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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: dcharlie on May 09, 2010, 09:21:55 PM

Title: The Arcades of Japan - a picture collection
Post by: dcharlie on May 09, 2010, 09:21:55 PM: Do you want to sit and look at pictures of Japanese arcades and get all weeabosexual?

Then i have the collection for you !

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcharlie/collections/72157624007899446/

Sort of happened by accident and largely shitty pictures - some older stuff up there too.

Throwing it out there as some of you might enjoy them.

Will be updating the collection fairly regularly.
Title: Re: The Arcades of Japan - a picture collection
Post by: Ichirou on May 09, 2010, 09:22:31 PM: Shouldn't this be on the gaming side, though.
Title: Re: The Arcades of Japan - a picture collection
Post by: Ichirou on May 09, 2010, 09:24:15 PM: Don't the people in the arcades freak out when you start taking pictures of them?
Title: Re: The Arcades of Japan - a picture collection
Post by: Ichirou on May 09, 2010, 09:28:21 PM: I dig the Sega Gigo over in Ikebukuro. Haven't been there since they closed down the Sakura Taisen Romando Shop/Cafe.
Title: Re: The Arcades of Japan - a picture collection
Post by: Bebpo on May 09, 2010, 09:28:39 PM: cool stuff :) It's always interesting how different looking Japanese arcades are from those in the US.
(http://spyhunter007.com/Images/reagan_arcade_paperboy.jpg)

As old as this random google picture probably is, arcades in 2010 in CA still look exactly like that.
Title: Re: The Arcades of Japan - a picture collection
Post by: Mr. Gundam on May 09, 2010, 10:40:43 PM: I found a Japanese arcade in Victoria, BC this weekend. Played some Gundam vs. Gundam Next in an Astrocity cab. :rock
Title: Re: The Arcades of Japan - a picture collection
Post by: T-Short on May 10, 2010, 03:34:01 PM: looked through a lot of these, damn. really miss Tokyo now. pics of new Club Sega in Aki were of the hook, I love the defibrillator next to the changer. hua
Title: Re: The Arcades of Japan - a picture collection
Post by: Skidmark on May 10, 2010, 03:46:20 PM: Needs more booze.
Title: Re: The Arcades of Japan - a picture collection
Post by: ferrarimanf355 on May 11, 2010, 10:02:05 AM: Quote from: dcharlie on May 09, 2010, 09:21:55 PM
Do you want to sit and look at pictures of Japanese arcades and get all weeabosexual?

Then i have the collection for you !

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcharlie/collections/72157624007899446/

Sort of happened by accident and largely shitty pictures - some older stuff up there too.

Throwing it out there as some of you might enjoy them.

Will be updating the collection fairly regularly.
There's a couple of good arcades near me, I just hope that they get the Terminator Salvation arcade game soon.
Title: Re: The Arcades of Japan - a picture collection
Post by: jiji on May 11, 2010, 02:55:10 PM: This is cool! I've thought about doing something similar, just with nickel arcades here in Utah (:-\).
Title: Re: The Arcades of Japan - a picture collection
Post by: Akala on May 11, 2010, 07:25:37 PM: (http://i42.tinypic.com/1zyhc13.jpg)

didn't take too many pictures, but I consider the PINBALL HALL OF FAME the best arcade in the states. 180 pinball machines and old school arcade games. :drool
Title: Re: The Arcades of Japan - a picture collection
Post by: Saint Cornelius on May 11, 2010, 09:53:12 PM: Akala the Pinball Hall of Fame is a fucking magical place, innit?

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/122/288145920_f7c8b0e0fe_m.jpg)

Nice work dcharlie. I'm fascinated by arcades!
Title: Re: The Arcades of Japan - a picture collection
Post by: Saint Cornelius on May 11, 2010, 10:09:58 PM: I think it's hilarious that American arcades are (were?) known for being these dark, forbidding places... and Japanese arcades are these light, forbidding (for anyone but nerdlingers!) places! :lol

Great, great, great fucking pix dcharlie. Consider me all spooging.
Title: Re: The Arcades of Japan - a picture collection
Post by: Mr. Gundam on May 11, 2010, 11:28:08 PM: Arcades in the Seattle area are pretty crappy. There's a Gameworks downtown and a couple places in the suburbs, but that's it.
Title: Re: The Arcades of Japan - a picture collection
Post by: Ichirou on May 12, 2010, 12:08:46 AM: I've taken so many girls out on dates to arcades in Japan. Luckily they're usually divided in areas so we go to the parts with the print club picture machines and the UFO catcher machines.

There's a really big one close to where I live that's right below the movie theater and it's really awesome. It's divided into an area with kids' games (Tetris, Mario Kart, etc.) and print club booths, another area for the UFO catcher stuff, another area for the coin machines, and another area for darts and fighting game and Beatmania/shmups/hardc0r gamer stuff.

Take a girl to the movie and then spend a half hour at the game center before going to dinner. :heartbeat
Title: Re: The Arcades of Japan - a picture collection
Post by: Great Rumbler on May 12, 2010, 12:09:46 AM: There used to be a pretty cool arcade at a mall that I went to a lot, but it's pretty much just a shadow of its former self these days. :-\
Title: Re: The Arcades of Japan - a picture collection
Post by: Mr. Gundam on May 12, 2010, 12:11:21 AM: My wife and I had fun at the arcades in Japan. She played Taiko games while I tried out Gundam: Bonds of the Battlefield ( :o :o :o :o ) and Border Break.
Title: Re: The Arcades of Japan - a picture collection
Post by: Ichirou on May 12, 2010, 12:13:39 AM: Taiko games are also great to play together, along with shooting games.

Did you ever check out that Gundam shooter? I forgot its name, you piloted a Zaku. I've only seen it in a ocuple of arcades. Secret enemies were Gundam Alex and the Full Armor Gundam (you fought them if you took certain routes), and the gun was shaped like a Zaku machine gun.
Title: Re: The Arcades of Japan - a picture collection
Post by: Mr. Gundam on May 12, 2010, 12:18:10 AM: Quote from: Ichirou on May 12, 2010, 12:13:39 AM
Taiko games are also great to play together, along with shooting games.

Did you ever check out that Gundam shooter? I forgot its name, you piloted a Zaku. I've only seen it in a ocuple of arcades. Secret enemies were Gundam Alex and the Full Armor Gundam (you fought them if you took certain routes), and the gun was shaped like a Zaku machine gun.

I've seen it before online, but I never stumbled upon it while there.
Title: Re: The Arcades of Japan - a picture collection
Post by: Ichirou on May 12, 2010, 12:20:03 AM: I only played it once...tbh, I don't like playing those games by myself, they're way more fun when you're shooting it out with a friend. They should port it to XBL or PSN or something. It was awesome!
Title: Re: The Arcades of Japan - a picture collection
Post by: Ichirou on May 12, 2010, 02:21:58 AM: Yeah, shooting games are damn fun to play on a date. I remember doing a run on the Rambo game with a girl, it was hilarious, she got really into it. :lol
Title: Re: The Arcades of Japan - a picture collection
Post by: Third on May 12, 2010, 11:06:45 AM: Nice pics. We don't have arcades over here. :-\

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