These aren't mine or anything... I couldn't find a fire beetle... but
this pretty close :p

Here's a screen shot apparently dated 11/11/98

http://media.pc.ign.com/media/002/002252/img_1196474.html

Here's the review its part of... definately worth a read... the title
alone recalls an era before most of you even heard of everquest...

"We take a look at phase 4 of the beta test"

http://pc.ign.com/articles/122/122252p1.html

There's 27 pages of screenshots, the last few pages are the oldest.