In the 1990s, everyone was still on dial-up, however there were several game titles available that were LAN-capable. One computer box would act as the game host, and everyone connected to that host to play. This was a far better experience than anything you could have online at the time because there were was no network “choke” whatsoever. Even at 10 Mbps speed, the gaming experience was amazing.
The purpose of a LAN party was to get a bunch of friends together, have them bring over their PCs, connect them all together to a single router and play multi-player games. Why? Because it was a “no-lag” environment, and because it was just fun to do.
Pick your favorite below and let’s gear up for Retro Lanparty!
Who has time for a LAN party on Thursday? Also Firearms Mod for Half Life, Quake 3 Arena, Unreal Tournament, and Desert Combat Mod for Battlefield 1942.
Love them both! UT goty didn’t age well graphically so you got my vote for Rise of the Triad. But I’ve reached out to a forum admin to get both and a few select other written in candidates on the poll.
Good point but since we’re looking at games from the 90’s then it’s still a #tbt kind of thing ;).
Now… if there was a retroday instead of a caturday that would’ve made more sense, until then we’ll still call it #ThrowBackThursday and it doesn’t mean we’ll actually schedule the lanparty for thursday. Just gauging for what members want to play first.
I remember psdoom and reversing the boom engine back in the day just to build my own raycaster. So long story short, doom has a bloody gored place in my heart and I would love to see what your working on with that gem.
