What is a PC Bang? The Story Behind the East's Gaming Cafés
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 พ.ย. 2018
- How many times have you left your house to play PC games?
How often have you left the house, where your computer is sitting right there, untouched and pristine, to go play a game on another, publicly available computer, surrounded by other people doing the exact same thing.
PC Bangs and Net Cafes were born in the 90s, and in the West, they didn’t escape the ‘90s - much like Tamagotchis, the Virtual Boy and Devil Sticks.
But PC Bangs are still going strong in South Korea, out-living any number of high-profile ‘90s failures. And not only that, they’re part of the reason why the region is so much better than us at video games.
Written by: Daniel Rosen (@Daniel_Rosen)
Edited by Colten Gowan (@TheOnlyZoltan)
Produced & Hosted by: Josh Bury (@ThrownGauntlet)
Produced & Shot by: Miles Hackett (@miles_hackett)
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Saying PC BONGS instead of PC BANGS to foreshadow smoking a BONG at the end. Amazing.
10/10
It was pure cringe
@BeeP Official pee-shi b(p)ung
"Bang" is pronounced like "hung" but with a slightly more powerful b
Kai Trageser no it’s not. It’s pronounced like “B-Ah-ng” not bung
You always manage to pump out quality content on a near daily timeframe, you deserve more subs than 500k
500,001 subs?
They’re almost at 1.5mil
@@Jared9037Gaming Ya I made this comment a full year ago, it's nice to see how far they've come
Instablaster
Used to go PC bangs not because I didn't have connectivity at home, but because it was a thing to do with friends after school so that we're all together playing some StarCraft or Counterstrike. If we weren't playing Tekken Tag at some arcade
Eventually, my city's PC bangs produced X-GOD.
chupasaurus X-god?
@@Sunnahman Dosia
chupasaurus oh ok thanks!
@@Sunnahman Major winner Dosia from Gambit Esports in CSGO. Dosia is now going to play in China though. His nickname is X-GOD and theScore esports did a video on the X-GOD and why he has that name.
as a person who spent highschool days in Korea, going to pc bangs is not just because you dont have a computer at your home. it's more like an afterschool activity. it's really fun to sit beside your friends and play the game you love with people whom you love
wait, you guys are based in toronto?
No, they've moved in since pot was legalized)))
So it turns out i may have met you guys as my lady and i occasionally play at E-Blue... shes the tall curvy lady with the tats and wild hair, you cant miss her.
Herrman Kim REEEEE
I will never understand, why europe and north america don't have these. I mean yeah - most people have PC at home, but wouldn't it be fun sitting next to your friends and play with them? Creating that competitive feeling. Gaming through discord feels so lifeless and boring to be honest, i miss LAN parties. I would love to experience that PC Bang feeling with my squad.. To bad thing doesn't exist here
well can't speak for EU but NA most become anti social in a odd way most would kill to play w/ their fav YT or twitch channel personal but not w/ someone who's just not that and yea it's odd but it's things kick off out side here and things don't get the drive here the meta's be different even tho we take influence from each other to heave degree's to even wrong LV's but yea i liked when gaming was u gotta bring a friend over not have the same system, internet access and then play w/ each other but time brings change and then sum to times now be crazy we all know
i hate to go to pc cafe cause the surrounding,its noisy and it makes me not focus while playing.idk if other country's like this,but in my country they are shouting and swearing too much
In Europe it's just generally weird to have social interaction with strangers, and for me personally I enjoy playing games from the comfort of my own home more than in noisy environments with strangers on a rig that isn't mine.
@@TheLuckyday11 I think it's more like cultural stuff.
Westerns values their personal space. Sometimes I even think that they are anti-social.
They do have those, but it's mostly caters to Chinese foreigners. But you do bump into a Westerner everynow and then.
Investigation still spot on, as usual, but damn, production is really stepping up lately as well, this channel is taking some very good turns id say
In Ottawa we have a place called Click Esports.
So if you're livin in Ottawa and want to play video games it's located on Merrivale road
We have fighting game tournaments on friday and stuff it's neat
Tell em Parker Knight sent you
-> Walks in like Zeus walked in
-> Tells them Parker Knight sent me
-> Gets Rekt
Thank you sir I gotta go one day
@@K05Official no problem my friend!
So we meet again parker.... this time on youtube... ill give you some time to figure out who i am...
@@DUxMORTEM not exactly sure... there are many possibilities, could be someone I've met online, could be someone I've played with, could be someone who's ass I beat in a fighting game...
You guys have amazing content.... Keep up the good work
Best channel which revolves around eSports. Love you guys.
PC bangs are also very popular here in the Philippines, and loads of people play there. I myself too. Even when I have a perfectly good pc in my house. Sometimes it just about playing with your homies. The bond. Screaming at each others monitors. Complaining about the meta. And the time you spend together that makes it fun as hell.
Here on Brazil, we had and still have a pretty strong PC Bang gaming culture. It persists today cause most people can't afford those sweet powerful rigs in order to play all the recent titles, so we go to these places (we call them LAN Houses here) in order to be able to play these games for a couple of hours without having to pay much.
After a year I subs this channel, I finally know you guys from the same city I live, Toronto.
How...... TheScore was one of the biggest sports channels based in Toronto forever before purchased by Sportsnet
Damn, I had not put two and two together before... I feel idiotic lol.
Very enjoyable video like always thanks 🙂
am i the only one who read pc bang like in baeng? it is actually bang
There is a place opening in my local mall that will have a ton of gaming PCs and console and will even host tournaments. It will be cool!
What's good about pc cafe is that you can hang out with friends physically.
OMG! That modem handshake sound, brings back memoirs.
That outro...liked and subbed!
Playing Dota and other competitive video games, is the national (unofficial) pasttime here in the Philippines.
@Matthew Tenorio_3200654 True. Same here in Nepal. Ppl really fight. Lol..
my childhood consisted of going to pc bang with friends after school with our backpacks on. On weekends, we would play soccer and go to pc bang to cool off. In korea, its either studying or gaming
That end man
Its brilliant
Me and my dad are both really into SC2 (my dad more so since he was playing Warcraft before Sc came out then he switched) and he introduced me to sc2 when I was about 6 and I loved the game. Since then we have been playing at one of our local pc cafes called Howie's game shack, we would not only play SC2 but overwatch as well. Sadly the just closed a month ago and we started to get our own pc's but the experience and the excitement is less so than it was before.
" You member PC bangs?" "Yea, I member"
There's actually an enternet cafe in my town, deep in Georgia farm country. To be fair, its not solely an internet café; its set up in a PC repair store, but still, there are PCs set up to play online games on.
In indonesia there still a thousand pc bong. For several city they make very luxurious in order to engage people and several esports team going to those because they got a nice way to connected to fans
I once went to retro gaming cafe. That was pretty fun.
Pisonet in the Philippines is the true test. The humid air would train you to be able to play under fire. The non-noise cancelling headphones in a very loud place would teach you to learn focused listening. The stench of the child next to you will teach the ability to smell the fear of your enemies.
Toronto also has The Hive at Yonge and St.Clair, as well as Waves and Ministry of Game opening up in the next month or two. I'm actually headed over to The Hive in a bit to take part in the Overwatch Beer League!
Well done research
Dooood I fucking loved Beatleborgs. I haven't thought about that show in years. Thank you guys for that lol
Dude! I didn't know you guys were good at the goofs and gaffs, I've only been watching your serious shit apparently xD
Montage, was so necessary best part xd
COUPLE ZONE how nice.
Here in our country, those PC Bang or Bongs are scattered everywhere... And they are actually not called that way, "Computer Shop". Where in you could rent and play for let's say a dollar for 4 hours and 2 dollars or less for 10 hours (it depends tho, Wargods, TNC and Mineski Infinity has higher rates). And once in my life I considered this my second home instead of school. Lol. And it's so laggy at times. (2348ms, that kind of lag).
Here in Malaysia we call it the CC (Cyber Cafe)
The ending omegalul
In Orange County, CA.; Howie’s Game Shack is a great PC Bang.
In Malaysia we all called it CC/CyberCafe well we also play a lot of arcade such as MaiMai, WMMT, Tekken and so on which is great and we socialize through that
We had a Pc bang in 2004 for cali, I don't remember much about it since i never went there but I wonder if it still exists lol.
Internet cafe is a big thing here in Vietnam.
But having a PC at home, so I rarely go to Internet cafe, I must say, I will go if I have friends come with. Go to a Internet cafe is like a LAN party itself.
I made a lot of good friends and memories in these places. Good times to be young back then.
Quality content as always guys.
As a guy who grew up with PC Bangs here in Vietnam, I was surprised that at countries that I visit (quite a few in EU), PC Bangs are nowhere near as popular. I automatically assumed that with the high level of technology and an already developed gaming culture, PC Bangs would be all over the place. However I spent 2 weeks in Germany without finding a single of them.
I did a little research and got a decent answer:
-Compared to the West, console gaming in Vietnam is way behind, because for instance a person in the US could earn about 4-5 times that of a person in Vietnam, but the price for the console and the games stays the same. That means a PlayStation and a few games - which you guys could afford with some savings - are quite a fortune to us.
-However, we can get access to free online games like League, DotA or CS:GO (which actually isn't free but is relatively cheap), and PC Bangs are perfect for after-school games with friends. The connection is better, the PC is stronger and in general, gaming experience there is another level compared to at home. They also serve foods and drinks at a reasonable price and quality, and the hourly price in average is just $0.5.
If anyone remembers the Gigabyte Marines and the Young Generation/Phong Vu Buffalo from the last two League Worlds, yes they were mostly discovered at those pubs and trained to become pros. Our eSports scene is clearly nowhere near Korea's or China's, but we are making steady steps towards the future. Who knows, maybe next year we will get through the group stage..?
Oh yeah, net cafes, the place where you can smell the familiar odour of instant noodles, energy drinks and tobacco. Rarely even went there since like grade 9.
And let's not forget all the children screaming at their League of Legends screens.
"BBS was" ... What, why "was". BBSes are still used to this day (not via phone but TELNET).
*PC bangs are where we Asians play League of Legends*
My entry into gaming was when i first played Warcraft 3 in an internet Café, people destroyed me there.
I always wish NA had gaming cafes. Would be cool to go and play with fellow gamers there, get better with people and get tips and just enjoy the atmosphere in general. Having a place like that when I was younger would be amazing.
I always see a PC Bang or "ComShop" near me. There's probably atleast 1 per subdivision in the Philippines and there are large well known ones that are always near schools. (Search Mineski Infinity or TNC)
5:42 Lmao T-Bagging
Your guy's videos are always the best. Y'all deserve so much more subs too bad people are normies an don't watch eSports enough
in the Philippines we call these Computer shops.
•trashtalking/cursing is common
•very crowded when having local tournament
•even the audience trashtalk their friends opponent
•boxing or mma also happens inside these shops :D
Thats why your country is too toxic and cancerous
Yo the ending got me dead though
You mean computer cafe sure we have many here in Philippines
Little Pussy oi filipino ka pala XD yes there are many internet cafe here in Philippines
Computer cafe is what we call it other countries call it pc bang
Mineski
nobody asked pussy
computer shop din pantawag lol
Hey could you make a documentary for Slayer's Boxer? He is the first progamer who ever has 'Emperor' title in esports history. Here are the reasons why he is called "The Emperor".
1. Boxer is the first person who changed people's negative thoughts toward playing a game and finally formalised e-sports pro-scene.
When it'd been only a few years since starcraft released he was on a Korean show as a guest. The show host and other people there made him a joke by calling progamers "addictive" and asking him to give them some cyber money. But he didn't give up and tried to make people know about esports and starcraft. Plus, when he visited the Blue house(like the White house in america) with an invitation from the Korean president he refused to wear a suit but rather put on SKT T1 uniform. It's because he wanted to inform other people of esports on behalf of every progamers.
2. He is the first star player who mainly contributed to popularising esports in S.Korea. Actually his contribution has made Korea called the home country or the most competitive country in esports.
He was so popular in Korea. It might be more than Faker and other Korean star players. Even the old generations never played or never known of starcraft know Yim Yo-han(Slayer's Boxer). Furthermore, when popularity of starcraft was peak in Korea so there were so much controversials on whether Korea should take esports as other sports, most internationals had no idea what is esports or what is a progamer. (I had some internationals mates in Korea back then and whenever I said about a progamer or esports they were like "you meant programmer? Is that what you said?" Lol but now most people know these meanings. This means his contribution to esports in Korea makes Korea go one-step furthur more than other countries in this field.
From Starcraft to League of Legends there have been many star players like Flash and Faker. When you see Korean starcraft or league of legends pro-league openings you can find that the best player is sat on the chair. The chair refers to a throne for the best player in every year. The owner of the chair has been changed a lot since Korean pro-league begun. Many star players took the seat for a jiffy and had to leave soon. But the title called "Emperor" is given to only one person and that's Slayer's Boxer as Pele, the emperor of football and Michael Jordan, the emperor of basketball.
love the dunk reference
Sadly west coast didn’t keep these places. I remember one in my hometown when CS 1.6 was out I was pretty young
Here in the Philippines we call them "Gaming Arena". Some of the professional teams playong in international tournaments started as a gaming arena like Mineski and TNC.
In a side note TNC literally meaning The Net Cafe
Just play in Netopia.
gaming arena? more like pc cafes at best never I've ever heard called pc cafes or net houses gaming arena here
Comp shop gago
Lost Gamer I’ve barely ever heard“gaming arena”. Pisonet, compshop, computer cafe... saan mo nakukuha ang “gaming arena” lol
Were there full of shouts like ''bobo putang ina mo'' too?
another part of the net cafe experience is you get to kibbitz (watch) a good player play live and maybe learn some tricks from him/her.
We have one of these in Brighton UK
i was surprised to see him pronounce PC Bang right.
Great contents keep them coming!
I can assure you it was neither pronounced correctly in English nor Korean. But it made for a cute joke at the end.
@@LANCafeMan as a Korean i can assure you it was as close as i ever heard from a primarily English speaking person
@@kppeternoh I'm guessing you're using a Busan accent rather than the standard Seoul region accent normally expected, as they love to inverse their vowel sounds down there.
@@LANCafeMan I definitely was aiming toward the Busan as I am very nuanced in my Korean pronunciation -Josh
@@LANCafeMan all i was saying was it was close enough. Some English speakers will read PC bang with heavy ae sound rather than ah sound.
Nice linus opening intro there! @LinusTechTips. Make sure to make another journey
Best end
They're everywhere in Richmond, Vancouver LOL
4:40 Hey is this filmed in one of the sets from "Orphan Black?"
Unless they are sneaking into our office to film, I suspect not -Josh
Do you guys ask each time you source a clip from a different channel/media outlet or do you get blanket permission from the creators? Or is it more of a fair use thing that you credit the clips in the video saying 'courtesy of' and they dont have to give permission? Im just curious because the amount of clips and creators you guys use. Its cool to see how many channels that are people I watch end up in your videos. And as always, amazing job. I'm in love with your content.
courtesy
@@ALLAHwithdaughterALLAT didnt answer my question at all
@@RedmundR2 its fair use
ok
I'm gonna turn my PC into a bong.
My country is full of net cafes, used to have way more before, was so confused when I learnt that's a rare thing in other countries lol
And also if you guys could stop the "jokes" in between the sections that'd be great
I used to go to an internet cafe even though I had a PC. they had console games there, and that's actually what I played. lol.
Dude beetleborgs was my childhood. Quite you.
So as the home of LOL season 2 Champion TPA, Taiwan. We used to have tons of PC cafe. It's not about the internet coverage. It's all about playing with friends at the same place, like basketball. Esport is like any other kind of sport. People get hyped and more communicative. Discord is great but man... Those were good old days.
quality content btw! Subscribed!
Damn that final scene was TH-cam policy challenging
It wasn't real, it was all smoke and mirrors... okay, mostly smoke. - Josh
Internet Cafés are still very common in Sweden, and popular aswell.
i wish i was born in a time where arcades werent a tack up as many tickets as possible kinda thing like modern arcades and were a social area for people like back in the 80s to 90s
Wl in Mexico thise thing are returning, with the advent of PC Gaming, and the Hardwre here being like double sometime even triple the cost, some big companies (Cinemex) have created watch they Calle "Arena" it's Korean Style PC Bang with the best hardware possible, and they have consoles as well, they are always full of people, beachside of that a lot of guys are making they small PC Bangs that are getting popular as well.
LOCK EM UP, BOYS!
They’re drinking Jolt... Jolt-Cola.
Lol when he goes back and takes a hit, i cant xD
in canada we have tonns of netcafes... its were i first learned to play Dota and Battlefield 1942
ROFL!!! im opening up a pc bong in alberta, it's gonna be called going green. it'll be an environmentally friendly pc bang that also has a weed bar and free poutine, because it wouldn't be canadian without it.
we have net cafes in greece
and also papioto from vp started in a net cafe
In my place it's called CC or CyberCafe... it's similar to the PC Bang
They’re basically modern day arcades
There use to be an arcade around my school but my school shut it down cuz students would skip and go there :(
A fucking recession and one year later they already had better ping than I do now lmao
In Perú, "Internet Cafés" are still quite popular. There are thousands just in the capital.
I don't know about any other western countries, but Greece is absolutely filled with net cafes, they became especially popular after the economic crysis at 2k11. In my city (Salonika) which is roughly 1 million people i can safely say there are 30-40 known net cafes swarmed with people.
@A$AP I don;'t know what the standards are in these countries, but i can say i'm pretty satisfied when i can pay like 5 euros for 3-4 hours and game on a PC with RTX 2080 and i7-8700k. Internet connections are solid in these places too (200 mbps) , unlike internet connections we get in our homes (50 mbps max).
As a korean, here's why we got so many net cafes aroumd east but not in west side.
Simple cultural reason. Eastern people prioritized bonds with family and friends because of saying of the old chinese dudes back in B.C.
So as you know, we only study till death. But think what happend when internet and pc started to show up.
We needed to have our own break time with our school mates away from our family's shits.
And that was the start of what we call 'pc bang boom' now.
Arteezy actually used to play in internet cafe too
i laughed my butt off lmao! 5:42
3:10 that PC case gave me cancer
I kept hearing PC Bongs. Haha
BIG! BAD! BEETLE BORGS!!!!!!!
That's my shit right there.
you guys need to make a story video of Damon Karma Barlow. 3 time world champion, he deserves it. please.
IN the PHILIPPINES we have so many PC BANG and *Peso net* that looks like the arcade but its a computer, but sadly we have SLOWEST internet connection in asia :(
like just for bettle borg mention
I like your style. -Josh
Shoot, you guys are from TO? Awesome.
You forgot to mention that using a PC Bang offer benefits to players like exp bonuses, as well as being cheaper than buying/building a PC.
South Korea pays much more for Tech which will be outdated in 2 years.
Lineage, Diablo 2, and Drunken Star Craft for adults; Maple Story, Kart Rider, and Team Fortress (not the one (Valve's Fortress) you guys are thinking of) for the kids were the driving force back in the good ol' days =P
Korea PC bangs have good peripherals chairs 144hz monitors for, a American would have to spend 1200-1500$to have the kind of experience of a Korean PC bang
as a korean, its funny to hear people say pc bong lol
At my country, Spain which is probably the most avanced European country relating to e-sports leagues and culture, we have a couple of PC Bangs per city and we have a chain of PC Bangs called Elite. I do attend a couple of this sites per month at my local city (Zaragoza), one is the typical PC Bangs which has survived from the 90s era and the other is a more modern PC Bang and I agree with that PC Bangs are social centres, I tens to go with a couple of friends and spend all the afternoon playing with them and it's not the same as playing at home due to them being physically with you. Also, my Internet at home is shit