Arcades In Japan - a-cho, The Most Legendary Arcade

a-cho - Kyoto
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[@sirjeanpepper2492]

God bless a-cho for hosting and uploading tournaments to this day.

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

they still going strong but...corona...

[@taylorbee4010]

What doesn't that arcade play I swear they would have a freaking high-level mahjong 3D chess tournament featuring Daigo

[@DjOneOne]

rip a cho

[@Nyagro]

**Sees title** " "Bless you."

[@ZEBASS]

And now it's closing. RIP a-cho, you were great.

[@thegamebasementcrew]

I lived in Japan 10 years ago and I took for granted how some of these spots stayed open while big arcades in the states were always closing or stayed diamonds in the rough-- just rare af. Something told me that whenever I decide to go back, maybe bringing friends and fam and what not -- all these arcades spots would still be there waiting for me. You and Jiyuna are really painting the picture that this might not be the case -- and its heart-breaking man. Thanks for documenting this and now I really want to catch at least a few of these places before they are gone for good. Any chance of traveling to Fukuoka at all -- documenting some of the southern Japan arcade scene? Thanks again for the hard work -- and hopefully some sort of positive resurgence comes down the line so younger generations can have a chance to feel how welcoming, epic and fun all this was...

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

Fukuoka will be featured for sure! sub up and stay tuned

[@randallgoeswhere]

That place is insane. Omg some of those cabs are over 30 years old and they look brand new. The care thats gone into that place is amazing.

[@jesseem5274]

I watch a lot of footage on their yt channel really cool to see the actual place. Def will check it out in the future when the world opens up again.

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

yeah! hopefully they stay open...

[@BadoorSNK]

Great memories of watching hours of a-cho streams, particularly for HnK and Xrd earlier on. HnK especially was super hype.

[@ReallyPhilly215]

Wow been subscribed to a cho for years never knew the history

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

Yeah it is a very old but very famous spot

[@insanekyo]

I remember passing by here and seeing a lot people, businessmen included, just running high level sets in various games.

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

hard to see that right now with covid so active, and even in the aftermath im not sure how many of these places will be left standing. I want to preserve some kind of memory of them

[@ThePhantomnaut]

Glad a-cho's channels will remain indefinitely.

[@Grotons]

Glad you're finally sharing this project, I've really enjoyed these first two. Thank you for your time recording these gems.

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

Yeah I guess it doesnt appeal to a lot of people but it was something I wanted to do. thanks for watching

[@Doggejern]

a-cho was one of the first arcades I ever visited back when I lived in Kyoto. Blew my mind.

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

yeah I can imagine if it was one of your first arcades to visit how that would feel

[@Lumenbell]

I watch Melty Blood on the a-cho channel all the time! It's kind of surreal seeing what the place actually looks like. I definitely plan on playing there if I'm ever in Japan!

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

Yeah, as an event venue it is definitely a sick spot

[@Unit_00]

I love seeing the 3s a-cho uploads

[@deddrz2549]

4:05 man, I love seeing Puyo Puyo 2 and SF 2 together like this. When Puyo 2 came out it actually was the second most popular arcade game in Japan, the first being SF2 of course, so it's kinda like SF2's puzzler cousin lol

[@sorubro2193]

Me and my friends have been watching a.cho FOR YEARS, hope I can make it there some day, please stay strong a.cho! from Chile.

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

I hope they can stay open until your journey!

[@versitlee]

Loving these vods, makes me want to travel to jp just to visit these arcades

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

hopefully more than a couple are still standing when you can make the trip!

[@thekorv95]

It's lovely content that you guys put out. Thanks!

[@easyduster]

I never went for an event, but this was always my go to arcade whenever I was in Kyoto. Love it there

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

Yeah. Really wish it still got everyday foot traffic....im scared for it

[@aliasmcdoe]

RIP. I will forever regret not being able to visit Japan before it is gone.

[@TheOne-dn9mr]

RIP

[@alexnostalgix]

I had the pleasure of going here last year. It was so awesome :)

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

its pretty sick

[@tuannguyencanh6096]

Aaaand it's closing next year :( fml i can't even visit it before it closes. Crushing news

[@Dat0ldschoolkid]

i really really hope that a-cho doesn't disappear anytime soon regardless of this corona crap

[@AStat321]

One of the best times I had at an arcade was the Pre-KSB Rev team tournament here in 2016. I stopped by when I was in Osaka in December 2019 and was really bummed that no one was there playing Guilty Gear ;-;

[@dekuskrub2154]

Aight, this is goin on the list

[@ZzigZaG00NIN]

So many goated cabs running Rip A-cho

[@schmoopDJ]

i just got a sega new net city myself so seeing all of these in still in arcades make me so happy :)

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

im about to get 2 of those myself! good choice!

[@schmoopDJ]

ANIMEILLUMINATI hell yeah have fun with them, your gonna have a blast learning the ins and outs of the cab.

[@akalyx]

i always see bafael streaming "let's watch a-cho" i thought a-cho was a player - _ -

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

good emote for that comment

[@fuhmab157]

Loving this series

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

Thanks man! Not a lot of people will "get it" but im glad for those that enjoy

[@freshprinceofnightcity]

I always dreamed of playing there.

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

if you ever get the chance, I highly recommend going there for an event for a game you play. great venue/awesome energy

[@sakabato24]

This might be a stretch, but are there any famous arcades up in in the Aomori Prefecture? I know that that's very far up north of the Honshu region of Japan, but I'll be heading there soon (specifically the Morioka area) and would like to visit some famous arcades up there when I have the time. But thanks for the vid! I always LOVED watching a-cho tournament streams for Zero/Alpha 3 back in the day. Hopefully I can visit there as well some day.

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

I hope you get the chance to visit someday too!

[@Maho1378]

Even if my goto arcade when in Japan is Mikado due to the GG goodness there, I was really impressed when I went there for the pre-KVO Xrd tourney in 2018, I would say it's the best arcade I ever went to in Japan. For starters it's non-smoking outside of small dedicated areas, which solves the only thing I don't like about japanese arcades, the food stall is a nice addition and everything I got there was good. The best thing is how they keep results and vids from all the tourneys they ran on their website, with the archives going back to 2006. So it's really sad that like Obama said in the video, there's hardly any players there outside of tournaments. Last year I went there every evening for a whole week while in Kyoto, I didn't got to play anyone on Xrd :/

[@yung_timocchi]

oh wow what the heck, i've been there before. I wasn't that big on fighting games back when I went 2 years ago, so I thought the arcade kinda sucked cuz it had an older version of taiko (that's all i played back then). But now that ik it's a big fighting game landmark, I wanna go back and play

[@tyomega6503]

RIP soon 🙏 😢

[@BeAsT1x5]

This is gonna help me heavy when im able to get back to japan

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

Honestly i am not so confident these days that it will be around by the next time you are able to come

[@silverwah]

God if I could ever play there and get beaten up and learn with CVS2 man. It'll be worth it all day long. Same thing for every other arcade with CVS2.

[@husamismael8926]

shoutouts to the a-cho youtube channels. Game-acho for 3s,mbaacc, kof and other occasional retro titles: m.kzbin.info a-cho battle movie for vf3tb and a variety of stuff: m.kzbin.infovideos

[@GawainSSB]

D Zero but no F-Zero. Sometimes I wonder how many functional cabs are left in the world.

[@Jyosua]

Went to an event there this past January, but it looks like they've wildly changed their layout again. I love this arcade though. Went here my first time in Japan in 2015 for a big BB event around the same time as KSB. They used to have 50 yen plays for BB back then. I think it was CP2.0 at the time?

[@thejunkmanlives]

i always watch whenever they post alpha 3 or vampire savior.

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

yeah, alpha 3 community still goes ham there

[@PunpunRen]

looks like heaven on earth

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

its a huge place man. awesome event venue

[@Eggroll3s]

This is the only place ik that had melty cabinets so it's always gonna be the first place I travel to

[@AlexanderAgungWirabumi]

Hello, i'm from Indonesia🇮🇩, Southeast Asian. And i like Japan🇯🇵, especially Toys and Game. This is my BEST Favorite Japanese Arcade Game : 90s : 1.Daytona USA 2.Daytona USA 2 3.SEGA Rally Championship 4.SEGA Scud Race/Scud Race Plus 5.Manx TT Superbike 6.Dirt Dash 7.Ace Driver : Victory Lap 8.Crazy Taxi 9.Wave Runner 10.SEGA OverRev 2000s : 1.Thrill Drive 2 2.Battle Gear 2, 3, 4, 4 Tuned (Racing Car) 3.SEGA Monkey Ball 4.Animal Kaiser (Card Game, until now) 5.Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune (Untill now, Now Version 6R in Japan and Version 6 in outside Japan) (One of the Most POPULAR Arcade Racing Car) 6.Mario Kart Arcade GP, GP 2, GP DX 7.Gacchu Guts (Card Game (Beetle Battle)) 8.SEGA Race TV 9.Dead Heat/Maximum Heat Arcade (Racing Car, released 2010) 10.Initial D (Until now) (One of the Most POPULAR Racing Car) 1:21/1:22 that's White & Yellow Seat, 2:52 (front), 3:05 11.Ultraman Fusion Fight (Card Game) 12.Pokemon Tretta 13.Oreca Battle (Card Game) 14.Dance Dance Revolution 15.Taiko no Tatsujin 1:02 16.Dance Rush 17.Sound Voltex 6:37/6:38 (front) 18.Gundam Extreme vs Full Boost/Maxi Boost 2:52 19.Kamen Rider Ganbarizing (Card Game) 20.SEGA World Drivers Championship 2:52 (his right), 2:58 21.Tank! Tank! Tank! Arcade (Tank vs Monster) 22.Cruis'n Blast (by Raw Thrills and Nintendo) 23.SEGA Grid 24.SEGA Daytona USA 3 25.Dariusburst Another Chronicle 26.SEGA Showdown Leader 27.Yokai Watch Arcade (Card Game) 28.Pop'n Music 6:54/6:55 & 6:58 Awesome Japanese Arcade Game. ❤👍👍👍

[@HarrowingShadows]

Yo what was that House of the Dead machine?! I've never seen that out here in the west is it new?

[@DeepestDankest]

That's a damn shame. I hope the Club Sega in Tokyo persists because UNI2 is getting an arcade release and I hope that means the old arcade gods go back there so there can be near daily arcade footage again of high level gameplay.

[@N02tradamus]

Why did it close?

[@kramareva7446]

I use to go to Computer shops to watch Tournament footages from A-Cho on 3rd strike for hours long! Those were the good times! Man, these arcade cabs still looks new and well maintained even though games are decades old already! 👍👍

[@papasfritas3853]

Rip arcade places, they almost completely gone now in my country.

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

to be honest, I feel they are almost gone in Japan as well

[@papasfritas3853]

@@ANIMEILLUMINATI Here the places still exist but they replaced all the videogames with money grabbing slot machines..

[@eugenioapa2209]

Shobe breath Kenneth. Es go bro .better lock next time .the game over

[@eugenioapa2209]

Ex fi bro still lvl up ken oyoboy nieto you now me athan

[@pinkfloyd36123]

love these videos so far keep blessing us btw whats the song

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

... look at the screen bruh

[@pinkfloyd36123]

ANIMEILLUMINATI im dumb as shit lmao thank u

[@huskedrice3180]

Does anyone know of any Japanese arcades with Ollie King?

[@Sune]

a great look at such an arcade for the uninitiated like myself. has it always been kinda empty like this though?....or has Covid discouraged their regular customers from coming through? edit: nvm I see more people toward the end, but I guess they're all playing fighters

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

Covid has obviously had an effect, but if you listen to the video I say not a lot of people come through on a day to day basis and its mostly an event venue now. maybe a result of the shopping district having less traffic, but it is probably due to the changing landscape of gaming now too. mobile games etc... arcades dont have same appeal they used to in general

[@Sune]

@@ANIMEILLUMINATI thanks for getting back to me on this Obama. that makes sense 100%...I had the impression JP fighting game fans usually come thru to arcades to practice/socialize and make things livelier, but I suppose that's still not a lot of people (+ Covid, ofc). with regards to everything else, it's sad -- so many games and attractions for a wide range of people from hardcore gamers to non-gamers, but not many people around to see it. hope a-cho can make it through Covid and see greater days after.

[@mic2dl]

What game was that at 6:30 to the right of VF5FS?

[@hazzydahaka13]

I think it's Melty Blood.

[@EdszxNeo]

Fate Unlimited Codes

[@mic2dl]

@@EdszxNeo that was it thanks

[@tkcreus730]

2000 in 1 arcade? Damn.

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

those are pretty cheap/common

[@tkcreus730]

@@ANIMEILLUMINATI Damn. Reminds me of those janky consoles that you just plug to the TV to play but the games are mostly the same just named differently.

[@eugenioapa2209]

Prime make deparo have nice daynigth on athan

[@liquidsnake9226]

Hell yea

[@mikoto7458]

An anime player's dream

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

what is an "anime player?" this place is a FIGHTING GAME player's dream...

[@Viriilink]

Is this a-cho the same as kzbin.infofeatured? I followed the channel for Melty Blood content. I thought a-cho was an individual; cool to hear it's an arcade.

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

it is indeed! That arcades influence is far reaching beyond melty blood btw!

[@eugenioapa2209]

Zyndong lakas power up apa

[@mariocruz6599]

What kof song is this

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

? did you watch the video?

[@SenatorBanana]

song name? fkn hype

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

? did you watch the video?

[@SenatorBanana]

@@ANIMEILLUMINATI clearly missed it, sorry dad

[@FenrirWerewolfe]

Never seen Teramachi that empty. Kinda sad

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

to be fair, weather was bad

[@omgcandy16Kimicari0]

nice to see at some point they realized segregating T7 with the music games was a bad idea.

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

weird comment

[@omgcandy16Kimicari0]

hey it's true, T7 used to be the only fighting game up on the 3rd floor.

[@eugenioapa2209]

Add follow up my friend

[@mikaelsuomalainen2525]

They even got one of those ice hockey tables damn.

[@ANIMEILLUMINATI]

yeah i was surprised when I saw that too haha