Article: B.Y.O.C. (BRING YOUR OWN COMPUTER); GAMERS BRING THEIR MACHINES TO MARATHON SESSIONS, CALLED LAN PARTIES, WHERE THEY UNITE AND FIGHT.(Technology)

Byline: Aaron Gifford and Maria T. Welych Staff writers

The noise level grew as Tri-County Mall walkers approached the hallway by Dough Boy's Gourmet Pizzeria on a recent Saturday.

A rectangle of tables overflowing with computer hardware, cans of Mountain Dew and tubes of Pringles filled the center of the hall. One thousand feet of cable - mostly red and black; some yellow - snaked on the floor between the computers.

Gamers, mostly male and mostly in their teens, sat at each monitor.

It was a LAN party, a gathering of video game fans and their computers that meets each month at Tri-County Mall in Baldwinsville to shoot their ...

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