Japanese Retro Game Centers | Tokyo Arcade Experience ★ ONLY in JAPAN

Japanese game centers are must visit places on any trip to Japan, but in Tokyo, there is a place where you can time warp back to the 1980s and 1990s and play those games of the past, too. Since Japan was the leader in arcade game programming and machine production, the culture stretches back decades and those old machines are still in use!
Why do these retro arcade games and game centers still exist in Japan?
In the USA, the arcade culture rapidly declined when the game consoles gained wide popularity, especially in the early 1990s, but in Japan, arcades or game center culture continued because it was more about the experience than the games itself. It was a place to go, hang out with friends, be a hero!
There were many kinds of games from classic arcades to driving simulation games to dancing and rhythm games.
Gamers from the 1980s are not in their 30s, 40s or 50s and they keep coming, playing those games from the past and thats great because it means we can all stop in and experience arcades games like we did as kids.
▶︎ Where is Mikado (Retro Game Center)
goo.gl/maps/XrwcToabzam
Station: Takadanobaba
▶︎ Super Potato | Retro Console Games in Akihabara:
www.superpotato.com/
Games featured in this episode:
OUT RUN (1986) Sega
Tokyo Wars (1996) Namco
Star Wars (1983) Atari
Metal Hawk (1988) Namco
Check out Miki's channel "Miki Lab":
/ @miki-lab
And Shingo's channel Let's Play Japan: / @letsplayjapan
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▷ SUBTITLES: If you'd like to help out and submit a subtitle in your language, I'd really appreciate it so we can reach more people!
THANK YOU! You'll be listed as a collaborator for this video too :) -john
This show has been created and produced by John Daub ジョン・ドーブ. He's been living and working in Japan for over 20 years and regularly reports on TV for Japan's International Channel.
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The science lady did not understand anything that was coming out if your mouth during the star wars rant

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[@JoaoGa210]

They're still there because people in there don't see it only as a place to play games, they see it like we see bars: as place to go out, to meet with friends, etc. In other words arcades for them is something more, much more, too bad people in western don't have the same view

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A lesson for the girls in the west to be that humble and cute as the japanesse girl in the video. Totally worthy culture

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“Consoles never seen in the West!” Shows clip of sega saturn

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High Score Girl here

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well I feel old now

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"She blinded me with science"

[@NoshAbroad]

This video brings back a lot of fond memories for me. As a child of the same generation I remember that feeling of getting a pocket full of quarters and free reign from my parents to explore the local arcade. Shingo really hit the nail on the head when it came to games like Sega's Out Run. Tween aged school boys with dreams of driving a car and having their first girlfriend were given a safe haven to explore those aspirations. I would read gaming magazines and learned of Sega's r360 Afterburner game in Japan. Kids at school claimed they saw it once in Las Vegas and I developed my first dreams of visiting Japan and playing it myself! If there's an afterlife, it will be in a dark neon lit arcade, sitting at a Ms. Pac Mac cocktail cabinet sipping a Cherry Coke. Thanks for this trip down memory lane! One of your best videos yet!

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[@ghostshellz752]

Awesome video brother! Star wars and bubble bobble were two of my favs oh oh DOUBLE DRAGON! SO MANY GREAT GAMES OF OLD!

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Blessings on the retro games and tech. I love looking up and watching videos of things going back to even the pre digital era before the 60s.

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Patreon!...Yay! Now this Is my type of video. Love the retro games.... the older, the better! Thank you john! 😀

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these are the arcade games i grew up with