Contra was the most popular game along with Mario in 80's china console. I still remeber having numerous fun sessions with my buddies during summer break when I was in high school.
Maybe that will disappoint you a lot, but Chinese gamers are just like gamers around the world. They will simply pick games because it's fun to play with. And no, Government has not much influence over what people play, since 98% gamers get their games from priated market anyway.
Regarding your question, there is not too much home-grown games in China . Piracy has simply killed off most home-grown game studios. There is a few home-grown games set up at ancient China might falls into your "pure fun in context to them, but would have no chance of being appreciated over here" category. But I think it's more a knowledge of history thing instead of Culture thing, and I've saw American players who know that part of history like those games.
Oh, by the way, GTA III was 2002's #1 seller in China pirated console game market . And GTA III: vice city has been sold out around the country.
>>> but when things worked I was only paying about $20 Chinese per hour (a couple of bucks USD) for decent speed Internet access.
OK, I 've just visited my hometown 3 months ago. Anyways, the internet cafe right next to my home charges 1 Chinese RMB for non-peak time, and 2 RMB for peak time.(Mind you that 2 RMB= 25 US Cents i.e. a quarter). And it's broadband access too! Of course, it seems they have only one account for broadband access for the whole 30 PCs in the cafe......they just use a router to form a LAN .:)
Well,Guranteed it's just a "small town" since it has only 500,000 people living there:), so things are probably cheaper there...But , I checked Internet bars in Beijing, and it's more expensive, but only to about 5RMB/hour(about 60 cents per hour). Seems to me you were ripped off big time because you are a foreigner. I know in some places they charge 10 times to a foreigner. You must be one of unlucky guys:))
I think it shows how much penetration internet already has in China. And mostly kids from age 8+ to young students in their 20s are busy surfing there, chatting on their version of ICQs, and playing games like Starcraft and Age of Empires. I don't really think there is much interest in foreign news sites, but there is a lot of interest in Porn sites:) But still games and Instant messenger chatting are the major draw for Internet Cafes. So the ban on foreign new sites, in my opinion , is much ado about nothing. Well, it seems that Chinese Govt. surely do fear the power of the net, don't they. They are so scared.
And I think Internet only reachs about 27M people there mainly because 1) 80% Chinese live in "real" villages, where Color TV is rather a luxury, and Computers are close to non-exist; So with that in mind, the 27M actually makes more than 10% of population in City; 2) As I state, only kids and young students frequent Internet Cafes; Older people doesn't have much interest in it. Their only use for internet are occasionaly emails, most likely for writting to a child who is overseas(like my parents)
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Contra was the most popular game along with Mario in 80's china console. I still remeber having numerous fun sessions with my buddies during summer break when I was in high school.
Maybe that will disappoint you a lot, but Chinese gamers are just like gamers around the world. They will simply pick games because it's fun to play with. And no, Government has not much influence over what people play, since 98% gamers get their games from priated market anyway.
Regarding your question, there is not too much home-grown games in China . Piracy has simply killed off most home-grown game studios. There is a few home-grown games set up at ancient China might falls into your "pure fun in context to them, but would have no chance of being appreciated over here" category. But I think it's more a knowledge of history thing instead of Culture thing, and I've saw American players who know that part of history like those games.
Oh, by the way, GTA III was 2002's #1 seller in China pirated console game market . And GTA III: vice city has been sold out around the country.
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>>> but when things worked I was only paying about $20 Chinese per hour (a couple of bucks USD) for decent speed Internet access.
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:), so things are probably cheaper there...But , I checked Internet bars in Beijing, and it's more expensive, but only to about 5RMB/hour(about 60 cents per hour). Seems to me you were ripped off big time because you are a foreigner. I know in some places they charge 10 times to a foreigner. You must be one of unlucky guys :))
OK, I 've just visited my hometown 3 months ago. Anyways, the internet cafe right next to my home charges 1 Chinese RMB for non-peak time, and 2 RMB for peak time.(Mind you that 2 RMB= 25 US Cents i.e. a quarter). And it's broadband access too! Of course, it seems they have only one account for broadband access for the whole 30 PCs in the cafe......they just use a router to form a LAN .
Well,Guranteed it's just a "small town" since it has only 500,000 people living there
I think it shows how much penetration internet already has in China. And mostly kids from age 8+ to young students in their 20s are busy surfing there, chatting on their version of ICQs, and playing games like Starcraft and Age of Empires. I don't really think there is much interest in foreign news sites, but there is a lot of interest in Porn sites:) But still games and Instant messenger chatting are the major draw for Internet Cafes. So the ban on foreign new sites, in my opinion , is much ado about nothing. Well, it seems that Chinese Govt. surely do fear the power of the net, don't they. They are so scared.
And I think Internet only reachs about 27M people there mainly because 1) 80% Chinese live in "real" villages, where Color TV is rather a luxury, and Computers are close to non-exist; So with that in mind, the 27M actually makes more than 10% of population in City; 2) As I state, only kids and young students frequent Internet Cafes; Older people doesn't have much interest in it. Their only use for internet are occasionaly emails, most likely for writting to a child who is overseas(like my parents)