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Cue "In Soviet Russia, the games play you!" etc...
So Justin, was this on one of them government guided tours? Were they happy for you to take photos of the misery?
Just think, in about 10 years time Sonic 1 might have filtered through, and those lucky North Koreans will be playing it for the first time ever....
They (the NK government) work under such ideals but rarely does it become reality...and let me ask you what that "massive freedom of choice" really is in the UK?
god...fucking geeks who forget the real outside world because they only access "life" through forums....sorry, I am drunk but the above post is utter shit
Yes, it was a tour with two government guides with us at all times. They didn't seem embarrassed about the age of the machines in the arcade. They probably didn't know any better. And most likely they didn't give that much of a shit about arcade games. It was generally very hard to tell what they were thinking, or what they thought we were thinking. We did our best to be polite anyway.
@(last two anonymous posters)
You can't really argue with the statement that they have very little freedom of choice compared to the UK. They have no access to foreign media or any source of information other than the official government line. They need permission to travel anywhere within the country (and travel outside of the country is only for very elite party members), and generally questioning the government in any way is punished harshly. As for the supposed advantages, well I would doubt that their education, housing, and social welfare services are more generous than in the UK. You are sure as hell not going to get the dole for doing nothing there.
It's the thing putting me off going. That you're not supposed to write about it or put any photos up afterwards. That's according to the travel companies site, anyway.
I await the day when NK falls so I can donate some street fighter III 3rd strike machines to their new arcades.
"These days, the latest jjeoleum gigiim fucking kingwangjjang"
WTF was that guy trying to say!!
And what the fuck are the travel agencies or the North Korean government going to do once you're back in the free world? Sue you? lol.
Stupid google translator! How dare their translator only work for 75% of the words? I want my money back!
It's slightly odd using 20 year old arcade machines in bad nick though, what are the average PC specs like there? I'm assuming that every happy citizen doesn't have a PC in every home, but there must be SOME computers surely, considering the quality of some of the Flash/Java games you can get through a browser on a 10 year old PC, no disrespect to Yie Ar Kung Fu, odd that this is the best they could manage? Still, if you've never used a computer before, this must be the tits. Oh yeah, and internet access is non-existent for the plebs as well. I suppose when your scientists are working on supernoodles that make your population starve to death a bit less quickly, developing the next Space Harrier gets put on the backburner.
It's a bit like an evil version of the Dobuita arcade in Shenmue, only marginally less depressing.
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"These days, the latest jjeoleum gigiim fucking kingwangjjang"
"These days, the latest jjeoleum gigiim fucking kingwangjjang"
"These days, the latest jjeoleum gigiim fucking kingwangjjang"
"These days, the latest jjeoleum gigiim fucking kingwangjjang"
"These days, the latest jjeoleum gigiim fucking kingwangjjang"
I'd much rather play that than street fighter.
From google translate: "These days, the latest jjeoleum gigiim fucking kingwangjjang" ... Sorry but I don't get it :)
Did you get a chance to check out the countryside? I'm utterly fascinated with NK, really want to go there and would be willing to go through the motions with regard to the bullshit idolatry in order to get a glimpse at this weird enclave.
" Being a recent up-to-date machinery and tools, dozes and puts out [ccel] the sound king king [ccang "
according to bablefish anyroad
Now all I have to do is convince them I'm Canadian so they don't kill me on the spot for being evil American devil responsible for all their woes. Anyone know how to make good passports?
hold on..I'll use my best Korean on them...
Kakkajyuseyo!
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http://www.15kop.ru/index_en.htm
I wish I could go and play Yie Ar Kung Fu somewhere.
Google it, there is a free flash version out there without any sound. Not the same, I know, but you can relive the memories.
The 3rd picture is a 1977 Taito Flying Fortress, which was sold in the US by two different & mostly unknown companies.
The 4th picture down is 1977 Taito GunMan, known as Midway Gunfight in the states (though it was slightly different). The periscope game is called Submarine, It was sold in the US by Midway around 1979, Taito might have made it originally but I've never seen one before.
There is Sega Monaco GP, and 2 Namco Shoot-Away projection light-gun rifle games.. and of course the Sega JAMMA cabs.
when DKRP falls, someone need to get there quickly and get those machines to preserve
their history in games and slowly changes it
to some 16 bit games so they can actually not
receive the craziness of the last gen videogames, and play the entire generation in the process.
it is fun to know that at least they have some contact with the videogame world, and to us, a way to understand the differences of ourselves in this crazy world.
요즘 최신 기기임 존내 쩔음 킹왕짱
Being a recent up-to-date machinery and tools, dozes and puts out [ccel] the sound king king [ccang
Most of it is a bit too old for my taste, and the Aero City cabinets are a bit too modern.
I'd like to see who manages that Korean arcade. They have to have *some* technical skills to keep the old machines running.
요즘 최신 기기임 존내 쩔음 킹왕짱
These days the latest machines are really fecking awesome!
Heavy on slang so auto-translate doesn't work.
I speak Korean. Above says ,"These are the lastest ones here"
I'm pretty sure the guy who wrote this comment is a 12-year-old South Korean pretending to be a North Korean. I can tell by his language.
So, How much are these games per one play?
So, How much are these games per one play?
He said:
"[These are] Recent, up-to-date machines Funny as fuck. Cool shit."
They also do have electricity, etc. Their technology is comparable to American 70s, Korean early 80s' level.
"'요즘 최신 기기임 존내 쩔음 킹왕짱'
I speak Korean. Above says ,'These are the lastest ones here'
I'm pretty sure the guy who wrote this comment is a 12-year-old South Korean pretending to be a North Korean. I can tell by his language."
I'd say 'These are the lastest arcade machines. F*cking, freak'n awesome.'
This post is awesome. I'm surprised at myself for not wondering how NK's state of gaming was like, until after I saw the photos.
Glad I'm not there...
Translates to
"You mock my Glorious Country at your peril, imperialist lap dogs. I am despatching trained mudget assassins as we speak to come to your door and kick you in your fascist capitalist gonads"
Honest.
The games are there for nostalgic purposes.
Anyone consider that this arcade in Korea could be serving the same purpose?
Game Over now, looks like its time to go back to Political Prisoner Camp and eat some Tree Bark :( Praise the dear leader
Of course, from the car/bus window you will see things like people clipping grass to try and make soup (there is a lot of starvation), people working fields by hand (forget tractors, many farms have no animals!), empty streets (there are almost no cars), and the entire country goes dark at night.
As of today (June 11 2009) people from the UK are no longer permitted in the DPRK. I would suspect that the ban will also extend to the USA and probably every other nation as well.
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