As a kid, my pops had a quaint little bar in our basement. We had a dart board as you would imagine… what cheesy 80’s bar set-up wouldn’t? I was never properly introduced to the game since I never recalled seeing Papa Kan launch any projectiles at the board. So for my brother and I, darting become mostly about throwing the darts as hard as we could at the board… a pastime my friends and I still enjoy when using bar darts. Anyways, in what is mostly a social pastime/sport (which PUMA has been pushing as of late), I find myself increasingly treating it as a singular event devoid of interaction. Non-players call me the guy that’s all business or too serious but I think that it’s more so that in the words lifted from some rap lyrics, “I’m fucking focused maaaaaaaang”. But I think that these joints that we play at just aren’t really all that social. For some reason, iDarts makes this shit into a dance party/club and the Dartslive machines don’t help. I don’t exactly want to scream at the top of my lungs to converse.

For somebody who’s never seen a Dartslive machine, it’s like Initial D racing but for darts. You have your card that keeps track of all your stats and the machine is pretty bright. It’s like playing Call of Duty but for darts. There’s a good amount of pop-ups and addictive sounds signifying your score and special scores you may have achieved. However in our experience, these machines are always in party-like atmospheres. What I also don’t get is why they try to push bottle service on you… if I’m dropping $5 a pop to play, I’m pretty sure I don’t want to be consuming some cheap brand of whiskey I’ve never heard of.

I’m not really sure the purpose of this post, maybe an underlying “OMG I’m SO HARDCORE AT DARTS AND I DON’T WANT YOU TO TALK TO ME” as I secretly beat my chest or maybe a call for Dartslive machines to be available somewhere minus the massively loud Top 40 playing?

Anyways, on that note, I lost my $100 HKD Dartslive card tonight.

-Eugene