I totally agree with you. Being born in 1985, I never got to experience the arcade glory days (although I had my fair share of arcade fun), but my teenage year

I totally agree with you. Being born in 1985, I never got to experience the arcade glory days (although I had my fair share of arcade fun), but my teenage years corresponded to their successors, the Internet cafés, or cybercafés as we called them. Oh man, a 10 vs 10 LAN match of Counter Strike was glorious, lots of noisy teenagers shouting at each other, booing the opposite team, cheering a particularly good play... As you say, you can't have the same experience online. I'm a bit sad for today's kids, they have much faster hardware and connections that we did, but they will never get to experience the same excitement.