Collecting Games in Cuba

Collecting video games in Cuba:
https://www.polygon.com/features/201...ame-collecting

I feel for this guy. I wonder if he has access to some forum online. Things have changed tremendously since I left (94). I don't even recall knowing what a video game console was. My knowledge, or should I say "awareness" of video games was extremely limited; down to LCD racing games that some friend of a friend would risk showcasing every few years, a couple of arcade Machines I had the privilege to play on two separate ocasions, and a computer at a fair expo showing a copy of a Pac-Man game. All of these I experienced a minimum of a decade after their release, but I was so astonished as to their technological achievement, I couldn't fathom anything I wanted more in life.

Shenmue is one of my all-time favorite games. Top 3, at least for me. It is a window into 1980s Japan and an experience unlike any other we had yet seen at the time. But I imagine for this guy, Shenmue is an escape from the scarcity in which he lives. It must mean the world to him indeed.

A very interesting read. :)

I just delved a little deeper, and found this article he wrote on the OG Zelda. And a really well-written article at that.
http://cachivachemedia.cubava.cu/201...so-andar-solo/

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Originally Posted by QuickSciFi

Collecting video games in Cuba:
https://www.polygon.com/features/201...ame-collecting

I feel for this guy. I wonder if he has access to some forum online. Things have changed tremendously since I left (94). I don't even recall knowing what a video game console was. My knowledge, or should I say "awareness" of video games was extremely limited; down to LCD racing games that some friend of a friend would risk showcasing every few years, a couple of arcade Machines I had the privilege to play on two separate ocasions, and a computer at a fair expo showing a copy of a Pac-Man game. All of these I experienced a minimum of a decade after their release, but I was so astonished as to their technological achievement, I couldn't fathom anything I wanted more in life.

Shenmue is one of my all-time favorite games. Top 3, at least for me. It is a window into 1980s Japan and an experience unlike any other we had yet seen at the time. But I imagine for this guy, Shenmue is an escape from the scarcity in which he lives. It must mean the world to him indeed.

A very interesting read. :)

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Man I can honestly say we have it good here. I can't even imagine being a gamer in a place like that.

fortunately things are looking up for cuba now. thanks for posting this article!

Cool story. I always find it interesting to hear about gaming in other cultures. And while it's definitely tough to be a gamer in Cuba, at least he can unwind by smoking the best cigars and sipping the best rum in the world. You have to take the bad with the good. ;)

I've read the 1st chapter; It was a pretty good read. I'll have to check out the rest later.

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Originally Posted by bultje112

fortunately things are looking up for cuba now. thanks for posting this article!

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Fidel regenerated and lives in Canada now.

http://i.imgur.com/iTKiYRe.png

great article and his reverence for shenmue is admirable. i can relate, i spent over 100 bucks for baseball stars 2 for the neo geo, and loved every minute of playing that damn game. i over paid but damn it felt good to own the original jdm copy.

25 cents for a pirated RE7? i need me a cuban hacked ps4.

100 dollars for baseball stars 2 is definitely not overpaying. the game goes for around 250.

In 2014 I went to Chile to visit family. They are big into American movies and video games.

I got to make a few friends and go to a video game event.
Video games are very expensive there as it's not a necessity or everyday need. I realize other countries don't consume at the rare we do. It's very common for a Americans to have backlogs so big they have many sealed collections. You don't see that in south America.

I promised some friends I made i would send them care packages and only ended up sending digital codes.

I've been saying for a while now, in somewhat glib fashion but meaning every word, that we're living in the last days of Rome. We have half of the world that can afford to throw away half of what it eats and still be morbidly obese while the other half has nothing.

This is why I feel really strongly about repairing and keeping and maintaining these wonderful games and machines we have, we only have them because someone else can't.