
Oh yeah nobody gave a damn about Shenzhen so why i m still daring to write something about KOF in the red land? Well i ‘m pretty bored again sorry guys haha
This time is not about a big city like Shenzhen, this write up is about a small city called Anfu (Jiangxi) where everything is so different from here (SZ)...but hell if they know how to play KOF!
For this article, which won’t be published lol, i just have 2 photos but next month i ll go back there and i will take some other pics and maybe vids!
In this small town called Anfu there won’t be any astrocities or taitos, but just some chinese cabs, so if you are used to the responsive japanese parts well you will have an hard time in these kind of cities.
The cabs... if you take a look at the pic on the bottom of this article you might think they are not that bad, actually those pics are from one of the various arcade that Anfu has to offer. As a matter of fact, despite of the chinese knock off stick/buttons the playing experience is pretty comfortable (yes the LCD cabs have sanwas). The problem is when you go to other arcades lol
I went to two other arcades and well it was like a war zone, pity i don’t have any pic of them cause ...well just read below.
One of the two bad arcades I went, bad cause of the cabs,was located near the one I have the pics of. When you look at it from the outside, you cannot believe that hole is actually an arcade!! There is nothing that point out in there you might find some cabs...but well, it was an arcade....and a big one too!
I spent more or less 2 hours in there and eventhough the first hour there was no one to play with, at maybe 4.30pm so many people came in and... and wait a second I said that the arcade was quite a nightmare, didnt i? Well this is why: the cabs!
There were so many...chinese cabs I was shocked. The problem is not that they where chinese , the problem was that the stick and the buttons where chinese happ knockoff and the layout was:
A C
B D
I spent maybe 1 hour to get used to the sticks and buttons cause the feeling was so different from the sanwa,seimitsu,chinese jp knockoff that I needed to practice so much!
It seems that for the players there those shitty sticks were pretty good since they could pull off most of the combos in each KOF!
But what about the second nightmare arcade i went to? Well this was pure shit from the cabs (chinese jp knockoff) to the games (all bootlegs). I don’t want to spend too much time on talking about this crappy place...just one word “It won’t happen again”.
Let’s go back to the arcade I was talking about some lines above, eventhough the cabs were like that, the level of the players was damn high! Kof 97 and 98 were the main KOF games (then some kof bootlegs) that were played there. So many people came at 4.30pm I was like “Oh god, and now what’s gonna happen??” Of course nothing happened, it was just impressive to see so many players (young and old) gathering in a small place like that just to play KOF! I played a lot with 97 and talked with some players during the matches only to find out that every evening they meet up there to play 97, so you can guess how strong they were. Bugs,infinites,death combo , everything was allowed but if you don’t want to face every damn time some infinte you just have to tell them...they will find another way to kill you! Haha
I stayed just a couple of hours but next time i go there I ll try to record some stuff cause It’s worth it.
Now, let’s talk about the “good cabs” arcade where the level was more or less like the other arcade, maybe the players were less strong in some ways.
The arcade (back then, dunno now) were packed with 97 (og and boot),98,2000,2001,one Samurai Shodown 6 (yes SS6!!) on LCD, and some other fighting games like Street Fighter 4 OG and tekken 6.
Well nothing special to report here, i mean the feeling was just “a big arcade with lots of good players” but the old dirty feeling of the other arcade was completely missed. Anyway I had more fun to play in here than the dirty arcade,just cause of the sticks xD
Well this is what was playing KOF in a small chinese city...can’t wait to go back there!!!
Here the 2 photos of the “good cab” arcade :

