A moment of silence for those friends that logged off forever...

back when life wasnt so complicated

don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened

"See ya tomorrow XD" "Bye" *Last Online 2012*

*"I Didn't Know We Were Making Memories, We Were Just Having Fun!"* - Winnie Pooh

it's Saturday morning, everyone in the house is still sleeping and it's snowing outside, the best feeling to play😍

To all my Runescape brothers and sisters over age 30. We remember when "Old School Runescape" was just Runescape.

Ladies and Gentlemen, please stand up for the national anthem of childhood.

Miss the days when everyone would run back home from school to play.

I can already hear my character chopping down trees.

When varrock general store was the grand exchange

I remember pretending to be sick just to stay home and play

*starts playing music to focus on studies * *instantly opens osrs *

So.. much... grinding.... so many cows what have I done with my life

Imagine hearing this song in your age 90’s. The memories, they will all come back. Visualizing how you would walk from Lumbridge to Varrock. Spamming the run button because you were broke to buy a law rune.

Remember guys. We're all still on this planet. We can still have fun, whether it be playing the game or merely remembering it. Memories never die, at least we had the privilege to play this game. The best game.

Who remembers all those cool kids who would stand in front of lumbridge castle haha

I feel Runescape is one of those very rare games that can literally reminisce the exact feeling/environment just by listening to the music. I literally remember the desk, computer, even the baggy t shirt that didnt fit me at 12 and had to wait till I was 14. I remember "No lifing" The game until the rising dawn of next morning having not a worry in the world due to the effect of living my own adventure. Kids these days will read this and say how Nerdy/Cringe it sounds but everyone in my era will see it as remarkable.

A golden era

*You eat the cabbage! Yuck!*

This is fucking beautiful man, that first song is just, it's so powerful - it really takes you back to a game where your innocent little is safe and has no reason to feel corrupted by what's going on outside the front door. Shit, I played Runescape from the age of 9 (2005) and I played it religiously throughout the remainder of my childhood years, constantly going round my cousins on my little bike at the age of 10 to play on his PC, we'd sit and play for a couple hours before his mother got mad at us for being inside, so we'd get on our bikes and head back to mine to play. I remember being a complete noob, I shared an account with my 2 other cousins and he was called Boytr6, no idea where the name came from but to this day we still talk about it, but back to being a noob, we remember seeing a guy walking around with a dragon chainbody and we were mesmerised by it and were like "Omg he's so powerful" we were so envious over a bunch of pixels and little did we know that we had many more years of learning to come, many more long all nighters doing quests and having fun sleepovers taking turns on playing the account whilst the others played Gears of War on the Xbox 360... Whenever I hear Oldschool Runescape music, especially Autumn Voyage or Book of Spells, my entire childhood just flashes before my eyes, playing this game with my cousins, my friends, and funnily enough my own mother who to this day plays Runescape 3 on her maxed out account she's had since I introduced it to her in 2005... I played for 5 straight years, I was on and off with Club Penguin and Habbo Hotel at the time but Runescape stole my heart. In 2008 though my eldest cousin introduced us to World of Warcraft and I recall being very upset over the fact everyone else had left Runescape behind because I literally adored it, I would wake up on weekends at 9am and play until midnight, perhaps even later... As a child who played video games daily, I have to say that Runescape will always be that one special game that truly saddens me with its powerfully nostalgic music and with each song holds a memory of where I first heard it and what I was doing at the time in real life, whether or not I was surrounded by my cousins, my mother or my step-dad whom my mother met on Runescape, and because of that I now have 3 brothers who are equally obsessed with video games, just as I was... Everyday, even at the age of 20 I'll wake up and see my mam, she'll be in her bedroom playing Runescape 3 on her account and my step-dads, even though I always say Runescape 3 is crap and basically, NOT the Runescape we used to play, she still loves it, and because of that I respect her and approve of it because at the end of the day, it is just a game, but a game we all know and love so dearly. I don't remember my mams official Runescape name but when we first started in 2005 with her account, it was Nebs21, then progressed to 'Uforeal', nowadays I'm not sure but my fondest memories are having my own Kids Ranqe pure and her main account with high skills and loads of money with plenty of wonderful friends, and for those friends I used to defeat the 'Tz-Tok-Jad' for a price of 2million GP, and I was only 10 or 11 at the time, but none of her friends could do it - but nonetheless I had such an amazing time. Sometimes I play oldschool private servers to kill Jad again, to relive the memories of killing it again, that same adrenaline rush always comes straight back. Thank you, Runescape 2 for bringing me, my cousins, my mother and my step-dad closer and into my life, without it I dread to think what I would have to this day, but nonetheless I am forever thankful for being that one in a million player that enjoyed the game not for the XP grinding, but for the adventures and excitable moments. Peace.

I think why this music hits people so hard is because it reflects a simpler time in ones life, maybe back when they were in middle school, had a big group of friends that experienced everything together, most notably Runescape. Or if you didn't have many friends, Runescape introduced you to thousands of people all over the world and you made new ones. Everyone played it. Now, a good chunk of that generation are in their 20s and have probably moved on from their old group of friends and entered adult life, with little of their Runescape past remaining. I may just be a random fagit on the internet, but I think Runescape, for the generation who played it at its peak, is a beautiful allegory for life, in that you should treasure the moments and friends you had in your childhood and make the effort to stay in touch with old friends, for if you drift too far it will be lost forever.

Remember there was always one kid whose "uncle works for jagex" and would "delete your account"

“I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.” -Andrew Bernard

It's almost insane that so many people in the comments section feel the same exact way I do when I listen to these songs. It combines nostalgia, sadness, peacefulness. What a phenomenal game, so lucky that we were able to partake. Nothing will ever compare. R.I.P. original OSRS.

I'm sitting here in my school library working on a large assignment trying to get some study music to work with, and out of no where I just start crying my eyes out.. Why I gotta grow up man. Time just flies by so fast.

My favourite thing about Runescape was just chatting to people while grinding levels

At some point you logged out of Runescape for the last time and didn't even know it.

Anyone else play RuneScape as a kid and now enjoy listening to the soundtrack while doing college homework?

Not sure about all of these but I'll but down the stamps I know, comment below and I'll edit them in my comment: 0:00 : Start 1:41 : Rune Essence 3:08 : Attention 5:58 : Autumn Voyage 8:13 : Background 12:07 : Baroque 14:17 : Big Chords 15:30 : Book of Spells 19:43 : Crystal Cave 22:18 : Doorways 24:40 : Dream 27:15 : Emotion 30:27 : Expanse 33:17 : Garden 35:54 : Harmony 39:32 : Horizon 42:52 : Ice Melody 45:07 : Lightwalk 48:12 : Long Way Home 50:12 : Lullaby 53:43 : Magical Journey 57:23 : Medieval 1:01:21 : Melodrama 1:04:36 : Miles Away 1:08:23 : Miracle Dance 1:12:52 : Newbie Melody 1:16:34 : Nightfall 1:20:22 : Lightwalk 1:23:27 : Overture 1:25:12 : Parade 1:26:46 : Scape Cave 1:29:24 : Scape Original 1:32:32 : Scape Soft 1:35:13 : Serenade 1:38:22 : Shine 1:40:59 : Soundscape 1:44:06 : Spirit 1:48:00 : Tomorrow 1:50:29 : Wander 1:53:52 : Wonder 1:56:12 : Workshop

I talked to someone who had never heard of Runescape, and asked me what Runescape is like. I couldn't explain it.

Man, I remember this one guy showing me the ropes in the beginning. Taught me how to make money, and level up skills fast. Always offered help to n00bs. Months later, after hours upon hours together, he took me to the Wilderness for the first time. He and I cooked some Anchovy Pizzas, damn that shit was good. The real heart breaker was when he never logged back on after that day. I lost interest in playing about 2 years after. Still he hadn't returned. I still log back on every June 11th to eat one of those Pizzas and cry. God damn, 100% I could have been born in the middle ages, the future, fuck even the 30's lol, but no. I was born in the same time frame and existence of this wonderful game.

I remember my friend telling me that if you collected 100 cowhides, you could sell them for 10k in Al Kharid, I felt so rich every time I sold cowhides :’)

1. Start mining near Lumbridge swamp 2. Smelt it in Lumbridge furnace 3. Carry it all the way to the Varrock 4. Sprint across mages living near the gate 5. Forge it in the Varrock smithy into Armo and weapons 6. Sell it in the nearest inn 7. Repeat

I remember getting yelled at on the baseball bench because my friend and I were talking about Runescape instead of focusing on the game. I was so enamored by my friend and how he had gotten a Dragon scimmy, as if he were driving around a Lambo or something. I remember sketching armor concepts with a buddy in 6th grade that we thought would make great additions to the game. I remember my first real life close friends username still to this day in game, pieman0. Mid-twenties now, and wishing every second of the day that I could care or immerse myself into a virtual world again without having the sound reality loudly knocking at the door. I want to enjoy these games, but real world challenges and worries are too loud and consistent. Back then, it was just silence. Just the game and myself, no worries.

The nostalgia actually makes me want to cry. I Remember chilling in my room on my big bro laptop blasting this music in headphones, having adventures, and trying to drown out my parents arguing. 😭😭😭

flash1:shake: selling rune skimmy 20k!

Man what an adventure this was.. Just thinking about being 10 years old sitting on my parents computer desk after school playing this. Running around killing goblins and visiting general stores, getting pots of flour and making bread, gearing up for an adventure to karjama to fish. Man... I miss it :''''(

Video game nostalgia is one of the most purest emotions.

I remember when I gave my friend my account password thinking he would be impressed by my progress, but then he dies on the Silverlight quest and I lost my precious white robes and air staff which I thought was rare... I legit was furious at him. Ah, this game. I remember playing it for the first time in grade 6. My friend from school had rune armor already when i joined, i thought he was a lord and went crazy when I saw his username for the first time in game! That I could send him a message from home. That feeling I remember to this day. This game actually made me feel so alive and my heart would pound a out of my rib-cage. I loved Runescape, my first ever PC game... Thank you Jagex and the players I met. Over 500hrs in this game but I have no proof. This was a big part of my teenage years. I loved the escape, the grind, the trading and it gave me something to do directly from home... SAd I never got to meet any of the people in my friends list in person. I played this game mostly solo, only when a quest asked for a second player I would ask around in-game. This game helped me learn Victorian English and add to my vocabulary. I remember lvling up in scorpion pit for 2 weeks, almost every day... It was absolutely addicting to lvl-up

buying gf 50gp

asking people which shop they bought their adamant 2h from

It's Friday night in 2007, you've just logged into Runescape to chill with your friends after school, there's no work tomorrow, life is good.

It's amazing how one video game has affected us all in such a way. No film or book or television series has ever evoked such gut wrenching feelings of nostalgia than Runescape has. It speaks volumes on the quality of a video game and its soundtrack that it can make us pine for our childhoods, to bring us back to a time when life was easy and nothing mattered, even if it is just for a fleeting moment. I needed that. I will forever treasure those memories.

My childhood! It is so relaxing, with all the hate in the world. This is just a great thing to listen to.

free armour trimming

Back when I didn't want to throw myself in front of a bus. Ahhhh the nostalgia...

If you were a kid or teenager in 2004 - 2007, I salute you for experiencing this classic. No timeframe will ever be replicated as those years. We are all in our 20s and we all have noticed that life, then, was the last time it was simpler than todays generation of kids. Even one will argue kids have it simpler now, they wouldn't know what we grew up with, what we witnessed and experienced the rise of the golden age of social media sites, especially this site here: KZfaq. Times are changing and we all have to move forward now. For once, let us all hop back on here one last time. One more time.

Runescape music has always been hauntingly beautiful to me. I'm not sure why. It just brings me back to much simpler times.

0:00 : Start 1:41 : Rune Essence 3:08 : Attention 5:58 : Autumn Voyage 8:13 : Background 12:07 : Baroque 14:17 : Big Chords 15:30 : Book of Spells 19:43 : Crystal Cave 22:18 : Doorways 24:40 : Dream 27:15 : Emotion 30:27 : Expanse 33:17 : Garden 35:54 : Harmony 39:32 : Horizon 42:52 : Ice Melody 45:07 : Lightwalk 48:12 : Long Way Home 50:12 : Lullaby 53:43 : Magical Journey 57:23 : Medieval 1:01:21 : Melodrama 1:04:36 : Miles Away 1:08:23 : Miracle Dance 1:12:52 : Newbie Melody 1:16:34 : Nightfall 1:20:22 : Lightwalk 1:23:27 : Overture 1:25:12 : Parade 1:26:46 : Scape Cave 1:29:24 : Scape Original 1:32:32 : Scape Soft 1:35:13 : Serenade 1:38:22 : Shine 1:40:59 : Soundscape 1:44:06 : Spirit 1:48:00 : Tomorrow 1:50:29 : Wander 1:53:52 : Wonder 1:56:12 : Workshop

This puts my 11 month old son to sleep Cheers everyone ^_^

1:12:52 hits me right in the feels. I still remember my mom taking me out for breakfast and waiting for her to have her coffee and for the food to come out so she would be in a good mood when I asked her for a membership and coming home and being all excited and hearing that theme after my mom put in her credit card. I can still remember having the taste of eggs and toast in my mouth. Crazy how you remember small details like that.

Why can’t I stay 10 forever? Why did Runescape have to age and get old with me? Why is time passing so fast? WHYYYYY :(

Back when life was fun and bright , now it's all about depression and bills

glow3: wave: selling rune platebody

I really miss these days :( These comments are beautiful. The fact you guys have such fond memories of playing this game warms my heart.

I used to play in 2006, I'm 22 now. Time flies.

Thanks so much man. Time for my annual runescape relapse.

Man I played runescape in like 2008 when I was 9 and I just remember slaying goblins and spending so much time in the dungeon thing in the barbarian village. I would make friends just to go through that dungeon. I also remember having a really cool pair of rainbow boots

This hits so hard. I wonder if other generations feel this nostalgic about other things.

35:53

This is so peaceful brings back so many memories 😊

It's 2022.. i haven't touched runescape in over 10 years but the nostalgic feels im getting brings back so many good memories. Hope everyone is well and to all the legends that never logged back in wish nothing but the best ;)

There is a pain in my heart when I remember these times.

The simplest times of my life no stress.... what I would do to go back to it. Literally life was so good for us majority of us osrs players are now in our early 20s or 30s. We grew up to fast!

Those times when you were killing hill giants *AND GOT LIMPRUIT ROOT*

Man... where did the time go? I remember this game was my scape from reality, played with some randoms and real life friends.. but nowadays you bring up this game at a house party with some people you played with, and they just laughed.. sigh i miss being young, now it’s all full of stress, bills, relationships, anxiety, depression and so forth... any one born at early 2000’s enjoy your youth please, be yourself, don’t be “matured” because trust me life will sneak behind you and catch you off guard.

If only the internet reached its peak at this point. A perfect balance of electronics and reality. Those days growing up will be cherished in my heart and the emotions of it till my last breath. Hearing this, though it only being 15ish years, makes me feel like it was centuries ago. Life goes on and we have to go onward but I’ll always look back and be thankful to God for these magical heavenly times. It was a pleasure being apart of this magnificent journey and small chapter of our lives with everyone of you. Peace and love, y’all ✌️

I can feel my youth flowing back into me!

Anyone else remember the days of world 1 varrock bank? having to re-type stuff out to sell it HAHA. Also falador park world 2? The days!!!

I remember playing this after school in 2003? We still had dial up at the time but man did I ever have fun It truly was a simpler time.

Love to u all, we are a great generation. Build upon the good old rs days, remember embrace the good old days and go fur wards. But Dont lose touch with the child in you. That child like awe, wonder and enthusiasm can still be accessed, its not gone. We still all have "god", "love", "ego less mind“ whatever you want to call it within us. A mind without judgment and labeling, that mind that logged in for the first time so many years ago. Be conscious about it, feel your senses when listening to osrs music and enjoy the moment fully, Peace y'all ✌️

im actualy in tears right now. thank you for reminding me of my childhood

God dammit do I miss this game. Coming home from school with not a care in the world other than 30 minutes homework and slaying cows in Lumbridge to get 40 attack to use the coveted legendary "rune skimmy" that I didn't even have yet because it was SO EXPENSIVE. Only when i discovered the powers of mining rune essence and selling it for 10gp each did I stand a chance of obtaining such an artefact.

It's 2007. You've just got home from school. Dinner won't be for another few hours. You turn on your CRT screen, turn on your yellowing PC and glare at the Windows XP loading screen. You connect to the dial up internet and load up Internet Explorer 6, type in www.runescape.com, click play, choose the lowest quality and wait 20 minutes for your cache to download. You then login to World 80 and message your friend to see if he wants to help you complete Shield Of Arrav. Life was bliss then.

1:38:31 hit me right in the feels

I'm crying so hard right now..these were the days where life was so easy as a kid. The memories make my cry so hard these kids this generation will never understand how this was a huge memory in where we use to be so happy when we had it easy back in the old days. They just won't understand..

I'm writing a 10 page paper right now and this is honestly just so wonderful as background ambience. Ugh, I miss it. This game taught me English. It's been aaaaages.

To all the Old school community!!!! Thank you for making my childhood amazing ilove u guys remember the good old days when we were in schools/universities playing this game when there was no stress and u dont have to worry about anything😅😅 now in our early 20's 30's we realised life is not easy and we are stressed i guess we wish if we can go back in time and play this game together when life was not stressful Ihope u r smiling while you are reading this thank you for making my childhood amazing i wish u all a succesful life!🌹

I remember finally getting into the cooking guild in 2005. I was at my grandma's house, and I still remember the room and computer perfectly. I went into the guild and there were a couple people there. We all started talking and eventually agreed to have a party we would all cook for. We decided what to cook and got to work preparing the food right there in the guild, going out for ingredients every once in a while. After an hour of two of laughing and cooking, we hand our virtual party, Dancing and running around the guild. I miss every friend I made in Runescape =[

After I left RuneScape around 2008, for years I have switched between WoW, Mu, Eudemons, Cable, ArcheAge, Guild Wars 2, Elder Scrolls, Tera, Rift, FFXIV, 2moons, and probably tried a hundred other MMOs, but nothing has ever come close to the original RuneScape experience. Really miss it today even almost into my 30s. Hoping that one day, something will sate my cravings for another amazing game, like RS did back in the day...

You probably won’t see this but this actually wants to make my cry 😢

I remember my RS girlfriend, lmao, I used to login just to tell her I loved her and my mom used to think I’m crazy

I just turned 30 today. As with everyone here some of my most formative memories were playing this game. In many ways it was more than a game, it was a new discovery and experience that grabbed you, pulled you in, and kept you there. I remember getting up at 5 am as a teenager just to get a few hours in before school started. I think me and several buddies from school started around '05 or '06 and played for a few years. We would all get on landline phones with each other and PK. Genuinely some of the best times I've ever had in my life, which is strange to say about any video game. Now I've got two kids, 1 and 3, and I recently started playing again (just RS, not OSRS). It's still super enjoyable. Will forever be an absolute phenomenon.

just dropped acid with my cousin and we've been listening to this shit for the last two hours

Ah the memories of being scammed, receiving a steel scimmy for all your hard-earned coins when you wanted a rune scimmy.

It's not just the nostalgia. This music is magical.

Went back playing with oldschool runescape app. Damn... having as much fun as 14 years ago haha

Online gaming has become overly competitive and downright nasty in the last decade or so, especially among team-based games. To think that I played Runescape for three years straight starting in 2004 and almost never ran into hateful or mean people just goes to show how relaxing, fun, and enchanting the game was back then. The universal comradery among the massive playerbase was really something to behold. People were even nice and honorable about PvP most of the time. It's too bad that online gaming can't be as peaceful as it was back then.

8am - 1pm school 2 pm - 10 pm Runescape grinding with my schoolmates 10pm - 7pm sleeping Best childhood

and now i'm 25, still trying to finish college. got into osrs early this year, got the quest cape having tons of fun reliving some of the memories

Bro this makes me so sad ... I still play osrs to this day but it’ll never be the same. It was awesome when I first logged on at tutorial island and had zero idea what was going on. It’s still cool, but rip to the homies who haven’t logged back in

i cry listening to this music of my childhood :( i loved this game so much. depression and alcoholism f-cked me up but when i listen to this i know i can make it through it because i remember i was once happy. Thank you Jagex

why am i crying wtf

Wow just got a flashback time flies so fast I’m 26 years old now also a father to think I would play this everyday so many memories just listening to these tracks

without even noticing, while trying to wield a goblins plate, listening to this music, i fell in love with rs

"The memories of RuneScape have no end and no beginning..." - Dylan Thomas

I used to play so differently when I was little, no wiki or runehq just walking around when I logged on collecting every thing I could. I still have my account with tons of books and keys from quests and what not in my bank because I wanted to hold on to them. One thing I loved collecting was the songs and when I would log on, I’d flip to the music tab (instead of opening a music playing app) and play my favorites. Always fully listening and appreciating a new song when I got one. It really would just take me to a whole new world walking around in the area you discover the new song in, especially when it’s so beautiful.

I may have missed out on Runescape. I surely truly did miss out on a lot of it. But I am an online gamer, and I recognize Runescape as the greatest MMO ever made.

I've been waiting for my best friend from 2011 to come back online. I check nearly every day.