/vr/ - Retro Games

My first exposure to PC games was "computer clubs" in post soviet late 90s.

Smoke filled basements with rows of computers, full of degenerate street hooligans, neglected children from broken homes, a drug pusher in the corner, some 40 year old dude watching porn. People mostly played Counter Strike 1.3, Red Alert 2, StarCraft Brood War, etc. But mostly CS. Only one map was played, cs_mansion. There was some weird "honor code" where you weren't allowed to use flashbangs or flank anyone. Fights would break out over this, and for screen peeking.

Kids would get their money stolen, or outright robbed at the entrance when leaving. The cashier didn't give a fuck. Some kids were skipping school, others were given money by their alcoholic parents to sit there for 12 hours at a time, so they'd get rid of them.
I was the weirdo who sat alone playing single player games. I'd collect my father's beer bottles for change, and go there so I didn't have to listen to my father yelling or beating my mom.

Best days of my life.