For me it was Nintendo 64, Goldeneye sleepover party. Pure, unbridled, unadulterated happiness. A time with what felt like genuine acceptance and kindness.
I still dream about those parties. We would gather in the youth centre, supervised, with a digital projector borrowed from the school (with permission), in sleeping bags, lying on the floor, projecting onto the roof, staying up until 4am...
Slappers only, no Oddjob. ;)
No, usually it was: autoaim off, pistols, one-hit-kills, no Oddjob.
Amen brother
Jesus Christ this hits home. We used to link 4 xbox, from the basement to the 2nd story. My parents, extatic that I was interacting with other people, would order bottomless pizza and soda, and kids WAY outside of my social tier would show up and be nice to me. Then, on Monday, I'd just go back to being the weirdo nerd again...
Yeah but at least you got to touch Becky's tit and make out with her that one time. So at least you had that going on for you... Which is nice.
Hell no! OTHER dudes got to touch Becky's tit and make out with her in MY bedroom while I was diligently standing overwatch with a sniper rifle on Sidewinder in the living room.
Nothing will ever match the feelings when you were young and things were new. It's easier to accept that than face the constant disappointment trying to recapture it.
Y'all say that, but anytime someone makes even a decent approximation of an Ace Attorney game, I'm out here chasing the high of pointing out contradictions that pin a killer.
Old people residences will become fun as the LAN generations enter them!
The 90’s was 30 years ago
What did I do to deserve this!
You tea bagged that grandma after a triple frag kill and laughed about it
I didn't think anyone saw!
Jesus did
Oh fuck off!
Not all of it
For me it was warcraft. I just bought and assembled my NZXT Vulcan rig and I think that LAN party was the peak of my existence.
I want a machine with a handle on top that looks awesome
It's gone. Computers will never again be as exciting as they were in the early 00's, because every new advancement now comes with an infringement, a "gotcha", a sacrifice of your privacy, and a subscription to cap it off. Computers used to feel personal, they felt empowering, they felt like they were yours, and they were a gateway to a million little worlds created by people of all sorts. Now they feel like corporate advertising platforms that are just a gateway to other corporate advertising platforms.
Until you install Linux.
Or any free software really.
I dunno I have done a lot of work to cleanse my home of all of that. I have a pi hole for DNS blocking, I use Firefox with AdBlock on both desktop and mobile, I choose to not use ad riddled apps like TikTok or Instagram (fuck Facebook). I have a VPN which I use for most everything. My home is pretty ad and corporate free. As it should be. Granted I'm pretty tech savvy so none of this was hard for me but I could see my mom having problems.
For me it was a little known game called ThinkTanks. It was created as a demo for a companies game engine and never got much support. It was a silly little catoon tank game with basic 3D.
The community figured out how to bypass the demo restrictions on the game engine. The game was modded to an insane degree. Thousands of new maps, new game types and objects. I dabbled with it at the time and created around 70 maps personally.
Last I check the original game was someone like 8mb of space. The full mod pack with all of the maps was 2GB
Wow you have just unlocked a hidden memory for me. My dad had this game on his Mac G5, and I would play (vanilla) all the time. Back then I thought the internet was small, so when I saw someone online with the name "Will" and thought it was one of my friends from school.
I wonder if there is anyone still playing.
Replace Halo with Unreal Tournament and that's me.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein for me, but UT is up there for awesome nostalgia shooters.
I love how they are called "boomer shooters" but it was Gen-X and Millenials that played that shit.
I miss original UT!
They were working on a new one. Then fortnight got huge and they're too busy milking that cow to continue with a new ut.
:,)
I understand this man. Good times at lan parties.
16 guys in a 10x15 room with two TVs and two consoles. The four highest ranked players swap out so the cannon fodder can improve their skills. Whoever throws a controller first has to buy beer for the rest, and the best player gets shackled with the MadCats controller
Ah yes, a flitting glimpse of happiness
Do you ever wonder why we're here?
It's one of life's greatest mysteries.
For me it was og Counter Strike which runs on anything. Even we managed to snuck flash drive filled with the game copy so it can be installed on School lab PCs :)
Funnily last time I did that, it was one year ago when I convinced my college friends to do one CS LAN game on our student lab room before everyone graduated, played it with whatever laptop and mouse they brought :)
Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Diablo 2, Red Alert 2 (YR?), Stronghold, Red Faction...
Man 2001 was an awesome year.
So what is stopping them from doing it today?
I still have plenty of LAN parties, and PLAY local multiplayer as well.
It was quake3 but I get the feeling.
One time back in Halo 3 in a FFA game I killed everyone else on the map twice before I died, and that death was from a grenade I threw to finish someone off when I ran out of ammo and had to melee him. I have never felt that powerful before or since.
Morrowind player checking in, that game was able to support lan for my entire friend group in high school
we need to set up new lan parties and create our own fun
Blood Gulch veterans Unite!
For me it was Black Ops 2 zombies mode on LAN XBox 360s hooked together. Shouting to other players across the hallway.
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