MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Vacation in Hong Kong

> Noo. Just how they were oftenly experienced. There were plenty of places that did
> fee/free play - round here at least one was Golfland, the only day I was there, round
> '83 - and it was a little better, because you didn't have to make every fucking
> quarter count. Should I even play that game?...this game?....I don't know.........

Nah man, that's totally against the natural order of things. Pay to play and making it worth your money is a key part of the arcade experience. A free play day should be something unusual and special.

> Now, definitely darkly lit and no smoking, that's how all larger arcades were here.

It varied here. There were a bunch of arcades in Melbourne around Bourke and Russell that allowed smoking, while the more "family friendly" places didn't. I don't smoke myself, but there are worse things in the world than people wanting to fuck up their lungs.

> Certainly one reason I'll never visit various places in the world is smoking. But
> traveling sucks anyways. Being there might be way cool, but getting there sucks
> donkey dicks. Especially with the airport security nonsense. Just about everyone in
> contemporary society is complicit in the happening and perpetuation of that shit.

HK airport security is completely painless. Fortunately not every country in the world is so eager to emulate the USA in this regard.