RolandYear: 2009, Location: Yokohama, Arcade: Sega Yokohama Chukagai, Developer: Bandai Namco, Subject: Tank! Tank! Tank!

Impressive Features!

RolandYear: 2009, Location: Yokohama, Arcade: Sega Yokohama Chukagai, Developer: Bandai Namco, Subject: Tank! Tank! Tank!
Impressive Features!
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Yokohama Chinatown Sega, another of Tokyo's little heavens.

Here you will find:

- A restricted smoking area!

- Auto-relandscaping putting greens!

- Typing of the Dead with cabinet-mounted keyboards!

- Music GunGun!!*

- Let's Go Island with glasses-free 3D!

- Uniformed helpers!

- Tank!Tank!Tank!!*

* Items marked with an asterisk (*) include a closing exclamation mark (!) as part of the game title. Additional closing exclamation marks – and only additional closing exclamation marks – may be interpreted as an indication of my level of excitement about the item so labelled.

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

RolandArcade: Sega Yokohama Chukagai, Subject: Rhythm Tengoku, Location: Yokohama, Year: 2007, Developer: Sega, Developer: NintendoComment

What’s Rhythm Tengoku?

Rhythm Tengoku: a bit odd. Assumed the arcade machine spawned the 2006 GBA cart but that’s backwards. Nintendo developed for GBA first, then Sega recoded for arcade in 2007.

RolandArcade: Sega Yokohama Chukagai, Subject: Rhythm Tengoku, Location: Yokohama, Year: 2007, Developer: Sega, Developer: NintendoComment
What’s Rhythm Tengoku?