[dudul]

Agree with your 1st statement, I dont think split screen had anything to do with LAN parties. There was no network with split screen.

However I don't think LAN died because of tower size. Maybe towers got a tad bigger at some point, but monitors got way thinner. I've done a few LAN parties on laptop even. I think they just died because it was easier to play over global network, and subsequently LAN mode disappear from games.

[Mistletoe]

One of the greatest gaming experiences of my life is when I and my three younger brothers hooked up two original Xboxes with a network crossover cable and played the original Halo 2v2 split screen in separate rooms.

Split screen LAN may not have been the norm but it is fantastic.

[prawn]

We had four on a projector in a room, and then another couple down the corridor on a TV. Glorious. Lots of yelling between rooms.

After each game, the stats screen would motivate all sorts of trash talking. 20 years later, we still talk about the time someone called out at the friend with the lowest shots fired count: "You know the bullets don't cost anything, right?"

I can never understand why modern CoD lacks so many great post-game stats they could otherwise be showing.

[pests]

Apparently the new COD doesn’t even have a career stats page.

[giantg2]

Halo Infinite greatly reduced post game stats too.