Found this beautiful cabinet at the Copenhagen Skate park during the Trailer park Festival where Gazelle killed it. People were entranced , not sure whether to dance or stare, mesmerised by the African rhythms or to do a zombie dance while under gazelle’s spell. Anyway back to the cabinet, Beautiful decals and joysticks and buttons I’ve never seen before, really well maintained. Would make a nice home cabinet. Copenhagen city where the people and the cabinets are pretty.(sorry about the poor cellphone pic, doesnt do it justice)
2BOP Strapline: 2BOP/ Video game apparel for corner shop laanies who skiet games whole day
Back Stage Passes
Mr Maluka couldnt picture this
2Bop’s been hanging with boy from the hood done good Mr Maluka in Scandanavia. Checkout his vintage sticks that would have made playing Street Fighter on Super Nes that much better back in the day. The illest hip hop throwup we’ve seen. Joysticks are the new boom boxes.
The Story
2Bop started in 2004 as a way to turn a passion for classic video games into a form of expression.
2Bop draws inspiration primarily from games that were popular in South Africa at corner shops and arcades in the1980’s and early 1990’s when gameplay was key and graphics if they were good were an added bonus. Disadvantaged areas during apartheid South Africa had little to offer in terms of exposure to cutting edge international design or computer technology but the bootleg arcade games that used twenty cent pieces (a 2Bop) to play at the corner shop were a window into what was happening in the outside world. These games granted access to excellent electronic entertainment and exposed the 2Bop crew to intuitive and engaging interface design, game design, graphic and sound design primarily from Japan and North America. And so began a long fascination with the medium that shows no signs of stopping.