For those who don't remember that fuckwin establishment it was a LAN center in Harvard Square. Where you pay a small fee to use the PCs and consoles to play alone or with other people. Massachusetts has zero lan centers(unless you count iGames in Nashua) and I'm planning on changing that. For those of you that enjoy LAN Parties once set up in a soon-to-be announced location(in the boston area) there will be plenty to attend both casual and competitive. I'm already in the process of scheduling up both some casual fun parties and pay to play(usually a 5-15k 1st place prize) competitions for various games. So for those that care keep praying for everything to go smoothly because I've been trying to do this since AZ closed.

Also I hope you won't mind seeing johnny wendal's face everywhere because hes investing and I need to plug his shit by putting up some posters, using some of his mouse/keyboards etc etc

tl;dr: nerds will have a place to do nerd stuff together again

I like this plan. When consoles became suped up gaming computers and high speed inet readilly available it whiped out lan parties... With the right strategy this could be cool though.

Well sort of. There are still plenty of lans around for both consoles and computers. Just nothing regional.

im just commenting on what Ive observed around here but yeah dude I think its an awesome idea.

The only LAN center I remember in Harvard was Cybersmith, where was Adrenaline Zone?

starcraft parties? yuh pleaz

It was located in Havard Square Cambridge mass right on Brattle St. no more than maybe 100 yards from the T station. The owners moved to AZ and are opening their own line of lan centers under the Adrenaline Zone name which is why the name may be different for this one. I have been trying to contact them to see if I could use the name since the original reason why they couldn't keep it open was the fact that they were 3000 miles away and only had a friend managing it....poorly while they weren't here.

If you have any "nostalgia nights" that involve the playing of Doom (or Doom 2), I'm all in. Last time I did anything like this was around 2002, but back when Duke Nukem 3D and Quake were current, I loved it.

well the plan is to have the place open from 11-11 so people can come in and play whatever the hell they want either online or off. the parties and competitions are just icing on the cake.

TFC tournament or GTFO

Red Alert 2 party or Back To the Future parts II and III

So many fond memories at Cybersmith. Buying hardware at the bar, epic.

I was never old enough to find out, did the bar actually serve booze?


Also, this Adrenaline Zone, do want.

Quake 1 lan match with OG soundtrack by Trent Reznor blasting, black-lighting only and x-files on the TVs or Asiantown.

This is still in the beginning stages. Currently gathering funds ie: putting my organs as collateral to my local bank for a loan. If anyone has any suggestions for Boston area retail spaces I'm all ears.

BUMP: Any updates on this? Do you need business partners? LAN Party somewhere in the meantime geekfags?

PAX East is having a BYOC lan comp soon. Other than that not much in the way of lan parties/competitions.

Business partership is a possibility. Right now like I said I'm shopping for a loan, researching retail/office spaces and collecting donations from all my buddies i used to compete with.

PAX East three day passes are sold out, sucks.

Me and a dude from my platoon where talking about using our VA loans to open a LAN center. I'm looking into how to go about getting a VA loan at the moment, just to know in general.

And I didn't mean aaaree there any LAN parties, I'm saying we should organize a killer one.