RolandYear: 2006, Subject: Arcade Interior, Subject: Time Crisis, Arcade: Sega Shinjuku Kabukicho, Location: Shinjuku, Developer: Namco

Time Crisis

RolandYear: 2006, Subject: Arcade Interior, Subject: Time Crisis, Arcade: Sega Shinjuku Kabukicho, Location: Shinjuku, Developer: Namco
Time Crisis
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You live in one long moment of focused killing.

The world drifts by predictably like clouds and your mind darts from target to target at a tempo far greater than all surrounding events.

💥BAM! 💥BAM! 💥BAM💥BAM💥BAM💥BAM! 💥💥BA-BAM!

Faster than the world. Young forever.

And then that game with its washed-out square screens and coinslots for little metal coins is still hanging around in the same old arcade, never having got anywhere.

Youth just lost its momentum and you’re dragging queuing posts slug-speed after midnight while the world rushes about faster than you can think.

Photographer and writer covering Tokyo arcade life – the videogames, the metropolis and the people

RolandArcade: Club Sega Shinjuku Nishiguchi, Location: Shinjuku, Developer: Sega, Year: 2011, Subject: ToyletsComment

Now Wash Your Hands

There has long been a trend of reporting on Japan that selects and spins niche, non-news stories to contribute to a collaborative caricature of “Weird Japan”. One popular pastime is to point at sexual perversions – where many “perversions” are merely wayward of Western norms, presented absent acknowledgement or awareness of the imperfections in how we all cope with sex the world over.

RolandArcade: Club Sega Shinjuku Nishiguchi, Location: Shinjuku, Developer: Sega, Year: 2011, Subject: ToyletsComment
Now Wash Your Hands