Easy to think that this space invader is just a generic symbol of an arcade, but of course Space Invaders is Taito's game, released in 1978.
Dragon Ball is one of those franchises where you could easily spit out another something at a fingerclick. Everyone wants to make it; everyone wants to publish it; everyone wants to buy it. How many decades and a bottomless appetite. Click! Dragon Ball Zenkai Battle.
Japanese arcades are dripping with tar and nicotine. In fact, it’s said that the reason nineties candy cabinets keep going so long is that the plastics have transformed into a super-strengthened resin after decades of suspension in cigarette tar.
Welcome to the Pokken room at Taito Station Shinjuku Minamiguchi Game World.
Game centres all have stories to tell.
Tokyo arcades are the dreams of the Sega-Nintendo schoolyard writ concrete.
