We had Halo CE on flash drives and on the school file server in the depths of the Robotics club shared drive. It was great until they found the file and made us delete it.

Back on a FIRST Robotics trip, we all had laptops with trackpads playing Halo CE in the car, with a LAN setup via power inverter. We successfully ran between 2 vehicles with a semi in the middle at one point with no noticeable lag!

> It was great until they found the file and made us delete it.

I got lucky with my school, the teachers/sysadmin were defacto okay with us storing a game on there, at least until enough other students found it and caused network problems.

> Back on a FIRST Robotics trip, we all had laptops with trackpads playing Halo CE in the car, with a LAN setup via power inverter. We successfully ran between 2 vehicles with a semi in the middle at one point with no noticeable lag!

That is amazing.

Ah Halo CE. It was on every PC at our school by the time I graduated... You just had to find where it was.

Me & my buddies had bootable DOS floppy drives with Scorched Earth installed. It was funny to see the reactions of others when we were playing the game on a "broken" computer (damaged hard drive).

Ah I remember that game!

...and trying to make a clone in, I think, Q-Basic and not getting very far

My friends and I did the exact same thing, for the exact same reason, but with Pocket Tanks.

https://classic.blitwise.com/ptanks.html

For my friends and I, it was Armegetron.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armagetron_Advanced

My group had a cracked version of one of the CS games, don't know whether it was CS or CS Source though.

It only had de_dust2, but we played so many hours on that game.

Whenever I am at lan parties my buddies want to play CS 1.6 and I don't understand the appeal. They only play de_dust2 too. I find it so boring. Everyone buys exactly the same weapons (m4a1 for antiterrorists, ak47 for terrorists). Everyone runs pretty much to the same spot, there's an exchange of blows, one team wins. Repeat. They don't even try any other maps or other weapons or anything.

CS Portable! That was great!

I remember having a version in which buying one of the shotguns crashed the server.

We did the same but with CS 1.6 in incredibles 64 MB!

The go to LAN game when I went to uni was GTA I! I was taking a non tech course but I still remember vividly this was my first interaction with typing in an IP address. (you had to enter the IP address of the game host on the lan to connect to it)

Exactly the same story here for me and everyone I went to school with, and I have absolutely no recollection of where it came from. Presumably the same package that contained instructions on how to draw the Cool S.