Have you ever been to a LAN party?

[WT]

I attended a LAN party in Bellefonte, PA in '97. We played Quake and Quake 2 at a guys work. It was only about 6 of us, but we had a lot of fun. I played from 12 until 1 am, then had to suffer through a 2.5 hour drive home. I was nodding off on the last half hour - playing Nirvana as loud as my 3k stereo system could play it - head hung out the window like a dog screaming at the top of my lungs to try and wake myself up. Fun times !

 

[sdifox]

10base2 networking playing descent. We all lugged our big ass crt and towers to a friend's place.

And of course netrek on Sun SparkStation IPCs.

 

[Sonikku]

Halo 2 was "the thing" when I was college. Hardly any body had a gaming PC. 🙁 Except this one guy. He had an X800XL. It was the SHIT.

 

[Red Storm]

Mostly Age of Empires 2 and some Company of Heroes. I do fondly remember playing Halo 2 system link with 4 xboxes and TVs. Playing capture the flag on relic with 16 players is the most fun I ever had playing with consoles.

 

[Majes]

I host one about every 3-4 months when Path of Exile releases a new league. I used to LAN every weekend with guys playing Warcraft 3, but PoE is our game of choice anymore...

 

[BurnItDwn]

10base2 networking playing descent. We all lugged our big ass crt and towers to a friend's place.

Ohh my god, the very first real life LAN we ever used was with the cheapest 10mbit NIC's we could find using Coax cable with those little 75 ohm terminators at the end. by like 97 or 98 I had picked up a sub $100 10mbit hub with cat5 connectors, sooo much better.

Otherwise, before that we did games over a modem at like 9600 or 14.4k, or we used a null modem over serial port or parallel port ... I forget which .... to play doom and doom 2.

 

[quikah]

Used to in the '90s. Duke3D, C&C Red Alert, and Quake were the big ones in the beginning. IPX/SPX networking a lot of the older games used was a pain, someone would always not be able to see the game.

 

[John Connor]

I played a lot of C&C Red alert and Generals Zero hour back in the day. In fact, I still do from time to time. https://cnc-online.net/en/

 

[renz20003]

LAN party's were the best.

 

[snoopy7548]

Never been to one but always thought they looked fun as hell. My friends and I would just play online in the late 90s/early 2000s.

 

[sdifox]

Never been to one but always thought they looked fun as hell. My friends and I would just play online in the late 90s/early 2000s.

You yutes use headsets. We just yelled.

Also, I did not play Descent with mouse.

 

[BoomerD]

Nope...never been...in fact, I don't think I've ever even known anyone who did.

 

[Chaotic42]

You yutes use headsets. We just yelled.

Also, I did not play Descent with mouse.

I might have thrown a chair at someone over a game of Starcraft.

 

[Tweak155]

Surprised anyone played anything but CS haha... but yeah outside of small house LAN parties (several of which I have hosted myself), I did go to this one hosted at a local university twice. As I recall, they were the main gatherings for sharing porn.

 

[sdifox]

Surprised anyone played anything but CS haha... but yeah outside of small house LAN parties (several of which I have hosted myself), I did go to this one hosted at a local university twice. As I recall, they were the main gatherings for sharing porn.

CGA strip poker

 

[Herr Kutz]

During middle school, or maybe very early high school, I went to an all nighter once with some friends at one of those places that provides computers. We played CS exclusively.

Their Pentium IIIs were much better than the Pentium II we had at home.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Surprised anyone played anything but CS haha

Real men played games that required skill.

😉

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Was still regularly doing them (~2x per year) with some local buddies up until recently.
TF2 was the main staple, with Diablo III, etc. sprinkled in here and there.
Get together Sat and game until Sun evening.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

10base2 networking playing descent. We all lugged our big ass crt and towers to a friend's place.

And of course netrek on Sun SparkStation IPCs.

I played it on a Silicon Graphic workstation in college! God, that brings back 1993-94.

 

[sdifox]

I played it on a Silicon Graphic workstation in college! God, that brings back 1993-94.

You can still play netrek :awe:

http://www.netrek.org

 

[snoopy7548]

Was still regularly doing them (~2x per year) with some local buddies up until recently.
TF2 was the main staple, with Diablo III, etc. sprinkled in here and there.
Get together Sat and game until Sun evening.

Cheez-Its... nice. Gotta have snacks. What's in the cup?

 

[Homerboy]

Of course. We lugged 21" CRTs around and full towers. And we played Doom, Quake, Total Annihilation, and games that are older than some of you.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Of course. We lugged 21" CRTs around and full towers. And we played Doom, Quake, Total Annihilation, and games that are older than some of you.

21" Monitors, man, you guys musta had money!
I think during that era, I was using a 14inch monitor that maxed out at 800x600 until I saved the $400 to buy a 19inch so I could actually play games at 1024x768 or 1600x1200 for Total A.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Cheez-Its... nice. Gotta have snacks. What's in the cup?

Various alcoholic beverages. Vodka, etc.
We also fire up the grill for steaks. All in all, a good time 🙂

 

[Homerboy]

21" Monitors, man, you guys musta had money!
I think during that era, I was using a 14inch monitor that maxed out at 800x600 until I saved the $400 to buy a 19inch so I could actually play games at 1024x768 or 1600x1200 for Total A.

After I typed that I realized the 21" monitors probably came later. It was likley 19" monitors around that time. Definitely had a full tower though. Solid steel construction. Weighed a million pounds.
This was like 1995-1998 I'd guess.