I recall there being a post on bash-dot-org (RIP) from an IT guy who needed high network traffic to diagnose some issue on the LAN. So his boss had everyone in the building start playing some old FPS(Unreal tournament?) to generate it.
Late 90s in a college computer lab about 20 people playing unreal tournament when lab tech storms in giving out about incorrect use of resources when one of the guys stood up and said we're the gaming society holding trials to form a team to play against another college, that was news to me, good times!
