I 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 t

I 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.