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Posted June 16, 2015
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LoboBlanco: Not odd, they were just protecting national production, so the real ones wouldn´t compete ;P
Well, no kidding. But the ban was based on the idea that video games "waste the minds of the youth". So, still odd that they'd nationalize something they saw as a problem later on. Maybe the Chinese knockoffs did too well.
Posted June 16, 2015
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LoboBlanco: Not odd, they were just protecting national production, so the real ones wouldn´t compete ;P
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Firebrand9: Well, no kidding. But the ban was based on the idea that video games "waste the minds of the youth". So, still odd that they'd nationalize something they saw as a problem later on. Maybe the Chinese knockoffs did too well.
Well I encounter loads of mind wasted denizens when I play multiplayer games, although, I wouldn´t blame consoles for that.
Posted June 16, 2015
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LoboBlanco: Well I encounter loads of mind wasted denizens when I play multiplayer games, although, I wouldn´t blame consoles for that.
Heh yeah... China... is different though.
Posted June 16, 2015
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syntotic: And the ban just expired, according to New York city tabloids. So!...
Good to know, I'll keep that in mind if I ever time travel back in time and end up in China! That's probably not going to happen but if it does... I'll Be Prepared(TM)
Posted June 16, 2015
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tinyE: I had a chance to visit Beijing once. Weird place. They put the airport right in the middle of Chinatown.
In China "Chinatown" is a strip club.

Also, consoles have been legal here long enough for there to be entire shops dedicated to them. Even when I was here 3 years ago it was hardly difficult to find consoles. It's just that you wouldn't see any by Nintendo, Sony or MS. But I did see a fair number of generic boxes floating around.

Not that it's terribly important, none of the students here have time for games even if they do have the money for a console, so most of the gaming here is either PC or phone based.
Posted June 16, 2015
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tinyE: I had a chance to visit Beijing once. Weird place. They put the airport right in the middle of Chinatown.
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hedwards: In China "Chinatown" is a strip club.
OT
In Vietnam there is actually a bar called 'Apocalypse Now'.

Tell me that country doesn't have a sense of humor. :P
Posted June 16, 2015
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tinyE: I had a chance to visit Beijing once. Weird place. They put the airport right in the middle of Chinatown.
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hedwards: In China "Chinatown" is a strip club.

Also, consoles have been legal here long enough for there to be entire shops dedicated to them. Even when I was here 3 years ago it was hardly difficult to find consoles. It's just that you wouldn't see any by Nintendo, Sony or MS. But I did see a fair number of generic boxes floating around.

Not that it's terribly important, none of the students here have time for games even if they do have the money for a console, so most of the gaming here is either PC or phone based.
What about Arcade games? Those are still huge in the PRC, right? Nice to see something (sigh) oldschool, like humans interacting with each other in person! :P

I guess nowadays it's easier to find consoles in China, right? Not that they're huge, but it's easier to buy them, so I've heard.
Posted June 16, 2015
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deathknight1728: The chinese used to be cool.
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tinyE: No shit dude! They invented fire crackers! 4th of July in Ancient China must have been so bad ass!
That made me crack up at work. Just thought you deserved to know. Makes me remember a story about an American tourist being shocked that we don't celebrate the 4th of July.
Posted June 16, 2015
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Firebrand9: Odd, considering bootleg NES's were sold from China during the 80's.
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LoboBlanco: Not odd, they were just protecting national production, so the real ones wouldn´t compete ;P
wasn't there an nes clone endorsed by jackie chan?
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/jackiechan/jackie3.htm

and the PRC-kickstarted corp is still making knockoffs today.
Posted June 17, 2015
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hedwards: In China "Chinatown" is a strip club.
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tinyE: OT
In Vietnam there is actually a bar called 'Apocalypse Now'.

Tell me that country doesn't have a sense of humor. :P
If it opened during the morning, it´d be complete.
Posted June 17, 2015
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syntotic: And the ban just expired, according to New York city tabloids. So!...
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tinyE: What tabloid, because my copy of the New York Post is all about Bat Boy eloping with Kim Kardashian. Nothing about China in there.
Weird, my copy of the T sun says Kanye hit bat boy in his new Lamborghini.
Posted June 17, 2015
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hedwards: In China "Chinatown" is a strip club.

Also, consoles have been legal here long enough for there to be entire shops dedicated to them. Even when I was here 3 years ago it was hardly difficult to find consoles. It's just that you wouldn't see any by Nintendo, Sony or MS. But I did see a fair number of generic boxes floating around.

Not that it's terribly important, none of the students here have time for games even if they do have the money for a console, so most of the gaming here is either PC or phone based.
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vicklemos: What about Arcade games? Those are still huge in the PRC, right? Nice to see something (sigh) oldschool, like humans interacting with each other in person! :P

I guess nowadays it's easier to find consoles in China, right? Not that they're huge, but it's easier to buy them, so I've heard.
I'm not sure what you mean by big, but yes arcades still exist here and I do see arcade games outside of arcades as well. They're not as common as arcade games were in the US in the hay day of arcades, but even when I was living in some rather tiny towns I knew of at least one arcade.
Posted June 17, 2015
There are alot of things forbidden in China.

They have a place called "forbidden city" in there too.
Posted June 17, 2015
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tinyE: No shit dude! They invented fire crackers! 4th of July in Ancient China must have been so bad ass!
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deathknight1728: They also had a guy (Cant remember his name) who was so intelligent he could force kill people in an argument with his words. He invented the wooden oxen and it can move without any gas or materials all by itself.
Heresy! No creature of the bovine persuasion moves without gas!
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