Wednesday, January 29All That Matters

I make a living by PS3,I rent it by hour to play in my street.

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  • So interesting!

    What games do you have? And what are the most popular games that people play?

    Do you have customers all day? Or is this something people do at night for fun after work?

    If two people play one game at same time? Still charge just .20? Or each pay?

  • I have spent time at such a place. The trick is too identify potential permanents and make it a good time for them. Call out their accolades in front of others.

    You can build a social network without investing a cent more

  • I really feel like we should pool together some money and send him some more games or a newer system or something. Or figure out how to send him like 100 hours worth of play and let the kids play for free for a while

  • Can I rent your ps3 for a month so that the kids play your console for free for a month? I don’t do handouts, but I would like to invest in your business. Can you receive some form of payment like western union or similar?

  • How much does a Ps3 or Ps4 cost in Tanzania – and are they easy to get hold of? Or a Xbox?

    I would like to invest in you and buy you a second console if I may – no ties, just would like to do something nice for someone – call it an early Christmas present!

    My only request would be that you post back on here and let us know how your business is getting on regularly as a long term gamer myself it warms my heart to see how they bring people together all around the world.

    I did have a look at the postage from the UK (as I have a spare Ps3 and a PS4 sat in my collection) but the postage looks to be far more than what it would cost you to buy one locally.

  • Born in Caucasus, Chechnya. We had similar gaming first steps. There would be guys renting out consoles (ps1) for 100 roubles/night. Dollar price was backtime 35 rouble per dollar. It was a lot of money but damn these nights were priceless. Today I have 1500€ gaming pc, but the taste of gaming is not the same anymore.

  • Listen. I grew up in the mountains in the north of the Philippines in a very small town. When I was growing up a family rented an apartment from my grandmother. Their business was PS2 games and old arcade games. They charge by the hour and you can play whatever you want. As a girl who loved loved loved gaming but has a mom who couldn’t afford to buy me a real gameboy or a PS2. (she bought me the fake knock off ones instead) those days when I was able to save a few coins and play games was the happiest moments of my childhood.

    This, what you’re doing is amazing. I just want you to know that.

  • As a fellow East African I just want to say that this is the first experience most kids have with videogames. These days it’s FIFA but when I was a kid it was PES. Loser pays for the match was a tradition and if you were good enough you could play the whole day without spending anything. “Git gud” was a necessity or you’d pay for every single game. We had a guy like this in our neighborhood, he had like 10 PS2 stations and in the corner was the Xbox station which had the largest TV and all we played was Halo 2. Slayer on Lockout was our proving grounds and being the best on there was the ultimate bragging rights.

  • I went to mexico when i was younger and they had an “arcade” it was literally a room full of hacked playstations and xboxes. My uncle owned one and would let me play for free

  • my first experience with video games was like this. it was about 1987 in rural Colombia. a tiny house had a TV on the window. you put a 2 peso coin ( I think it was like a penny US) and you got 3 minutes of playtime I was like 5 years old at the time. the only one time I managed to get a coin to play I had no idea what to do and died immediately. it was Mario Bros on the NES. about 6 years had to pass before I had my Own NES after moving to the USA.

    Places like this were very popular in the late 90’s early 2000s in my country. there was one almost everywhere at one point. you could play PS1, N64, SNES, and new consoles were more expensive. so the older ones were more popular. good times were had.

  • My relatives in Colombia used to do the same thing about ten or so years ago with ps2. Sometimes the only way kids can play anything at all if they’re in an area without regular access to one. Wishing you success and safety!

  • In the late ’90s, in Romania, there were a lot of Internet Cafes. At night, when there was no business, they would rent the entire “fleet” of PCs to a group of kids that wanted to play pirated Warcraft 2 or Delta Force. We called this a “long night”. Some of us had PCs at home (but not all), and only very expensive dialup internet, so this was our version of a lan party. 20 PCs, 20 smelly kids, coke and cigarettes from 10pm till 6am. Man, it was fucking awesome!

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