed
I remember feeling like such a badass when I finished getting the gold CW armor set. My cousin and I spent a ridiculous amount of time doing CW. The only time I ever got tired of CW is when I’d have a streak of games with awful teammates that had no clue what to do, but other than that I loved it.
@@farratheproducer-beatsinst6367 I did too but the guy used mystic tops instead. Ever since then I merched Mystic tops and even had a 'Perm buyer' who would buy 200 at a time lol. I miss those times
i remember getting membership cards from my parents for christmas in like 09 and being so damn hyped! i miss these days of the game, and being a clueless kid. The Internet isn't the same anymore
I remember always carrying my cash stack with me because I liked seeing it add up when picking up coin drops. One time I died at dark wizards because I didn't pay attention and I didn't make it back in the 2 mins you had (losing 60k). The tears were real boys.
I remember crying the first time I lost full rune lmao. I worked my ass off for it and lost it in the wilderness cause I was sure there was no way this dude could hit an 8. he hit an 8.
I found 60k at dark wizards a long time ago. I was an absolute noob and ran up and freaked out when I realised how much it was. Managed to get myself rune legs and helm because of it. If that was you, thank you. Made one of my best rs memories.
Runescape back in 2006 was a portal to wonderland. Greatest game experience of my life. Even more than Xbox and WoW combined. I was having SO much fun in that world. It almost hurts to think about.
what a wonderful video. Reminds me of logging in just for the feeling of wonder. My friends and I had no idea wtf we were doing, and there was a simple beauty in hitting up castle wars all night long. Thank you so much for this video. Easily one of my favourite RS videos on youtube.
I still remember my first day in members... Was at my F2P training spot on Karamja killing lessers with ranged when I got my first "walliekaart" which i got membership with from my mom.. Best moment in my life when I got myself a magic shortbow for the first time.
Ik kocht ze in een tabakswinkel, mijn moeder was boos op me dat ik naar die winkel ging. Een 12 jarige aan de sigaretten! Maar mam, al mijn vrienden gaan daar ook heen. Oh, goede tijd
DUDE, seeing how many players use to play back then really breaks my heart,how much it's died since then so sad....I'm happy I got to experience those days though, cherish forever.
YES! exactly! I hate that we will never get that same experience again, but oh my god what a great feeling it was to explore and not feel like you were on a time limit, nothing but pure enjoyment even out of the simplest of things. You could go almost anywhere on runescape, any world, and make a friend ( or enemy) basically just engage in conversation with whoever, whenever. it was such an amazing feeling.
Loved Swiftswitch, brings back many fond memories! The OG metal dragons really hits home, got 60-99 magic in 2006 on steel dragons.. took over 400k chaos runes and 8 months, back when d legs were 2.5m!
Man I was so nooby back then I didn’t figure out people traded in fally until I had 3-4 months in playing I sold everything to general stores playing like a iron man before it was cool 😂
I remember when there would be like 10 people in the centre varrock general store and we'd play games where everyone would sell random shit then someone would randomly chuck something real valuable in and there would be a scramble to buy it first lol
Remember Varrock west bank on world 2? Used to be people wrapping all the way around the bank and down to the apothecary. There were different areas for selling things. I remember runes were always sold at the outside eastern wall of the bank.
@@delta-tuning That doesn't ring any bells. People didn't do that. It was a free for all and a complete mess. The Grand Exchange was the best addition to Runescape, along with HD in 2008, almost 12 years ago.
I always tell my friends how educational runescape is: First game where i got scammed Learned how to type by competing with everyone outside varrock bank on that grass Grinded hours just to buy a weapon to go fight in wildy only to die and realise how tough grinding is T_T Very realistic market socialising and the list goes on....
i want to be a child back in 2004 again just to experience this all over again, genuine nice people, genuine curiosity , with as little content runescape had back then you never got bored
Joining with miniclip was the best so many players. I was blown away how realistic it was. Spent the first few hours picking wheat and making bread east of lumby
HOLY SH- I remember that! I found it on miniclip in 2004-2005 and I could barely get passed tutorial island lmao, I always played ping pong on that site haha
This warms my heart. Thanks for sharing. I miss those days. Bank Sale! Life and games were so unique. I can't believe you tossed in the music. Never get that feeling again, but the music gets you as close as you'll ever get.
8:12 "Another level 126. I wonder if that guy still plays" - Man... That's Thehate!! He was big back then. Not as much as Zezima obviously but I'd say top 10. He was the first to reach 99 Agility and first to reach 2277 total level after the release of Hunter. He was also rank 12 in 2002. (From wiki). Thanks for the video. Still playing right now on my OSRS Ironman. Not only did I enjoy the pictures but I appreciated your commentary. 27:14 Autolycus... Another top player there. Can't remember much about him. One more thing that made everything more valuable was how hard it was to get items, and how you had to find out how much they were worth. If there was only one guy selling a d chain at fally park, he could boost that price a couple mill and someone could have bought it. It was all a time thing. How long were people willing to wait. I made millions merching d bones by fally east bank. I got scammed right by the edgeville - wildy boundary when there was no trench or anything. My buyer was standing two squares inside the wild alching. His combat level was way to high for me to even worry. Naïve me... I trade him, a guy logs in with ancient magiks and kills me. Lost my blue mask. Worth about 14m at the time.
I used to chat with Thehate! They were real chill and a great player. I started RS in the early 2000s and left a few years after. Those days of standing in the markets selling stuff are long gone...
I was going to post a similar comment about Thehate! I remember seeing this name at the top of the hiscores page all the time and thought it was an awesome username! glad you share a memory like this, also!
i remember seeing uloveme who was 2nd ranked at the time back at the fishing guild. She was just sitting in bank with her black armor G, it felt like i saw a celebrity lol
I hunted with Thehate when hunter came out, I'm pretty sure he held rank 3-5 for a 2 year stretch, along with Green098 and Yogosun. This makes me want to repair my old laptop and recover the hard drive.
This touched my heart so deep. You could wander around Runescape and meet random people across the game. And the only meeting place where world 1 and 2 where people wouuld trade in varrock falador and Camelot. Ohhh my god the memories strikes good. really enjoyed watching this.
I started playing in 2001. I was 8 years old when my brother introduced it to me. I still have screenshots from 01-06 and I enjoy looking at them from time to time. It reminds me of some of the great times I captured from that time. Cool stuff!
I have some old screen shots from around 2005-2007 as well. The maker of the vid should make an email or something we can all send pics to submit for a vid
Masketta Man you think you miss pre ge, but you don’t. Osrs didn’t have the ge for years, the community voted over 80 percent to implement it. Although it is nostalgic, it’s not that fun to spend countless hours standing around trying to find a seller for specific items. The ge allows the game’s economy to develop and allows more of the content to be interacted with. Although I agree that the ge sucks some magic out of the game, and lessens player interaction significantly, it’s overall worth it to keep the game economy stimulated and keep players engaging with all the content
I remember buying membership as a kid. I wrote a letter to Jagex and sent them an envelope filled with coins that I saved up. Those were truly more simple times.
i got scammed in that era for my full rune (g), i didnt really react to it so all i did was be bummed about it and return to the yew trees to get my money back at edgeville yew trees.
To be honest you can thank youtube for removing historical videos of the OG Runescape. There were thousands of RSMV and makers too. but they all got removed and that's shame. UA-cam got big because of things like runescape BTW. Runescape was the best game people could video and put online and share clip before twitch.
I remember all them extremely cringe music videos but they were gems of UA-cam runescape videos, I used to UA-cam them all the time back in like 05-07 wondered why they all disappeared :(
I'll never forget, I used to go down in to varrock sewers to kill skeletons so I could level up. I thought the players that trained on guards were so cool, and i was immensely proud of my full steel armor set and mithril scimitar. With the og basic red cape of course.
I was walking around in iron/bronze between varrock and al kharid. I would fight and mine in the scorpion mine, carry ore to the furnance in alkharid AND walk to varrock to smith items lol. I didn't bank.
Oh man this brings back so many amazing memories. I started playing in RS Classic.. and there’s so many things I miss in some ways I wish there was no G/E I feel like back then the game was played more as a group and not so solo... like I remember doing quests as a group haha.. I had taken tons of screen shots from back in the day but as you said computers get thrown out etc... amazing video.
tonyt3955555 trust bro this is what I’m saying, it’s more like “hybridscape” rather than Old school. When OSRS first came out there was no GE, I loved that. Got people into bartering and made some items harder to acquire... now it’s all on a plate
I remember running to home after school because i was so motivated to gain more levels than my friends, Looking back to this and knowing that 13 years passed is just so sad but overall the nostalgia made us all tear :') Thank you for the amazing content
my head just exploded seeing swiftswitch after almost seventeen years of having it buried in my memories. that’s the client i used back in middleschool!
I remember lobster fishing was so popular for f2p. Kids would sit there hours during the summer break. And people actually talked to each since UA-cam wasn't really a thing. Sometimes you might put on some music that you downloaded over Limewire. Those were some magical times for the internet.
Oli NZ I don’t think that would work as people will just hop worlds to use GE. It would only work if a whole separate profile for those worlds was created
8:13 Thehate! He was a legend back in the day and consistently a top player along with Zezima, The old Nite, English King, N0valyfe and many more. So much nostalgia, thank you so much for making this video!
me and my dad used to play Runescape together a lot back in 06 07 08 he just passed in dec. this video brought back a lot of memory's and made me a little emotional glad to have found your channel
I miss 06. I remember sooo many people would just stand around varrock square in crowded worlds and wait for pkers to tele in. Back then damage would register through teleports so people would often die at v square and then we’d just jank their loot lol
Man this is the runescape I remember falling in love with playing. I remember playing through the summer of 05, I had my first job collecting cowhides for some guy at lummy castle lol. Looking at these pics, makes me happy, yet I feel an element of sadness. It was this community feel, playing castle wars... burthorpe games room... duel arena THEN.... damn. Runescape will never be like that. Sometimes I really think OSRS has been updated far too much, to the stage where it’s hybridscape not Truely OSRS.miss the simplicity of 05/06 :( I make plenty of money on GE today flipping but I’d gladly want to have it removed from game. I learnt my bartering skills in varrock west, and fally big bank, it captured the “market-like” feel which was appropriate for RuneScape’s setting in time (medieval). I guess we must accept that these are just a distant memory now, and the game truely was great. There will never be another quite like runescape in 05/06. Everything is too accessible now compared to the golden days. This time of RuneScape will always hold a place in my heart 🙌🏽😎💙
The one thing that will make recreating truly "Old School" runescape impossible, is that we live in an age of information now, we can look up every little thing, there's guides on how to do almost everything, wiki pages with exact weapon stats to tell you what's actually better than what Take Doric's quest as an example, super easy quest, you just have to bring the materials and it literally takes under a minute, and you get a funny line of 3rd wall break dialogue something along the lines of "I just funnily enough happen to be carrying those exact things". Not many people probably saw that line of dialogue back in 06 or 07 because knowing quest info ahead of time was rare
31 and still playing RuneScape. I started playing in 2003, my first downfall was when I walked into the wilderness with all my money and all my stuff. I lost it and stopped playing but came back the next hour lol.
I still have a folder with old Runescape pictures as well, albeit not 1000. The nostalgia from seeing these is just amazing. My time playing Runescape back then was seriously one of the best times of my life. The biggest reason I sucked at Runescape was because I hated trading in world 1 so much. I was a f2p for a long long time because my parents refused to use their credit card on something online and I earned my money cutting yew logs in Edgeville up to lvl 88 (joined by bots). Once I got scammed selling them in W1 and I was so incredibly sad. The first video on my channel is actually from me getting 84 woodcutting, made in Windows Movie Maker of course. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
aha, photo evidence! everyone always goes "wtf no we didnt" when i say back in the day we used to do fight caves with a crystal bow. i miss the old monster models. i was never a fan of the 2006 monster graphics update
I actually really lovex the graphics update. But NOT Eoc. Killed rs for me. The Eoc update is when i stopped playing. I saw it. Tried to play and just fucked right off.
I didn't prefer but 2006 graphics update either but it was still absolutely playable. The HD update in 2008 and all subsequent graphics updates only made RS more and more unrecognizable.
That was the only way I knew to do fight caves back in 06. Two crystal bows and guthans was the standard to actually making it through for many players
This brought a tear to my eye man runescape back than was my life I miss those days of just logging on with no goals now it's all about being as efficient as possible
When I was a kid I had like this best friend on RS who would always be on. i knew he was older than me by how he talked so i always tried to sound older but i was 8-10 so... anyway we were really cool, he even let me log into his account sometimes to help train his stats cause idk its was just cool to me to log into an account that was like 100cb (as i was only ever like 70). eventually he messaged me one day saying he had to go and that he probably wouldn't be back on for a while, when i asked him why he told me he was a sniper in the military and he had to go to war. My Dear old friend hasn't been on since. God bless your soul WarWar55 i hope you're out there somewhere.
I remember having many RS friends around that time in active duty. I was young like you, and didn't really comprehend war. One friend just played RS all the time because he couldn't really leave his house due to his combat wounds.
Thank you for this flash back back then was some of the best memories I have. Man I miss the good old days ,😥 thank you again for this trip down memory lane.
Thank you all for the amazing feedback and for commenting with your own RuneScape memories! Please keep doing so as I love to read them! Part 2 will be uploaded on Christmas Eve 2019. If you want something to tide you over, I made a video a while back looking at the early days of OSRS, when that old school spirit was revived: ua-cam.com/video/3rQEVOBXIyA/v-deo.html
not to be a sad sack or anything but we barely lost any troops in the war on iraq; the chances that that guy was coming back were pretty good. Unless of course he didn't intend on coming back... maybe from the horror, maybe from the forever changed lifestyle... We've lost more more iraq veterans to suicide post-service than we did during battle.
I have a video idea for you Andrew. It came to me while you were talking about getting scammed for 20k. I'm not sure if you already covered this subject, but how about listing some of the old scams people used to do? There has to be some screenshots and video of some of the more common ones. I started playing in 2002/2003, I still play on my original account from back then (Cloudy Puff) I have the scythe on rs3 to prove it! =P . I remember sometime shortly after the release of rs2 in 2005 I was doing waterfall quest in my very first set of full rune armor complete with rune b axe. In one of the fire giant rooms near the entrance of the dungeon people would door trick people. Closing the doors and keeping you in the room with aggressive fire giants. I died, I lost everything. That rune armor took an insane amount of work for me to get and I was completely devastated. I think I quit for almost a year because of it. (disclaimer) - It may have been pre-rs2, I forget honestly. It was so long ago I don't remember if it happened on classic. I just don't know if I ever got full rune on classic which is why I think it happened after 2005. Edit* I was really hoping to see myself in a picture of his ^.^ Back then I was a fashion-scapie gamer girl with a red p hat and a quest cape
Hey this is a long shot but I’m going too check tonight I may possibly have my old laptop from when I was a kid I had screenshots as well I don’t know how many but if i find any or locate the old laptop I’ll be more then gladly too share them
@@WatchmojoUS my friends had a clan, cwl ( castle wars legends ) most of them were maxed. If anyone has ever heard of Skychi or seen any of his old rs videos, he used to play with us.
Thank you Moe! For the blast from the past and of course AndrewAJT for this. Can’t even describe the feelings of nostalgia I had especially when you spoke of being F2P and wondering what was just beyond that gate next to Dorics hut
After months playing f2p, I begged my parents (literally in tears) to pay for membership in 5th grade. I was 11 y/o. I then picked flax for weeks. Traded all profits for a fez??? I switched to fishing after that. SOOOO many conversations! The fishing guild was my favorite place. Runescape will always be my all time favorite game. I'm glad it still has a community today, but it will never be what it was. Levi5811
Dude the flax grind was real back then. Remember when you had to type 100 times in a massive horde of people " selling flax (x) each " praying somebody who needed it saw your message and traded you.
People today don't understand that back in 05-06 10-12 mil was a LOT of money. I remember in 2005 merching law runes to get a whip and the day I bought one for 3m was just an unreal feeling. Eventually I merched up to 12m and got full Guthans. These were the best items in the game and that kind of money took FOREVER to get. Skilling took so much longer and as you said, 99% of players were just exploring and trying to learn the game. Nobody had the game knowledge back then to play efficiently or make a ton of money. Great times.
I remember farming on release day, Zezima was at the Falador park tree patch typing “buying any seeds 1k each” and I had a few I traded him. Great times.
Back before he showed his true colours... these days he just threatens to hack people without actually following through when told to do it if he's gonna do it... I'm still waiting for him to do it.
@@davidwarren2771 not anymore, it was a few years ago and had it saved on my old old laptop, after I was threatened with a hack by him, a few other people have received threats off him too, so it's not like I'm the only one, honestly wish I still had the recording.. but like I'm not gonna try and convince you of the kind if person he is, create your own opinion, He went from my RS hero to RS Zero when it happened.. Just be cautious when interacting with him. Support wont do anything either since he only issued threats and hasn't actually followed through with any of them..
@@plntpls no, not when it's an account that has 14 years of my time put into it. It's the equivalent of someone just kicking your dog like a rugby ball.
so amazing, you hit a gold mine. brings back so many memories. I actually enjoyed playing runescape back then. it literally felt like an adventure every time you played.....then came youtube........lol im not complaing, one of the main reasons why i have a level 126 account in osrs today.
and also i thank the guy so much for sharing those pictures. just amazing, thats what i wish runescape still was today and not youtube info driven. but, thats just what it is
It was such a great feeling when you went into castle wars and saw people with ancients in your team. You knew you were gonna own all those noobs on the other team.
scamming was actually a charm of the game back then. Back then the warning light wouldn´t even flicker when something in the trade screen was changed or removed.
@@vesical7952 The entire main portion of the Iraq war was directly due to 9/11 happening (well, using 9/11 as a false pretense to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, as the attackers were Saudi). They were talking about the Iraq war specifically in the video, and that didn't technically start until 2 years after 9/11. And obviously thought you would be taking about the iraq war.
the part about cluelessness is accurate, I remember when I started I wondered around the game for weeks just collecting things and doing random stuff. Didn't realise there was a friendslist or even a bank in Runescape so I stocked everything in my inventory and got sad when I thought I need to get rid of something. A month later and a friend of mine tells me runescape has banks for stocking stuff lmao...11 years old at the time and not a wonder in the world
I got lured back in like 2009 or something into the red portal in clan wars for full bandos and AGS and I shit you not I cried for like 2 hours straight 😂
i remember luring people into that portal when it came out, when the other portal was multi and safe death so you would get your friend to pj when you are fighting a noob in high risk then tell him to fight you in the 1v1 portal :') didnt even do it for the gear, you just wanted to see what the guy said when he came back in with nothing. priceless
Right around 2006-2007 I was cutting mages near the Legends guild when a guy got one of the tree spirit random events. He was wearing a blue h'ween mask with some sort of fancy robes, I think maybe trimmed mage robes or something. He was AFK and everyone stood underneath him waiting for the loot. I knew about the whole alch value controlling which items you keep, so instead of spam clicking underneath him like everyone else, I right clicked and picked up the blue h'ween mask from the very bottom of the pile. I was 11 or 12 years old and was FREAKING out! I remember selling it for (I think) 14m at the time or something around that
one of my best memories from being a little kid is finally getting the d legs drop and selling it so i had enough to buy dharoks full set. my worst memory is letting my online friend borrow the dharoks set to test his max in the duel arena. he logged out immediately and i never saw him online again. good times lol
I wish I could experience the emotions that I experienced back then when playing rs today.. it makes me sad seeing all of this and remembering. I probably started playing in 2006 or 2007 and the game was so much better back then.
So many good memories. I remember doing flax-to-bstrings for days on end in Seers back in summer 2005 (IIRC) to get my first abby whip because I didn't know how to make faster money. Nearly gave myself carpal tunnel clicking for 12-16 hours a day. Ended up getting a shortcut because of some guy who went AFK selling bstrings in the spinning room. Two trips later, he had a swarm hitting him. Every trip after that his health was a little lower. When he got down below 10% I stopped running the route and waited on him. I was already spam-clicking when he dropped, and got almost everything: 856k gp, ~2200 noted bstrings, and half his splitbark set (which was actually worth money back then). It not only gave me enough to finally get that god damn whip, but also to buy a Torag's chest+legs to go with it. That was the best feeling of my life at the time. I still had that same whip when I came back to RS3 in 2018 to sell my stuff off in preparation for getting my gold ferried over to OSRS. Memories, man. Hell, just thinking about people shooting the shit and congratulating each other on levels at Karamja lobbies. Or my friend trying to scam me in 2004 for 100gp by trying to sell a black cape as a purple one because of the little line of purple trim. Also had a laugh at your reaction to the first update of the settings page.
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Part 2 is up!!!
Watch here: ua-cam.com/video/J4sgsp7lRZo/v-deo.html
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Thank you so much for posting this. These warmed my heart, and make me wish I still had all of my old screenshots as well.
Bloody hell get to the fucking point
this is older i know i know but just realize a Santa hat is right under 3bil on Rs3
This playlist is still so underrated, thanks for the nice work.
Lets all collectively forget everything we know about rs and go back to this.
I got it back in HCIM with no guide. Try it if you haven't dont use a guide.
Tripp City you need to have no life in order to live your life in a game like that.
I second this!
Nah, I still love RuneScape.
Dude, I know it was only about 14 years ago, but this makes me feel so old, like I'm an old man watching cassette tapes as a kid. This is nuts.
14 years ago O_O
It’s heartbreaking almost to see the game we once loved in front of us in still image format. We can physically see it, remember it, but never experience that same feel playing in this great time again. We are lucky enough to say we did experience it though, something modern players will never know
Ikr
Holy shit it was 14 years ago that’s crazy I was 6
When I was a kid all I did was to play flash games on websites till I found RuneScape, at that time I didn't knew how to read English, so I got stuck at tutorial island for 3 days on 2007 lol.
Mined iron ore for days to buy a full black g then get scammed with a normal full black, also gave my full time which cost me 100k to a guy with full saradomin to trim my rune set XD
Since I couldn't read English, I had to find guides of quest in my language so I could do them, that was fun. Nowadays quest dialogues in mmorpgs are skipped like in 99% of the time
back when you could find someone pking on every single world
Still can
@@savagesock3598 not like back then... Every other world had mage bank pkers. Find a whole team in random spots..
@@aggressivereindeer3200 well I guess your probably right about that
@@savagesock3598 you'd be able to go to the Varrock king spot and hop to find a few worlds that had high risk pking going on when wild cam out. Made half my friends list like that and went out with dope big groups. Best days of rs for me followed by the release of osrs.
Yeah I agree on the server I was on I went to the wild all the way to where those devil things spawn and didn't see a single person.
Yeah I remember when I played in 2007 the wild no matter what world you where on always had a lot of people.
Hope "We are the 0" came home safe
lol i don't believe for a second that he was actually a soldier. we were mostly dumb kids on this game back then, he probably thought that it would get him free stuff or something.
"I used to be so curious on what was behind the members gates" damn we all had the same childhood
Aaron W holy shit I know right that completely hit different when he said it, I used to be SO curious bro and wonder heavily how it would be if I was a member and use to want to know how the other side of RuneScape looked like so bad
I use to think there was a secret way for me to get in I was being all creative and then some asshole would come up and say you gotta pay to be a member noob
"Bro I can hit 16s now"
"What now way dude"!
Brooooooooo me in middle school
bruh i was happy about hitting 7's. when i started hitting 10's i was so happy
Natural 16’s with rune bax ftw
duuude
I remember hitting my first 20 with a rune long sword I got off a guy who died in the varrock sewers.
My saddest moment was in 2005 in one of my first days of playing.
7 year old me fetched bananas in Karamja for 30gp each full inventory. I finally got to 1000 coins and was so happy. Only to get killed by a Karamja snake soon after.
I was in tears, it was so unfair.
I remember getting my ass kicked by that damn snake.
I remember dying against Elvarg in dragon slayer quest since I forgot to bring an anti-fire shied. I lost like 80k and was crying lol. I was maybe 10.
lmfao
The scorpions in mm1 got me this year.. osrs still killin ppl :D this vid is too much nostalgia to handle tho lol
I remember doing this and was super excited once I finally reached 50k coins lol
It trully was the "cluelessness" what made this game so great back in the day.
Best memory of Runescape I have to this day, was when I started playing for the first time... spent nearly whole week playing, but actually never left Lumbridge... my friend told me to make some money so the only way I knew to make money was killing goblins.
He didn't tell me how much is that and how should I do it, so I picked my Bronze Sword, Bronze med helm and wooden shield and started stabbing those green fuckers to death.
He told me that I have to make money for a Rune set.
After like 40 hours of killing goblins (only picking up the gold drops) I had few k in my backpack and taxi'd someone to varrock.
There at the west bank a guy was selling Rune set so I traded him, he put the whole set there and I offered my few k I had.
He declined the trade and wrote "This isn't enough, give me more"
After few minutes of me trying to explain this is all I have and it is A LOT OF MONEY, I don't know if he was a noob like me or just a really kind person and gave it to me for the money I had.
For nearly 5 months I had the rune set in my bank and I was leveling my defence to 40 with the bronze sword I had AND on stab.
After that when I was finally able to equip it I couldn't equip the platebody where I don't know how I didn't noticed that I needed the Dragon Slayer quest completed.
So there I was with a panic attack writing on support that my account is bugged and I cannot equip Rune Platebody even though I'm level 40 defence.
To this day I have their response on my email since I screenshoted it to my friend and send it to his email so he could translate what they've replied (I had only a basic knowledge when it came to english so not only was I learning the game, but the whole language too)
I wonder if they would send the same response as they did to me back in the day... because they've explained in-depth what I need to do so I could equip the Rune Platebody.
God bless these memories and if anyone read it whole, please do share some of your memories... I'd love to read them
im newer player, started only about a year ago. i remember being so scared to fight those cows close to goblins cuz whenever i tried to they beat the crap out of me. i also remember just going around asking what GE is and after going over there and reading every response from the bank guy to learn what it is still having no clue lol.
I remember my first time going into the wilderness, i was 7 and decided to "team up" with a player about 15 lvls higher then me. First thing he does is start going north, and im following along looking at the scenery. We got to the ghost shack by the black salamanders and he turned on me! I freaked out and started running south, eating my tuna for all they were worth, but alas his maple shortbow was too good for my 23 hp. And i lost my full mithril and my prized adamant dagger. XD good times, pretty sure i cried over that betrayal and made me sketchy to team up with anyone since.
I was a complete noob for months when i started, in like 2006. Had no idea how to make money and was basically the coolest guy in my school because I had mith helm and skim. Then one day a guy approached me and told me he was going to pay me 100gp each for iron ore, and I was like wait so i can get 100K!!!!!!!!!!! if i mine 1000 ore? I snuck in the computer room that night when my nan went to bed to farm iron ore at alkharid mine in f2p all night and sold him the 1000 ore for 100k and i thought I had literally made it in game by doing that.
some of the best time in my life.
@@emsbikestories2491 Damn literally like this I was sneaking in living room throwing blanket over the TV so I could play some more Battle City or Contra on my polish bootleg NES console
I used to sit and farm cows for hours on end and think I was a beast in my full black armour. The fun of not knowing what to do was what it was all about. After a few months you got you head around stuff and like most got your full rune and couldn’t equip the plate body due to the quest hahah. So many memories of been a noob it was great. Sit in my room watching rsmv and grinding like mad, miss those days.
This was the best time of my life. Going out with ur friends, coming home, and playing RS the whole night. This was the Time, when flax picking was a good way to money
I was so proud when i was able to wear blue d hide.
Crazy how much my gameplay has changed from wayyyyyy back then when I was young (back in 06-08 or so, and now. I feel way old but I definitely remember picking flax at a time and when I thought I wanted to get 99 mining from rune ores (lol) never got past 70… f the skill. Got 99 wcing though doing magic logs for 90 percent of it. What a waste of time but the good ole days
Back when we all used to say “W00T!!!”
I still say that
Never stopped.
Now its hedhduagskdlshdhdjd and clip it and no waaaaaay and behemoth....
That’s not a thing anymore???
Zomg
Starting off the nostalgia train: "Poop" Sounds about right.
My username is Kiss Poop, made back in '03. Lol the nostalgia is real.
This is like our Ancient Egypt hieroglyphics
yeah if u lived in egypt
Wahh im sad
Exactly what i was thinking so damn true!!
I guess that makes the original game like cave paintings lol
How fucking cool were HAM robes when you first got members 🤣 so many great memories.
Haha can’t forget the bone spear!
Found the whole set dropped on lumbridge on my first day of membership and i was like BEST DAY OF MY F***KING LIFE. Years later i did the quest and it was like the easiest piece of equipment to get, dropped right after the quest ended lmao.
I remember gettin ham robes the day they were released....
The kids in ghostly robes were the true badasses
I know agreed
I remember getting from 2 mil up to 3.5 mil by merching whips and robin hood hats in Fally gardens world 2. I was so excited that I had all this money, I dropped it on the floor to see what the stack looked like with a view to pick it back up again. The game froze and logged me out. I desperately tried to enter my log in details as quickly as I could before it appeared to other players. The second I logged back in I saw it appear, and some level 105 in a santa hat ran over and picked it up. I begged him to give it back but he didn't believe that it was mine and told me to do one. I didn't log back in for another year.
That sucks! I’ve dared myself to temporarily drop items in the past as well but I was always worried that could happen lol. Do you play old school or when did you stop playing?
Can you get perfect score in RS 2006 era?
Sad part about that story is that it looks the same as 10k on the ground.
that level 105 was a bad guy for sure
yo bro ik this was three years ago but i did the exact same thing my brother merched some items at fally until he got me a whip, which i wanted so bad but could never get enough money to get one. so first thing i did was take it to pest control. wanted to see what it looked like on the ground and the game ended. probably the worst day of my childhood life 😂
My close irl friends told me about the game back in 2006. When I first started playing I remember being too scared to go any further than lumbridge. I'd kill goblins with the basic loot I got from tutorial island and thought that goblin mail was a super wicked drop and would run to the general store immediately and sell it, that's how I made my money. After about a week of playing I saw my sister (who also played with me and my irl friends) walking through Al-kharid, fascinated, I asked her how she got there.. She showed me the way and when it was my turn on the computer I vividly remember running straight there and after about 2 minutes of exploring I died to a scorpion by the mine. I lost everything I had and was absolutely devastated and cried for about 20 minutes and swore I'd never play the game again. My sister saw me and asked why I was crying and when I told her what happened all she said was "Why didn't you bank anything?". Ffs I didn't even know there was a bank. I still play off and on and to this day that memory haunts me every time I pass that stupid mine. I also remember killing cows for hours for my first mithril scimmy and not long after I obtained it I died in the wilderness to a pker, needless to say i cried once again and swore never to play but sure enough, here I am. = ]
"Be nice to him, because this time i'm probably not coming back" wow
who's cutting onions up in here
@@Fontknower Do you play nowadays buddy? What is your RSN?
@@dawn-blade rsn is astari look me up, I quit a while back tho
Not real dude, I just made a comment telling a story about the time I met one of these "veterans". Funny this guy captured it on a screen shot.
@@communistwoman How can you be 100% certain this is not real?
I was training with a rune halberd at ardy zoo - I thought that was peak legend back then because it could hit quite high. This guy comes up to me and is super friendly, we chat for like half an hour and he compliments me on how high I can hit. He is curious as to how much he could hit and asks if he could borrow it. I was tentative, told him how I struggled to trust people because I'd been lured into the wildly 8-trillion times. He reassured me with his friendly charm - took it, hit the grizzly bear a few times, acted as if he would give me it back after then logged out. 80k that took me half a year to earn, gone. So sad.
Smooth criminal
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Thx for the halberd m8
@@apocm6784 u stole it ?
@@w0rldofrs i remember ripping someones rune halberd in ardy zoo, good old times. was years ago tho way before the HD update
who else looked for their own characters name in all of those pictures
damn man i feel bad for the peoiple who didnt experience this....cant believe its been 14 years...makes me so sad :( i was 10 years old when i started in 2006
This video isn't from 2006. Someone has an infernal cape, came out in 2017.
@@nycyabber7103 he talking about the pictures dumbass
@@nycyabber7103 That was just the beginning clip. Photos start at 3:02
You were a cool kid back then if you had a hell cat. Only the high level players had them.
Lmao I just got mine and I’m a veteran player just never got around to completing recipe until now lol not much of a quester more of a pvp
Can we please have more content like this? I wouldn’t even mind an hour long video with this type of content but even more detailed. It’s fascinating. I played at that time and was an absolute noob. I love the memories this video reminds me of.
agreed
for real
yesss
samee!
The coolest part about runescape back in the day was the free trade system. You can see in multiple screenshots people saying things like "Spending 1m". That's such a cool idea. This guy has money and has no idea what to spend it on and you can just trade him and see what he offers for your items. There is no grand exchange. There are no set prices. You barter or come up with your own prices. I remember trying to merchant for hours upon hours back in the day just sitting in Falador park or around Varrock bank with hundreds/thousands of other players.
There were distinct areas meant for certain things to trade. You used to trade saradomin/guthix/zamorak armor north of West Varrock bank. I remember selling barrows armor in Falador park.
All the rich bastards would be in certain parts selling party hats, Santa hats, and other rares.
Man, good times.
Walking around the masses of people, trying to find correct area to sell your items. I forgot about that, thank you :)
"bank sale"
Seers Village bank was a hype trading spot in summer 07. Anyone else?
i remember having tens of sheets of papers with prices.
lobs 300 yews 300 big bones 200? it was very nice money making to make cakes and lobsters. wich i often did for a clan that was local. also finally being able to make pizza's made me a ton of money. that money i used to buy a dragon dagger and i was so happy. i even made an alt for mining essence to make runes for my clan.
I remember these days so well, everyone used to pk in wildy easy varrock, north or the sawmill, nobody pks there now...
In f2p w308 yeah
Yes! I can remember watching my friend pk with dds in varrok when we were like 10 OR 11. We use to record his pking on hypercam and freak out when he would spec a 25+25. Wish i still had that computer:P
Ghost lol I remember losing rune chain, legs and 2h because I was skulled and I didn’t know about skulling back then
@@lolwat5418 man i was so sad when i lost a rune chain there haha
Found a video of me and my friends maxing in dh from 11 years ago on the youtube. Pure nostalgia.
I remember when construction came out I had a kitchen would throw house parties in my level 25 construction house and tell players to use their valuable item with the table, kick them out of the house and YOINK.. I got banned lol..
LOL
I miss when Castle wars had so many people playing
I mean there are still around 100 or so playing it on w334
Edit: and yes ice barrage is annoying there but almost everyone has it so diminishing returns are usually bearable with it. Usually. I don't care to actually capture the flag more just chill and kill
My child hood
Damn I miss 2007 2008
Yea it was amazing back in those times. It was always packed to the brim in Clan Castle. I Didn’t even realize I was experiencing a once in a life time thing until now. I recently just started playing last week after not playing since 2009, so much has changed
I remember feeling like such a badass when I finished getting the gold CW armor set. My cousin and I spent a ridiculous amount of time doing CW. The only time I ever got tired of CW is when I’d have a streak of games with awful teammates that had no clue what to do, but other than that I loved it.
i got scammed back then when i was buying a whip and it got switched to a noted rope. broke my heart. good times
Aww damn. I had my whip scammed by a lure. Dragon b axes would protect over a whip 😅
@@farratheproducer-beatsinst6367 same here!
The dragon battleaxe scam.
@@farratheproducer-beatsinst6367 I did too but the guy used mystic tops instead. Ever since then I merched Mystic tops and even had a 'Perm buyer' who would buy 200 at a time lol. I miss those times
I’m sorry I did that
i remember getting membership cards from my parents for christmas in like 09 and being so damn hyped! i miss these days of the game, and being a clueless kid. The Internet isn't the same anymore
internet is cancer now.
@@DankMecaIt was good before news media got wind of it
I remember always carrying my cash stack with me because I liked seeing it add up when picking up coin drops. One time I died at dark wizards because I didn't pay attention and I didn't make it back in the 2 mins you had (losing 60k).
The tears were real boys.
Bro... It gets better, I promise 😭
I remember crying the first time I lost full rune lmao. I worked my ass off for it and lost it in the wilderness cause I was sure there was no way this dude could hit an 8.
he hit an 8.
@@OctorokSushi legit remember crying to my mum cuz i got scammed in varrock, they took my whole bank!
I found 60k at dark wizards a long time ago. I was an absolute noob and ran up and freaked out when I realised how much it was. Managed to get myself rune legs and helm because of it. If that was you, thank you. Made one of my best rs memories.
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Runescape back in 2006 was a portal to wonderland. Greatest game experience of my life. Even more than Xbox and WoW combined. I was having SO much fun in that world. It almost hurts to think about.
what a wonderful video. Reminds me of logging in just for the feeling of wonder. My friends and I had no idea wtf we were doing, and there was a simple beauty in hitting up castle wars all night long. Thank you so much for this video. Easily one of my favourite RS videos on youtube.
I was such a fkin noob I couldn't fight anyone so I spent the entire game trying to line up a catapult shot and caving in the underground passage
I still remember my first day in members... Was at my F2P training spot on Karamja killing lessers with ranged when I got my first "walliekaart" which i got membership with from my mom.. Best moment in my life when I got myself a magic shortbow for the first time.
Hahaha jaaa walliekaarten
@@robinangelo9918 wallie wallie
Goddome walliekaarten jonge. Dat woord is zo nostalgisch holy shit. Kocht toen een keer stiekem membership en habbo credits whaha
wallie kaarten :DDD
Ik kocht ze in een tabakswinkel, mijn moeder was boos op me dat ik naar die winkel ging. Een 12 jarige aan de sigaretten!
Maar mam, al mijn vrienden gaan daar ook heen.
Oh, goede tijd
DUDE, seeing how many players use to play back then really breaks my heart,how much it's died since then so sad....I'm happy I got to experience those days though, cherish forever.
Its about the sane amount today because mobile
the game itself is not dead, the inefficiency is dead
@@7ehNP "exp waste" "you dont have max cape? lmfao" "omg kick him he's using chaotics"
YES! exactly! I hate that we will never get that same experience again, but oh my god what a great feeling it was to explore and not feel like you were on a time limit, nothing but pure enjoyment even out of the simplest of things. You could go almost anywhere on runescape, any world, and make a friend ( or enemy) basically just engage in conversation with whoever, whenever. it was such an amazing feeling.
Loved Swiftswitch, brings back many fond memories! The OG metal dragons really hits home, got 60-99 magic in 2006 on steel dragons.. took over 400k chaos runes and 8 months, back when d legs were 2.5m!
and when 2.5 m actually made you a badass lol
And whips were like 8m. Also, I remember a SwiftKit client, that's what I used.
Swift switch was the shiz because you could pick your fights in edge by looking up their stats
same, I remember fighting steel dragons with monk robes and whip in 2005 lol trying to get dragon platelegs.
Man I was so nooby back then I didn’t figure out people traded in fally until I had 3-4 months in playing I sold everything to general stores playing like a iron man before it was cool 😂
Hello there
I remember when there would be like 10 people in the centre varrock general store and we'd play games where everyone would sell random shit then someone would randomly chuck something real valuable in and there would be a scramble to buy it first lol
this made me laugh thats hilarious man!
Remember Varrock west bank on world 2? Used to be people wrapping all the way around the bank and down to the apothecary. There were different areas for selling things. I remember runes were always sold at the outside eastern wall of the bank.
@@delta-tuning That doesn't ring any bells. People didn't do that. It was a free for all and a complete mess. The Grand Exchange was the best addition to Runescape, along with HD in 2008, almost 12 years ago.
These pictures are super nostalgic :) I quit the game in 2008. I recently got the urge to try OSRS, and stumbled upon your channel!
I always tell my friends how educational runescape is:
First game where i got scammed
Learned how to type by competing with everyone outside varrock bank on that grass
Grinded hours just to buy a weapon to go fight in wildy only to die and realise how tough grinding is T_T
Very realistic market
socialising
and the list goes on....
bra that was me haha dam the feels
Taught me about all the metals and smelting before school did but I started at like 9 haha
i want to be a child back in 2004 again just to experience this all over again, genuine nice people, genuine curiosity , with as little content runescape had back then you never got bored
Mini clip is how I found runescape back in 2005!
Joining with miniclip was the best so many players. I was blown away how realistic it was. Spent the first few hours picking wheat and making bread east of lumby
tom K what hahah? Miniclip is not what you think it is
@@Brandonpowerstroke umm no it is? Flash gaming website. Wtf r u on about lol
Yup, that's how I discovered it. Remember that day so well. I was 10 years old when I found it in 2004. Ahhh, how time flies.
HOLY SH- I remember that! I found it on miniclip in 2004-2005 and I could barely get passed tutorial island lmao, I always played ping pong on that site haha
This warms my heart. Thanks for sharing. I miss those days. Bank Sale! Life and games were so unique. I can't believe you tossed in the music. Never get that feeling again, but the music gets you as close as you'll ever get.
The real question is did anyone ever find out about "We are the 0" whereabouts?
please I really would like to know!!!!
I would really love to know too. I wish him well if he's still out there. If not, I hope his son's able to shed a story or two for us. #Godbless
8:12 "Another level 126. I wonder if that guy still plays" - Man... That's Thehate!! He was big back then. Not as much as Zezima obviously but I'd say top 10. He was the first to reach 99 Agility and first to reach 2277 total level after the release of Hunter. He was also rank 12 in 2002. (From wiki). Thanks for the video. Still playing right now on my OSRS Ironman. Not only did I enjoy the pictures but I appreciated your commentary.
27:14 Autolycus... Another top player there. Can't remember much about him.
One more thing that made everything more valuable was how hard it was to get items, and how you had to find out how much they were worth. If there was only one guy selling a d chain at fally park, he could boost that price a couple mill and someone could have bought it. It was all a time thing. How long were people willing to wait. I made millions merching d bones by fally east bank.
I got scammed right by the edgeville - wildy boundary when there was no trench or anything. My buyer was standing two squares inside the wild alching. His combat level was way to high for me to even worry. Naïve me... I trade him, a guy logs in with ancient magiks and kills me. Lost my blue mask. Worth about 14m at the time.
Thanks for sharing very interesting
I used to chat with Thehate! They were real chill and a great player. I started RS in the early 2000s and left a few years after. Those days of standing in the markets selling stuff are long gone...
I was going to post a similar comment about Thehate! I remember seeing this name at the top of the hiscores page all the time and thought it was an awesome username! glad you share a memory like this, also!
i remember seeing uloveme who was 2nd ranked at the time back at the fishing guild. She was just sitting in bank with her black armor G, it felt like i saw a celebrity lol
I hunted with Thehate when hunter came out, I'm pretty sure he held rank 3-5 for a 2 year stretch, along with Green098 and Yogosun. This makes me want to repair my old laptop and recover the hard drive.
This makes me a little sad... I miss those days...
Been playing since 2005 and these pictures are pure gold. Damn, so many memories and stories to tell.
Running around in Castle Wars with a G Maul was the best thing.
This touched my heart so deep. You could wander around Runescape and meet random people across the game. And the only meeting place where world 1 and 2 where people wouuld trade in varrock falador and Camelot.
Ohhh my god the memories strikes good. really enjoyed watching this.
Loved this
Thanks!
Papa
Its him :o
I started playing in 2001. I was 8 years old when my brother introduced it to me. I still have screenshots from 01-06 and I enjoy looking at them from time to time. It reminds me of some of the great times I captured from that time. Cool stuff!
I think we would all love to see them
I think we would all love to see them
Please share them mate
I have some old screen shots from around 2005-2007 as well. The maker of the vid should make an email or something we can all send pics to submit for a vid
I started in 2002.
Castle wars was life back in the day lol, I remember the first time I got ancient magics back then and it was amazing to flex it there 😂
ooooh yeah. Spend a week making money for runes to flex in cws. That was fun. Everybody wants you on their team
take a shot everytime he says "back then"
Oh my god I was halfway through the video when I read this now I can't unhear it
happy you lightened me up hahahahhaa
bro listen i read this at 2 min and at 23 its killed the video. you would be drunk at 10 minutes
The GE killed Fally Park, Varry West, and Seers' trading. God, I miss the pre-GE era of RS.
Claudius Jean No, you don’t
The GE was one of the best things to ever happen to RS.
Blake Rees yea no, that’s absolute bullshit.
@@DrPonner ok zoomer
Masketta Man you think you miss pre ge, but you don’t. Osrs didn’t have the ge for years, the community voted over 80 percent to implement it. Although it is nostalgic, it’s not that fun to spend countless hours standing around trying to find a seller for specific items. The ge allows the game’s economy to develop and allows more of the content to be interacted with. Although I agree that the ge sucks some magic out of the game, and lessens player interaction significantly, it’s overall worth it to keep the game economy stimulated and keep players engaging with all the content
I remember buying membership as a kid. I wrote a letter to Jagex and sent them an envelope filled with coins that I saved up. Those were truly more simple times.
Did you get it? 😂
I did!
School never taught me how to mail a letter. But I do know how to do the quadratic formula! (So backwards)
Got scammed for 50k for a rune 2h with the iron swap trust issues ever since lol
That shit was traumatizing.
I feel so guilty hearing that lol i used to think it was so much fun item swapping people. Gg
A friend of mine used to swap obby capes with black capes from highway men to make his money
i got scammed in that era for my full rune (g), i didnt really react to it so all i did was be bummed about it and return to the yew trees to get my money back at edgeville yew trees.
the full verac noted swap with black skirt was shit too :P
To be honest you can thank youtube for removing historical videos of the OG Runescape. There were thousands of RSMV and makers too. but they all got removed and that's shame. UA-cam got big because of things like runescape BTW. Runescape was the best game people could video and put online and share clip before twitch.
True... i had so many Runescape videos on my channel. They all got removed.
Why were they removed?
@@charliekelly7515 google bought youtube and all videos were deleted. Everyone had to reupload everything. I think it was around 06 that it happened
I remember all them extremely cringe music videos but they were gems of UA-cam runescape videos, I used to UA-cam them all the time back in like 05-07 wondered why they all disappeared :(
Yeah fuck you google
I'll never forget, I used to go down in to varrock sewers to kill skeletons so I could level up. I thought the players that trained on guards were so cool, and i was immensely proud of my full steel armor set and mithril scimitar. With the og basic red cape of course.
I was walking around in iron/bronze between varrock and al kharid. I would fight and mine in the scorpion mine, carry ore to the furnance in alkharid AND walk to varrock to smith items lol. I didn't bank.
“Runescape was your entire screen” being immersed in the game as you said, will forever be everlasting to me.
Oh man this brings back so many amazing memories. I started playing in RS Classic.. and there’s so many things I miss in some ways I wish there was no G/E I feel like back then the game was played more as a group and not so solo... like I remember doing quests as a group haha.. I had taken tons of screen shots from back in the day but as you said computers get thrown out etc... amazing video.
Same... G.E ruined my Redberry Pie business... was selling them at 20-30k each. I managed to make 130 mill off them before G.E.
The GE I believe, was the major downfall
very sad when i discovered osrs that the ge was back in, even more sad when i realized i couldn't pick up a guys stuff who had died.
Remember selling super sets for like 10k
tonyt3955555 trust bro this is what I’m saying, it’s more like “hybridscape” rather than Old school. When OSRS first came out there was no GE, I loved that. Got people into bartering and made some items harder to acquire... now it’s all on a plate
I remember running to home after school because i was so motivated to gain more levels than my friends, Looking back to this and knowing that 13 years passed is just so sad but overall the nostalgia made us all tear :')
Thank you for the amazing content
What a great time of my life, sad RuneScape will never feel the same as when I was a child back in 06 thanks for sharing these pictures
my head just exploded seeing swiftswitch after almost seventeen years of having it buried in my memories. that’s the client i used back in middleschool!
I remember lobster fishing was so popular for f2p. Kids would sit there hours during the summer break. And people actually talked to each since UA-cam wasn't really a thing. Sometimes you might put on some music that you downloaded over Limewire. Those were some magical times for the internet.
They should bring back the finding random garbage items in crates, cupboards, chests etc
With a rare chance of finding something cool
Absolutely. The GE needs to be abolished also
@@farratheproducer-beatsinst6367 abolished is too radical and the player base would not like that. Make it somehow inconvenient to use
We just need a few Worlds or one World that has no GE access.
Oli NZ I don’t think that would work as people will just hop worlds to use GE. It would only work if a whole separate profile for those worlds was created
13:10
"I was so clueless but I was having so much fun."
It sounds like you knew a lot better then.
The year is 2019 and 75% of the player base are bots, 20% are gambling addicts, and the remaining 5% are us nerds living in the past.
yaa
I’m in that 5% haha 😂
Lmao that's why I quit the game again nobody fun to play with or even boss
Hi I'm 5% lol
i fall in the 5% as well! lol, man, good times.
8:13 Thehate! He was a legend back in the day and consistently a top player along with Zezima, The old Nite, English King, N0valyfe and many more. So much nostalgia, thank you so much for making this video!
me and my dad used to play Runescape together a lot back in 06 07 08 he just passed in dec. this video brought back a lot of memory's and made me a little emotional glad to have found your channel
I miss 06. I remember sooo many people would just stand around varrock square in crowded worlds and wait for pkers to tele in. Back then damage would register through teleports so people would often die at v square and then we’d just jank their loot lol
First thing I did when I got membership was finally go check out the digsite area to figure out what was behind those dreaded gates.
Same here man! I also remember picking up every random item off the ground thinking members was a gold mine for gp haha
Man this is the runescape I remember falling in love with playing. I remember playing through the summer of 05, I had my first job collecting cowhides for some guy at lummy castle lol.
Looking at these pics, makes me happy, yet I feel an element of sadness. It was this community feel, playing castle wars... burthorpe games room... duel arena THEN.... damn. Runescape will never be like that. Sometimes I really think OSRS has been updated far too much, to the stage where it’s hybridscape not Truely OSRS.miss the simplicity of 05/06 :( I make plenty of money on GE today flipping but I’d gladly want to have it removed from game. I learnt my bartering skills in varrock west, and fally big bank, it captured the “market-like” feel which was appropriate for RuneScape’s setting in time (medieval).
I guess we must accept that these are just a distant memory now, and the game truely was great. There will never be another quite like runescape in 05/06. Everything is too accessible now compared to the golden days. This time of RuneScape will always hold a place in my heart 🙌🏽😎💙
The one thing that will make recreating truly "Old School" runescape impossible, is that we live in an age of information now, we can look up every little thing, there's guides on how to do almost everything, wiki pages with exact weapon stats to tell you what's actually better than what
Take Doric's quest as an example, super easy quest, you just have to bring the materials and it literally takes under a minute, and you get a funny line of 3rd wall break dialogue something along the lines of "I just funnily enough happen to be carrying those exact things". Not many people probably saw that line of dialogue back in 06 or 07 because knowing quest info ahead of time was rare
31 and still playing RuneScape. I started playing in 2003, my first downfall was when I walked into the wilderness with all my money and all my stuff. I lost it and stopped playing but came back the next hour lol.
I still have a folder with old Runescape pictures as well, albeit not 1000. The nostalgia from seeing these is just amazing. My time playing Runescape back then was seriously one of the best times of my life.
The biggest reason I sucked at Runescape was because I hated trading in world 1 so much. I was a f2p for a long long time because my parents refused to use their credit card on something online and I earned my money cutting yew logs in Edgeville up to lvl 88 (joined by bots). Once I got scammed selling them in W1 and I was so incredibly sad. The first video on my channel is actually from me getting 84 woodcutting, made in Windows Movie Maker of course.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
aha, photo evidence! everyone always goes "wtf no we didnt" when i say back in the day we used to do fight caves with a crystal bow.
i miss the old monster models. i was never a fan of the 2006 monster graphics update
A moment of silence for the "gnome in a demon costume" imps.
I actually really lovex the graphics update.
But NOT Eoc. Killed rs for me. The Eoc update is when i stopped playing.
I saw it. Tried to play and just fucked right off.
I didn't prefer but 2006 graphics update either but it was still absolutely playable. The HD update in 2008 and all subsequent graphics updates only made RS more and more unrecognizable.
We definitely did! I remember using one to kill hellhounds in taverly dungeon for clue scrolls.
That was the only way I knew to do fight caves back in 06. Two crystal bows and guthans was the standard to actually making it through for many players
This brought a tear to my eye man runescape back than was my life I miss those days of just logging on with no goals now it's all about being as efficient as possible
When I was a kid I had like this best friend on RS who would always be on. i knew he was older than me by how he talked so i always tried to sound older but i was 8-10 so... anyway we were really cool, he even let me log into his account sometimes to help train his stats cause idk its was just cool to me to log into an account that was like 100cb (as i was only ever like 70). eventually he messaged me one day saying he had to go and that he probably wouldn't be back on for a while, when i asked him why he told me he was a sniper in the military and he had to go to war. My Dear old friend hasn't been on since. God bless your soul WarWar55 i hope you're out there somewhere.
I remember having many RS friends around that time in active duty. I was young like you, and didn't really comprehend war. One friend just played RS all the time because he couldn't really leave his house due to his combat wounds.
god bless all of you
Jagex don't realise the many many different ways this game has effected people's lives, all the stories and personal experiences still amaze me
@@DBZ483 Pretty sure they are aware...
@@LiquidusSnakeX okay?
These pictures are giving me butterflies. I wish OSRS was more like 2006. Simple and cute.
Thank you for this flash back back then was some of the best memories I have. Man I miss the good old days ,😥 thank you again for this trip down memory lane.
Thank you all for the amazing feedback and for commenting with your own RuneScape memories! Please keep doing so as I love to read them! Part 2 will be uploaded on Christmas Eve 2019. If you want something to tide you over, I made a video a while back looking at the early days of OSRS, when that old school spirit was revived: ua-cam.com/video/3rQEVOBXIyA/v-deo.html
not to be a sad sack or anything but we barely lost any troops in the war on iraq; the chances that that guy was coming back were pretty good. Unless of course he didn't intend on coming back... maybe from the horror, maybe from the forever changed lifestyle... We've lost more more iraq veterans to suicide post-service than we did during battle.
I have a video idea for you Andrew. It came to me while you were talking about getting scammed for 20k. I'm not sure if you already covered this subject, but how about listing some of the old scams people used to do? There has to be some screenshots and video of some of the more common ones. I started playing in 2002/2003, I still play on my original account from back then (Cloudy Puff) I have the scythe on rs3 to prove it! =P . I remember sometime shortly after the release of rs2 in 2005 I was doing waterfall quest in my very first set of full rune armor complete with rune b axe. In one of the fire giant rooms near the entrance of the dungeon people would door trick people. Closing the doors and keeping you in the room with aggressive fire giants. I died, I lost everything. That rune armor took an insane amount of work for me to get and I was completely devastated. I think I quit for almost a year because of it. (disclaimer) - It may have been pre-rs2, I forget honestly. It was so long ago I don't remember if it happened on classic. I just don't know if I ever got full rune on classic which is why I think it happened after 2005.
Edit* I was really hoping to see myself in a picture of his ^.^ Back then I was a fashion-scapie gamer girl with a red p hat and a quest cape
Hey this is a long shot but I’m going too check tonight I may possibly have my old laptop from when I was a kid I had screenshots as well I don’t know how many but if i find any or locate the old laptop I’ll be more then gladly too share them
castle wars in 2006-2009 go in which ever team Maikel Pro, Motherchild or Legend of UV was in. :)
@@WatchmojoUS my friends had a clan, cwl ( castle wars legends ) most of them were maxed. If anyone has ever heard of Skychi or seen any of his old rs videos, he used to play with us.
Sad it’s gone but so happy i got to experience it , hell of a game but osrs never has and never will compare
Thank you Moe! For the blast from the past and of course AndrewAJT for this. Can’t even describe the feelings of nostalgia I had especially when you spoke of being F2P and wondering what was just beyond that gate next to Dorics hut
After months playing f2p, I begged my parents (literally in tears) to pay for membership in 5th grade. I was 11 y/o. I then picked flax for weeks. Traded all profits for a fez??? I switched to fishing after that. SOOOO many conversations! The fishing guild was my favorite place. Runescape will always be my all time favorite game. I'm glad it still has a community today, but it will never be what it was. Levi5811
Dude the flax grind was real back then. Remember when you had to type 100 times in a massive horde of people " selling flax (x) each " praying somebody who needed it saw your message and traded you.
People today don't understand that back in 05-06 10-12 mil was a LOT of money. I remember in 2005 merching law runes to get a whip and the day I bought one for 3m was just an unreal feeling. Eventually I merched up to 12m and got full Guthans. These were the best items in the game and that kind of money took FOREVER to get. Skilling took so much longer and as you said, 99% of players were just exploring and trying to learn the game. Nobody had the game knowledge back then to play efficiently or make a ton of money. Great times.
I remember farming on release day, Zezima was at the Falador park tree patch typing “buying any seeds 1k each” and I had a few I traded him. Great times.
Back before he showed his true colours... these days he just threatens to hack people without actually following through when told to do it if he's gonna do it... I'm still waiting for him to do it.
@@xLionsxxSmithyx he threatens to hack people...? you got proof?
@@davidwarren2771 not anymore, it was a few years ago and had it saved on my old old laptop, after I was threatened with a hack by him, a few other people have received threats off him too, so it's not like I'm the only one, honestly wish I still had the recording.. but like I'm not gonna try and convince you of the kind if person he is, create your own opinion, He went from my RS hero to RS Zero when it happened.. Just be cautious when interacting with him. Support wont do anything either since he only issued threats and hasn't actually followed through with any of them..
LOL you can't handle a little trolling from the Zez?
@@plntpls no, not when it's an account that has 14 years of my time put into it. It's the equivalent of someone just kicking your dog like a rugby ball.
so amazing, you hit a gold mine. brings back so many memories. I actually enjoyed playing runescape back then. it literally felt like an adventure every time you played.....then came youtube........lol im not complaing, one of the main reasons why i have a level 126 account in osrs today.
and also i thank the guy so much for sharing those pictures. just amazing, thats what i wish runescape still was today and not youtube info driven. but, thats just what it is
I honestly had a tear fall down watching this video. So nostalgic, so beautiful, brings back so many memories
I remember for my 12th birthday my grandmother mailed a cheque for a year membership, best year ever. 2005/06
It was such a great feeling when you went into castle wars and saw people with ancients in your team. You knew you were gonna own all those noobs on the other team.
brah i was a beast with ice burst in there, you would see the odd pure with barrage and he was an absolute legend
Back in the days when everyone thought a MSB and mystics was the sickest outfit because of elvemage
Got scammed for a whip he removed it and it said “absolutely Nothing” I thought it said abbysal whip lost 3.5m!
😭😭😭
Thank you so much for this video!
scamming was actually a charm of the game back then. Back then the warning light wouldn´t even flicker when something in the trade screen was changed or removed.
@@uvuvwevwevweonyetenyevweug6386 Heck yeah. Someone tried that shit on me with a Saradomin sword into a Steel longsword lol
damn salute the we are the 0 I felt that my brother never returned I felt that in my damn bones. I hope hes safe with his son.
Utterly useless war as well, going to war with the wrong country, had nothing to do with 9/11.
@@rdizzy1 I'm not sure any of it had to deal with 9/11 bud.he joined before 9/11 and got blown up on the side of the road.
@@vesical7952 The entire main portion of the Iraq war was directly due to 9/11 happening (well, using 9/11 as a false pretense to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, as the attackers were Saudi). They were talking about the Iraq war specifically in the video, and that didn't technically start until 2 years after 9/11. And obviously thought you would be taking about the iraq war.
"almost everyone was a semi-ironman" - thats why it was the best game back then
@John Dillinger 120k gp for rune plate smh
the part about cluelessness is accurate, I remember when I started I wondered around the game for weeks just collecting things and doing random stuff. Didn't realise there was a friendslist or even a bank in Runescape so I stocked everything in my inventory and got sad when I thought I need to get rid of something. A month later and a friend of mine tells me runescape has banks for stocking stuff lmao...11 years old at the time and not a wonder in the world
When u said you were mostly free to play and poor i felt that lol thats how I play even to this day
Addison Miele ok noob
I got lured back in like 2009 or something into the red portal in clan wars for full bandos and AGS and I shit you not I cried for like 2 hours straight 😂
Feels bad man I’m a grown ass man now with a little un but I got lured for my hard earned whip in 2009 and your damn right I cried
i remember luring people into that portal when it came out, when the other portal was multi and safe death so you would get your friend to pj when you are fighting a noob in high risk then tell him to fight you in the 1v1 portal :') didnt even do it for the gear, you just wanted to see what the guy said when he came back in with nothing. priceless
That was such a bad update lol. Like just a random mini game portal with a version of the actual wilderness inside
14:05 "Nobody really documented their gameplay like this guy"
Yogosun: Am I a joke to you?
Remember N0valyfe's old website? It was the OG (I'm talkin' Ohhh-fuccin-Gee) "Road to Max" lol
Right around 2006-2007 I was cutting mages near the Legends guild when a guy got one of the tree spirit random events. He was wearing a blue h'ween mask with some sort of fancy robes, I think maybe trimmed mage robes or something. He was AFK and everyone stood underneath him waiting for the loot. I knew about the whole alch value controlling which items you keep, so instead of spam clicking underneath him like everyone else, I right clicked and picked up the blue h'ween mask from the very bottom of the pile. I was 11 or 12 years old and was FREAKING out! I remember selling it for (I think) 14m at the time or something around that
one of my best memories from being a little kid is finally getting the d legs drop and selling it so i had enough to buy dharoks full set. my worst memory is letting my online friend borrow the dharoks set to test his max in the duel arena. he logged out immediately and i never saw him online again. good times lol
I remember visiting one of those fake giveaway sites only to get my account hacked and addy armour stolen from me LOL
Bro same. I lost so much. R1p
I wish I could experience the emotions that I experienced back then when playing rs today.. it makes me sad seeing all of this and remembering. I probably started playing in 2006 or 2007 and the game was so much better back then.
8:13 That guy was actually top-5 in the rankings back in ~2005 and he was one to compete with Zezima and The Old Nite etc.
So many good memories. I remember doing flax-to-bstrings for days on end in Seers back in summer 2005 (IIRC) to get my first abby whip because I didn't know how to make faster money. Nearly gave myself carpal tunnel clicking for 12-16 hours a day. Ended up getting a shortcut because of some guy who went AFK selling bstrings in the spinning room. Two trips later, he had a swarm hitting him. Every trip after that his health was a little lower. When he got down below 10% I stopped running the route and waited on him. I was already spam-clicking when he dropped, and got almost everything: 856k gp, ~2200 noted bstrings, and half his splitbark set (which was actually worth money back then). It not only gave me enough to finally get that god damn whip, but also to buy a Torag's chest+legs to go with it. That was the best feeling of my life at the time.
I still had that same whip when I came back to RS3 in 2018 to sell my stuff off in preparation for getting my gold ferried over to OSRS. Memories, man. Hell, just thinking about people shooting the shit and congratulating each other on levels at Karamja lobbies. Or my friend trying to scam me in 2004 for 100gp by trying to sell a black cape as a purple one because of the little line of purple trim.
Also had a laugh at your reaction to the first update of the settings page.
Idiot Magnet I find it hilarious how valuable GP used to be and the scams people used to do