Japan's Retro Arcades Are Like Stepping Into The 90s!

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Hello everybody! I found some super cool Japanese retro arcades! There were so many cool games from my childhood! I felt like I went back into the 90s!
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[@MrsEats]

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[@RHCole]

Like & share deployed 🫡

[@zanraven6980]

You know MJ Moonwalker game is famous of Smooth Criminal song and they make full video like movie I have play on my ps2 console 😊

[@drmgiverdrmgiver5335]

Mr. Seats.

[@zanraven6980]

@@drmgiverdrmgiver5335 No is Mrs Eats 😆

[@kevdogyt08ti]

Three of the Top Arcade games I love to play: Samurai Shodown series, Mortal Kombat series, and Virtual Cop series

[@Kostly]

I remember in the 80s and early 90s arcades were SO packed with people. Miss those times too.

[@LuridContent]

The great thing about arcades back in the day is that they did teach people how to share, how to be gracious, how to deal with people who weren't, and generally interacting with others and making new friends. The alternative of home consoles and PCs just weren't comparable.

[@RHCole]

While I agree that in-person interactions are important, we have headsets and massively multiplayer games these days, so it's not like they aren't interacting on there.

[@LuridContent]

@@RHCole That's the entire point, though. Online interactions are good for teaching how to interact online. They are absolutely garbage for teaching how to actually interact with life.

[@RHCole]

​@@LuridContent I disagree that online interactions are rubbish for teaching how to interact in real life, I have seen many community efforts and initiatives started on MMO's. Like in real life, you need to find the positive people and communities.

[@LuridContent]

@@RHCole I disagree. Incels weren't a thing back before the internet.

[@RHCole]

​@@LuridContent Yes they were, they simply did not have easy access to others like them. Same with conspiracy theorists. Just because you never heard of them does not mean they didn't exist.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

We still got retro arcades in the states too. Always feels like 30 years gets rolled back everytime you walk in.

[@xCorzo650x]

im from the bay area. it is so painful to say that they have gotten rid of Every single arcade and arcade machine Everywhere imaginable. it’s become rare to find one in the sf bay area. it just isn’t profitable here.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

@@xCorzo650x sad. I live in a suburb of chicago. The main road and old town has an arcade. It’s in east walking distance of my house actually. Come to the Midwest.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

@@xCorzo650x not chicago though, don’t come to Illinois. Though if you’re from the Bay Area. It might make you feel at home moving to this horrible state 😂

[@TheBigExclusive]

​@@xCorzo650x - I visited San Francisco not too long ago. They have a retro arcade at Fisherman's Wharf called "Musee Mechanique" which had mechanical arcade machines from the 1800s to mid 2000s arcade video machines. You should check it out.

[@starwindamada5313]

@@xCorzo650x Now they're probably full of illegals trying to kidnap kids

[@retroconsole_]

it seems like it's so fun being a kid in the 80's or 90's in Japan.

[@retroryu]

I want to go there!!!! The happiest times in my life were spent in arcades during the 1990s.

[@JasonSum1979]

It’s really sad that the TikTok generation missed out on Arcades, Malls, music stores, Video store rentals These experiences were truly magical it was also good for humanity in general being able to social with strangers and actually try to be civil! Outstanding video ❤❤❤❤👍👍👍👍

[@noneofyourbusiness4616]

On the plus side, they got to exerience COVID.

[@paxhumana2015]

Civility happened because people were more moral, more ethically grounded, and learned better ways to live in the past. The video games, and the social media, are not to blame for what is essentially a moral, an ethical, and a spiritual problem in this world.

[@DannyNilsson]

at that time i would say i also missed out a bit, as could not afford as kid to play the arcade. mostly it was to see other play.

[@JasonSum1979]

@@DannyNilsson Yeah i can relate going to Showbiz Pizza as a small kid with no tokens was rough. Being in Showbiz anytime from 84-89 with no money was like being at the Dentists mostly painful especially around that crazy time period of excess and insanity. By Junior high (Lots of yard work around town saved cash whenever i could) also picked the right time to collect comic books when you could actually flip books for a nice amount of quick cash and CD's were actually valuable

[@lunawense6288]

@@paxhumana2015 This is such a strange concept. Video games are largely filled with ridiculous levels of morals and messages. Virtually all games have a good guy and a bad guy they often include complex stories and explain their reasonings. Social media is simply a reflection of society in it's whole. Perhaps you lived a sheltered life because I promise you the generation that played call of duty is much less messed up than the generation that stormed the beaches of Normandy.

[@Zebra66]

It's amazing to see so many working CRT monitors in one place.

[@tigermeeks]

That After Burner cabinet is my favorite arcade cabinet ever! You don't see many of them around anymore. I imagine they were a nightmare for maintenance.

[@Fishylucifer]

This place looks so cute. I love me a good carnival/fair type game. My scream seeing the Sailor Moon game. I wish we got more of them. I loved playing it.

[@nelstalgic7878]

that retro alley is one of my favorite spot in Osaka. in exactly a year ago i was there. I miss Osaka so much.. great vibes and awesome gritty places for photography. thank you for this video 😊

[@Fygee]

Hearing Final Fight playing in Attract Mode in the background brings back so many childhood memories. Bummer there was no Neo-Geo games or cabs, at least from what I saw. Those are my favs. (Edited, I lied, spied Fatal Fury 2!) Wild that they had HNG64 Beast Busters though! Thanks for the awesome tour! Arcades are the best.

[@CobraTheSpacePirate]

I remember going to Nippon Bashi back in 1996, SoftMap, a hundred famicon shops and all of the electronics places in DenDen Town. They had these weird game places like SEGA and other places that actually had set to 10Yen games but the games were set to the hardest level. Like right at 7PM all of the homeless people would come out with carboard huts. It was surreal.

[@merinsan]

You are just making me miss the time I spent in Japan, around 1998!

[@bigmikeobama5314]

wow what a time to be a kid or be in japan. the N64 and CRT tv days, PEAK GAMING. it was all downhill from there.

[@noneofyourbusiness4616]

I was there as a teen in the mid '80s and enjoyed the arcades, though a lot of the retro video games in this video were future games then.

[@merinsan]

@@noneofyourbusiness4616 I won a pikachu blanket for one machine. It was small, and I used it for my son when he was born end of 2000. We still have it now, and the dog uses it.

[@jormungand72]

I used to play so much House of the Dead and Time Crisis at my local pizza hut. My local arcade also had the alligator and mole games shown at 4:30. I was always better than everyone else at those games because of my reaction speed. All that training in arcades as a kid eventually led me down the path of professional competitive gaming once games like Halo and Call of Duty 4 came around, and I thank the arcade for my many many wins at tournaments

[@sonoftheredfox]

That's a nice Pizza Hut - ours only had Ms Pac-Man and the joystick had a weird dead spot in it.

[@jormungand72]

@@sonoftheredfoxsome pizza place in my town used to have a pac man machine that you could eat on, but pizza hut was the place to be

[@2Cerealbox]

Its fascinating that these retro games are different from the ones we had at the same time period. The feel the same, and yet they're completely novel to me. I'd absolutely love to go there and visit a parallel universe childhood.

[@lancepage1914]

Most of the arcade cabinets in the video are Candy Cabs or Sega Astro City cabs. Arcade machines use a wire harness called JAMMA which enables most arcade boards to work with the cab. Candy Cabs were made to be used with all arcade boards, they are universal. Candy Cabs aren't common in the US and Europe, they were made from mid 90's to mid 2000's. So if you're a 90's kid, you would have only seen them around 2000's. As for the games, Japan has way more games than the Western market, but some American games like Mortal Kombat aren't as common over there.

[@ayanokoji888]

The retro style is here!!

[@telegramsam]

I remember that alligator hitting game, there was a version of it at an arcade where I grew up near Atlanta called Sargent Singers or something like that. It's funny the weird things that really stick in your memory from being a child.

[@lancepage1914]

There is one of those alligator games nearby in the city where I live. In fact, it's the same actual machine I used to play on as a kid except it's just in a different location now. I love how some of these old arcade machines refuse to die.

[@supercatcreative4381]

I had ordered a Tokyo treats box,when it was Christmas! Like of 2023! 😀 anyways your a good KZbinr! 😀 I love watching about Japan! It’s so fun! 😀 anyways I hope you have a good time! 😀

[@jayt2917]

Great video! I miss Japan 🇯🇵 so much

[@cherylbaker4290]

Japan 🇯🇵 🗾 is the best country in the world and mrs eats is so beautiful

[@poil8351]

so cool something that is certainly missing these days in the west. arcades had a certain charm to them.

[@bahamut7028]

いいね I love Retro Arcades good times

[@jacobschweitzer1068]

I love Japan's artistic creativity

[@noble_wine]

I miss the 80s & 90s. Good video. Adult gacha machine. A man best friend. 😊

[@kennisthecreator]

Let’s be honest. Every arcade still has Time Crisis 3.

[@TheBigExclusive]

Not anymore. Many TC3 machines are nearly retired now. Some arcades might have Time Crisis 5. But these days it's all about "House of the Dead Scarlet Dawn" or HALO Fireteam Raven

[@icychill105]

If i ever go to japan I have to visit there, I loved american arcades in the 90s and 2000's and we even had some of the same games like the alligator one

[@420boxysama]

Your Japanese to English translation is very good, but I can see it working in your head❤❤❤

[@Whoo711]

The way Mrs. Eats repeated, "Enough balls into his mouth" (esp. with the editing)🤣

[@wavnino1]

She meant to sat ⏸Pause after that lol

[@IoIocaust]

Just visited Tokyo, I found an amazing arcade in Akihabara called Hirose entertainment yard (HEY) . 2nd and 3rd floor was packed with retro games! I must have spent atleast $200 there in 10 days.

[@rsmarquez1]

You are soooo funny and entertaining! Even your ads are enjoyable. Thank you so much.

[@RetroRanter]

These videos are amazing and you two are way too funny! 😂 So happy I found this channel today.

[@RandyBarlow-fn8lo]

I took my nephews to a retro arcade in Vancouver and they loved it. The arcade was set up neat to where you pay by the hour and each machine is set up with unlimited continues.

[@CyberMercy]

Best Patron Hooks Ever! Seriously- loved the cheeky edited bits viewable only on patron & for good reason. Awesome vidi 😎☕💋

[@KellinKingdom]

I love this video! The arcade at 17:30 was the same one that I visited when I traveled to Japan last year. It was my first Japanese arcade that I have ever visited, and I had an absolute blast! Osaka is such ana amazing city, and I can't wait to go back again.

[@villain5873]

That looks like such a fun place ❤

[@fontanamarcos]

I came to tell that you are gorgeous MrEats. Is impossible to watch the arcades with you playing.

[@jacobduhthrowbak3226]

Dude so cool! Thank you for sharing with us.

[@JangSunda]

Mrs Eat's Game knowledge blows my mind sugoi

[@cvproject3684]

I'm having blast watching this video... Here's some arcade games (not all) are shown in video: (some games I've played or watched its longplay) 12:28 VS. Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo) 18:38 Dolphin Blue (Atomiswave) or Tenchi wo Kurau (Capcom) Darius Gaiden (Taito) or Zombie Revenge (SEGA) Tekken 5 (Namco (BNEI) or Alien vs Predator 3 (SEGA) Super Street Fighter II X: Grand Master Challenge 19:01 Mario Bros (Nintendo) | Space Invaders (Taito) | Garou Densetsu 2 / Fatal Fury 2 (Capcom) | Shin Samurai Spirits / Samurai Showdown (Capcom) | Street Fighter II Dash (Capcom) | Marvel vs Street Fighter (Capcom) | Capcom vs SNK 2 (Capcom & SNK) | Vampire Savior (Capcom) 19:04 Metal Slug (SNK) | Metal Slug 3 (SNK) | Blazing Star (Yumekobo) | Crossed Swords クロスソード (Alpha Denshi) 19:08 Yie-Ar Kung Fu (Konami) | Splatterhouse (Namco (BNEI)) 19:11 Technos (currently by Ark System Works): Nekketsu Koukou Dodgeball or Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun 19:16 Fantasy Zone (SEGA) | Genpei Touma Den / The Genji and the Heike Clans (Namco (BNEI)) 19:20 Final Romance R (Video System) 20:04 Beast Busters - Second Nightmare (SNK) 20:12 Mario Bros (Nintendo) | Space Invaders DX (Taito) 21:22 Otenami Haiken おてなみ拝見 (Success) or Shanghai True Valor (Sunsoft & Activition) | Shanghai 2 (Sunsoft) 21:37 Bishi Bashi Champ Online ビシバシチャンプオンライン 笑撃の全国対戦!? (Konami) 26:40 Virtua Cop / Virtua Squad (SEGA) 26:46 Virtua Cop 2 (SEGA) 26:56 Crisis Zone (Namco (BNEI)) 27:02 Darius Burst (Taito) behind there's Densha De Go! 3 (Taito) 27:10 The Keisatsukan / Police 911 (Konami) | (possibly) Landing High Japan (Taito) | Densha De Go! 2 & 3 (Taito) 27:24 After Burner (SEGA) 29:33 Bishojo Senshi Sailor Moon (Banpresto (BNEI)) 30:41 Michael Jackson's Moonwalker (SEGA)

[@mauri-san]

Luv the video and omg!🥰to me the Arcade is such a nostalgic place to be🌸

[@ShapeyFiend]

The selection of games here that's up and running is mad. I haven't played Crisis Zone in 15 years it's hard to find!

[@Eviltwin23]

I would love to go to japan one day.

[@Mackie120]

This is super cool! Thanks for sharing!

[@TigerPeri]

Lool Bishi bashi special was one of my favorite games in PS1 and is very fun and entertaining game!!

[@pauldobson6314]

Excellent video. I really liked the electro mechanical machines from the 80s! You walked right past 'Night Striker' in Crawfish. Its a super rare AfterBurner style game by Taito

[@stephenaitcheson6626]

28:06 "It moved a little bit when you got in!"........ I let my guard down for most of the video, then was swiftly reminded that Mrs. Eats is a straight savage!!😂🤣😂

[@soulintake]

This is a great channel, thank you so much for sharing!

[@mvoproject]

What a wonderful video! So many funny and cool stuff here! And of corse - retro games are forever with us who growing in 80s-90s. Special thanks to chose Sailor Mars in the Sailor Moon game. I waiting for delivery my collectible figure exactly of Sailor Mars)) =)

[@kobolt5]

I actually went to Japan in May of last year. I had no idea Osaka had retro gaming arcades. I thought you had to go to Tokyo to get your retro gaming fixes. I love how Mr Eats is gushing over the classic ‘90s arcade games, I would be doing the same! I am VERY jealous of you two! 😁

[@awareness007]

The Moonwalker game was the BEST!

[@rolanalberto3064]

Awesome! I have been in those same Arcade spots in Tsutenkaku Osaka back in 2019. Truly is a "time machine" feeling seeing functioning well-maintained arcade cabinets, and I like that they even put the year those games were released. I even laughed when I saw the Chinese bootleg hack of "Street Fighter 2 CE" called "Rainbow Edition" is archived there WITH A YEAR LABEL too, as it has become part of Arcade history since it inspired CAPCOM to release "Turbo Edition" of SF2 later on (sorry, I got carried away from "geeking out" seeing those colorful machines again lol) Hopefully I can visit those places and the Dotonbori district for the food and nightlife stroll again soon!

[@kevdogyt08ti]

Awesome video Mrs Eats! The memories are forever... #MrsEats #Arcades #Japan #90s

[@hoodedneko]

This video was so cool. Nostalgic with some of the games as a child for me. Very, very entertaining.

[@dan-othemando7958]

I miss Those Days Seeing HOTD2 cabs everywhere and Lost World Cabs.....If Only There were some surviving Galaxian3 Theater 6's.....

[@Yeenidae]

From what I've read, there's still three, but two are non-functioning. Really cool machines though!!!

[@MrMegaManFan]

This video is exactly why I want to go to Japan -- thank you!

[@Staffo1972]

As a Australian born my first ever arcade was Space Invaders table top black and white in 1979 and i own a 1990s Nike jacket it's blue and yellow have to get the zipper fix

[@ThatBrunetteYouTube]

I want to try the Gojira game! He's so chibi!

[@Zahir658]

So amazing! I wish I was there to play many of them.

[@authormichellefranklin]

Miss these old arcades! They're making a comeback here in Canada, but it's hard to find ones that have the old machines

[@VanMichael21]

Hahaha all these games looks super fun, I can totally see myself spending an entire day here lol. But the mushrooms thingys were a tad bizarre to say the least ahaha

[@Grimhart89]

Poor guy probably hears bells in his sleep lol.

[@OthonvonSalza]

OMG I played this in the Arcades! 31:23.. Next to it there was Tekken 3 and Tekken TAG1

[@vincentemilianowicz8582]

Thank you for showing such cool places. Would you please put the place names in your video so that we can go too? I heard you say it very early in the video, but I had to listen a few times on repeat until I found it and you only say Tsutenkaku which is a whole big area, maybe it would be helpful to others to put it in the description or on screen so they can find it. I managed to find the arcades though in the end and had a lot of fun so thank you!

[@RADITZ-games]

I love it 😍

[@guilherme5094]

So beautiful!

[@realtruth4804]

Mrs Eats is now Mrs Marksman!

[@scottshep8978]

A lot of great places and great games. Many of them i remember playing myself. Of course some games i never heard or seen before.

[@user-cp6zk9sn8v]

Would like to see dancing arcade machine someday:) Like it was in "Vasabi" movie with Jean Reno

[@bishop51807]

Retro arcades are my thing, you guys should really publish a list all the places you go to for visiting tourist.

[@CobraTheSpacePirate]

Nice video. I haven't been to NipponBashi in about 9 years...I think that the last time that I was there, there was one new retro place that opened up, Tomato or something. Nice to see a comeback in game centers now, too.

[@thardie]

That shop you're in at 29minutes, I was in a couple weeks ago. I got the high score on the car game you can see at 28:33. Awesome video!

[@blipzero]

all the game i played where the same up in alaska it brings me back thank you i had fun watching your show . please make more ?

[@studiomg3212]

Oooh im looking forward to watching this one! Only the best arcade games come from Japan! ;)

[@vincently1995]

Wow!

[@mkaplan1383]

29:42 The Hino girl!

[@PeterSolerom]

90s were so cool

[@thevectorchef]

That place is definitely on my list of places to check out ! It was sad to see that one arcade place with some games turned off though.

[@slimscorpio09]

HOLY CRAP did I just see the alien versus predator arcade cabinet at 18:44. I remember wasting 20 dollars of quarters trying to beat that back in 1997, definitely will be going here when I visit Japan in may. great video will be in Osaka for 5 days of my 15 day trip.

[@paxhumana2015]

I wish that I could make an arcade that had retro USA market, retro Japanese market, and all new, as well as all new indie, video games, and call it Triple Crown Arcade.

[@michaelgates8257]

Ok, so something I learned in Japan with these arcades, after you turn in your tokens for prizes, you can take your prizes to a booth in the alley and some anonymous stranger will pay you cash for your prizes. 😮

[@xPaulie]

Cool arcades. I recognized many of them. Greetings from Texas USA! 😁👍

[@dolan-duk]

28:38 - I played on that exact Street Fighter 2 machine when I visited that place last month!

[@19800910]

I just put the "Retro Arcades" on my next trip to Japan list!

[@matstarfighter8262]

I would love this place!!! 🎮

[@LaceyFilm]

You should have gone to Magic Bar Shinsekai. Such a fun place!

[@ryklatortuga4146]

Michael Jackson.... Mrs Eats... Maybe some Weird Al Yankovic.... "Eat it!" The Jingle Theme to Gradius (Nemesis) used to fill the arcades near me... odd how those old sounds/smells take you back in time (Like the smell of cut grass)

[@mrdudetou]

I enjoyed the Michel Jackson game at our Local Pizza Place. That place was the place to be for kids perfect right after watching a movie. 🤣

[@polydactylproductions6787]

Great video! I still did not see the best game ever, Cho Chabudai Gaeshi!

[@arianaponytail]

i played the same sailor moon game you played. The game "pretty soldier sailor moon" on a MAME Arcade emulator. It is a really fun game and very well made.

[@dexocube]

All the Bishi bashi games are amazing

[@dhawkes5096]

It made me weirdly happy when you walked past the Karaoke bar and "Single Bed" by SharamQ was being sung. Makes me want to watch D.N.A.² again.

[@MrsEats]

He was such a great singer!

[@keithfulkerson]

Those electromechanical games are really cool.

[@IzharSheikh-gz5et]

I love Japan and japanese people and most popular world game tekken

[@MonographicSingleheadedM-sp2wk]

poor moles lmao. that was hilarious

[@lesliemorganking3283]

I went to a 80s retro arcade and I played Sonic and Donkey Kong and I couldn’t stop playing Donkey Kong or PAC Man.

[@Supersly666]

Shout out to the National Video Game Museum in the Netherlands, largest arcade in Europe!

[@matthewkeating-od6rl]

Great vid

[@tyrannosaurus62]

I want to take me and my son to Japan. He’ll be 9 when we go.

[@shabushaburo]

Amazing song choice in the karaoke booth. You sounded just Like a Dragon