Creating a perfect game space is the dream of every player. It would be even better if you can have a happy video game party with three or five friends. Recently, a player in the United States created a game that is beyond everyone’s imagination.LAN Party House” The game mansion, which costs millions of dollars, has become a hot topic of discussion on Hacker News.
LanParty is a party for gamers, where players bring their own computer equipment to enjoy gaming in the same room. In recent years, it has become widely known to players at large-scale events such as DreamHack and WirForce.
However, the couple Kenton Varda and Jade Wang created “LAN Party House“The scale may be far beyond imagination. They bought a piece of property in the mountains of Austin, Texas, and after many years of construction, they finally completed the game house in their hearts last year.
According to the photos published by Kenton, they configured a total of 20 computer hosts last year. The CPUs are all Intel Core i5-13600, the graphics cards are all RTX 4070, and they are equipped with 32GB RAM. All pipelines are connected to the server room and cooled by air conditioning.
In addition to the computer host space, this mansion also has a dance room specially built for “Dance Dance Revolution”, a meeting space that can be used to arrange board games, a living room, a guest room and a lounge for children, as well as an open-air balcony for gatherings. , and there are also cat-specific jumping platforms and passages.
According to Kenton, the house began construction in 2019 and was not completed until 2023. It will be equipped with as many as 22 computers at a cost of $75,000, but it is cheap compared to the house itself because the property is said to be owned by Kenton. Purchased for $1 million.
Kenton said in the Q&A on the website that many people wonder why he has the money to build such a house. In fact, he was an engineer at Google in 2005. Because the company’s successful development allowed him to accumulate wealth, he invested in Paro. Otto’s house was later sold for twice the price and then purchased in Austin. The other funding came from his wife Jade joining Cloudflare and becoming an early investor to make a profit.
Kenton emphasizes that he is very lucky and also promotes the fun of LanParty events on the website. In fact, his first LanParty was held when he was 14 years old. He also built “Kenton’s House” with his father and hosted more than 100 LanParty events. game party, so this is the second LanParty House he has built.
Kenton also mentioned many technical details on the website, including that each player’s computer boots from a network drive as a disk image, so all computers can install the same game as long as they are updated before the party; in addition, each console A write-and-copy layer at the top of the screen allows guests to make settings changes to their consoles that won’t be visible to anyone else and will be deleted when the party ends.
By the way, the dance machine room in Kenton’s house has 4 DDR step pads.
Seeing this, I believe that such a house is the ultimate dream of every player. Although not every player has the financial resources to build such a game mansion, we can see that the spirit of LanParty game party can be extended to modern times, and players invite each other to share it. The joyful gathering of games is still exciting and moving.