GET HAPPY! But is Sega Takenotsuka as wholesome as it seems?
In a cave of drop-out’s musk humming with addictive gambling games, this is like a mural saying “Marlboro: GET HEALTHY!”
Photographer and writer covering Tokyo arcade life – the videogames, the metropolis and the people
I realised what makes Japanese arcades different.
Sega’s maimai has dominated the music game corners of Tokyo arcades since 2012.
Let’s climb up these labels for game centre gubbins.
Tateishi Segafront’s a weird design mashup: 1930s Art Deco cinema entrance, 1940s militaristic stars and 1950s sailorboy babystripe, silver starshooting hopes of the spaceage 60s, bubblebumped 1970s lavalamp blobs, and Sega’s 80s iconography superimposed off-centre.
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