[IMG]http://www.theeca.com/newsletters/Mortal_Kombat_3.jpg[/IMG]A generator-powered arcade in Kabul, Afghanistan provides the city’s inhabitants a welcome respite from the ongoing war and helps keep wayward kids off the street and out of trouble.

14-yeard old Ubaydollah Sharafian spoke to the [URL=http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2010/0505/Escaping-war-zone-at-the-video-arcade]Christian Science Monitor about the arcade[/URL], saying, “We come here to play games and relax from street-begging.”

All such forms of entertainment were banned when Afghanistan was under Taliban rule, perhaps leading inhabitants to embrace the ability to forget their troubles for a few minutes even more than might be the norm.

As a youngster in the midst of a game succinctly stated, “I don’t want this game to finish, I want to keep on playing forever.”

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