The LAN parties kind of stopped for me when I finished with highschool little over a decade ago (like sand through an hour glass so are the days of our lives), and I wonder whether it's still common? It seems as if the scene has changed a lot, eg Starcraft 2 that can only be played online now(unless I missed something).

When we first started LAN-ing we used those dreadful coaxial cables with the T-pieces and such. It was a hell of a story to get everyone connected with windows 95/98 in those days. Things got a lot better when we moved over to a hub.

We used to play a lot of Half-life (specifically the crossfire map) and towards the end a lot of CS and unreal tournament. On the strategy front, we had some epic Homeworld and Starcraft battles, and a few anno 1602, Tiberian sun, Red Alert, KKND and Dark Reign battles.

Nowadays its easier to set up a teamspeak server and play online, but there was a certain charm to those LAN parties. Get up, play Half-life, braai, play more half-life listening to Genie in a Bottle on MTV in the background, order pizza (song played constantly during one LAN) and get in bed between 02:00 and 05:00. Good times...

For more, playing on multiplayer with friends felt great and unique because there wasn't much occasions. Nowadays it feels just so common.
Early battlefields and UT were a blast in a shared room.

I LAN all the time at my house. LAN parties? Not very often (a few times a year at a friends' place). But LAN plan? Constantly.

Honestly, I don't even know what it is.

Its Literball-ALL-NIGHT

WTF is a "literball"? XD

Well, its famous russian game. Main idea is to drink mix of vodka and bear (maybe other ingredients too, like drugs) and one whose brain first turns from multicellular to unicellular is wins.
In short - first who drops off dead is winner.

P.S i Meant beer, not bear....or who knows.

I have LAN parties regularly. About once a month.

I very rarely am in any LAN parties anymore. Not since my friends from high school all went their ways spread out across the US. Though I must admit, it would be awesome for us all to get together again just like the old days with UT and EQ. Though an MMO with voice chat is still possible, it's not quite the same. But, the people I associate with these days are nothing like who I grew up with. They have no apparent interest in gaming. What was I thinking?

I think the days of LAN parties are about over. Today's kids seem to be more interested in drugs and gang banging. They think they're thugs. Much like many of the kids I grew up with. Walking about like the world is theirs and we're just visiting, and not invited. But when you call them on their plays, they don't have the muscle to back it up without 6 of their henchman. Bunch a #$^%%s

Last LAN party I had... Diablo 2. It went about as smooth as a prostate exam....without lubricant lol

So I usually just game alone and spend the rest of my extra time hiking and shooting my zombie targets. Gotta be ready since the gangs are getting bad with the shootings, drugs, and stabbings. so many wimps in the world. Bring it on wannabes. Oh yeah, and zombies too. Bring it on

I had a number of parties a few years ago, playing games such as Soldier of Fortune, Age of Mythology, Warcraft III.

As much as I miss it, I realize it's not really needed today - at least not in the same scale as it used to be and even then it was only for a smaller portion of the playerbase.

i hear lots of talk of current LAN (Local Area Network) Parties. People request it in new games. People post and blog about them. Occasionally i'll see a LAN party vlog on youtube. And occasionally i've heard mention of them in current mainstream media. So far as i can figure, LAN parties are still a thing.

Okay forget what LAN is, what the hell is a party?

A PARTY is a Pleasant Aggregation of Rowdy Tipsy Youngsters. A Local Area Network is a group of connected computers. A LAN Party is a group of people, presumably friends, getting together to play multiplayer PC games. With each their own computer, they all meet up in one place; connect their computers together, then play-on.

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