Game Spot 21 is a real-deal arcade. Finger-crossing that it comes back post-Covid – and dirtier than ever.
Gitadora: Guitar Hero and DrumMania. True companions – the point of each other. (Since 1999, so Rock Band didn’t invent the rock band.)
Yeah, I wear moccasins and a check shirt. Glasses. A look that says don’t bother looking. Spend life head-down, blanking some black hole on my heels.
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.
Sit in the dark and match threes on your own. Screen so bright you’re blinded to everything else.
A day at work in suit and tie and shoes. A night away in dreams on music games.
DANCERUSH STARDOM is Konami’s celebration of / cash-in on its dance game history.
Another visit to Tokyo’s grubbiest games arcade.
Sometimes you’re not supposed to understand.
There’s one game genre you can always depend on in Tokyo.
Every DrumMania regular has their own sticks. Not everyone is foot-tapping the doorstep when the arcade opens.
Tokyo arcades are the dreams of the Sega-Nintendo schoolyard writ concrete.
If Tokyo is the future of the 90s playground, whatever happened to International Superstar Soccer?
