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So many found memories of Red Alert 2 and Quake 2 playing at lan parties in the 90s. I was lucky enough in the early 2000's where I could use my love of video
by mesh 3y ago
So many found memories of Red Alert 2 and Quake 2 playing at lan parties in the 90s.
I was lucky enough in the early 2000's where I could use my love of video games and lan parties as part of my job. I was responsible for the Flash community at Macromedia, and we would set up 4 xboxes with split screen for 8 player Halo 2 and 3 tournaments in conference rooms (which has multiple plasma screens already set up).
I quickly realized that we could use this to make friends in the broader community, so we bought a bunch of LCD monitors and pelican cases, and began to take our setup on the road to Flash conferences. During the day we would hang out at the conference, learn new programing / visual techniques and generally see super cool Flash stuff, and at night we would invite everyone over to our hotel room and then play Halo all night. We made so many friends and close contacts in the community through this, and it really help us meet a lot of people, and build strong, personal relationships.
I remember we were on a 6 week bus tour in North America doing events for Adobe AIR, and making a detour to NYC for the Halo 3 launch at at Best Buy. We then played on the bus all night long.
Here is a clip of me walking to the launch, so happy and singing about it being my Halo birthday (whatever that means!).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVQKgui28O8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVQKgui28O8
So many good times.
- cvccvroomvroom 3y agoGood times. 768k SDSL from Verio/NTT for $70/month with 8 ms to Stanford from way away in Davis. Linux PC as a router was the cheaper, more flexible thing to do.
- eru 3y agoWhen did you sleep?
- mike_hock 3y agoWhen what?
- thesnide 3y agoFlash. Had a love/hate relationship with it. Mostly because it was already awesome for the time, so the quirks were rather surfacing. Very much like an "Uncanny Valley". And I really think that it was the "steam revolution" turning point of indie gamedev. So I thank everyone that was part of it.
- prox 3y agoI miss Macromedia, Adobe is just a corporate grey blob. Macromedia had character and good products.
- raincole 3y agoI remember I played a fighting game (a local one without English version) at LAN parties. It was very fun. My friends were all about the same skill level so fights were even. Later on, there was a tool enabling "virtual LAN" and you can play against players online, over the internet. And random people beat the shit out of me. Then I just realized that I actually knew like 10% of the game machanism even after hundreds of LAN matches. That was where I stopped playing.
- donatj 3y agoThis was my general experience with first person shooters. I was almost always first among my friends. Then Xbox Live came around and turned out I'm pretty bad at first person shooters.
- d3vmax 3y agoMacromedia, Halo 2 / CE split screen parties. Peak America! Miss the time I had with my friends playing split screen.
- hypertexthero 3y agoLoved Macromedia Freehand and Dreamweaver which I used to publish my the first website I made for someone via FTP! My first LAN gaming experience was playing Doom 2 with friends in a computer class with a kind teacher at a school in São Paulo, Brazil. Good times!
- clemiclemen 3y agoIf you want to revive your memories of Red Alert 2, some people ported the game in the web[1]. The online multiplayer feature works fairly well. [1]: https://chronodivide.com/ https://chronodivide.com/
- paulryanrogers 3y agoOr OpenRA for the first game