Finding a good LAN party in your area can be easy or extremely difficult depending on how you search. If you're going to college or a university, you should be able to find a good LAN party. A good number of college students do enjoy having LAN parties on campus using the computer labs. So that's one good place to start looking into. You could always check the college message boards on the school websites to find LAN parties.

Chances of finding a LAN party at your college should be relatively high. If you don't find any message board, you could always start one of your own. Then there's the actual hardboard on the various walls of dorm halls, libraries, student centers, and other school buildings. There should be homemade ads for LAN parties tacked up to those walls with whom to contact with phone numbers, e-mail, etc. If there's not, you can print out a few ads yourself with your contact information and post them throughout the school. Within the next hour, you should be getting plenty of phonecalls and e-mails from people hosting LAN parties looking for new players to join.

Schools and universities should be a good idea to start. Also get in touch with the various school organizations. I remember checking some of the student groups of George Washington University and they do have quite a few video gaming oriented groups. At a university alone, you're bound to get plenty of hits. They'll wouldn't look past the idea of a LAN party to bring other students together. My friend is a student at Lehmen College in NYC and had recently joined the Asian Cultural Exchange. He explained how they have all sorts of LAN parties with Nintendo DS portable consoles and PCs. One example how easy it is to find a good LAN party in your area.

But if college isn't your thing, there are always the game stores and comic shops. You really can't work at a place like EB Games and not like to play videogames. I usually ask the people working there about what good games to play and they've been quite informative. So, those are good areas to hit up. When my friend used to own this nearby comic shop I used to hang out at, he would host a few LAN parties now and then. People would bring their computers in and hook them up together to form a group and take on other groups.

So those are two good places to go and ask questions. Hitting the most obvious places increases your chances of finding a good nearby LAN party.

If there are no game stores or comic shops nearby, the next best place would be the community centers. Recently, the community centers and complexes have started to host LAN parties where players pay a fee and bring their own computers. It's proven to be extremely popular. So start calling up those places and asking about possible LAN parties.

The other choice takes dedication: using the internet. You're going to have to hit up all sorts of message boards. That's going to take up some time.

Once you find the various LAN parties, finding the good one is a different story. You're going to have to test drive each LAN party until you find the last one. It's like Goldie Locks trying out the various porrages until she found the right one. You could read all the compliments and criticisms each LAN party has, but only you can determine if a nearby LAN party is good or not.

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