INSANE Hong Kong Gaming PC Mall Shopping Tour! Golden Computer Arcade
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- In-depth tour of the Golden Computer Arcade in Hong Kong. This is a Computer Center Mall in Hong Kong. It's nuts. I've never seen so much gaming and PC stuff under one roof. This computer mall is jam packed with PC parts, motherboards, cases, graphics cards, console video game stuff, and of course a healthy selection of bootleg items. Really sick place!
I went here in the early 90s when I passed through HK. Crazy to see that it's still around. I remember it was darker back then, like you were walking through a dungeon, and tons of pirated software.
It's like the internet in physical form
I'm from Hong Kong
@@henrikc9394 it's china now
Since it’s China now does that mean there no social media or games like fortnite?
I know this is old, but for the basement floor theres actually still a big half of it he didn't explore in the video... O_O. Also, theres a pricing website for all these little shops in Hong Kong and almost half of the total buyers get just ask prices and order on WhatsApp and go on site just to retrieve it. There are some shops that only provides online ordering services. One thing to note is that the staff might seem approaching at the start but will get irritated quite soon as Hong Kong is very fast paced and we generally don't like to waste time (lol).
I know this because I am a Hong Kong resident for more than 5 years and I visit golden regularly.
Justin Wong same I’m hong Kong too
Hey, I'm planning on building a PC and buying the parts from golden arcade. Do ya mind giving me the sites of these shops? Thx
just go on price.com.hk and search for the components, u will see the shops that sell them (along with their location and contacts)
useful tip: ask in chat (theres a handy button to start a chatroom with the seller) and see if they have stock, and if you order online u usually get a 10hkd discount as well
@@welcometojustingames ahh ok thx so much
np
Goes to huge gaming outlet in Hong Kong, is looking for mouse pad.
pretty sure he was there already on business
Ds Charger
looool
A good way to do fast math is by using tricks. 7.75 is very close to 8, and 8 is 2 by 2 by 2. So 6000 divided by 2 is 3000, then by 2 again is 1500, then again is 750, which is pretty close to 774.19 (6000 divided by 7.75). While obviously not exact, this system helps me a lot in a bunch of situations and gives me a quick ballpark figure. Anyway, nice vid as usual!
I enjoyed seeing what Hong Kong had to offer. Thanks for sharing man.
Theses are my favorite videos to watch. Its always cool to see the international scene. Thanks john your the man!!👊👊
That was madness, not as cheap as i thought it would be in there but a magical wonderland none the less. Great Vid John.
When he told you to go outside, for a second I thought he was f-ing with you, like telling you to get lost in broken English.
Hey. Hows it going. Just wanted to say i love your content bro. Your videos are very informative and fun to watch. Im 15 and currently struggling with severe depression and suicidal thoughts. But watching you really brightens my day up since i love video games, computers, traveling and old cars.
Cool when you up and go to Hong Kong outta nowhere lol this was a treat John, thanks!!
Sensory overload man.. imagine the amount of electricity that warehouse uses..
I miss HKG, always loved going there on a business trip! 👍
10:47 A store keeper wearing a $10K Rolex 116710 BLNR "Batman". Ultimate class with a side of childhood
Cool video John, whilst watching I couldn't get Pacman or other maze game's out of my head . Was expecting to see you chased around the Techno Maze by ghost/security men etc. ;)
A new instalment of "John Sucks at Tourism" ;-P Fun episode, mate!
I know I'm not the first to point this out, but you missed a third level. As the guy told you, you needed to go outside where you went, then hang a left out the door and head a few hundred feet down that side of the building. A staircase would've taken you up 1.5 floors to the one above the higher of the two you were in.
Also, an easy way to get a ballpark on the currency conversion from HK$ to US$: Divide by 10 (ie. HK$780 = US$78) and then add another 20% (ie. US$78 x 1.2 = US$78 + US$7.8 + US$7.8 = US$93.6). That'll put you fairly close to the actual answer (US$100.64 at your 7.75:1 exchange rate) and the math is exceptionally easy to do in your head.
Arcade usage in HK is referenced to British noun for coverage passage or part of /or building with arched roof. You need to barter with them to get a better price. They see a tourist coming and their eyes see $$ signs. Shenzen north of Hong Kong is where most of this stuff is manufactured, there is a market there worth the visit. Need to take the train to get there and maybe a visa. $1000HK for a DS game card is crazy.
I love those video's John, thank you :D
Pandora's Box 4 being played at 13:20.
I legit envy you right now 😉... I’m definitely subscribing
John exploring the mall and the various stairs is like a game of Magic Sword :)
Dude, this video is awesome ! Thanks for letting us virtually travel with you like that :)
The Hong Kong Market is a labyrinth of Gaming Goodness! I wish we had something like this in the Philippines. 😪🤔😍
This PC bigbox goodness! :))
Thanks for letting me know there’s a place like this !!! I will go there soon! Cus I live in hk
The closest thing I have ever seen to anything like this are these kind of discount malls that get set up in former grocery stores. They'd sell anything. Like jewelry in one divided zone and food in another. Then a dollar store. Next to that would be clothing. And then a random arcade with old games. But nothing quite like this place. I bet their electric meter spins the digital version of that rotary dial like an amusement ride. Everywhere you look, there's another light bulb or LED. Hardly a spot for a shadow to form at.
So, John goes to Hong Kong to get a DS charger. To think, I just went to e-Bay for a GBA charger. Price was insane. Maybe ninety-nine cents with the S&H.
It is like an indoor electronics flea market very cool. But hard to stand out in the crowd.
Damn that famicon handheld looks like a gameboy micro let itself go
John, that box with the Arcade joysticks is a supergun. A JAMMA box with usually a Pandora's Box 3 or 4 jamma PCB inside.
I have one with a JROK inside, so I play Zoo Keeper on my 60" TV..... ;-)
Was wondering what that was. That thing looks so cool, kinda massive but cool.
Holy shit dude.... if that is your basement, then you are definitely the source of envy.... though that envy ends where the electric bill begins.
Brings back the nostalgia of growing up in the 80s arcade culture.
+DeusWulf thanks. Check out my other channel John's Arcade. :)
The whole time I watched this video I couldn't help but keep thinking 'Why isn't there a place like this near me?" Such an amazing place to see so many different things. Really puts Best Buy to shame.
different country. they basically make the hardware in the region and they don't care about IP and trademarks.
different world out there
You have much more restraint than I. I would've hung out in that console area forever, probably buying all kinds of retro goodness (both legit & possibly not so much so).:)
john must get hk deal of the deacade on air fate ..oh im just goin to hk. damn your a boss
Thanks for showing this
john those dual arcade sticks are jamma boxes with a pandora's box arcade pcb inside.
cool video thanks. will have to visit some day.
Those membrane keyboards you touched sounded like cherry mx browns they have a tactile feedback instead of a clicky switch.
I LOVE THIS MALL.. even though I dont understand how they make money with ALL those stores selling the same stuff (console part of the video)
+Mac Donalds ahhh that would make sense.
It's pretty surreal hey?
what a sick place. why you didnt inform your self about the arcade stick?? strange card Box look...
I have to get there. Thanks and thumbs up
Guess I hit Post too soon.
Was looking at Drones, a few weeks ago. Seems to be several ranges. Like the thousand dollar versions that make those amazing shots that show up on some UA-cam videos. Then, it drops down to a hundred dollar range where the flight times are very short and the cameras dip into lower DPI's. Not sure. 3.0 or something like that. There even seems to be a $30-$50 range that are just toys. But some still have 0.3 DPI cameras in them.
Now, I have a bit of an idea on what that guy from Game Center CX was talking about when he mentioned this one micro shop that sold nothing but classic console games that were still sealed. There's hardly a thing like that to compare to, here in the US. The Flea Markets..._maybe_.
mp, not dpi. MegaPixels, not Density of Pixel per Inch.
Subtweet! Can't wait for the Arcade walk Throughs. I want to go to Tokyo so bad
Chaz's Arcade Gameplay & Restorations this is Hong Kong lol
Believe 3 years later lol! Oops. But still stands haha I want to go to Tokyo
wow what was the name of that famicom portable system? it looks neat! and how's the quality on it as far as graphics/sound goes?
that did look like a neat mall, though.... I did spy a few classic games in there (famicom/super famicom) so there was a little bit of retro goodness there too!
There are actually mutiple computer malls in shum shuipo
there is another level
each of the 4 corner of the complex leads to one level via the stairs
and there are stairs leading to another level at the middle of each side of the complex(from outside)
Holy Blair Witch Project John!....was fun seeing HK though, thanks for the vid.
lets just hop on a plane and go to hong kong
So I used to live in Hong Kong in the late 80's.. I got wind of this Golden Arcade in Sham Shui Po so we used to go down there and piracy was rampant there. We could bring a fist full of floppies and almost any stall there would copy any game out of the book. Every stall would have 4 or 5 floppy drives stacked up and a few books from which you could pick the games out of. Police would frequently raid the arcade but it didn't stop them. I would have been about 14 then. I didn't know the danger from buying pirated games. Mostly people would overlook what was going on there. You could get lucky but in most cases you could cop a ping pong or stoned virus on at least 1 floppy out of 10. The alure of this arcade isn't what it was before the Internet.. Back when all you could do to get games was to go to places like this..
Wow great video.
I did have a fairly morbid thought about what would happen if a fire started in that mall, seems like it's a bit of a maze and I'd say finding a fire exit would be a bit daunting! But I'd say it's all under control :-)
David C that's empty take the same video on a Sunday afternoon and you would be shocked
Snoopy Schulz Wow, that's insane haha! I'll have to see for myself some day.
That is the food store!
got my pc rig in Hong Kong Computer Centre in Wan Chai
i9-9900k
RTX2080ti zotac
16GB Corsair Vengeance RGB x 2
Asrock Phantom Gaming 4
1TB Samsung SSD
4TB Toshiba HHD
With water Cooling and stuff
cost me around 2400USD
if i include my dual AOC 27inch curved monitors
will be around 2700 USD.
this is insane. insane if you watch this continously! video s like watching a fast arcade game. got a head ache even if I skip through frames.
Next time you should use a smartphone to film. One with a candy pink Hello Kitty case or something..
Just back from Hong Kong went to this place a lot of times When I Was There. There are a lot of placer's like this in Hong Kong, Here are a few Mongkok computer centre / 188 wan-chai road computer store / star computer city / wan chai computer centre/ 298 computer centre 298 Hennessy road.all worth a look. good luck.
AWESOME! Lots of good stuff there.
Looks like Pantip plaza in Bangkok, you should check it out. And the best way to find awesome deals in those stores is to lose yourself deep into the heart of that "hell" .
I got a G502 hero mouse today in the same place for only $680!
Usually it’s more expensive
Ah I live in Hong Kong its nice there I've been here before the amount of people in the golden arcade is nuts
You can tell you was definitely out of your comfort zone there in Hong Kong. Question tho what was the arcade panel thing you had keep running into? Who was that made by? And how come you didn't buy the Nintendo playing cards??
When he was saying "No, not in Hong Kong" about the Overwatch mouse pad, made me think you have to go to mainland China to get all that counterfeit Blizzard fake licensed stuff we see on eBay. Next time, try there (just make sure you poop first, I can't take another "John shit in a hole" story on the podcast ;) Interesting stuff! I could never shop there, pure chaos!
+Michelle Madison I thought this too after the fact.
That market was a giant mountain of chinese crap! XD
I could only imagine what it smelt like coming up that escalator. I bet he was there to meet that woman he used to call on Skype
Speaking of pooping, Michelle, when do we get to see you do it next? :D
What the hell is wrong with you?
I'm getting claustrophobic just watching this. 😮
Damn there should of been a store that has everything
Hong-Kong is LIFE ❤️
seems like all that shit just goes unsold and sits there forever. Unless they also have online stores to compliment their kiosks.
Yeah man, you can't tell me all that gets moved regularly
Well, jedi, maybe they wouldn't have online stores to tell these stores nice things about, but they might have those stores to help make these more complete (complEment).
I wonder if anyone actually makes any money since they all sell the same stuff.
cool place. i would be scared to go inside there in case of an earthquake.
Javier Virgen There are no major fault lines over Hong Kong. Also EVERY mall is mutli-story with basement so good luck.
Do you consider them cheaper compared to US pricing?
They’re a lot cheaper
Whow, why would you spend probably around $2000US just for a round trip to HK only to end up buying nothing from that mall than just a power supply to use while you were in HK? if you were going to all that effort to go out there, why not buy at least one exciting, expensive thing? Or what was your MAIN reason for expending all that money and time to go out there? And how did you afford it?
john had the money to go over seas
Thanks for the nice video but you make me dizzy when you poking around your camera to much
I’m so glad I live in Hong kong
Alas, tech heaven!!!
that was war machine john lol
Think of it as retropi
Too many people for me
Bob Marley I was just thinking that, I would go nuts in there lol
you went all the way to japan to buy a charger
It is Hong kong
Ever felt... Claustrophobic?
Guy flies to China to get a DS charger
There are a bunch more of those stores in hk too
I want to go here!
where are we goin next
Watching this video in 60 fps made me motion sick, good content though!
Hey! I built my computer from there in 2010. :D
It lasted me for almost 7 years. The PC still works, but it is slow and unplayable.
Specs XD
Im don´t quite remember because I don´t have it here. :c
But it´s something like this:
i5 Idk what generation, but it was in 2010
gpu ATI RADEON 5850 HD
psu 500w semi modular idk what brand
4gb ram, no idea what brand xD
motherboard gigabyte, i know the brand in this one, but not sure which mobo :v
500gb Hard drive
:v
still playable on some games like dota2 csgo and LoL :D
Not really, this PC is actually dead, it is running LoL 12fps no matter what settings.
Why can't we have this in Canada :(
Is there a link between bad arithmatic and sense of direction? ;)
+Nevets ha. It's possible. :)
How long were you actually out there? I know it's almost a year late asking but I'm just curious
Make a video on gaming laptop
hey buddy in golden computer center.. fixed price or bargain price
I was honestly just there
Are the gaming laptops in honkong good quality and price? Cheap?
It's in sham shui po
How do you get these things through customs? Don't they tax u?
How about the prices there compared to europe?
10:03 - Nice shirt.
5:49
Look at that case!...
crazy thing = supergun
riverwoods?
Do they build custom pcs?
Why say "arcade arcade"? That doesn't make sense. Why not just say "GAME arcade" (when differentiating between that and this)?
im surprised nobody yelled at you for filming. they tell me no picture no picture haha. That chick was all smiling when you said beautiful. Punch a driver and steal a scooter and your playing an episode of sleeping dogs.
When was this recorded?
Is There Sell Astro A50?
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