Yep, they all had their own look and feel.

I still have around 20 PSDs of all of the different Quake clan / gaming ladder sites I put together back in the day.

I think that's why these sites all looked unique. The design started with a blank image in Photoshop because you used to slice up the PSDs into images and stitch it together in code afterwards.

Today you can easily design a site without ever touching an image editor since it can be all CSS rules.