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Taco Game, México city. 

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It's taco week or some such on the sunny side. I stopped at Board and You Thursday and had a flight of tacos and a Paloma. Was gut!

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Twins Play Taco Takeover Game With REAL FOOD And A Tortoise

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Twins Brothers Play Taco Takeover

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The Video Game Markets & “Barcades” of CDMX

Mexico City (CDMX) is a city of indoor markets, or mercados.  While the word “market” might conjure images of food courts or flea markets to an English speaker, Mexican mercados are a cross between a shopping mall and an old-world bazaar.  You can find everything from handmade baskets to bloody-handed butchers doling out sausage alongside gourmet coffee stands and vendors selling clothespins, fresh flower arrangements, toys, spices, and garbage bags.  

Every mercado worthy of the name also features a dozen or so prepared-food vendors, from sit-down restaurants serving multi-course meals to quick-serve counters to snack carts offering a rich assortment of sweet and savory treats.  Western-style grocery stores are also available and provide a more organized and antiseptic environment, but the mercados are cheaper and livelier.  You can essentially buy everything you would ever need at the mercado, and many Mexicans do.

Throughout the city there are also more-focused markets that cater to particular hobbies and interests.  One of the most vibrant and unusual is the video game market.  In Mexico, video games are imported products and often cost double the price of what you would find in the States or Canada, in the range of $100 USD for one game.  The video game consoles are even more cost-prohibitive, so owning them is outside the reach of many people here.  As a result, we’ve discovered, used-video-game markets are part of the culture of the city.

We recently visited one market downtown that is six stories high, with the top five floors dedicated to video games and anime.  Each floor is packed with dozens of vendors advertising both modern titles and a massive array of old games. Nintendo, always cheaper than Sony, seems to hold a special place at the market, with Nintendo 64 and handheld games widely available and relatively cheap.  While nostalgic video gaming is certainly becoming popular in the English-speaking world, in Mexico Nintendo still seems to be king.

The entire top floor of the market is dedicated to another institution all-but gone in the United States: the arcade.  Arcade bars and arcade food courts are places where Mexican teenagers gather to play new and old games that their northern brethren play at home.  Surrounding a bafflingly placed dance stage and beneath a balcony of restaurant vendors, we witnessed teenagers playing Super Smash Bros., Mario Kart, and Mortal Kombat for 20 pesos (about $1 USD) an hour.  (Alison can be seen patiently waiting at a picnic table in the center while Tim bounced around gleefully.)

In our home neighborhood, we were delighted to discover a (slightly) more mature “barcade” called Taco Game that offers 2 hours of emulated Nintendo 64, SNES, or PS4 play with the purchase of a food and drink item per person.  So we decided to check it out for our first “date night” as temporary residents of Mexico.  For the cost of a plate of nachos, a slice of lime pie, a guava soda, and a Mexican beer (about $10 USD total), the bartender brought us two vintage N64 controllers and fired up the system, allowing us two hours to play GoldenEye, Mario Kart, etc. to our hearts’ content.

~ T & A

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