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I think it shouldn't be left out that the audience of LAN-parties were not people who just played games. It was a "PC-community", people really focused on thei
by rickdeckard 2y ago
I think it shouldn't be left out that the audience of LAN-parties were not people who just played games.
It was a "PC-community", people really focused on their PC. Its hardware, its OS, how to squeeze as much power as possible out of it. The perfect CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT for each game, which hardware to use/buy next etc.
And THEN they played games. But they also hung out with like-minded people, exchanged alot of knowledge, data and content which would have been impossible to get by just going online with some modem.
The more this complexity of HW/SW was reduced, the more this breed of "consuming" gamers grew who only wanted to play games and didn't know/care that much about the hardware running it (other than wanting it to look colorful and pretty some years later).
--> If all you want to do is play games, the huge effort of hosting/joining a LAN-party is even more of a burden than it was for the PC-community...
- sgt 2y agoThe bizarre world of a bunch of friends bragging about who had the best AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files. Those were the days.
- geraldhh 2y agoyea, we did that in elementary school and progressed towards the intricacies of networking tech by the time coax gear was thrown out at dad's company.
- Aeolun 2y agoI don't feel like that is quite true? I was never really interested in pushing as much as possible out of the hardware (beyond being able to play the games in the first place), but LAN parties were still the shit. The one time we could steal the schools computer room with 24 or so PC's in and have an all day LAN party is still of the things I remember most fondly from that time.
- liotier 2y ago> LAN-parties were not people who just played games True: we also swapped warez and burped too many soft drinks.
- geraldhh 2y agowarez was the main thing for lots of ppl, as internet speeds at the time more or less prohibited sharing at home. gaming was the goofy part
- pyinstallwoes 2y agoYeah, at the same LAN parties we'd also talk about installing Slackware or some new obscure Gentoo stage 1 install. But man, when you used to have to buy Half-Life to play Counter-Strike. Those were the days. Heck, member' when CS had no recoil? Those were the days.