Gamers Dream was a non-profit organization dedicated to one simple goal: creating and maintaining global public game servers for the community. In an era before matchmaking and ranked queues, we provided a home for thousands of players.

At our peak, Gamers Dream hosted over 15 high-performance game servers located across the East, Central, and West USA. We were devoted to the players. All revenue generated from our web hosting and clan rental services went directly back into hardware upgrades—keeping our OC-48 connections fast and our pings low. No money ever went into staff pockets.

This site serves as a digital museum to the admins, the regulars, and the friendships formed in the early 2000s.

There was a time when gaming meant finding a server IP, adding it to your favorites, and getting to know the people you fragged every night. We lived in IRC channels on GameSurge (specifically #GamersDream), coordinated scrims manually, and debated the merits of cl_cmdrate and ex_interp.

Our infrastructure was a beast for its time. While many played on 56k modems, we were racking Dual 1.6GHz Linux boxes on fiber OC-48 connections. Whether it was the chaos of 32-man Dust2, the speed of TFC 2Fort, or the gravity-defying action of Ricochet, Gamers Dream was there.