Nick Carter can see that we're falling apart from the way that it used to be.

Yeah.

But no matter the distance to his gaming past, he wants you to know: it all started in a dark room in Sweden.

The Backstreet Boys singer took to Twitter Thursday to throw down the gauntlet to Ninjas in Pyjamas and explain his past in competitive gaming.

Fnny @ESPN_Esports is a big thing when I did it for free for years lol. I BET if I put a team together I'd dominate @NinjasInPyjams #recruit — Nick Carter (@nickcarter) November 17, 2016

In a follow-up tweet, Carter said that he had started playing Half-Life while the band was recording "I Want It That Way" in Stockholm, Sweden, often staying up until 3 a.m.

The track was recorded in November 1998, as part of their third studio album, Millennium, becoming the title track in that 1999 release.

It seems that the young Carter was something of a video game enthusiast, as Half-Life had released on Nov. 19, 1998 in North America and did not release in Europe for another eight days.

Another tweet from Carter explores the idea that he may "have to recruit and bring out some of the old dogs to put a beat down on these wannabe gamers."

It's still unclear if Backstreet will be back in the realm of esports with a CS:GO team, or if they're just playing games with our hearts.

Josh "Gauntlet" Bury is a news editor for theScore esports. You can find him on Twitter.