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Also Mos-co not Mos-cow :)
The Anglicization is mos-cow. Using Cyrillic it's pronounced in neither of those two ways that you've written.
It's not. The anglicization is MOS-koh. MOS-kau is American.
There were two small arcade shop in my village bazaar. Each with 6 machines. They were dark and small. I went there once as a kid and then was strictly told by my father to never go there again because 'bad people' go there. Found out lot later about the betting scene. Kids use to play tekken. Expert ones use to choose King and won money. My cousin got addicted to the betting scene and ran away from home because he owed lots of money to some other kids.
Anway, I got older and went to city and there me and another cousin use to go to arcades every once in a while. I was never good at tekken and was more interested in 'Dinosaurs and Cadillacs' and 'Ninja turtle' and 'Metal Slug'. I use to play tekken with him and use to choose Eddie or Yushimitsu or Gunjack. Yushimitsu was my favorite.
Arcade shops started going down when people got computers and later with DSL internet. There use to be (probably still are) CD shops were you could go and buy a pirated game CD for the price of a blank CD. Been playing games on PC since then.
Well now I work in gaming. It was good memory trip.
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The Anglicization is mos-cow. Using Cyrillic it's pronounced in neither of those two ways that you've written.
> The Anglicization is mos-cow. It's not. The anglicization is MOS-koh. MOS-kau is American. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow
Wow this was really interesting. As a semi-competitive player during the Tekken 3/TTT1 days one of the under appreciated parts of getting good at an international level is diversity of arcade "cultures". What this means is that your arcade generally provides the same players again and again, and performing well against those players provides little guarantee against players in another arcade who've developed entirely…
Granting your point that having more exposure is better than less, maybe the Pakistani players have just developed some really keen play styles that work really well against the unadapted.
Wow this was really interesting. As a semi-competitive player during the Tekken 3/TTT1 days one of the under appreciated parts of getting good at an international level is diversity of arcade "cultures". What this means is that your arcade generally provides the same players again and again, and performing well against those players provides little guarantee against players in another arcade who've developed entirely…
Well it works both ways though doesn’t it? The isolationist nature of Pakistan also means outside players have a hard time playing _them_ as well, and thus, something of a blind spot in their own skill set. Granting your point that having more exposure is better than less, maybe the Pakistani players have just developed some really keen play styles that work really well against the unadapted.
You see similar things with Black players in the US. They are often isolated and hyper-competitive, and thus are over represented in the top tier based on population numbers.
Edit: Interesting. Why was this downvoted? Any competitive players here? I'm speaking from my own experience playing in US, South Korea, and Japan. Also, just take a look at the current rankings. For some reason, Tekken is huge in the Black American community.
Downvote all you'd like, but it doesn't change the facts: 3 of the top 6 professional Tekken players in the US are Black.
Many possible reasons of the success are mentioned, but the one that caught my attention is how the arcades are getting paid: gamers only pay for the number of games lost, so gamers have a major incentive in getting better and winning, and everyone progresses since they compete with each other. Sounds brilliant on one hand, but I also wonder how big a stressor it is for newcomers.
The arcade shown in the video is a lot fancier (those high seats) and cleaner (even with all those electric meters) than the ones I have been to around 20 years ago. There were two small arcade shop in my village bazaar. Each with 6 machines. They were dark and small. I went there once as a kid and then was strictly told by my father to never go there again because 'bad people' go there. Found out lot later about the…
The arcade shown in the video is a lot fancier (those high seats) and cleaner (even with all those electric meters) than the ones I have been to around 20 years ago. There were two small arcade shop in my village bazaar. Each with 6 machines. They were dark and small. I went there once as a kid and then was strictly told by my father to never go there again because 'bad people' go there. Found out lot later about the…
Thanks for sharing, of course. I think your story would have been even more relatable for some readers (definitely myself) if you had mentioned roughly what year, and which country or at least part of the world you grew up in. I have no idea if that is radical of me (doxxing etc), just wanted to mention it.
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Well it works both ways though doesn’t it? The isolationist nature of Pakistan also means outside players have a hard time playing _them_ as well, and thus, something of a blind spot in their own skill set. Granting your point that having more exposure is better than less, maybe the Pakistani players have just developed some really keen play styles that work really well against the unadapted.
This is exactly what it was. As more people have began to adapt to the Pakistan meta, they are not as dominant. It was just a new skilled style that no one outside of Pakistan was aware of. You see similar things with Black players in the US. They are often isolated and hyper-competitive, and thus are over represented in the top tier based on population numbers. Edit: Interesting. Why was this downvoted? Any competit…