Men's retro lan party Every Wednesday 20:00 - late
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Better together
Our mission: bring guys together,
just like before.
A brief history
Mark & Lloyd playing. Circa 1999
It's 1999. Me (left), and my best mate, Lloyd, are playing Age of Empires: Rise of Rome on a Tiny Computers 810LS1. We're about 9, maybe 10, and we're utterly hooked.
Roll onto the 2000s, Wire World (now defunct) was a local LAN party shop groups of us would visit. Here we could be tribal, we could be violent and abusive. My God, did we laugh retarded, spotty faces off.
Source.Wire World, Radstock, 2006.
*Blink* and its 2024. Modernity has turned everything to shit. Games are shit. Everyone is separate, decentralised and side-by-side gaming is dead. Many of us have children of our own (or not), careers, wives, (blah, blah, blah). No one forgot the old days, we just moved on.
Then I saw this.
I dont know who made this. But it's brilliant.
About the time I saw this, I stumbled across my brothers 15 year old BFI motherboard in the loft and astonishingly it worked. I wonder? Drunk on old tech I built 3x old rigs. We met up a few times and we were playing games together! again!. It was great, again!.
This gave me an idea.
TW WhatsApp was created on this day.
'Tired World' was spawned. Inspired by Wire World's LAN party business, I was learning that revisiting old memories wasn't always fleeting. I'd found that what mattered most importantly of all is that games, propper games, are friend makers. For so many of us who are by now, older, slower and a bit miserable. The right games bring you together. And that's very special. People joined! more friends, then friends-of-friends and now strangers!
I want to bring people together to play games. Too many men in our society today, especially our age, are the forlorn and whilst internet gaming is fantastic, nothing beats being there.
Which is why I want to find these men, get them in a room, shove games that they love in front of them and say "there you go...".
No internet, no girls, no outside.
- Mark
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