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Festivals for gamers: how LAN parties have changed
by Valentin Oberholzer
Weekly review: Back to the future - but also to the past
13.10.2023
Translation: machine translated
It's striking how we've drifted completely apart in just one week. Some dealt with retro topics, others with futuristic gadgets and features.
Let's start deep in the 1990s. The internet was still in its infancy, but thanks to networking, gaming suddenly became a social event. LAN parties experienced a boom. Our freelance author Valentin looks back at this time - and says what has changed to this day.
And if you were too young for LAN parties in the 1990s, you're guaranteed to have seen one of the cartoons that Kim describes in the first part of his childhood memories. Or playing "Final Fantasy" on the first Playstation at home. Kevin reminisces and says which offshoot has the best gameplay.
Sometimes you should just let memories be memories. Otherwise you'll be like Florian, who is no longer enchanted when he sees "Buffy - Under the Spell of Demons" again and is ashamed of his former enthusiasm.
Familiar with the past, we travel forwards in time. Fittingly, Debora watched "Demolition Man", which was released in 1993 but is set in the year 2032. Weird visions of the future, but not only that.
Even today, much of the film looks like it's from the future. Michelle, Jan and Samuel have tested three products this week that already look pretty futuristic. There are the new photo editing options in the new Google Pixel smartphone, which are supported by artificial intelligence. Or the Lenovo Yoga Book 9, which comes with two screens and would have caused a storm of enthusiasm among the props from the 1990s sci-fi film. The 57-inch monitor, the largest widescreen monitor on the market to date, is also somehow out of this world.
Our game specialists Domagoj and Philipp had to manage a balancing act between the times.
Super Mario, the hero of the past, comes to the present in 2D mode. And "Age of Empires" veteran Ørjan Larsen tells us in an interview why he still doesn't get bored of the game even after ten years and why he will probably stick with it for a few more years.
This is a selection of our articles. You can find all our publications in hierarchical order in the magazine.
Cover photo: Samuel Buchmann
Lorenz Keller
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Lorenz.Keller@digitecgalaxus.chGadgets are my passion - whether you need them for the home office, for the household, for sport and pleasure or for the smart home. Or, of course, for the big hobby next to the family, namely fishing.
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