What are your favorite retro PC games to play on LANs ?
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2025 7:25 pm
I'm talking about games for Windows XP or older that you can play on LAN with friends
here are some of mine :
Atomic Bomberman
A very classic one but always a lot of fun, It's Bomberman playable with up to 5 PCs with 2 players per PCs, making it 10 people who can play in a same game, it's pure chaos
It works on Windows 95 and higher tho on most of my windows XP installations, the installer doesn't work, the solution is simply to copy the files to your PC from the CD manually
You will have to install the IPX protocol on your system if it's not already installed
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Midtown Madness 2
That one is a good one to just chill in cruise mode and doing whatever you want with the cars, of course you can also race but I just find it more enjoyable to just go full openworld. It's also very easy to put mods in to make things funnier
works on Windows 95 and higher
Works with TCP/IP and IPX
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Jazz Jackrabbit 2
Both an awesome solo and multiplayer game, in fact, you can still play online with an original copy of the game with a pc of it's time, when I first did with a windows 98 PC it blew my mind lol. although most people just use a mod called jj2 plus and I never got it to work on an old PC
works on Windows 95 and higher
works with tcp/ip, IPX and online
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