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.
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?