I visited several Japanese arcades, aka game centers, in Tokyo’s Akihabara ward. Here’s some advice about how to get the most out of your visit to gamer’s paradise—and which arcade you shouldn’t miss.
As school and work wrap up, crowds fill Tokyo's many bustling arcade halls -- not to battle it out in fighting games, but to snag plush toys from claw machines. In one of these gaming meccas in the ...
SNK has revealed that it will release two physical compilations of classic Neo Geo arcade titles for Nintendo Switch in Japan. The Arcade Archives Neo Geo Selection will be available in two volumes in ...
A Japanese-inspired arcade with plush toy prizes is coming to the Pentagon City mall in a couple months. With games, claw machines and Japanese toys and anime figurines for sale, Arcade company Gatcha ...
Wangan Midnight and Initial D are two seminal works of Japanese automotive culture. Let’s play the games they spawned. For Japan Month at Motor1, we’ve traveled far and wide to uncover the origins of ...
Forget all that yakuza drama. Time to play some obscure arcade games.
The people behind Unbeatable, Hyperyuki and Denshattack discuss their Japanese influences, from trains and Digimon to music and the Dreamcast.
TOKYO — Masaya Nakamura, the “Father of Pac-Man” who founded the Japanese video game company behind the hit creature-gobbling game, has died. He was 91. Nakamura, who died on Jan. 22, founded Namco, ...
He transformed his Japanese photo booth business into a gaming industry giant that created Mortal Kombat, Sonic the Hedgehog ...
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