This actually happened a few months ago during the summer, but I completely forgot to post about it here. Basically, a bunch of my friends that had never been into computers before suddenly up and built their own gaming rigs and subsequently got really into COD:4. This led to the inevitable gathering of the gamers known as a LAN party. We also played a tiny bit of TF2, but since only two of us had been playing it for more than a week we had a huge advantage, and most people there didn't even have it anyways (I was/am the best though[at least at my respective favorite classes]).
Shitty picture quality is due to use of iPhone in taking the pictures.
We were still trying to set everything up at that point. Somehow everyone had gotten unplugged from the routers, and two of us were plugged into each other, so we thought it was working fine, and no one else was having much luck.
In case you were wondering, yes, that is a box fan underneath that laptop on the left. That was the only way to stop it from overheating.
We had a good time, but unfortunately it was close to the end of the summer, and we never got another one together before every headed back off to school for fall semester.
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We've got a Halloween LAN coming up soon, it's a little frustrating Left 4 Dead didn't appear in time. However I think Zombie Panic Source, Doom 3 coop and perhaps a load of other mods are on the cards. Last time we found some shitty Japanese MMORPG and 17 of us grouped together grinding mobs, surprisingly it was hilarious fun.
As for network hardware, I generally chain my 16-port switches together, use my linux box as a firewall/dhcp server and hook up another PC as a game server. I love LAN parties so much. We get set up, we drink/eat/game into the next day and then all fall asleep on the keyboards. *Sheds a tear* Good times.
I used to go to those, but lately I dont know so many people anymore and they only play COD4 and that kind of shit... is not hat is bad but you cant find a TF2 game, so you have to play that from home.
Internet has changed a lot of things, but the social aspect is still there in a lanparty, but is more easy to stay home and play over the internet. And a PC is usually rather large to move. Now with LCD is easier, but I dont have one.
Still, I have great memories from a lot of lanpartys.
Yeah, I would have loved to play more games, but like I said, most of those people were just getting into computer gaming.
@Angelicliver
Yeah, there are a lot of laptops because most of the people there had just finished their first year of college, and buying laptops seemed to be the way to go, it was a pretty poor decision. One that I made as well. We also played some Zombie Master over the summer, it's another source engine zombie game.
@Velt
Yeah those huge LANs sound awesome. The internet has definitely changed things, but it's hard to beat having people in the same room coordinating.
Also: *Sigh*, I miss lans D: