In cities across Japan, arcades are beacons of the night. They are a place to take refuge, escape, and unwind, which…
Every business has a starting point. For Japanese arcades, one of them was on department store rooftops.
While Japan has lots of excellent arcades, Tokyo is home to the country’s best. If you are visiting the city and…
Spotted in China, this isn’t a crane game, but a money-blowing one. An electric fan is affixed where the claw should be and players try to blow bills into the slot. Read more
I played Yakuza Kiwami 2 this weekend and loved every second of it. Arcades are a big part of Yakuza’s gorgeous…
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Microsoft just showed off Halo: Fireteam Raven, a lightgun shooter for the arcade that’s set during the events of…
Yesterday, a 33-year-old employee at High-Tec Sega Kasai game center in Tokyo phoned the police, saying there was a…
Anata no Warehouse is a five-story game center in Kawasaki, Japan that was designed to look like Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City. Website Tofugu recently did a review of the place, sussing out if it’s worth a visit.
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Leave it to Square Enix to make one of the neatest-looking arcade games shown at this year’s Japan Amusement Expo.
Last week, a popular Donkey Kong website announced that it would be removing former champion Billy Mitchell’s scores…
Twitter user Hiro spotted this masked-wearing, blind-folded Taiko no Tatsujin player at an arcade in Japan. The…
House of the Dead is back! Starting this Friday, There is a location test in Akihabara for House of the Dead: Scarlet Dawn, which Arcade Heroes points out is the latest House of the Dead after a 12-year wait.
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In the latest installment of the toco toco TV, the beautiful and melancholy documentary series about Japanese game…
Do you have a video game room? You know, a room dedicated to playing video games. Some folks in Japan do, and they…
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Japan makes amazing train simulators. Densha de Go!, released in Japanese arcades this week, is no exception.
You might remember last year we told you about a “raid” on an old ship that managed to save a bunch of classic…
Taito has unveiled a service called “Taito Online Crane” that allows people to play crane games via their…
“First you need to register,” the staffer at Club Sega tells me. “Then after you do that, you can put money on your…
Groom Kazuhiro and his bride Yukiko were married today at iconic Tokyo arcade Mikado. As the game center points out,…