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Tokyo's geek district in the era of covid-19 is changing
With Tokyo still under state of emergency orders due to covid-19, and the country closed to tourists, businesses…
Taito have unveiled a new mini arcade cabinet called the Egret II Mini, designed after Taito’s 1996 Japanese…
Another arcade is closing in Tokyo. Taito Station Shinjuku West Exit, which opened in 2018, will shutter on March 21. With fewer customers, and tourists banned, arcades are hurting.
In the dying days of the Nintendo Entertainment System, well into the early 1990s, Taito had plans to bring arcade…
Earlier this month, Kotaku reported that Pac-Man, Yakuza, and Sega were all getting their own branded Japanese sake.…
Yes, yes, I know. Our Switch backlogs are huge already. Pokémon is about to come out. Nintendo’s even surprise-releas…
Towering over the Taito booth at this year’s Tokyo Game Show is an enormous Space Invaders cabinet. Just look. It’s…
Nintendo got its start making playing cards. Sega began making amusement machines for the U.S. military. And Taito?…
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Japan makes amazing train simulators. Densha de Go!, released in Japanese arcades this week, is no exception.
Starting this month, The Legend of Zelda pocket watches will start appearing at Taito game centers in Japan. These are UFO Catcher prizes—and very cool ones at that!
In many places, arcades seem to have nearly, if not completely, vanished. Yet, in Japan, they continue to hang on.
To mark the 30th anniversary of shoot ‘em up Darius, Taito is releasing a huge box set with seven CDs, the PS4 version of the game, a Blu-ray disc, and a special booklet. It’s all priced at 13,800 yen ($134).
There is no competition, and no country is better. Japan is the unrivaled king of train games.
Taito Hey, the wonderful Akihabara arcade, is getting an automatic foreign currency changing machine, Famitsu reports. You won’t need i.d. like a passport, and can easily change U.S. dollars, euros, Chinese yuan, Korean won, Taiwanese dollars, Hong Kong dollars, and Thai baht. That’s pretty cool! Read more
To show how digital payments work on arcade games, the folks at Taito set up a teeny, temporary game center at…
Don’t you miss instruction manuals? Or even just paper? I know I do. And these photos make me miss them even more.
Inspired by Bubble Bobble, pixel artist Paul Robertson took Taito's 1986 classic's style and redrawn a whole bunch…
Left 4 Dead is being released as an arcade game in Japan. None of the eight existing characters, however, are making…