This weekend, I invited a couple of friends over to my house for a 24-hour Gaming LAN, as an experiment to see if we are getting old OR not, and if we would be able to make a whole 24 hours of gaming.
We started our en devour at 08h00 Saturday morning and the intention was to play right through to Sunday morning 08h00.
We started the morning off with a nice big breakfast of bacon,eggs,muffins,”mielie pap” which actually kept us going for most of the day.
We started of the day with Battlefield 2, which is just awesome when you have pings of 2ms. When you start shooting your own team for fun you know it’s time to move to a next game.
So the next game was Call of Duty 4 which I’ve never played(what!!). Took us an hour or so to get everybody setup but nice break as well. Inevitably the next game was Call of Duty 5 paying the cool zombie maps.
At around 20h00 Firelite arrived, which insisted we play Left4Dead, which is very cool, and really needs you to play in a team and requires all 4 members to survive!
During the whole day some people joined us and some people left at certain times due to “family” and other responsibilities, but we kept a good average of at least 8 players through the day.
Moving into the cold late night hours the gaming also became a bit slower. People starting dropping out, started leaching from other peoples’ pc’s and just sitting around, looking like zombies(after playing L4D).
Being held at my house, I tried to keep awake as long as possible but unfortunately I dropped out at around 04h00 on Sunday morning, and went to sleep a bit but the last 4 guys still kept going till around 06h00.
Thanks for Werner(Azrael ?), Werner(Pyro), Ryno(Teivel), Zirk(Wolfblade), Anthony(neZron), Melissa(Firelite), Spook, Jacques(Krall), Gregory for joining us, was great fun, and maybe we can do this again in 6 months or so, but next time just for 8 hours or so.
O yes, and thanks to Cindy (my wife, Babes,Lover!) Thanks for helping out with the food and putting up with us geeks for the weekend, very much appreciated!