Pakistan's Effort to Play Tekken is so Impressive (New Core-A Gaming Video)

[@steelblake]

As someone who was poor as hell most of his life, that video truly resonate with me. Getting vídeo games where i live is not hard but it's expensive as few things are so i had to live scraping by whatever games i could play, visiting local "arcades"(places with 2 machines tops), playing with a friend at their house making the most out of it and so on. I have nothing but respect for Pakistani players.

[@dwarvindoor3134]

Save up for pc and pirate 👨‍💻🫃🏻

[@steelblake]

@@dwarvindoor3134 that i did. I just recently could play stuff i had pending from 2015 onwards, like Doom for example

[@adamh4h4]

​@@steelblakeas a vet gamer and also who was poor, look up old console emulators like psone and ps2 emulators. Play games from those eras. Still holds up to this day. Just a friendly tip cause youre seriously missing out on the golden era of gaming. I dont want you to miss out on games like the Suikoden series(1,2 and 5 are best, rest are pretty bad), Vanguard Bandits, Ace Combat, etc. So many great games in different genres. Have fun.

[@pedroscoponi4905]

As far as I know, there are also only 2 machines where I live as well, and nobody was playing there the few times I could afford to go. I don't think I could've gotten into the genre since I was a lil baby boy the way some people have, even if I wanted to! It's just the reality of it, sometimes.

[@amia7z]

Honestly, I think this is kinda of a big representation of what the FGC is (or at least what it should be) which is just people who love fighting games and want fighters, even the ones they don't play to be successful because they love the genre

[@TheFortySeventhPlatoon4700]

This is exactly what we do, fighting games are passion incarnate fr

[@metalsadman]

i wish the scene had more cash flow tho, a lot have to do it on the side with normal jobs :/

[@SilverFoxYT]

Thanks for covering our region & showcasing Gerald's video. We had a great time with him. It's an absolute shame about the whole visa scene, but our guys are nothing if not resolute. Here's hoping that Tekken 8 and Street Fighter 6 will bring in more opportunities for us to compete & represent our region. If anyone has any questions, I'd be happy to respond.

[@azmilog]

do you know what the scene is like in karachi? i'm from there and i would love to go home and play tekken

[@SilverFoxYT]

@@azmilog Karachi scene is niche but very dedicated. Lots of good players like Aqeel Zahoor and Bilal Law there. They just had a Dew Gamers Arena qualifier tournament there.

[@azmilog]

@@SilverFoxYT nice! how about the casual scene?

[@justsomeguy335]

That's the thing. There are a lot of potential Arslan Ashes, Knees, Daigos, iDoms in a lot of places. It's just that their participation is blocked by paywalls and borders.

[@leithaziz2716]

Watching Gerald's video and seeing all the cabinents and shops was very nostalgic and evoked a comforting feeling even though I've never (or at least don't remember) visited Pakistan. Allthough I remember coming back from school in my homeland and visiting a small arcade and just spectating people playing games.

[@Shyverin]

Damn, if Pakistan can have a local scene what’s stopping me from starting my own little group in my community

[@Copperhell144]

Lack of people who love FG's to make up said community T_T

[@Shyverin]

@@Copperhell144 true, I’m sure there’s people here and there, but getting the word out is hard.

[@allaboutgames5133]

Give it a try bro maybe u can make It

[@giornogiovanna6576]

The things Pakistan do to play Tekken is just so amazing. I always love when you can tell someone is passionate about something, it brings me joy to see people doing what they love

[@thepuppetmaster9284]

Pakistani players story really resonate with me. My country was quite similar with Pakistan where gaming was a very luxury hobby without official distributor like Sony, MS, Steam etc. The situation forced the gaming community to import or rely on piracy to play video games. But thanks God the situation changed from early 2000 or since PS3 era where more and more official distributor came and released their hardware & software for my country. Although my country doesn't have much problems with electricity / power outage. So i really salute all Pakistani players efforts and passion for Tekken / fighting games. Despite all the roadblock and shortcomings they had, they still can compete at the highest level and became one of the strongest Tekken community in the world 🙇‍♀

[@zettovyker]

If they can make esports happen there, it makes me have faith I can do my part to help it grow elsewhere too.

[@jhsrt985]

Bingo you get it you win

[@TheGamingNobility]

Watching the video earlier made me quite emotional. I just love seeing such passion, especially in situations like Pakistan where you are limited. That final part of the video just gets me, it’s really funnily edited, but also great to see some parts of the country. Happy that Gerald made such a wonderful and small documentary.

[@Ishmaster2020]

LONG LIVE PAKISTAN 🇵🇰!!!

[@HelloWorld021]

♥️🇵🇰

[@panchozari434]

This is 90% like in mi country, It makes me Happy to se people finde out What the fgc looks outside the Us and Japan (im from argentina btw)

[@angryii5411]

Love to Pakistan, would absolutely go to Lahore to meet up and jam with you all. Truly makes me feel the love that these games manifest.

[@FFmaxxx]

2019 really blew my mind. To see a scene really develop underground without any connection to the mainstream scene is crazy. Like I've seen it kinda happen with breakdancing but it's usually because a big event happened there or a famous dancer visited and taught some stuff and everyone just learned from that. But Pakistan developed without anyone's help

[@silvera1886]

This video makes me want to go to Lahore just to see what it's like to play there, this video is absolutely phenominal

[@tootsie_]

This video really gives you perspective. I always thought I was poor as a kid, but I never had to deal with stuff like import taxes or anything Pakistani FGC folks had to deal with.

[@orpheos9]

This is seriously one of the coolest FGC stories of all time.

I grew up in South Africa, where we had some similar struggles to what we see in Pakistan. It was always so shitty to be on the outside of cool stuff. Now I live in the Netherlands and apparently, we have the opposite problem: We are gatekeeping people from coming here to where there should be (on paper anyway) more of a scene. It just sucks. Borders are stupid

[@Flashlegz]

Bandai Namco should go over to Pakistan and research a stage to include in Tekken 8

[@malcovich_games]

All of those “just like Dark Souls” places that Gerald pointed out would be a great starting point…

[@Copperhell144]

On the one hand, I would love to see them just straight-up introduce a Pakistani character. On the other hand, I think it kind of sucks when people from a country don't like their so-to-say "representative character". I don't know if this changed at all, but I heard rumors that Juri isn't well liked in Korea.

[@SuzakuX]

They should go to Pakistan and hook them up with some hardware tbf.

[@strategist9]

The passion and ingenuity is inspiring, but hopefully someday they won't have to put in so much effort just to play the game, let alone compete. Really great video though; Core-A Gaming does good work.

[@Drawfill]

I wouldnt be surprised pakistan has some superchads just waiting in the shadows to be given a fighting stick and a chance to compete

[@Flashlegz]

North Korea being above Pakistan in passport power is shocking

[@mappybc6097]

Having China on your side helps.

[@ShinAkuma]

Not like anyone gets to leave that country anyways. Do people even have passports in NK ? Also it's really not that shocking, how many times has NK bombed the world for real anyways, they keep doing tests and stuff for intimidating their neighbours but havent started an actual war for a long time. Meanwhile pakistan is the epicentre of terrorism, you never know who is a sleeper talibani from that country. A recent survey showed over 67% people there want taliban to take over the country and implement sharia, while the country as a whole is heading towards a civil war and might break up into 4 pieces soon.

[@shaghilathar3588]

@@ShinAkuma By that metric Americans shouldn't be allowed to go anywhere since they've bombed the most

[@ShinAkuma]

@@shaghilathar3588 Of course, it's up the countries that suffered at the hands of americans to disallow their visits in their region but they don't.

[@Beybleyder101]

'A recent survey showed over 67% people there want taliban to take over the country and implement sharia' - source trust me bro do feel free to link the source for your conjecture

[@Mene0]

Respect to you for making this video Sajam my dude

[@gwen6622]

i think one of the wildest things about this is not only that they're persevering and making their own cabinets and arcades and sticks and stuff, they're also The Best. like they're not people making do with the best they've got and having fun even though they're at a disadvantage and will never be the best.... no no no, they ARE the best. that's so cool.

[@bldEagle-oj3os]

Man that is alot. I'm so glad we are able to have all this shit right in front of us. Sorry to the parts of the world that doesn't have it as well as the rest of us.

[@um931]

Bandai Namco has a responsibility to ensure participants will be able to make the events. Why hold it where some of the very best cant make it to.

[@TheJakeJackson]

Mid level VPs and Bamco esports organizer employees wanted to vacation in Amsterdam this year.

[@magicalgirl1296]

One of the coolest stories in fighting games.

[@asterhogan1]

is there anything to fund scenes in other countries? i want more scenes to not be hindered by things out of their control

[@RandomGuyCDN]

Harada should take his big boy salary and start financing other scenes cause we all know that guy is loaded af. But guy dont give no shits about comp tekken since he doesnt understand what rollback is.

[@mineovernutter]

i doubt western governments are going to allow that sadly. It's a problem with sanctions

[@holden6104]

Love every minute of this. This is the old school arcade culture in the modern day. It has always produced the best players.

[@HyperDrive70]

good vid sajam!

[@Bajancheese90]

9:46 😂😂😂😂

[@moogleboy]

Shit like this is why we need a New Zack Island.

[@coten]

6:40 that looks incredibly nasty, no wonder people would be lifting their arms like pianists. it reminds me of an article i read about old Pac-Man cabinets - almost all of them have a lot of wear on the left side of the monitor shroud, because when people use their right hand to work the joystick, they naturally tend to brace themselves with their left arm by grabbing that part of the cabinet

[@esaesaeesaesa]

hopefully they can get some new hardware for tekken 8

[@zex69]

Its TSA Nobi blocking all the visas

[@nekierin6402]

Yo it's a new Jiyuna video

[@Adamzychu]

This shit happens all the time to all kinds of players from all kinds of places from around the world in all kinds of games. As TWT shows it happens in EU too, but US is consistently terrible place to travel to for a lot of people from pretty much anywhere that is not NA, while claiming to be the world capital of FGC majors at the same time. I would love to see more regions being good enough to be able to say "yeah screw your US centric FGC, you come to our place to fight us". I also kinda blame TOs of these 1st party big circuits finals AND the people who still follow this shit. What's the worth of your world series, if you host events in places where your world class qualified players are physically prevented from showing up?

[@brunop.8745]

I mean you can say that but no matter where you host an event, there will be people who just won't be able to attend We live in a post-virus world, that's just the nature of things

[@ElJosher]

It is all about the capital. The US has a lot of money, and a lot of people with money capable and willing to cover the expenses of everything they do. In other countries not so much. You can’t expect a US level of fgc in Brazil (big country and big population like the US), since there isn’t enough capital to support it. Sure they have their local scenes with world class players, but not a big audience to support the expenses of esports. Remember english as an international language also plays a roll, the fact that the US is able to capitalize on that bringing audiences from around the world together is a big advantage for US fgc industry. If you don’t know portuguese (which most people in developed countries don’t), then watching a brazilian stream might not be appealing. A lot of factors play into why the everything in the world is US centric, but the important ones are capital and language.

[@Sp3llmen]

I have no idea personally, but I feel like playing in that arcade would almost be more peaceful then playing online alone because of how difficult it is for them to get games. I'm assuming the respect for the cabinets as well as each other has to be pretty fucking high

[@mrsaif4135]

Now atif taking trophy 🏆 homr

[@TheJbrown60]

nobi with a moustache would be too powerful

[@TheTouristArrives]

Very humbling video. Thank you, Sajam. And of course, thank you to Gerald for being such a great and thoughtful person in our little but strong community. ❤

[@TheEmptyInbox]

The fact that north korea has a stronger passport then pakistan is crazy to me

[@wichitawwojak3786]

The reason some countries feel like their passports are stronger than they should be is because those countries make those passports rare. Consider that a North Korean with a passport is a North Korean with the authorization to leave NK. This rules out most everyone but government officials. A North Korean embassador has more travel rights than a pakistani citizen. While I do think that's still crazy, it's a lot more understandable.

[@make_some_noise]

Somehow north Korea has an easier time with their passports. The first Tekken 8 TWT better be in Pyongyang, maybe we'll see a north JDCR

[@ZyanFernando]

I sometime plays tekken with my friends. I have tekken7 in my pc but i still go out and play it in gaming zones lol

[@chimby8494]

I truly hope they have enough next gen consoles for their scene to immediately swap to tekken 8 when it comes out. Would be a shame if their scene gets thrown into limbo until they get up and running again.

[@masterofdoom5000]

Kazuya Mishima would stop at nothing for his goals, they just carrying his spirit into playing Tekken no matter the hurdles.

[@enker1417]

The visa man being against Pakistani Tekken could actually be a possibility, my buddies in NL have mentioned that everyone aged 14 to 45 all had pirated Tekken 3 on chipped PlayStations. It's not unfathomable that there may be Tekken players in the highest reaches of the government, as scary as that may be.

[@drketr6232]

I was born in Utrecht moved to Toronto, and im Persian. My father came from Iran in the 80’s and it took him well over 6 years to even get looked at for a green card. To me this is at the fault of TWT you have to know how these countries would be trouble, to me the US, UK, or maybe even France could’ve been better spots.

[@aganaom1712]

as much as i don't vibe with tekken gotta respect the hustle to try to bring people together

[@jhsrt985]

Core A always puts out the best content

[@shun-li8204]

Looking at the hurdles they have to face regarding hardware, I'm now a little concerned on how much harder it'll be once Tekken 8 comes out.

[@Stale_Buns]

The good thing is that all the recognition our scene got due to Tekken 7 will allow players and especially people in Arslan Ash and Khan to help develop the scene here It will be a slow development but it will help a loooot

[@rameezahmed3863]

I'm from Pakistan and I got my visa rejected for education a couple of times in the past. That only gave me a reason to keep moving forward. In Pakistan these issues further strengthen a person's resolve to not quit when they face hurdles in the pursuit of their ambitions. These hurdles also act as sort of filter to weed out people who are really are in it to go all the way versus those who can't face adversity and pressure for long. That's what makes stories like Arsalan Ash come true. Wanted to thank the fellow gaming and Tekken community for all the love and support. You guys are awesome!

[@dorkasaurus_rex]

harada better put a pakistani char in tekken 8

[@АртёмТор-к2ю]

Americans find out that Pakistan is a country is so funny. Wait till they find out why Pakistani passport is so weak

[@Sharp1200]

I love Gerald but aint no way he said Poonjab region lmaoo

[@fsh_outta_wtr]

How do you say it?

[@AyazHB]

@@fsh_outta_wtr pun+jab, joke and punch

[@Sharp1200]

@@fsh_outta_wtr pun like the english word pun He got jab right tho, "a" like in the word father

[@toututu2993]

This world is so frustration if you imagine that you did great thing everything for the world including preventing the planet earth of total destruction and just to end up getting rejected from getting a visa for lacking their favorism standard

[@oracidrep]

They should just Korean backdash to Europe imho

[@memekingk373]

Pakistan best region, inshallah

[@RDG99]

TSA Nobi wins again

[@skaven969]

"Getting a PS5 is $800 dollars" And I'm in Canada where they want $1000 for one. Economics is stupid.

[@SoapieScot]

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