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Found a arcade in Zanzibar
« on: July 17, 2015, 11:45:45 pm »
In Zansabar for the weekend and walked by a store filled with children playing Fifa on rows of CRT tv with PS2's
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Re: Found a arcade in Zanzibar
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2015, 06:54:40 pm »
Did you get the name of the place? That just wants me to donate something - also makes us think just how disposable we treat things sometimes in the more affluent parts of the world.
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Re: Found a arcade in Zanzibar
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2015, 11:58:03 pm »
There are many places like this across all of Africa (the continent that is). Whilst we are surrounded by LCD/LED tv's, there are many CRT's still in perfectly good use. I don't know if they're still manufactured but there were local companies still producing CRT's a couple of years ago.
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Re: Found a arcade in Zanzibar
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2015, 04:32:35 am »
Hold onto them long enough and they'll become obsolete. You'll then be able to sell them back to western hobbyists for a fortune!
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