Rezzing the Incredible Gaming Fest

Posted by Stropp on December 31, 2006

It's the end of the year. Woo hoo!

 

I hope you have all had a good Christmas and have received some nice phat loot. Santa definitely has some good drops.

I've had quite a busy week. In addition to the Christmas day relly-go-round, this year saw the resurrection of the incredible gaming fest. About ten or eleven years ago I and a few friends got our computers together and had a LAN party. Since then, every Christmas week we repeat the tradition. For three days my living room accomodates a number of blokes playing a variety of games. We have even built our own gaming table. It's a big round table about three meters in diameter and comfortably fits six players and their PCs.

The last time we did the incredible gaming fest was in 2002. 2003 saw me heading to the US for work. I was there for two and a half years, living in Baltimore, Maryland. I came back to Australia late 2005, but I wasn't able to get anything organised that year.

We ended up playing Battlefield 2 for most of the time. I hadn't really played it much before so I was pretty much on the lower end of the rankings, and my attempts to fly the jets and helicopters resulted in much amusement. We also played a bit of C&C Generals, though the consensus was that BF2 was more fun.

All in all, it was a great deal of fun. It's always good to get together with your friends, even more so when you get to inflict mongrel acts on each other. That is always a good time.

I hope you all have a good New Years, and I hope the New Year brings you closer to your hopes and dreams. If you're out partying, have fun, and take care on the way home.

Cheers, everyone.