Recently my friends John-John and Markus made me into a believer. I went with them to a game center called m@trix, and had a blast playing Battlefield Vietnam. Shit, aside from the fact that the game rocks, the whole visit was very pleasant in the sense that we could enjoy playing it together without having to haul our computers to a big abandoned cinema and spend the weekend with sweaty geeks ;).
Back in the days when I actually had a really powerful PC computer on which I could run all these funky games, I shunned those places and the people who went there as being inefficient and money wasters.
Now I am not so sure. The whole visit was pretty cheap, you sign up to be a member for 100kr and you get 3 hours free. If you are referred by a guy, he gets an extra hour. So Markus got an extra hour on my behalf…hehe. Normally you get four hours for 100kr. The more you pay the better, eventually you can pay 1000kr for 100 hours.
In any case, we had a blast and played goddamn Vietnam for 2 hours, after which we went to eat in a nice place. (and in the evening, crazy festivities ensued…)
The fact of the matter is, I took my cousin Vlad there last night too, and got an extra hour since he signed up. So we sat there playing Vietnam again for 2 hours (at which point my time ran out and my neck told me to fuck off). So we went home satisfied, after shooting lots of american soldiers and hearing vietnamese guys scream weird stuff which after playing for a few hours you will start to understand perfectly hehe.
I am surely going again, although alone is not an option.
Despite all that, I still miss having a gaming rig, and wanna get one again eventually. Doesn’t feel very geeky to code a cool computer game and not even have a real rig.
Below is a picture of the guys, and my desk of today.
