The lights in Hey are famously blue. First foot off the IN escalator is *that* row of a dozen or so Egrets on either side. They actually have a Kodak PhotoPoint(TM) standee there now, yellow greyed by the blue light, with a cutout for where experts say to point your camera. That’s actually true!
Gentlemen reading this will know that sometimes there are splashguards and sometimes there aren't. In either case you just look straight ahead and mind nothing but your own business. But don't mind it too closely or you will raise questions.
In your capacious Western home you probably have *two* display cases for prizes you have won in UFO catchers: one for the Japanese schoolgirl figurines and one for the model aircraft-carriers.
A two-part taped-up standee of Cloud Strife has producer signatures for expert nerds like me and a simple nametag for the rest: Final Fantasy VII, Cloud Strife.
Pokemon means pocket monsters. Tekken means iron fist. Therefore: Pokken means pocket fist. Named for the scooping of hundredyens – or the skulking home in the cold.
A controller dangling off the front of an arcade cabinet? What a flimflam! Like a Toys R Us demo booth with a coinslot.
MM Land has this kind of peripheral vision tester game where you whack light-up buttons on a board right in your face.
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.
The girls in Kantai Collection are aircraft carriers.
Everyone likes a good chuckle at some 'Engrish' – the English language mistakes of the Japanese. But there's actually a myth behind the phenomenon: that they are indeed mistakes.
What if they say no? Drop the coin and press start. That terror-thrill of want in desperate young hearts.
Sometimes the games just bury you. Virtual collectibles and smartphone moneysuckers hounding you back to the arcade.
Welcome to the Pokken room at Taito Station Shinjuku Minamiguchi Game World.
Do you want to play with a fake vacuum cleaner? No worries.
Another visit to Tokyo’s grubbiest games arcade.
How real a difference is there between arcade joysticks?
You think you play arcades by dropping a coin for a thrill-ride in a fake car. Not in Tokyo.
Tokyo’s arcades are neat and orderly. So, like in perfect snow, everyone leaves their footprints.
For a moment, one of Dissidia Final Fantasy’s little lambs is forced to take a break.
