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[ japan.arcade spring.2005 ]

the united states is lagging dangerously behind in modern arcade technology

to play this one, you put your head in the helmet thing.
inside you can point a gun turret 360° and shoot down airplanes.

it ruled.

gun game.

there were rooms of these multi-player gundam machines.

this soccer game combined card collecting with video games (genius!).
you activate players by collecting the cards and then play against others.

a view of the Stryker2 (the soccer game) room

this is the outside of the arcade in higashi-matsubara we stopped at.

bang the drum quickly.

this guy has to be the best drummer since john bonham.
he played for an hour at least.

bam

awesome sniper game.

typing of the dead.
this is how you get girls into video games.
you type to kill zombies.
must be seen to be believed.
this game lasted 20 minutes.

3hrs later...