> A year went by, and my friends and I started keeping track of the places that had unmodified versions of Street Fighter II, that wouldn’t mess up your game like the Rainbow Edition did. We discovered that there was a highly trafficked one at an arcade in Ichra Shopping Center.
> Somehow, the Ichra regulars wrecked us. Us, the English-medium school kids, the ones with consoles and stacks of gaming magazines at home. Some of us even had dial-up.
> They may not have known how to pronounce the names of the characters — E. Honda was widely known as “laundry man” in Urdu — but they had the correct game plan and technique. And they learned everything by playing the game.
> Somehow, the Ichra regulars wrecked us. Us, the English-medium school kids, the ones with consoles and stacks of gaming magazines at home. Some of us even had dial-up.
> They may not have known how to pronounce the names of the characters — E. Honda was widely known as “laundry man” in Urdu — but they had the correct game plan and technique. And they learned everything by playing the game.