haha yeah Paul I remember those days. In fact it was Quake 1 where I would get owned by people that used mouse look.
Ah, the days of lan parties... and trying to make sure to invite enough new blood that I might not be the "frag boy" that night.
"You say you've never even used a computer before? Well, you'll pick it up in no time, I'm sure..."
Single best LAN party moment: 8 of us playing X-wing vs Tie Fighter... four X-wings, four A-wings... and through teamwork and perseverance, we took out a star destroyer. We had battle planning sessions and everything.
Victory was somewhat muted as we tried to explain to the other guys hanging out in a Diablo game why what we just did mattered so much. But victory was still pretty sweet.
Ramble alert: my wife worked as a caterer at that time so we had the LAN party catered, essentially. One dish in particular we had buckets of and were munching it constantly. Whenever I eat that now, I always think of that night, the computers crammed into every nook and cranny of our (at the time) little town house, the next morning as smelly people pulled themselves up from their makeshift floor beds, and stumbling into the kitchen to have another helping of Mediterranean Chicken and Potato for breakfast. Mmmm...
The internet has largely made LAN parties unnecessary, but I still kind of miss them. There's just something about being able to throw physical things at the person who just nuked your Total Annihilation base one round before your countermeasures were ready.