History of DPG

January 23rd, 2002 - MOHAA is Released. The Murderers are born. - by Maximus



On January 23rd, 2002 MOHAA is officially released to the world. I invite my neighbor named Matt Coberley over to play on my other computer. We start playing MOHAA for hours upon hours. During this time I go by the name of []V[]aX][[]V[]u$ and he goes by the name of The }2apto}2. After about 4 hours of gaming we see that other people are playing MOHAA, but in clans. We think the whole clan thing seems kinda cool, but don't know what to call ourselves so I tell Matt that we will call ourselves The Murderers and our tags will be written in Quake 3 language as:

[]V[]u|2|)e|2



At the time I never thought our clan would really take off so I didn't give much thought about a more serious name. I just thought it would sound hardcore to kill some dudes with a name like that. Also, I was a fan of the rap group "The Murderers" so I selected the name.

Raptor and I start sporting our full gamer name along with our clan tag which looked like this at the time:

[]V[]aX][[]V[]u$ []V[]u|2|)e|2

}2apto}2 []V[]u|2|)e|2

After gaming it up on multiple EA pub servers we came across some people who seemed pretty cool who wanted to join our clan. I would tell them over and over how to put correctly wear our tags, but it was a mess for the most part. I think we had only a couple of people who figured out how to display our tags correctly. It was so un-uniformed that it really didn't even look like we were a clan at all. There was so much confusion that people in our clan would call us Team Murder instead of "The Murderers". So instead of having one clan name we all of the sudden had two.

For the next few days Raptor would get home from school and since he was no longer playing sports because his right hand was broke and in a cast he had nothing better to do then come over to my house to play video games. After a few days his status of "neighbor" turned into an actual friendship and we then continued to play nothing but Medal of Honor: Allied Assault when I was home from work and when he was home from school.

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Early February, 2002 - Our Clan Name Is Changed - by Maximus



In early February of 2002 I inform Raptor that it seems like nobody can get our clan tag right at all. He agrees with me and as a result I end up changing our clan name from The Murderers []V[]u|2|)e|2 to a much more simple |DPG|. I named our clan after one of my favorite West Coast hip hop groups which is DPG who are Tha Dogg Pound Gangstas. Again, not thinking much of it and having no idea that it would be the beginning of many more things to come.

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Late February, 2002 - Lost Members & 1st |DPG| Recruit - by Maximus

Shortly after the name change it becomes more and more obvious that we are losing members because we have no way of keeping track of them. Sure its great to have people join our clan, but what good is it if we cannot get ahold of our members again to game it up?! I then decide that some sort of instant messaging program is going to be an absolute must and whoever we recruit from here on out must have AOL Instant Messanger (AIM) if they want to join |DPG|. Raptor and I then host a free for all server on my 3rd computer called |DPG| Clan Tryouts. Nobody really shows up for a while so me and Matt just shoot the crap out of eachother. Finally after about 20 minutes some guy named KillerSoundz shows up and seems interested in joining DPG. However, he has got to be the worst player who to this day has ever played an FPS game, but Raptor and I think "Oh what the heck" and we recruit him despite him being the world's worst player. KillerSoundz then informs us that he does indeed use AIM and will add us to his friend's list. The first |DPG| AIM list is created along with its 1st official recruit!

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