As a seasoned gamer, Mr. Shen himself is a witness to gaming history in recent years.
He witnessed the demise of Atari, the rise of FC, and the popularity of arcade games.
A gaming console ban had isolated consoles from the country, but it provided fertile ground for the growth of PC gaming. There were even a proliferation of risqué games; a bunch of old pervs used 256 colors to create elaborate compositions, which many a teenage boy held onto railings and ripped bed sheets over and relived countless times in their dreams.
Still, standalone games were eventually defeated by piracy, and the more aggressive web games began to emerge. The existence of web games was just a flash in the pan, though, as the advent of mobile games relegated web gaming to a tear-stained chapter of history that wasn't particularly pretty to look at.