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Message: [QUOTE="qw90700, post: 334071, member: 660650"] Pretty much the same as my country. Originally arcade places here was about pinball and those "toy catcher" machines, and then arcade machines relatively had short life span here (more like about 10 years) and afterwards they are replaced by internet cafes (originally for serious stuff to do on internet but evolved for public PC gaming places) and PlayStation cafes (it's like arcade machine places but you sit down on couch and play PlayStation as much as you paid that this "tradition" continued until PS4). I liked pinball machines more than arcade machines, I was kinda stubborn on not playing arcade machines back then because it meant killing my beloved pinball machines by removing them. I also didn't like the idea of how scam arcade machines are because they are designed to kill you as soon as they can but then I liked Missile Command and beat 'em up games a lot. Yet the scam issue was a big reason for me to switch to Atari 2600 and other home consoles later on as the popularity of Sega Genesis killed arcade places here. Parents didn't like scam aspect of arcade places, they wanted to legalize a ban for them because of it, and then the Mortal Kombat "gore" issue was an atomic bomb on oil lol and then alongside with such stuff dug the early grave of arcade machines here that people fully transitioned for Sega Genesis. I love Mortal Kombat a lot, and I remember back then the old guy who owned the arcade place I used to hang out one day said "kids, it may be the last time you'll enjoy MK", we asked "why uncle?", he said "damn bloody Americans wanna ban MK so we will recieve no support for these machines and they may ban them here too" and then we were like "dude we should hide these machines or something!!!" and it turned out the guy also had a bar (during the day he was boss of the arcade place and during the night he was the boss of this bar) so we helped the guy carry the MK machine to depot part of his bar to play the MK. But we were playing the game in so secret patrons were asking "dude what these kids doing here" and the boss was saying "ah they are working at the depot", and we were unplugging the machine when we see cops around lol (now I thinking about it there was no care for banning arcade machines here and cops wouldn't care lol) but we were literally playing safe lolol. And then the popularity of the Sega Genesis and all a sudden realization of "dude where all the arcade places disappeared to?" was the end of the arcade era here. FIN lol. Naturally we having no knowledge on what actually happened, for a long time me and many people blamed Americans on banning arcade machines in the world just because of MK. But in our culture gore is not so "hell no" thing, it was what some parents wouldn't prefer their kids to play but if they still play such stuff it would be "ok" (History of my country is about the real deal gore for us so gore stuff is not something to be bothered but just to know it's how real life is). But what is "hell no no nope nada" thing is sexual stuff (because it's cringe and kinda disrespecting human race) so we believed the real reason of why MK machines wanted to be banned was a hidden sexy elements in the game like because of a super attack you can undress women or some hidden sex mode or some shit (which because of this mentality on Sega Genesis we figured out how to undress a woman character in Art of Fighting lolol). In my mind getting old and all I always believed Americans hate video games a lot, and then connected to internet and learned about they even released XBOX was like "wow moment" for me. And then I learned the irony of American games have tons of gore shit and they basically allow GTA to exist so I was like "what was the brain fart moment about Mortal Kombat then huh?". However still to this day America seems like a weird world from a magical reality that simple aspect of humanity and even laws of physics probably works differently there lolol. [/QUOTE]

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