Challenge: Videogaming in North Korea
- Thread starter BlackWave
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You know, if what they say about Kim's internet savviness is true, I find it disturbingly plausible that he could do this for some sort of birthday present for his children...
North doesn't indicate unified.
Didn't say anything about Kims being around though...
Thande
Donor
What about the North Koreans capturing Japanese games consoles during one of their wacky adventures in the 1980s, then reverse-engineering them and using them for military computing? Then, as a side effect, they end up writing their own games and producing cheap copies of the consoles to go in homes: shooters where you destroy the western imperialists, RPGs where you have to go to Baekdu Mountain to witness the birth of the Dear Leader, strategy games where the first player who achieves Juche self-sufficiency is the winner...
You need electricity for videogaming, I don't think that all of North Korea territory had access to electricity, and people who have access to electricity are probably restricted to their use, severals hours a day...
North Korea is a country where it is difficult for people to find to eat, so videogaming !!!
Illegal markets are probably punished by death or by severals years of hard labor in reeducation camps, gulag or concentration camps like...
People risked their lifes for black markets because they need to find something to eat, not for something as videogaming...
If Kim Jong Il follows China's advice in the 80's and reforms the economic system and is able to hold onto power regardless, then we would see the development of internet cafe culture as in today's China. Politics on both sides of the DMZ could keep a unification from happening even as North Korea develops from an absolute shithole to only a relative one. Following that, one could easily see a rivalry emerging between the Koreas in internet gaming.
Another possibility: the North turns to currency farming on WoW as a way to secure foreign tender. I see huge warehouses along the border with China filled with young men fulfilling their years of national military service on the plains of Azeroth.
Another possibility: the North turns to currency farming on WoW as a way to secure foreign tender. I see huge warehouses along the border with China filled with young men fulfilling their years of national military service on the plains of Azeroth.
North could be a region or a country in Korea.
We could just say that in a Unified Korea Seoul withered.
yourworstnightmare
Banned
In that case: give them an actually good Final Fantasy, like VI, VII or IX. None of that VIII, X and everything past that. Not even North Korea deserve to suffer that much.