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The arcade shown in the video is a lot fancier (those high seats) and cleaner (even with all those electric meters) than the ones I have been to around 20 years

The arcade shown in the video is a lot fancier (those high seats) and cleaner (even with all those electric meters) than the ones I have been to around 20 years ago. There were two small arcade shop in my village bazaar. Each with 6 machines. They were dark and small. I went there once as a kid and then was strictly told by my father to never go there again because 'bad people' go there. Found out lot later about the betting scene. Kids use to play tekken. Expert ones use to choose King and won money. My cousin got addicted to the betting scene and ran away from home because he owed lots of money to some other kids. Anway, I got older and went to city and there me and another cousin use to go to arcades every once in a while. I was never good at tekken and was more interested in 'Dinosaurs and Cadillacs' and 'Ninja turtle' and 'Metal Slug'. I use to play tekken with him and use to choose Eddie or Yushimitsu or Gunjack. Yushimitsu was my favorite. Arcade shops started going down when people got computers and later with DSL internet. There use to be (probably still are) CD shops were you could go and buy a pirated game CD for the price of a blank CD. Been playing games on PC since then. Well now I work in gaming. It was good memory trip.

unwind 3y ago
Thanks for sharing, of course. I think your story would have been even more relatable for some readers (definitely myself) if you had mentioned roughly what year, and which country or at least part of the world you grew up in. I have no idea if that is radical of me (doxxing etc), just wanted to mention it.
- unmole 3y ago
  It was obvious to me that they were talking about Pakistan 20 years ago.
- selimthegrim 3y ago
  As the other reply says the CD shop thing should’ve been a big hint for example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Centre,_Karachi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Centre,_Karachi
- smusamashah 3y ago
  The local arcade in bazar has to be 90s to early 2000s. Then it was around 2010s when I noticed absence of arcade shops. And I am from Pakistan and have lived in Punjab (which is size of UK) for almost all my life in its different cities. Lahore is one of the largest cities. A fun saying about Lahore is that "if you haven't seen Lahore, you are not even born yet" (original line is in Punjabi).

unwind 3y ago

Thanks for sharing, of course. I think your story would have been even more relatable for some readers (definitely myself) if you had mentioned roughly what year, and which country or at least part of the world you grew up in. I have no idea if that is radical of me (doxxing etc), just wanted to mention it.

unmole 3y ago
It was obvious to me that they were talking about Pakistan 20 years ago.
selimthegrim 3y ago
As the other reply says the CD shop thing should’ve been a big hint for example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Centre,_Karachi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Centre,_Karachi
smusamashah 3y ago
The local arcade in bazar has to be 90s to early 2000s. Then it was around 2010s when I noticed absence of arcade shops. And I am from Pakistan and have lived in Punjab (which is size of UK) for almost all my life in its different cities. Lahore is one of the largest cities. A fun saying about Lahore is that "if you haven't seen Lahore, you are not even born yet" (original line is in Punjabi).