What about counterstrike and Warcraft or Starcraft? We used to play those at LAN parties all the time. Great fun. And wine supports then pretty nicely now so I would immagine they would work fine. Another great one if you like fantasy games is neverwinter nights since there is a Linux client you would be set. Also savage is a pretty good game with a native Linux client.
I'm sure there are many more. I think you need to ask your friends what they want to play and see if they run on Linux or if there is a similar FOSS game.
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On Aug 4, 2009, at 8:00 AM, Steven Van Tilburg <vt@ariestechgroup.com> wrote:
The grandpappy of LAN games, BZFlag.
VT
blee2@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
A Friend of mine suggested I host a LAN party.
I have an 8-port gigabit mini-switch wired into a couple rooms and can
probably borrow another for a party.
My system is a 4 year old server-class Dell with 1 GB RAM, Detected
2392.235 MHz hyper-threaded P4/Xenon processor, and pathetic graphics.
Let me mention the pathetic graphics capabilities again.
I've also got an even older systen I could use, an 800 MHz with 256 MB Ram,
win98/linux/knoppix and an ATI RAGE 128 card.
Any suggestions what games I could host/play? My friends would
probabably bring Windows systems, so the games would have to be able to
run on everything and have available downloads.
Personally, I'd be happy with a group Nethack or Hunt The Wumpus, but
I'm not sure about everyone else.
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