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That's just not true. All but a handful of the smallest LAN parties I attended I the 90's and early 00's included console gaming. It was pretty much assumed there would be consoles at a LAN.

Halo, which was arguably the first professionally competitive game, had it's entire birth at LAN parties as it did not support online play at all and had to be done with a LAN.

Smash brothers had a similar Genesis story at LAN parties I attended. LAN continues to be the preferred competitive environment for every game due to latency.

I'll tell you what killed LAN parties I attend, it was the year steam became standard. To get everyone at the LAN to play the same game no longer meant passing the CD around, but in /socially pressuring your peers to make a digital purchase/ That was the death of LAN.

[coldpie]

> To get everyone at the LAN to play the same game no longer meant passing the CD around

Pretty sure I spent more time installing games and fighting with cracking software than I did playing games at LANs :)

[rakkhi]

There was always one person at least that needed to reinstall windows..

[giantg2]

I also played a lot if Halo LAN parties on consoles. I don't think I ever had a PC LAN party (probably too young).

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> That's just not true. All but a handful of the smallest LAN parties I attended I the 90's and early 00's included console gaming. It was pretty much assumed there would be consoles at a LAN.

You should have gone to better parties.