Gaming Store Kenya

Gaming is a perfect way to unwind both during the holidays and after a long stressful day at work for all ages old and young alike irrespective of their genders. It has been a long way coming for the gaming industry local and international since the pop a coin arcade games were the 'it thing' in locations like westgate in Nairobi and Funland in nyeri among other arcade gaming parks in the country where teenagers would flock in their hundreads during the schoool holidays and weekends. The arcades featured steering wheels for car games and guns for shooting games making it a perfect location for both dates and a chill out spot with friends.What was there not to like when even TV sets had not been a norm in most kenyan house holds?

Years down the line and the whole coastal shore have radically changed and some how simultaneously still remained the same. With the birth of persaonal "computer games" which we later realised are just some cheap chinese consoles that could emulate our favourite games and the playstation waves that took on the landscape between 2000-2006, gaming all over sudden became something kids did at home...the ones who could afford the consoles anyway. For those who were not as lucky found out soon that the home and school computers could play some descent games compared to their console counter parts and even sometimes looked better.

The years that preceeded kenya's ealier gaming years can only be described as wild with the release of playstation 3 in 2006 which I assume arrived in Kenya an year later and the arrival of new commers like x-box into the market(the kenyan market atleast). Gaming PCs with dedicated machinery also became a thing as they could handle heavier graphics games as opposed to a regular computer.Not much of analytics has been collected on the kenyan gaming market but if I had to assume,gaming on PCs was much porpular than on all consoles combined.

Skip a decade later and the gaming industry (world wide) is much bigger than the music and movie industry combined.In 2021, The Gaming Awards outpaced the Oscars by a whooping 80 million in viewership. The phenominon is not only happening internationaly but also localy. Shiro.co.ke is a gaming shop that acts as your guide to the gaming scenery in both nairobi, Kenya and the east african region giving you the latest in trends, gaming releases, gadget and games reviews in all major plartforms concerned.