Do you remember your first ever LAN party?
>>291172657
I-I've never been to one
>>291172657
yes i went into other people's registry and stole their CS cd keys then I sold em to my friends
>>291172657
Yes.
We had to quit at 2am because the hosts parents sent us to bed.
UT2k4. I wasn't very good.
>>291172657
Yeah, at 7 AM we started blasting the russian national anthem while getting burnt by bacon and sausages splattering in the frying pan
but we didn't stop honoring the flag of mother russia
>>291172850
>No!
>Hey, do you know what sex is?!
>>291172657
Yes. We spent about half of it installing various games swapping discs, updating and troubleshooting. Requires a level of pre planning that my friends didn't have when we were about 15
>>291172657
Are we missing out?
>>291172657
big basement. lots of smokers. one tiny window.
lots of CS 1.6, WC3 custom maps and some quick SC BW sessions. 2 or 3 days.
my first and last true lan party. it was glorious...
>>291172657
Yes, it was my only one as well. It was probably one of the greatest nights of my life.
I was only a kid at the time, probably 12 or 13.
My mothers church friend told my mum her husband was doing some "computer party thing" and they knew I loved computers so they asked me if I wanted to go too.
Ended up staying over at some guys house, with my my mums friends husband and a bunch of other cunts he knew, up until like 4 in the morning playing video games with each other and eating junk food. Was so fucking fun.
>>291173102
On the other hand, we were more patient back then
Consolebro here. Closest thing I had was 2 of my close friends coming over and bringing their 360s to play Dark Souls co-op. Good times
Yeah I remember. All those computers made the room hot as hell
>>291172657
yeah we set up a network on a friends laptop and all wirelessly connected.
windows 7 was gud
Quake 2, shit was fun.
>>291172657
yes, we had so many desktops hooked up my mate's circuit breaker cut off.
>>291173436
Computers, CRT monitors, and sweaty teenage boys.
Six guys locked up in a tiny as fuck but comfy attic, playing C&C, WC3, CS1.6 and Soldat for 48 hours with no sleep.
Good times.
>grade 9 intro to computer science class
>hey man you coming to the LAN party?
>the fuck is a LAN party?
>oh it's where people come and play video games after class
>say yeah expecting Smash Bros, Mario Kart, Street Fighter
>I get there
>everybody is fat and has a neckbeard (and they were all grade 12s)
>we spend 30 minutes filesharing Halo 1
>what the fuck is Halo?
>for some reason the game would display the first message in chat every minute nonstop, the second match was spammed with me saying "hey?" while everybody kept asking out loud "who's this moron who set the message?"
>only got a few kills the entire night, lead the room in deaths
>everybody made fun of me for sucking at a game I've never heard of on a PC which I hadn't gamed on since I was 7 and had my parents take away my favourite games (Doom and Zombie Wars) for being too violent
>went home and vowed to never go to another after school event
PC gamers, not even once.
>>291173683
>consoleplebs
>>291172657
Yeah, we played CoD1 back when it came out in 2003 for 17 hours straight. Also a bit of SC:BW, AoE and CS1.6.
>>291173789
It's pasta m8, google it.
>>291173870
Oh, oops
>>291172657
at friends parents garage
spend 3 days playing descent 2
>>291172657
Uh the first like actual like go to someones house with my computers would have been like I dunno 12 years ago.
But way back when my dad built me 3 equal spec machines that we had in a line so me and my 2 other friends I hung out with way back when could all play everquest and counter-strike, diablo 2, sc:bw and wc3 etc together.
MFW I just realized they have used that same ISP for almost 15 years now.
>Each LAN always meant having to reinstall some shoddy floppy driver to get networking to fucking work properly in win 9x
>Bluescreens everywhere!
>Fucking troll games needing IPX-support
>That one dude who always came with a half-assembled skeleton of a tower, and spent most of the LAN trying to get his shit even up and running (mostly unsuccesful).
>That eager fucker who installed the win2k RC and couldn't connect to anyone or anything, but refused to switch back
Those were great times, but damn did you have to work for your fun back then...
>mountain dew, shitty custom WC3 maps, Tribes 2
>you will never be a teenager in the early 2000s again
Feels bad mad.
I didnt had any friends back then so my mum dragged me to LAN partys of her adult friends. We played cs1.6, Medal of Honor and Warcraft. It was pretty rad.
>>291173961
I had a PC up in my room and the one in my dad's office linked together. I played 1v1 HLDM with a friend, talking to each other with walkie talkies
Yes, I do.
We spent hours trying to figure out how to create bots in Counter-Strike until we finally found it out.
Within a year we even had so many people hooked that we had a little tournament with three teams in a little shed.
I wish these times came back.
>>291172657
i'd constantly set them up
and learned to filter the dudebroskis out by saying there was no starcraft
>>291174271
Jesus, Top Gear Korea looks awful
>>291174535
You don't know the half of it.
I brought networking equipment (I stole from work) with me to college.
Everyone that had a PC was networked with me for up to four point three years
>>291174535
>>291174535
Has there even been a GOOD Korean localization?
>>291174569
Who remembers Hamachi and Xfire?
My brother worked at a computer shop and they made some lan parties on the weekend. We have played some UT, Q3, HL DM, starcraft and traded some pc games it was really fun. Too bad most recent games nowadays can't be played offline.
Hip, short, old
presenters.
>>291174837
I don't think hamachi is dead.
Korea is so fucked up.
>>291172657
Yeah, we went to the midnight launch of Burning Crusade then played it together at my friend's house, best week I've ever had. I'm not sure how many tons of pizza and coke we consumed but it was enough for a lifetime.
>>291174837
People still use Hamachi.
Xfire died after Steam added a chat client, since that was half of Xfire's user base.
>>291174569
>>291174663
>There are people who complained about British Top Gear having middle aged hosts
>>291174837
I still use hamachi to play with some friends who is behind a campus firewall. It works great, always have.
Ive never had enough friends for a full blown LAN party. I did host LAN parties in my highschool computer room during lunch and after school. The computer room was off limits unless you had a class in there and it was in the very back of the school where nobody went. I had to steal the key from the custodians office and sneak in there to put cracked versions of CS, SC, WC3, Quake 3 and UT on all of the computers which took days. Since I was the only person in the school with the computer room key, I was the leader of a fucking cartel by the end of senior year and I never got caught by any teachers.
We all gave ourselves goofy names too. "Grapist", "BIG DADDY SPLASH", "Joe is a faggot", "800 pound gorilla". I gotta say, LAN parties had god tier banter. Imagine 20 people just shit talking for hours over counterstrike.
it was great
for about 4 years we had lan parties a couple of times every year
then we moved out and everyone separated
>Watch Pure Pwnage
>Wish that era of games would come back
18 years old, so no
>>291174837
>Xfire
lol, get on my level
>>291173870
what the fuck no it's not I just fucking typed it myself
>go to LAN party
>know two guys from there, five of us in total
>later become best friends with one of the guys I barely spoke to
Neat
So yea, top gear korea. It's kinda interesting from a what the fuck is this, and the fact that while I don't speak korean and it's not subbed you still know EXACTLY whats going on.
Take a guess what these guys did and are going to do.
>>291172657
all of my friends were too poor to afford decent computers but we played a lot of ps2
Neverwinter nights with a friend and his GF. Son of a bitch was a rouge who stole all the good items while we were battling the enemy.
>>291175167
Those were shit times, just stupid wow-memes everywhere. Golden age of PC is way earlier.
No, I never had friends.
>>291175167
>starcraft and CS will never be THE e-sports ever again
>you will never wake up and check stracraft replays on your shitty toaster and crt monitor ever again
got 15 other people to come to my house
had 4 xbox an d 4 tvs set up, playing halo.
Fucking amazing time.
>>291172657
How could I? Motherfuckers somehow messed up my PC and only wanted to play CoD.
Had to spend 2 days fixing it.
Hated LAN parties ever since.
>>291173069
in manga you read right to left
>>291175254
Holy shit, that's way back.
A professor at my uni was one of the founders of that company. He once spent a night browsing the rooms anonymously and recording people, then compiled it all into a presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=902tReEAIRw
>>291175470
>implying starcraft was not THE e-sport until blizz killed it for SC2
>>291175356
A race to buy kimchi
Yes, we had a 7 hour Age of Empires II 2vs2 game. Man that was glorious.
>>291175745
Close they buy these larva things.
But it is literally the buy 3 cheap cars drive across the country. Though for some reason they have like a weird poster map.
>>291175470
Thing is, ASSFAGGOTS aside, StarCraft and Counter Strike still rule.
>New years 3v3
>16 years old
>dressed in our best we went out, our parents thinking we'd go to a party or some shit
>stayed at our local lan shop till morning
>lots of cs, wc3, jedi academy multilayer, all the good stuff
>being new years they kept bringing us treats and drinks
good times
>>291175745
>>291175796
Oh fuck, strategy games and LAN were the worst and also the best. Everyone turtled so fucking hard.
first time I remember staying up really late was when my best friend was over for a sleepover. It was the first weekend or so when I just got World of Warcraft back in 2005. He had already had it for a while but he brought his laptop and we played all night. My parents said we weren't allowed to stay up long but we did anyway like total badasses.
That night was the first time I ventured into Barrens, and learned how to quick reply to whispers
>>291175967
For mother russia.
>>291175839
>>291175254
Bitch please.
Never had an actual LAN party, closest I ever got was system linking Halo 1 and 2 at birthday parties, they were fun as fuck tho
>>291175839
Inexpensive to make and film, I suppose. I wonder if they have decent banter.
>>291172657
yep, at my house. Played Unreal Tournament GOLD for fucking hours on end with a touch of Starcraft at the end of the night for those still awake.
>>291175580
Heh, interesting. I used mplayer mainly for Alien vs. Predator MP and remember being shocked over how advanced that software was for its time. Fucking miles better than shit like Microsoft's horrible "Zone" thing.
We had been having Halofests with upwards of 12-16 people for two years. We had tried unsuccessfully to get system link working for so long. Finally one day we got it working.
It was a good day.
>>291176327
The biggest issue I had with that episode was that it was literally a 1 hour long roadtrip, they didn't go to the studio at all. No new cars, no news, nothing.
The other obvious we don't have the budget stuff is the drag races they are doing. They seem to literally be I know a guy that has X car, he wants to race it vs some other guy who has Y car.
1.6 was so good for LAN
Was 14 or so with a bunch of schoolmates. We played CS 1.6, Enemy Territory and Serious Sam and ordered pizza. Went on for 2-3 days.
Luckily, we still have these kinds of Lan parties yearly.
>>291176330
>>291174848
> tfw late night end of party starcraft
> tfw your Asian friend spends the whole game building carriers until everybody's computer shits out
>>291175967
Strategy at LANs are the best because no one is rushing.
In the 7 hour game my teammate built a massive fortified city which was attacked by both of our enemies, but their forces were stopped halfway through.
While one half was destroyed by them and rebuilt as an outpost, we could hold the other side.
It was like a AOEII east-west Berlin.
No stinky shooter can create such stories.
>>291176606
>Porsche 911 T
>M5
That's like comparing apples to oranges. Imbeciles.
>>291173250
did he touch you?
>>291173232
Yes, I'm sorry, very much so. LAN parties with good friends were fucking amazing.
YES.
OMFG IT WAS ALWAYS AWESOME. THANKS FOR REMINDING ME.
It was in a cybercafé (with powerfull computers for the time) my brother's friend had (my brother worked there). We would plan before, and then when he would close the cyber cafe for people at night, we would go in and pull all-nighters.
The owner, his brother, me, my brother, and other 2 friends of us (some times even more), playing CS, HALF LIFE, TF, and all sorts of games (mostly cs and halflife).
My nickname was OvO_Pequeno ("small egg (testicle)" in portuguese).
>>291173951
>>291175256
busted
>>291176606
>literally a 1 hour long roadtrip, they didn't go to the studio at all. No new cars, no news, nothing
this is what i want
screw the other stuff
nah. i was never that much of a sperg.
>>291177021
No.
We played Serious Sam , Jedi Academy, Flatout and some RTS's like Empire at War all night long, and we had some breaks to watch TV shows as well while we ate dinner.
>>291177117
and a lot of age of mythology too btw.
>>291173683
My LAN party bros were all in shape and cool, nice guys. You got unlucky to meet a bunch of dicks.
>>291174569
>>291174765
do they dress like this all the time?
>>291177227
come on, you know he did. Let's get those repressed memories unlocked
>>291172657
Not really, it was 15-16 years ago. All I remember was playing CS and Quake so much that I got physically ill and threw up from staying up too long.
Fuck off grandpa
>>291177186
Yep, watching them take selfies with a selfie stick while driving around in shit cars is great... oh wait.
>>291175471
Consoleplebbing isn't a LAN party, though.
>>291177515
maybe not that korean one, but with uk it would be great
>>291177376
Nah fuck off. He was a cool guy. Ended up going over to his place a few times after that and he showed me tons of PC games he had and watched Sci-Fi films.
Also had Star Wars Battlefront on PC, and convinced me to start getting things on PC over console. Battlefront 1 on PC was so much better than the PS2 version I had.
>>291176921
The closest thing to LAN I've done recently is playing multiplayer civ with the four guys I was living with. Fuck it was fun, and caused so much butthurt.
>>291177665
and then he touched you?
>>291175256
Nice try
>>291177813
Keep up with this epic meme faggot.
>>291172657
>guy in the middle is the only one that didn't bring a CRT monitor
>has an advanntage because he's the only one not suffering a back injury
>>291177876
did he keep it up with you?
>>291177665
Thank that guy for making you see the light
>>291172657
>civ 3 party
>we were all retards and couldnt get it to work
>just got high instead
>>291177898
>6 inch early days LCD.
>probably over 4 seconds refresh rate, monochrome and ghosting from hell.
I'll take that backpain any day...
Would go to my buddy's house every weekend and play Counter Strike, Crystal Chronicles, Super Smash Bros, Warhammer 40k, Soldat, Sins of a Solar Empire, and Unreal GOTY.
I fucking miss those days.
Kind of a LAN party. In middle school we had a computer teacher that never spoke much. One day he put Quake on all the computers and any student with decent grades were able to stay overnight and play. Another teacher bought consoles just for the occasion.
I have had LAN parties in the past
>used to host halo parties at my house
>sometimes up to 12 people (xbox)
>later on did more pc parties with 4-6 people playing CS Source, Warcraft 3 custom maps
Was fun. Never stayed up as late as I did back then.
