Lan Party Inside The Multiplayer Revolution

局域网聚会

●产品信息——

出版社 ‏ : ‎ Thames & Hudson (2024年 1月 30日)

语言 ‏ : ‎ 英语

精装 ‏ : ‎ 176页

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0500026955

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0500026953

商品重量 ‏ : ‎ 1.06 Kilograms

尺寸 ‏ : ‎ 22.35x2.03x28.96 cm

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

●内容简介——

以充满爱意的摄影作品来赞美以能量饮料为燃料、以家具摆放为载体的多人游戏潮流及其夜间参与者。

把自己带回多人电脑游戏的黄金时代，那时互联网是你和朋友们一起建造的地方，游戏中的消费就是披萨外卖。LAN（局域网）聚会是一个乐观的计算机时代，但在当今永远在线的数字世界中，这个时代已被遗忘。局域网聚会》收录了个人回忆和数百张从厨房餐桌上的聚会到挤满大会堂的大型锦标赛的众包照片，将带您重温那个充满山地露的游戏光辉岁月。

除了记录局域网聚会的怀旧时代，这些照片还是特殊文化和技术时期的独特文物，当时游戏正从小众爱好转变为痴迷。这些照片不仅展现了千禧年之交的家居装饰和个人时尚风格，还展现了一个不同的世界，一个在互联网出现之前就存在的世界，一个我们开始把它装在口袋里随身携带的世界。

秉承本书内容的社区精神，作者梅里特-K 通过 Twitter 提出了出版这本书的想法，并获得了超过 10 万个赞。局域网派对》以高品质摄影集的形式将她的想法付诸实践，并收录了娜奥米-克拉克（Naomi Clark，纽约大学游戏中心教师）、凯特-贝利（Kat Bailey，IGN）等人的稿件。

221 幅彩色插图

A loving photographic celebration of the energy drink-fueled, furniture-rearranging, multiplayer gaming trend and its nocturnal participants.

Transport yourself back to the golden era of multiplayer PC gaming, when the internet was a place you built with your friends and the only in-game purchases were pizza deliveries. Ad hoc and adventurous, sweaty, and unsupervised, LAN (local area network) parties embodied an open and optimistic era in computing that’s been forgotten in today’s always-online digital world. Featuring personal recollections alongside hundreds of crowdsourced photographs ranging from kitchen-table gatherings to massive convention hall-filling tournaments, LAN Party will bring you back to the Mountain Dew-fueled glory days of gaming.

In addition to documenting the nostalgic era of LAN parties, the photographs are unique artifacts of the peculiar cultural and technological moment, when gaming was tipping over from niche hobby to mainstream obsession. They reveal not just the home decor and personal fashion styles at the turn of the millennium but also a different world, one that existed before the internet took shape and we started carrying it around with us in our pockets.

True to the community spirit of the book’s content, author Merritt K pitched the idea for this publication through Twitter and received over 100,000 likes. LAN Party is her sought-after idea brought to life in a high-quality photobook format and includes exclusive contributions from the likes of Naomi Clark (faculty at the NYU Game Center), Kat Bailey (IGN), and more.

221 color illustrations