What if they say no? Drop the coin and press start. That terror-thrill of want in desperate young hearts.
Requited love will never match the hope. But we dare not duck the bolt from Cupid’s bow.
Photographer and writer covering Tokyo arcade life – the videogames, the metropolis and the people
You think you play arcades by dropping a coin for a thrill-ride in a fake car. Not in Tokyo.
Everyone likes a good chuckle at some 'Engrish' – the English language mistakes of the Japanese. But there's actually a myth behind the phenomenon: that they are indeed mistakes.
I worked on a bookie counter and learnt about gambling. Idiots say the house always wins. They don’t say that about the cinema or the gym.
Milling about mainstrip Ikebukuro. A monumental Sega in the kind of playground district that gets remade in computer games. Level designers, empowered to build anything at all for free, see no reason to change it.
Wonderland Wars is a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena that lives in Japanese arcades. Japanese gamers recognise and dig the MOBA but the Wikipedia list of MOBAs page is totally different in Japanese and English.
