I dreamed of blocky pixels': the strange, sweaty, sociable early days of gaming – in pictures, Games
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Back in the early 2000s, multiplayer gaming meant lugging huge PCs to friends’ houses or school halls and connecting them with wires to have Lan parties. Early adopters remember that heady time
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I dreamed of blocky pixels': the strange, sweaty, sociable early days of gaming – in pictures, Games
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