Gaming triggered the evolution of cybercafe culture
Source: Digita|mass Boston
TAIPEI — The gunfire never stops, and neither does the chatter. After all, there's no point shooting at your best friend if you can't tease him about it afterward.
The high school boys sit at their keyboards, twitching their computer mice, flinching involuntarily as their buddies' bullets rip them apart. The weapons of choice are 9mm pistols, AK-47s, Colt carbines. Each death brings groans, shouts, laughs of triumph. Their game of Counter-Strike goes on until one team has wiped out the other — an event that rarely takes more than a couple of minutes. The computer totals the body count and launches a new round of slaughter. And on it goes, hour after hour, sometimes 24 hours a day, in Taipei's cybercafes.
