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Afghani Arcade Offers Break from Reality

By pete_gallagher

A generator-powered arcade in Kabul, Afghanistan provides the city's inhabitants a welcome respite from the ongoing war and helps keep wayward kids off the street and out of trouble.

14-yeard old Ubaydollah Sharafian spoke to the Christian Science Monitor about the arcade, saying, 'We come here to play games and relax from street-begging.'

All such forms of entertainment were banned when Afghanistan was under Taliban rule, perhaps leading inhabitants to embrace the ability to forget their troubles for a few minutes even more than might be the norm.

As a youngster in the midst of a game succinctly stated, 'I don't want this game to finish, I want to keep on playing forever.'

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on May 07, 2010 (boomark / email).