I think I had a demo of one of the mechwarrior games, but it ran slow on my PC, or was a bit boring, or something, I never got on with it.

It was in the doom era though , and very little could compete (from my perspective) - so probably i just played doom coop (until it turns into defacto deathmatch) anyway. I mean that was most of the 1990s the way i remember it.

Certainly the mechwarrior demo wouldn't have had networking anyway - but i feel like maybe it got less out of my meagre hardware than doom did.