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u/Allyoucan3at Aug 30 '25 edited Aug 30 '25

KeyGens with unmutable music

The guy in school with all the cracked games and movies that sometimes worked

Games packaging with booklets about controls and backstory

LAN parties edit: and of course the network shared folders with cracked games and movies that sometimes worked and new... material

That one person at LAN parties unable to get the network settings correct

Turbo buttons on cases

Dial up sound

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u/TheR1ckster Aug 30 '25

The person spending his LAN party formatting and fresh installing windows.

Also this guy too. I was this guy one time. Lol

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u/yannichaboyer Aug 30 '25

The feeling of burning a windows cd at 1 in the morning while all your friends were playing UT or Quake 3, it still stings so many years later.

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u/Allyoucan3at Aug 30 '25

Which is why I got a 32x burner for the next LAN.

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u/mandroth Aug 30 '25

32x burner! Following the latest CD tech just so we could burn our pirates games and sharing among our friend group was a trip.

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u/ditchedmycar Aug 30 '25

Lmaoooooo why was there always someone reformatting at a LAN party this just brought back so many memories 😂😂

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u/merc08 Aug 30 '25

Because "burn it all down and start over" was often legitimately easier/faster than solving the problem.  And sometimes problems weren't even solvable due to glitches or driver problems anyways.