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LAN gaming with friends is super fun! Working as a computer technician for my day job, getting old computers purchased and configured for LAN gaming was taking work skills and having fun. Back in the day, as in high school and college, friends and I would bring computers over and rig them up on a LAN for gaming. These days I have supplied or have helped others acquire systems so it's not bring your own computer, but rather a collection of ready to go computers we can just setup, use, and take down and store altogether. I personally have a few collections of game LAN systems. First, I have a collection of six older, early 2000s vintage, IBM ThinkPads for running older games. Those haven't seen much use lately. After that I have eight Dell OptiPlex 380 small form factor PCs licensed for Windows 7. Those I have upgraded with older, AMD Radeon HD 7570 video cards. They seem decent enough to play some of the newer games of the mid-2000s. Call of Duty 4, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (for playing San Andreas Multiplayer), and FlatOut 2 all run decently with that card, and it was reasonably priced at the time from sellers on eBay. I've also since added a small fleet of Lenovo ThinkPad X131e laptops I bought from my employer for more easily taking the LAN on the road.
Below are the games I have loaded on my game LAN. All licensing is legit. I have puchased 8 copies of commercial releases that I enjoy to be license compliant.
Freeware/Shareware Releases:
- Bitfighter
- BomberClone
- Bontago
- Castle-Combat
- Crack Attack!
- Cultris I
- Doom95 (shareware version)
- Duke Nukem 3D (shareware version)
- MegaGlest
- OpenRA
- Quake (shareware version)
- Quake 3 Arena Demo
- RecWar
- Soldat
- SuperTuxKart
- Teeworlds
- U61
- Warzone 2100
Commercial Releases:
- Call of Duty 4
- FlatOut
- FlatOut 2
- GTA San Andreas