A Lament for the LAN Party

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Post by yrochat » Thu, Jun 09, 2016, 9:53 PM UTC

A Lament for the LAN Party
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Re: A Lament for the LAN Party

#2

Post by djrogers » Thu, Jun 09, 2016, 11:24 PM UTC

For us it was and ever shall be Age of Empires. Wololo!

Re: A Lament for the LAN Party

#3

Post by sdegutis » Thu, Jun 09, 2016, 11:43 PM UTC

djrogers wrote: post #2

For us it was and ever shall be Age of Empires. Wololo!

Warcraft II for us!

Also, right when Doom came out, I remember my dad setting it up on work computers after work, and he would play deathmatches against his coworkers Dave and Mike, and they'd let an 8-year-old me play! Such fun times.

Re: A Lament for the LAN Party

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Post by ModernMech » Thu, Jun 09, 2016, 11:54 PM UTC

djrogers wrote: post #2

For us it was and ever shall be Age of Empires. Wololo!

My LAN career started with StarCraft and ended with Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. Anyone play that?

Re: A Lament for the LAN Party

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Post by cptskippy » Thu, Jun 09, 2016, 11:55 PM UTC

We still get together to play a variety of games from AOE2 to CS to BFBC2. The last time we got together we had way too much fun with Blockstorm which is like Minecraft meets Quake.

I remember Doom, Decent, and Aces of the Pacific were popular too.

Re: A Lament for the LAN Party

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Post by cptskippy » Thu, Jun 09, 2016, 11:56 PM UTC

ModernMech wrote: post #4

djrogers wrote: post #2

For us it was and ever shall be Age of Empires. Wololo!

My LAN career started with StarCraft and ended with Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. Anyone play that?

W:ET was a ridiculous amount of fun.

Re: A Lament for the LAN Party

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Post by Bromskloss » Thu, Jun 09, 2016, 11:59 PM UTC

> The LAN party, where you and six mates cram yourself into a dining room for a weekend, hook up your PCs with a complex series of switches, routers and CAT9 cables, somehow became quite the thing.

What is a CAT9 cable?

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Post by imrehg » Fri, Jun 10, 2016, 12:01 AM UTC

cptskippy wrote: post #5

We still get together to play a variety of games from AOE2 to CS to BFBC2. The last time we got together we had way too much fun with Blockstorm which is like Minecraft meets Quake. I remember Doom, Decent, and Aces of the Pacific were popular too.

Duke Nukem 3D and Starcraft, great times :)

Re: A Lament for the LAN Party

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Post by cptskippy » Fri, Jun 10, 2016, 12:01 AM UTC

Bromskloss wrote: post #7

> The LAN party, where you and six mates cram yourself into a dining room for a weekend, hook up your PCs with a complex series of switches, routers and CAT9 cables, somehow became quite the thing. What is a CAT9 cable?

Judging by a Google image search, cat9 would have made for an interesting addition to a LAN party.

Re: A Lament for the LAN Party

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jun 10, 2016, 12:02 AM UTC

Bromskloss wrote: post #7

> The LAN party, where you and six mates cram yourself into a dining room for a weekend, hook up your PCs with a complex series of switches, routers and CAT9 cables, somehow became quite the thing. What is a CAT9 cable?

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