Gamers still eager to try their hands at Legal Minefields

The national console sales ban fails to extinguish a passion from childhood, report Eric Jou, Yang Yang and Yang Wanli in Beijing.

Song Lin runs a small video games stall on the sixth floor of the So-show shopping mall in Beijing.

However, the 30-year-old former game programmer doesn't sell regular run-of-the-mill video games. Instead, he sells relics, games that became part of the childhoods of Chinese game players, despite an official ban on the sale of consoles, which, unlike computers, are designed solely for playing video games.