LAN Party: Inside the Multiplayer Revolution - A Photographic Celebration
full of love for the trend of multiplayer games, fueled by drinks
energizing and rearranged with furniture, and its nocturnal participants.
\n \nGo back to the golden age of PC multiplayer gaming, when the internet
was a place that you built with your friends and the only purchases in
The game was pizza deliveries. Ad hoc and adventurous, sweaty
and unsupervised, LAN (local area network) parties embodied an era
open and optimistic approach to computing that has been forgotten in the digital world
still online today. Featuring personal memories as well as
hundreds of photographs from the community, ranging from
gatherings around a kitchen table to gigantic tournaments that
fill the convention halls, LAN Party will take you back in time
glorious video game, fueled by Mountain Dew. \n \nIn addition to
Documenting the nostalgic era of LAN parties, the photographs are
unique artifacts of a particular cultural and technological moment, when the
Gaming has gone from being a niche hobby to a mainstream obsession.
They not only reveal interior design and fashion styles
personal at the turn of the millennium, but also a different world, one that
existed before the internet took shape and we started using it.
carry with us in our pockets. \n \nTrue to the community spirit of the
content of the book, the author Merritt K launched the idea of this publication on
Twitter and received over 100,000 likes. LAN Party is the realization of
this idea in a high quality photo book and includes
Exclusive contributions from Naomi Clark (NYU Game Center professor), Kat
Bailey (IGN) and many more.
