How many of you have gotten together with friends to play video games? It's always easy when the game is on a console. Everyone gets to play together with the same screen, and there's not much effort needed to participate. But the more elaborate version of this form of gaming is the LAN party.
A LAN party is a temporary, sometimes spontaneous, gathering of people together with their computers, which they network together primarily for the purpose of playing multiplayer computer games. They vary in size from a few people to tens of thousands. Every party is different and but they all entail the same thing. Computers and gaming.
Generally, casual gamers are detracted from LAN parties because of the setup required to bring your entire computer to the location. A small list of items required are shown below...
* Computer
* Monitor
* Keyboard
* Mouse and mouse pad
* Headphones/Speakers
* Microphone
* Power cables for monitor and computer
* Surge Protector
* Network cables
* Network hub or switch
While this seems to be a difficult process, the growing popularity of laptop computers has made it much easily set up computers on the road is getting ever simpler. Basically, the time has come for casual gamers to enjoy with their friends.
1 comment:
This is a nice summary of a LAN party, Sarassaris. Good point about gaming laptops making LAN parties easier to set up.
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