[kupoartist]

It was as much of a LAN party as the XBox examples that people posted. Yes, as an irritating purists, I don't think thats a LAN party at all (if you call a console linkup a LAN Party, you can also call 4 kids with linked GBAs a LAN party, which doesn't sound right to me.)

nah, anyway: the most important part of the L.A.N. acronym is "Local" - The internet doesn't qualify, because its far too big, but local tends to mean on the scale of a room or a buliding - some communities have all their computers networked though...

oh and a true "LAN Party" really needs about 16 machines and people. Some are organised reguarly, and vary from about 16 to around 400 people. (I believe the ID sponsered "Quake-Con" is one such large event?)