Robot and Internet

We were a group of kids living in Tokyo and wondering how to spend our time. One possibility was a quick flight to Seoul, but it would be a little pricy, especially for us, since we seemed to be living in some kind of squat. So for now, we would just use the wireless internet, which we had a way of hacking into for free. But… low and behold, they had suddenly patched this up!

We went to the place where the internet was sourced, which was reached by a slope going underground. A small guard robot was standing there, like something out of a video game. “You shall not pass”, he kept saying whenever one of us would go near.
“Okay, let’s get going”, I cautiously advised- but my friend was persisting, making me worried that he might actually try to break the robot to get past. “That would be criminal damage!”, I warned, but for now, all I heard was him talking to it, trying different phrases to get a password, as it turned out. He shouted up to us, “Hey, this works” and we heard him telling it “I’m a new employee”, to which the robot said, “Ok, sir, nice to meet you, please come this way!” We did the same and were in.

Inside was a lot of stuff including a small room, where an old Russian networked computer game was kept, being something like a small video game arcade. My little friend said it was quite a bizarre experience. A strange feeling emanated from the room, of some kind of hypnotic, invasive cold-war ‘entertainment’. You could hear the usual sounds of ‘80’s games, but there was something both more amateur and more sinister about this one, almost as if it would try to brainwash you to sympathise with ‘the other side’, by playing it. “Seems pretty spooky”, I said. Meanwhile, aside from everything else, there was a hidden subway here going all the way to Seoul, that now, as ‘employees’, we could use. Let the games begin, even if they were to be based around Soviet-era era, automated technologies!