Reporter Michèle Rüedi usually plays alone at home: in peace and quiet, by herself. At SwitzerLAN, she meets 2,000 people who have brought their PCs and sleeping bags with them. For 72 hours, they play games, laugh and sleep a little. Sometimes under the table.

Just like the good old times, like there was the Swiss Lan Party SLANP, last time i joined was in 1999. We played games like UT99, Q3A, CS etc.

2,000 people would definitely be too many for me, but nevertheless, I think it’s great that something like this still exists.

Once a year, usually on my birthday, I organise a small LAN party at my place with friends from today and clan mates from the past.

Many of them no longer have a gaming setup, so we see what we can manage. I’ve already run the Russian Halo with NucleusCoop on my computer with seven people, the old Age of Empires with CD changes (or the Gog version) or just Worms Armageddon.

And at the same time, our children are also involved, and we can pass on the torch, which is something very precious.

I remember hauling around my old phat ass CRT monitor. Good old days