Hong Kong and Tokyo November 2011 - Part 9

This is obviously the ninth part in my series of posts from the game arcades in Hong Kong and Tokyo. If you haven't read the other parts, please look at the backlog.

Just as we were about to end the night, we saw one more Sega location. We we just standing outside the Akihabara JR train station, and there it was! Of course we had to visit this one last spot.
Once again, Google street view had me confused. I was pretty sure about this location, but the building is something completely different! The explanation is that the Google camera car visited Tokyo a couple of years before I did, and at that time the Sega arcade was what looks like a news kiosk.



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Now on the other hand, it's looking great! Project Diva takes up most of the wall above the entrance, and the Sega logo attracts us to go inside. Well, "now" as in November 2011.

There wasn't much to be seen here, to be honest. Some candy cabs, a lot of cranes. The only game we sat down to play was this 3D racing game, complete with glasses. The effect was quite nice. Take a look at this gameplay video I found on YouTube: Maximum Heat 3D.

As pretty much everyone knows, Japan is quite different in many aspects of day to day living. On our way home we spotted this advertising poster.

Who's up for some communication with Sonico? The women's liberation movement would have torn this down within hours if this were to hang in my home town!

Or how about this "mammary" pudding? What could this possibly taste like? Milk?

Our little tour of Akihabara has come to an end. The next day we went to another district, and ran across a nice shop for retro enthusiasts. It's very Coca Cola oriented, but they also had some nice pieces for decorating the game room. I guess this shop is mostly targeted towards bars and restaurants, because most people can't possibly have room for this.

I like the neon clocks! I actually got one almost just like this from eBay.de, and I'm going to use it to brighten up my game room.

Other than that, there were a lot of Coca-Cola items, 50s retro and diner decorations.

This post had less arcade related material than I wished for, but the next one comes from Tokyo Disneyland. They have a surprisingly nice collection of old mechanical games in their collection!