North Korean video game arcade
Here's a collection of photos from a run-down North Korean video arcade. I'm sure that lots of developing countries have similar arcades, but this is notable due to the stark contrast with the legendary PC Baang arcades in the south. Inside a North Korean Arcade (via Waxy)
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Beautiful.
The patterns of wear clearly show it was played a lot.
this is what the 'king of kong' should be tested on.
Is that Boot Hill?
No sign of Polybius?
Wow, they actually used a modern generic cabinet for a Yie Ar Kung Fu conversion. A small glimmer of tastefulness in the DPRK? Or was it purely circumstantial?
PC Bangs (PC rooms) are not video arcades but are very well-equipped internet cafes.
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Awww, link didn't work for me. *cry* I wanted to see what games the North Koreans got to play.
Oh, now the link works. This is great stuff.
Meh. I've seen as bad in the US. Granted, it was a combo arcade/laundromat...
Oh, man! Sky Cactus Jr!
That IS Boot Hill! WOW!
Arf. 'Service Unavailable'. those guys have a long reach.
These photographs appear to have be suppressed.
Wrong header, it's the North Korean Air Surveillance System.
"You have died of malaria."
I don't think that's Boot Hill; I think it's Great Leader. You know, the game where you try to acquire the biggest gut, the best collection of velour tracksuits, nuclear weapons and, of course, the 2nd largest collection of pron in the world.
This is the sort of arcade I'd expect to find Videlectrix's classic Where's an Egg or Super Soviet Missle Mastar (A mini-game from flash-game turned console game, Alien Hominid), except in their original arcade cabiniets.
where do the North Koreans find the money to put into these arcade games? Do they whittle tokens out of tree bark?