Gaming

For me it was Nintendo 64, Goldeneye sleepover party. Pure, unbridled, unadulterated happiness. A time with what felt like genuine acceptance and kindness.

Jesus Christ this hits home. We used to link 4 xbox, from the basement to the 2nd story. My parents, extatic that I was interacting with other people, would order bottomless pizza and soda, and kids WAY outside of my social tier would show up and be nice to me. Then, on Monday, I'd just go back to being the weirdo nerd again...

Nothing will ever match the feelings when you were young and things were new. It's easier to accept that than face the constant disappointment trying to recapture it.

Old people residences will become fun as the LAN generations enter them!

The 90’s was 30 years ago

For me it was warcraft. I just bought and assembled my NZXT Vulcan rig and I think that LAN party was the peak of my existence.

For me it was a little known game called ThinkTanks. It was created as a demo for a companies game engine and never got much support. It was a silly little catoon tank game with basic 3D.

The community figured out how to bypass the demo restrictions on the game engine. The game was modded to an insane degree. Thousands of new maps, new game types and objects. I dabbled with it at the time and created around 70 maps personally.

Last I check the original game was someone like 8mb of space. The full mod pack with all of the maps was 2GB

Replace Halo with Unreal Tournament and that's me.

It's gone. Computers will never again be as exciting as they were in the early 00's, because every new advancement now comes with an infringement, a "gotcha", a sacrifice of your privacy, and a subscription to cap it off. Computers used to feel personal, they felt empowering, they felt like they were yours, and they were a gateway to a million little worlds created by people of all sorts. Now they feel like corporate advertising platforms that are just a gateway to other corporate advertising platforms.

:,)

I understand this man. Good times at lan parties.

16 guys in a 10x15 room with two TVs and two consoles. The four highest ranked players swap out so the cannon fodder can improve their skills. Whoever throws a controller first has to buy beer for the rest, and the best player gets shackled with the MadCats controller

Ah yes, a flitting glimpse of happiness

Do you ever wonder why we're here?

For me it was og Counter Strike which runs on anything. Even we managed to snuck flash drive filled with the game copy so it can be installed on School lab PCs :)

Funnily last time I did that, it was one year ago when I convinced my college friends to do one CS LAN game on our student lab room before everyone graduated, played it with whatever laptop and mouse they brought :)

GMod LAN parties. To be fair, I'm sure I could have the same fun now. Only everyone's schedules are different and we can't get together for a good 24 hours of intermittent sleep, play, and loud music.

The fuck happened to us?

Nothing will ever touch those 16 person LANs for me in Blood Gulch.

Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Diablo 2, Red Alert 2 (YR?), Stronghold, Red Faction...

Man 2001 was an awesome year.

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I miss Timesplitters 2 mp :(

So what is stopping them from doing it today?

I still have plenty of LAN parties, and PLAY local multiplayer as well.

One time back in Halo 3 in a FFA game I killed everyone else on the map twice before I died, and that death was from a grenade I threw to finish someone off when I ran out of ammo and had to melee him. I have never felt that powerful before or since.

It was quake3 but I get the feeling.

we need to set up new lan parties and create our own fun

Day of Defeat circa 2003 for me.

Morrowind player checking in, that game was able to support lan for my entire friend group in high school