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Counter-Strike 1.6
5v5 · knife round first
Retro LAN parties · NL & BE
Beige towers.
Loud room.
No internet.
Pentium 4s, CS 1.6 and a van full of cable — delivered to your meetup, conference or office.
Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
Memory Test : 524288K OK
Detecting IDE drives ...
Primary MasterMAXTOR 6Y080L0
Secondary MasterLITE-ON DVD-ROM
3Com 3C905C-TX 100MbpsLINK OK
InternetNOT FOUND (by design)
Loading cstrike.exe ...
> RUSH B. DON'T STOP.
- Stations
- 1–6
- Set-up
- 30–90 min
- Cable
- 120 m CAT5
- Internet
- 0
Why not just install it in the office?
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Shouting distance
"Rush A" gets yelled, not typed. The other team hears it too.
Hardware you can hear
Fans, seeking disks, membrane keys. Nostalgia is a physical thing.
A crowd
Six play. Sixty watch, heckle and wait their turn.
Installed and patched
The roster
q3dm17Q3A
Quake III Arena
FFA · rail only
CTF-FaceUT
Unreal Tournament
3v3 CTF · Facing Worlds
ArabiaAoE
Age of Empires II
2v2v2 · 200 pop
Hot-seatWA
Worms Armageddon
6 players · banana bomb
Co-opSS
Serious Sam
6-player co-op · Serious
What comes out of the van
Real towers. Real weight.
Tower
Pentium 4
2.4–3.0 GHz
Screen
17" TFT
1280×1024
Keyboard
Beige membrane
PS/2
Mouse
Two buttons
one ball
Sound
Speakers
no headsets
Network
100 Mbit
offline LAN
System Properties
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- Processor
- Intel Pentium 4 · Northwood
- Memory
- 512 MB – 1 GB DDR
- Graphics
- GeForce 4 Ti · 1024×768 @ 100 fps
- Display
- 17" TFT · 5:4 · 60 Hz
- Network
- 16-port switch · static IPs
- Power
- ≈ 320 W per station
- Table
- 1.2 m per station
- Spares
- +1 tower, screen, PSU, kb, mouse
Setting up LAN party...
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T−3 h
Van arrives
30–90 min
Stations wired
3–8 h
We run the night
20–45 min
Gone by midnight
Indicative pricing · NL & BE · transport and crew included
Packages
Sponsor booth
×
1 station · per day
€ 450staffed, all day
- High-score challenge
- Live leaderboard
- Your branding on screen
After-party
×
up to 6 · one evening
€ 750up to 5 h of play
- Full row, wired
- 3 games in rotation
- Crew on the floor
Conference day ★
×
up to 6 · full day
€ 1.100breaks + evening finale
- Open all day
- Evening tournament
- Bracket, trophy, your logo
Office residency
×
up to 6 · one week
€ 2.400Monday to Friday
- Set up once, left in place
- Lunch + after-hours play
- Friday finale LAN
Previously
The evidence
The full row, wired
Keyboard, close
Crowd behind chairs
Knife round
Cable run
Load-in
Before you ask
The practical bits
Space and power?
1.2 m of table per station, 4 m² for crates. Each station pulls ~320 W — a full row needs two separate 16 A circuits.
Do you need our network?
No. Own switch, static IPs, fully offline. Your guest Wi-Fi can collapse and nobody will notice.
Only six can play at once?
That's the format: short rounds, losers rotate out, everyone else watches and heckles. Sixty people keep six machines busy all night.
What if a 20-year-old machine dies?
We bring a spare of everything. Swap takes five minutes.
Can we brand it?
Logo on login screens and scoreboard, your name on the bracket — and on the spray in CS 1.6, which people notice more than a roll-up banner.
How far do you travel?
Based in Breda. NL and BE are normal bookings; Germany with an overnight.
New booking request
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Tell us about your event
Date, city, headcount. We answer within two days — sometimes with a question about your power sockets.
hello@lan-in-a-van.nl
+31 6 00 00 00 00
Breda, Netherlands