The Good - Late, Late-Night Gaming
If my time playing GT4 and Madden 2004 were considered late-night gaming, the semi-regularly Halo 2 nights that me and some friends had were late, late-night gaming, though that may not even be a suitable name.
Though me and a close group of friends played a lot of Halo: CE together, only a select few of us had the game. That forced us to only be able to do a system link with maybe two systems when we all got together. It wasn’t until Halo 2, since we all bought it, that we started to have these massive get-togethers where we had four Xboxes system linked so that 16 of us could play at the same time under a single roof.
We would often take a Friday evening to get everyone together. Each event would gather a minimum of 16 people. Though Halo 2 was the headliner, there were other things we also did, mostly huge, long games of basketball and football. We would then be starving after that, so we would eat a lot of pizza before spending the next 12+ hours playing match after match of Halo 2. We generally stuck to either team deathmatch or CTF on Coagulation, but we sometimes mixed it up by using Waterworks, Lockout, or Zanzibar.
We generally got together late afternoon or early evening, so that meant we would be playing all night long. Most people did end up sleeping, but there would always be a couple of people who were up the entire time. When it whittled down to maybe 2-4 people, we would stop playing Halo 2 and either go play Madden or pool/foosball until everyone got up again. Depending on whose house we were at, we either had to leave as soon as we could or we would go outside and shoot some hoops for a while before going our separate ways.
This went on for every month or two for a couple a years until something happened.
There were some falling outs as ******* got in the way. Some girlfriends went from one of my friends to another, and that caused some fractured relationships. Though that greatly reduced our sessions while we were in high school, it was post-graduation plans that brought it to a halt. Some of us went to college out of the city and others went into the military.
I doubt that we could do these again at our age given our schedules.
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