My LAN career started with StarCraft and ended with Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. Anyone play that?

AoE1 and 2 were such great games.

I owe some of my high school social life to the fact I could beat anyone there at aoe, so I made friends with some of the older kids by teaching them good builds.

For us Age of Mythology, Age of Empires 2 and of course CS 1.6 :D

Forever! Actually I recently found out that there's still an active (semi-)professional scene which blew my mind. Amazing game, I've started playing a lot again and thinking about hosting some LAN parties for it.

Come join us at reddit.com/r/aoe2 , it's fun!

Last fall some friends and I tried to set up a LAN party with Age of Mythology. The networking code on the Windows 8-compatible version was truly terrible but it was still a blast to play. Wish we could have done Empires, too!

Warcraft II for us!

Also, right when Doom came out, I remember my dad setting it up on work computers after work, and he would play deathmatches against his coworkers Dave and Mike, and they'd let an 8-year-old me play! Such fun times.

Last year I worked for a startup that did regular AOE LAN parties at the office. I no longer work there but I still go to their AOE LAN parties :)

Command and Conquer, followed by Starcraft here.

Also, one of the early GTAs had networked multiplayer, and I remember doing a fair bit of that when I was younger.