Aw, screw it. I'll sit in the dark on my own and bet on imaginary horses with imaginary money.
Particularly sarcastic to subtitle StarHorse 3 “Progress”.
Photographer and writer covering Tokyo arcade life – the videogames, the metropolis and the people
Horse racing’s a quintessentially Japanese pastime, as Japanese as baseball, golf and apple pie.
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.
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.
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.
