Jim's pals weren't able to make it either, but he heted aloft his 90 lb monitor and 80lb (?) computer (#~!$) and we tribed and unrealled all evening.
Furthermore, he's just closed a deal on a house here in town and intends to wire it up all proper and may host LAN parties there in the near future.
And, I guess the Disk Space hosts LAN parties every other Saturday at 6 or something to that effect.
So, what percentage of my readers care to lan-frag on a regular basis? Do you already have gatherings that you attend, and/or would anyone like to get down on some of this? We all (being Darla, Jim, Randy, and I + loads of other folks) used to go to Dawn Miracle's house every wednesday for movie and gaming night back in the late nineties. I'm looking to see some revival of that sort of bitchin' shindig.
Posted by jesse at August 15, 2004 09:05 PMBack in the early 90's I remember doing the first LAN Doom playing. We did it at the place that is now the Disk Space. That was a blast. When I was at the UofO, the Macintosh game Marathon was big. We played on the school network and I also hooked up with some guys who hosted Marathon parties at their house. You brought your system and they had all the networking gear. It was great. There's nothing like being able to yell at someone after you shoot them on screen. Internet games are fun, but not the same as a LAN party.
Posted by: monkeyinabox at August 15, 2004 11:49 PMYeah, but current network games do enhance this I think. Like while you're playing tribes, it's almost military to be able to coordinate with your teammate who is right there in the room with you, talking about "taking point" and "bogey on your six" and alla dat. Someone kept det-packing our base so I had my repulse gun handy (would just kind of shove the target away and airborn like a tractor beam) and would sit in map-mode coordinating everyone's efforts while waiting to engage det-pack dude.
Posted by: Jesse Thompson at August 16, 2004 07:07 AMThanks, but I'll pass. You guys would all kick my ass in any game.
Posted by: Jake at August 16, 2004 02:55 PMWell, just to confirm what Jesse has said, I do plan on having LAN parties at the new house here in town. Kids of all ages are invited to the parties.
They will not start until November or so, but will probably be once a month or so.
Games on-hand will be Tribes 1 & 2, UT, Quake, Duke, and anything else that you think will work.
I will have local servers running and we will be able to play over the net.
Let Jesse or I know if you are interested.
Posted by: Jim Lucas at August 16, 2004 04:54 PMYepper, and I'd recommend your standard realtime strats like Age of Empires with conquerers' expansion, Starcraft with broodwar expansion (I'll have to stumble into my copy one of these days) and Warcraft II and/or III. Maybe Nox. I've got nox.
Posted by: Jesse Thompson at August 16, 2004 07:07 PMApparently homestar did the same thing.. or else they read mah blog.
"Wow! So did you play online gaming last night? No? Yeah? No? I did. I got soo-hooo many fwags."
http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail111.html