Young Venezuelans Aspire To Gaming Stardom Despite Obstacles
PETER HOSKIN: With Rollerdrome...You, as the rookie Kara Hassan, have to roller-skate around a series of undulating arenas, all while dispensing bullets into various hired goons and dodging any rockets that come your way.
As teenagers, his fans grew up watching this slender, playful youth without a tattoo in sight at Ajax and Juventus, but where they have now moved on with their lives, the 41-year-old still masquerades on the pitch as a teenager at the start of his career.
So it is with Rollerdrome, the name of a new video game but also of the violent future-sport it proposes.
You, as the rookie Kara Hassan, have to roller-skate around a series of undulating arenas, all while dispensing bullets into various hired goons and dodging any rockets that come your way.
Professional gamers who aspire to become international superstars train an average of 40 hours a week. It's a dream job for many teenagers, offering such advantages of recurring income, the ability to work from home and combining hobby with career.
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He is one of some 3,000 young Venezuelans competing in the multi-million dollar "eSports" industry, a lucrative business with international signings, prizes and millions of viewers which has started to boom in the Andean nation, despite economic chaos, poor internet connection, power failures and local restrictions on war games.
The dream of earning a living as a professional gamer is particularly resonant for many young people in Venezuela given the sparse opportunities otherwise available in a country with a minimum monthly salary equivalent to about $22 a month.
There are about three dozen to collect in total, and all of them are actually playable. We have riffs on old classics like Pac-Man and Mr Driller and Missile Command. Just walk up to them, as the launderette-arcade's proprietor-turned-patron, and start gaming.
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"The truth is that when I saw the result... it was something magical, surprising, a dream I always had as a child that came true," said 23-year-old Parra, who lives in central-Venezuela's Aragua state, and started playing video games at the age of four.
But the style isn't just on the surface. It's also the deeper point of the game. In order to progress through this bloodthirsty tournament, it's not enough to simply knock off the bad guys — you have to knock them off with panache.
"There are a lot of interested people, there is a lot of talent here in Venezuela, a lot of players," said Abreu.
(Reporting by Deisy Buitrago in Cagua; Writing by Steven Grattan; Editing by Christian Plumb, Alexandra Hudson)
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CAGUA, Venezuela, Sept 1(Reuters) - Gamer Gabriel Parra was ecstatic to see himself hailed as the "Venezuelan star" after scoring the fastest time in an international Formula 1 eSports racing competition in May.
There's always another wash to put on. It creates an undeniably weird loop — between arcade sessions and launderette maintenance — but isn't that what life is like, anyway? Sometimes neon. Sometimes full of dirty socks.
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