Artemis!
http://www.artemis.eochu.com/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/247350/
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(costumes, acting and "swaying" optional)
Today a friend dragged me to a biannual boardgame convention I'd attended off and on a few years ago, but not recently
Apparently someone's been bringing a full (budget) Artemis setup since summer 2013.
It's basically the Star Trek live-action ship bridge simulation game you've always dreamed of, although it is unlicensed. Requires five friends to bring client computers to your place to setup a small lanparty, and you run a server. HW requirements seem very minimal. It's "collaborative, team-building" gameplay, and your "crew" plays against the CPU which is throwing scenarios at you. Five client computers config'ed to run engineering, science, weapons, helm, and communications. Captain of the ship does not get a computer but instead sits and gives orders. In a way, it's a cross between a videogame and a LARP, and it's phenomenally nerdy and completely awesome.
I first heard about the game a few years ago and had always wanted to try it. Well, it was a LOT of fun. The local gamers who brought it were telling me about some of the community's hardware expansions, dedicated peripherals (sound and lighting effects mainly), some custom scenarios that involve ship-to-ship collaboration and/or competition across the Internet, all sorts of things. They were also genius frugal, picked up five laptops and one desktop from state government surplus for a song.
I'm now counting down the months until I can get my own setup. 
- Stiletto
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