PC Baangs In America

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Posted by michael on Thursday January 23, 2003 @01:38AM from the bang-bang dept.

VonGuard writes "Ahoy hoy! I've written a new article for the East Bay Express about the rise of the PC Baang in the Northern California Bay Area. While in Korea, Starcraft is still the most popular Baang game, here in the US, Counter-Strike reigns supreme. Are these to be the malt shops and arcades of our time?"

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spam relays by cloudmaster · 2003-01-23 01:45 · Score: 3, Funny

So *that's* where all of those open mail relays are at - they're installed on game servers in baangs...
Virtual Cyber Cafe by patch-rustem · 2003-01-23 01:46 · Score: 5, Funny

Image if they could simulate that thrill of actually sitting next to the person you're killing. That would be a real killer app.

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Re:Orthography by fr2asbury · 2003-01-23 01:48 · Score: 5, Funny

I think "PC Bang" might be a registered trademark of the Pr0n industry.

Jonathan
Wrong! by seizer · 2003-01-23 02:03 · Score: 4, Funny

From the article, talking about CS:

The terrorists' goal is to plant a bomb and defend it until it explodes; the counter-terrorists must defuse the device or prevent it from being placed. If and when the charge is planted, a text message goes out to all players: "Someone set us up the bomb."

Someone's pulling yer leg, mate. Did you even play the game?

(Proper phrase is, of course, "The bomb has been planted")
Truth to the Saying: by 1WingedAngel · 2003-01-23 02:08 · Score: 3, Funny

"Video games don't affect kids. If Pac-Man affected us as kids we'd all be walking around in dark rooms eating magic pills while listening to repetitive electronic music." -Karen Price, Nintendo Representative
Re:The arcades of our time? by anon*127.0.0.1 · 2003-01-23 02:16 · Score: 2, Funny

I remember when pinball machines had a little plunger under the ball launcher that you had to push in to serve up the next ball. No candy-ass auto eject mechanisms for us!

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Is it just my perception by AtariDatacenter · 2003-01-23 02:45 · Score: 2, Funny

Or does the writer actually seem to have more of an interest in Ricky than his game playing? Read some of that text again. His cologne. His grace. His car. His... nipple?

Ref: Pages one and two of this story.
Re:Errors, Cheating, Good Investment, and Old Age by Spamlent+Green · 2003-01-23 06:24 · Score: 2, Funny

Your points about not being able to keep up with the frag-kiddies hit close to home. I sure didn't have the reflexes when I was 16, and now I'm 31 and completely hopeless.

I've been playing No One Lives Forever in the hopes that the stealth required in the single-player campaign would be mirrored in multiplayer games, but no such luck -- just a bunny-hopping frag fest.

If only there was a way to filter games based on age...