Tokyo:
- Lit up at night
- Well-worn, clean streets
- Sidewalk painted on
- A parked bicycle
- Shop staff always ready
- Like the vending machines
- Videogames
Photographer and writer covering Tokyo arcade life – the videogames, the metropolis and the people
Get in the bustle. Tokyo street.
Compared to home, Tokyo gets dark early and stays warm late. So night is a playground.
In times gone by, when Sega made consoles, it felt like there was a clear path from arcade to home release. Back then, Gunslinger Stratos would have been ported to Saturn or Dreamcast and come with dedicated controllers.
Easter eggshaped image from the loserdrop stairwell that squeezes you between the prize machines and a Chinese into a Fight Club-style fighting-game fight club.
That Sega logo does well standing out in this Higashi Shinjuku square. The brand is so clear it’s like this here is the label on the insideout city of Tokyo.
