Japanese Arcade Scene Still Going Strong

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday June 6, 2003 @06:32AM from the 1ups-credits-and-tokens dept.

Milktoast writes "An English teacher in Japan is writing about the thriving Japanese Arcade scene at Joystick101.org. He talks about new trends in a culture that hasn't abandoned the arcade as a venue." Maybe it's just me, but I've only been in a handful of domestic arcades that impressed me. I don't know if it's a cultural diffference to blame, but Japanese arcades also seem to look like there's something cooler going on, like the prizes for redemption games. I guess the grass is always greener on the other side.

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You romancer you... by fiftyLou · 2003-06-06 06:45 · Score: 3, Funny

The old man playing had a cigarette in one hand and was pressing the button as fast as he could with the other, making the on screen breast flop around. As the score for his jiggling got tallied up our eyes met and we both smiled.

Right out of a Meg Ryan movie I tell ya ;-)