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I had forgotten how much fun playing multiplayer games with people in the same room is. Playing online is a lot of fun, but when you know the people and watch their reactions as you play makes it all the more exhilarating. That coupled with the potential for humiliation greatly adds to the experience.

The games played were : Star Trek Tactical Assualt and Ace Combat X on the PSP. StarTrek was a lot of fun but suffered from serious glitching in multiplayer. Player positions were completely all over the place with people being 300+ distance away from where they were on the other person's PSP. Ace Combat X was a lot of fun particularly 1v1 dog fights, bloody Fenrirs...

Also played was Goldeneye and Starcraft. Prior to this I had not played Starcraft in about two years and I must say, after a few hours of play I am convinced that if all Blizzard do with Starcraft 2 is update the graphics, it will STILL be an excellent game. I still remember playing it almost ten years ago when multiplayer involved dialling my friend's modem using my computer using a 33.6kbps connection.... laggy times. It was one of the first games to have completely asynchronous factions and is still a huge amount of fun to play, although its shocking how quickly the hours shoot past when playing it...