A 'LAN party house' built at a cost of hundreds of millions of yen is unveiled
Software engineer Kenton Varda and his wife Jade Wang have built a custom home for LAN parties and have released images of the interior.
LAN Party House
https://lanparty.house/
The game room looks like this. In addition to playing games on the giant monitor in the center, there are a total of 12 game stations set up along the walls on both sides.
The game station looks like this. It can be stored when not in use, and it seems that it can be opened and closed one by one.
There are pads for Dance Dance Revolution on the floor. Both Varda and Wang play Dance Dance Revolution frequently as part of their daily exercise routine.
There is a large desk on the second floor where you can play board games. There is a sign that says, 'Board games are games too, right?' But this desk is not just any desk.
The board game desk also has a built-in monitor, mouse, keyboard and speakers, allowing up to six people to play games. There are two work PC desks at the back.
Furniture has electrical conduits installed to run cables for monitors, keyboards, etc.
Electrical conduits are also installed in buildings and will likely be consolidated in one location.
The cable was finally connected to a room called the 'engine room.' In addition to the two work PCs, 20 gaming PCs are housed in racks. The gaming PCs are network booted from the same disk image, so even if you want to play a new game, you only need to install it once. Although no installation is required, all participants need to create an account and purchase the game in order to start it.
The back side of the PC rack looks like this. It says 'Hot Side', but it's not actually that hot.
The network-related components are as shown in the diagram below. A cat6 cable with a transmission speed of 1Gbps is used, and in addition to PCs, wireless access points, security cameras, intercoms, etc. are connected. The external Internet transmission speed is 2Gbps.
The hardware was stored before construction. The gaming PC's CPU is an Intel Core i5-13600KF, and the GPU is a Gigabyte Windforce RTX 4070. Each PC is equipped with 32GB of memory, a Corsair Vengeance 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 5600, and the motherboard is a Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Master. However, this motherboard is extremely unstable, and it is clearly stated that 'do not buy it.'
Varda is building a PC with a friend. They've been hosting LAN parties together for nearly 30 years.
Even though it's a house for LAN parties, Varda and his family live there, so there is a living space as well. The living room is as shown below. It's very open.
Varda has a cat and has installed catwalks and doors for her cats in her home.
The children's room has a bed in the loft, while the other children's room is a mirror image.
A dedicated 'Call Room' is used for online meetings, etc. 'Of course, it can also be used as a game station,' it says, so it seems like it would be good for when you want to concentrate on playing games.
The area under the stairs is a cat room. It is equipped with a cat door, so cats can get in and out even when the regular door is closed.
There are also two guest rooms available for those coming from afar.
The rooftop has a great view, so you can relax and enjoy the view.
And this is Varda's cat.
Varda has held over 100 LAN parties since his first one at age 14 in 1996. He joined Google in 2005 and bought a house in Silicon Valley, where he made a profit of over $1 million as home prices soared. After moving to Cloudflare in 2017, he was able to raise funds through events such as Cloudflare's IPO and Matterport, a startup in which his wife Wang had invested in the seed stage.
The entire house cost several million dollars, with the total cost of the 22 gaming PCs and peripherals estimated at about $75,000. Varda said the gaming station cabinets cost as much as the PCs themselves, and that 'computers are cheap, considering that the cabinets are just wooden boards, and computers are made of trillions of transistors.'
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