Thank God, they just only changed the "Building's" name instead of changing the Company. Wow.. I am so surprised there's still hope. Welcome to Gaming Oasis also known as GiGo.
It's funny, I remember in the late 90's Japan seemed so far ahead of the rest of the world in terms of gaming & technology and then slowly but surely come the turn of the new millennium they were completely superseded by the West. When I look at Japan now, there seems to be this odd mix of current tech and a late 90's/early 00's time capsule of tech which still persists over there which has been forgotten (as it's obsolete) here in the West. Very strange but fascinating.
My last visit to Mikado game center was 2018. Glad to see they are still going strong! Thanks for your hard work Jim. Brings back great memories of this arcade.
you're doing god's work out there man, keep it up :) one of the things i miss the most about living in osaka is taking my son to the old arcades and game shops. may they last forever!
it's so sad to see this place empty, here in my city there was a place with 6 arcades and there was a queue to play.... good times that won't come back!!!!
Thanks for all the coverage of these arcades, in particular, the retro focused arcades, all over Tokyo! As an owner of a retro arcade here in Australia, I appreciate the time and effort you take to draw attention to the work these arcades are doing in preserving these arcade classics!
In Japan many video games are consumed, that is why there are investments in arcades while in America not so much, in fact in the USA, there are thousands of arcades, most of them retro.
I tend to watch the Mikado streams, there's even a third channel where they stream just Hyper Neo Geo 64 games, stuff like Buriki One, both Samurai Shodown games for the hardware, and every blue moon, Fatal Fury Wild Ambition.
Very cool Arcade Jim thanks for showing us around you can't really find those kinds of Arcades in America anymore or at least they are very few and far between 🆒🆒👍👍🎮🎮🕹🕹
Sometimes I see this Mikado arcade having local fighting game tournaments on CZcams. Quite fun to see it. @KidShoryuken, maybe sometimes you can join their local tournament.
Great round-up! A pity that the old SEGA logos have gone. When you first mentioned the GiGO name I also thought it was a dumb marketing decision, but going by Sega Retro, it was a chain from the early 90s that got phased out in favor of the SEGA World branding, so I suppose for some Tokyoites it has a certain nostalgia to it, even if it means nothing to the outside world or the younger generation. Do you know if there is anywhere in Tokyo that has the F355 challenge cabinet?
All those arcades and machines look so clean and well maintained. Quite different from arcades near where I live. Missing buttons, joysticks without ball tops. Everything is pretty much damaged in some way or form. Oh and dirty ...
Hey wanted to drop by to say thanks, you probably got the best JP retrogaming tourism channel on ytb. I also was wondering what was going on with the sound as your voice sounds more gravelly than usual unless I'm mistaken. I dunno if it's your mic or anything but I figured it would be worth mentioning. Fixing that would really improve what is already a great channel.
38:16 can someone tell me the name of this song please or where i can find it? Btw i love your videos about arcades and retro game and consoles so keep going thanks😊
funny you mention it. I recognized the track right away when watching the video since it's a game I've been playing a lot this past year. It's the 2nd stage song from the new Shmup Andro Dunos 2. It's a fantastic game too. czcams.com/video/58JQ7jhELIc/video.html
Arcades up til the late 90's were a place where you go to get the cutting edge, high tech, better experience of gaming, while at home you were stuck with lesser games and worse versions of arcade games, unless you owned a NeoGeo AES, though many Saturn games came close (it may have failed with everything else, but it did arcade games well enough, especially Model 2) Then when the late 90's hit and I found out my home copy of Soul Caliber was a BETTER VERSION than the arcade one, then during the PS2 era things really started to swap places and now??? Well now arcades are where you go for a "retro experience" playing old games, games with simpler graphics, and games without online multiplayer for the most part. It's like arcades and home consoles completely switched places and no one even cared...
I'm thinking of visiting Japan hopefully for my birthday this year or next year. I'm a huge video arcade gaming fan, and I've been like that all my life. Can you tell me a list of video arcade game centers in Japan that are still there and still going strong? And will I as an American be welcomed there in any of these places. I realize they have strict rules about foreign visitors. I also need to know what I can do to make my dream of coming to visit Japan soon. I'm autistic and I need to know as much as possible before I think of going there. I have many books about Japan, and I've read some of the latest ones. Tell me all the info you can tell me, KidShoryuken. Thanks a lot. I hear that I need to get some kind of tour to visit Japan.
By the mid 90s I was completely getting bored of the arcades precisely because of what I largely still see; just endless Street Fighter clones and Daytona clones. Yeah those were great in 1992-94 but I really want a lot more variety than just dozens of fighting, driving, and rhythm games. Where are the new action platformers, run and gun, and puzzle games ala Contra, Ghouls 'N Ghosts, Strider, Tiger Road, Magic Sword, Knights of the Round, etc. After 1991 they basically stopped making anything but 1-on-1 street fighter clones and driving games. It's what drove me away from the arcades largely. Glad to see the indie scene these days basically give me what I finally want though: brand new 2D sprite based pixelart arcade style games.
This is one of the biggest reasons I want to travel to Japan. To go to Aki-motherfuckin’-habara and the arcades. They have Exa machines. Man do I want Senjin Aleste (I know it’s not EXA but hear me out), Aka and Blue and Daemon Bride to get home console or Steam ports. I want the New Akatsuki Blitzkampf to make it home also which I’m asking to death for. I’d even beg for games of my dreams to get made like a CLAMP crossover fighter from Team Arcana (because lack of anime nostalgia in video games) and Arcana Heart 4 which I’m practically begging for to be a real thing in arcades and on PS5 as I’ve been clamouring for an announcement of a new anime 2D fighting game, especially on Sony’s big white book with black pages.
And to those who get in my way of accomplishing my lifetime dream flight, do your worst. You will regret it. Just the many obstacles that accomplishing big dreams have.
I just noticed something due to the camera that didnt sync with the CRTs: I always tough that vertical games would refresh top to bottom but it looks like they are refreshing right to left?
You do realise they're just normal CRTs mounted sideways right?? 😂 Why on earth would they design 16:9 / 4:3 CRTs that specifically refresh top to bottom!? Because of course that would be so much simpler than just rendering the game at 90 degrees. Wow, just wow.
@@jorisbonson386 I always taught that vertical arcade machine had the same 4/3 tubes put sideways but that the refresh would be inverted. What a normal consumer grade TV can do and what the tube can do are two different things. PVM can be tweaked in ways standard TV cannot so I assumed arcade RBG monitor set vertically where able to refresh top to bottom in that position. I assumed refreshing sideways would give an headache and refreshing from top to bottom would be easier on the eyes.
@@zeusaegiduchos2981 'Easier on the eyes'? The refresh is supposed to be imperceptible. I'm fully away how a magnetically directed cathode ray could be redirected obviously, but that would be plain dumb.
Businesses can require masks if need be, especially a place like an arcade where everyone is in close quarters and sharing all of the machines. That's how it is in Tokyo anyways.
Is covid back in your country ?? Our country is not as advanced as yours but our pandemic situation is stable and under control we are living normally no stupid masks
Japanese don't see masks as being political or purely about covid. It was common even before covid to see people wear masks for a variety of reasons, especially while commuting or in the service industry, and alcohol gels in washrooms, particularly after the SARS outbreak in Hong Kong back in 2003. Japanese also have some long established hygiene habits like gargling water and hand washing when returning home or visiting Shinto shrines. Having said that, of course the globalists response to covid was full of mistruth and propaganda to keep the public scared and compliant, and the data on face masks and lockdowns for covid is inconclusive at best.
Tokyo arcades are weird. Hundreds of identical machines, all playing games 30+ years old... with swathes of Japanese men getting embarrassingly over excited at the dancing, shooting and drumming stations. Can't think of anything more dull 🤔 If I wanted retro I could play it at home for cheaper, or even on my phone for crying out loud. Step forward 30 years into the best US/UK arcades and we have modern technology and variety 👍
You do realize the concept of "retro arcade"? 🙄 Plus you're not exactly right on your "modern technology" claim. See older systems have CRT's and controls are hardwired. Sure emulation can get close, but it's not the same as emulating on with ie. BT controller and normal LCD display. First thing is that input latency is a thing on emulation. Second is simply the old display tech. It really makes a difference in many older systems. I still heavily regret selling my good quality CRT years ago. It would be so nice with retro systems these days. Now I haven't seen any similar CRT's for sale in many years.
You already know I live vicariously through your arcade videos until I can make it back out to Japan again. 😅
Dude what are the best places, arcades or whatever, to visit? Would someone be fine if they don’t know Japanese?
Can only dream of having somewhere like this near me. Old enough to remember arcades in the early 80s...really miss it.
Thank God, they just only changed the "Building's" name instead of changing the Company. Wow.. I am so surprised there's still hope. Welcome to Gaming Oasis also known as GiGo.
It's funny, I remember in the late 90's Japan seemed so far ahead of the rest of the world in terms of gaming & technology and then slowly but surely come the turn of the new millennium they were completely superseded by the West. When I look at Japan now, there seems to be this odd mix of current tech and a late 90's/early 00's time capsule of tech which still persists over there which has been forgotten (as it's obsolete) here in the West. Very strange but fascinating.
My last visit to Mikado game center was 2018. Glad to see they are still going strong! Thanks for your hard work Jim. Brings back great memories of this arcade.
you're doing god's work out there man, keep it up :) one of the things i miss the most about living in osaka is taking my son to the old arcades and game shops. may they last forever!
We can only hope... and play a shit ton of arcade games.
@@MadPanicGaming I think ultimately arcade cabinets will always be around in some form as there is no better way to play 2d pixel art games
it's so sad to see this place empty, here in my city there was a place with 6 arcades and there was a queue to play.... good times that won't come back!!!!
Thanks for all the coverage of these arcades, in particular, the retro focused arcades, all over Tokyo! As an owner of a retro arcade here in Australia, I appreciate the time and effort you take to draw attention to the work these arcades are doing in preserving these arcade classics!
Night Slashers! Excellent Pick and Excellent Video, Kid!
Damn Jim! those arcades are awesome, Japan has set the marker high down for arcades, beautiful, great video, stay safe Jim ✌️👍🤣
Love those commericals man
Those grazy Japanese ads always make me smile 🙂 And thanks Jim for Nice Arcade compilation!
My pleasure. Thanks for watching!
Really enjoyed the vid and especially the music!
Thank you!
This is heaven
Great video Jim. As always love the music and tv adverts
Thank you!
Loving the Iced earth hoodie!
Agreed. I Had to scroll down pretty far to see someone sharing this opinion.
I Love Sega and this Systeme Arkade pur.
HAD THIS ON IN THE BACKGROUND...then heard the beats going hard 13:56 okurt!
dude it warms my heart seeing that F-Zero AX cab, I haven't seen one in 19 years. I can't wait to return to Japan.
I miss arcade games.
Went to the Philippines a few times they have great games like this but they don't maintain them so this is so cool to see.
Dope video bro, I had to sub after seeing this. Wish we had some dope arcades like these in the states
so much content lately, lovin it
Much appreciated!
Good movie! I want go to mikado,old game makes me feel nostalgic, tanks
I’m literally in Tokyo right now going through your videos again to figure out where to go, thank you!
OMG... I Love it... the most epic thing is that on 90% of the cabinet they use logic original CRT tubes
Mahjong is basically a game that is associated the most for gambling, it's pretty complicated to win
I watched the entirety of Akagi and I still have no idea on how Mahjong works
Amazing. All these beautifully calibrated monitors 😱😱
34:13 Speed Race & Space Invaders both Classic Retro Games
awesome video takes me back i miss the arcades and all the fun i had
Oh boy, I love those arcades!
You did an awesome job cutting this together man. Great job 👌
So many great games as well. Deep cuts.
Night Slashers!
Damn, all the music on this video is badass!
You are the closest thing to making me feel like I'm there. Thank you for the awesome content!
Oh yeah and seeing strikers 1999 was the cherry on top.
Great Video!
In Japan many video games are consumed, that is why there are investments in arcades while in America not so much, in fact in the USA, there are thousands of arcades, most of them retro.
I tend to watch the Mikado streams, there's even a third channel where they stream just Hyper Neo Geo 64 games, stuff like Buriki One, both Samurai Shodown games for the hardware, and every blue moon, Fatal Fury Wild Ambition.
Mikado is such a cool arcade.
Awesome !! Thank you so much ! 😍🙏
The Star Wars original trilogy pinball machine looked awesome. Never seen it before.
Awesome showcase. I love seeing all the candy cabinets. I wish I could find more in the states.
Awesome vid.
I would just fly to Japan to stay in Tokyo to play arcade games and good food and last but not least woman 😊
Very cool Arcade Jim thanks for showing us around you can't really find those kinds of Arcades in America anymore or at least they are very few and far between 🆒🆒👍👍🎮🎮🕹🕹
I wanna go to Tokyo so bad!!! 🙏
Taiko No Tatsujin is just the best. So much fun.
Amazing.
Japan is one place I need to go.
Awesome vid.
So cool people mask up over there. I've been dealing with long COVID symptoms for a month now. I'm seen as a freak with a mask on lol
Really good content and presentation ! Subbed !!!
That arcade brings up lots of good memories ! Keep up the good work mate , Cheers !
So awesome!
Sometimes I see this Mikado arcade having local fighting game tournaments on CZcams. Quite fun to see it. @KidShoryuken, maybe sometimes you can join their local tournament.
Yeah, I could join a tournament, get annihilated in the first round, leave with my head down in shame lol
My dreams in one place 😭
Nice IE hoodie!
Nice 👍
Love your hoddie.... Even after Jon Schaeffer arested!
Pinball still rules!
It does indeed
Nice videos. Maybe you can do a... ahem... vending machine video.
❤
0:24 that’s the new Aleste arcade by M2 isn’t it?! How is it? I’ve got to play it. GG Aleste 3 is so incredible.
Great round-up! A pity that the old SEGA logos have gone. When you first mentioned the GiGO name I also thought it was a dumb marketing decision, but going by Sega Retro, it was a chain from the early 90s that got phased out in favor of the SEGA World branding, so I suppose for some Tokyoites it has a certain nostalgia to it, even if it means nothing to the outside world or the younger generation. Do you know if there is anywhere in Tokyo that has the F355 challenge cabinet?
37:31
Akihabara TaitoHey is prohibited from taking videos inside the store.
All those arcades and machines look so clean and well maintained. Quite different from arcades near where I live. Missing buttons, joysticks without ball tops. Everything is pretty much damaged in some way or form. Oh and dirty ...
Hey wanted to drop by to say thanks, you probably got the best JP retrogaming tourism channel on ytb. I also was wondering what was going on with the sound as your voice sounds more gravelly than usual unless I'm mistaken. I dunno if it's your mic or anything but I figured it would be worth mentioning. Fixing that would really improve what is already a great channel.
38:16 can someone tell me the name of this song please or where i can find it? Btw i love your videos about arcades and retro game and consoles so keep going thanks😊
funny you mention it. I recognized the track right away when watching the video since it's a game I've been playing a lot this past year. It's the 2nd stage song from the new Shmup Andro Dunos 2. It's a fantastic game too. czcams.com/video/58JQ7jhELIc/video.html
Thank you so much. I‘ll give it a try. The Game looks interesting. 😊
Arcades up til the late 90's were a place where you go to get the cutting edge, high tech, better experience of gaming, while at home you were stuck with lesser games and worse versions of arcade games, unless you owned a NeoGeo AES, though many Saturn games came close (it may have failed with everything else, but it did arcade games well enough, especially Model 2)
Then when the late 90's hit and I found out my home copy of Soul Caliber was a BETTER VERSION than the arcade one, then during the PS2 era things really started to swap places and now???
Well now arcades are where you go for a "retro experience" playing old games, games with simpler graphics, and games without online multiplayer for the most part.
It's like arcades and home consoles completely switched places and no one even cared...
I'm thinking of visiting Japan hopefully for my birthday this year or next year. I'm a huge video arcade gaming fan, and I've been like that all my life. Can you tell me a list of video arcade game centers in Japan that are still there and still going strong? And will I as an American be welcomed there in any of these places. I realize they have strict rules about foreign visitors. I also need to know what I can do to make my dream of coming to visit Japan soon. I'm autistic and I need to know as much as possible before I think of going there. I have many books about Japan, and I've read some of the latest ones. Tell me all the info you can tell me, KidShoryuken. Thanks a lot. I hear that I need to get some kind of tour to visit Japan.
By the mid 90s I was completely getting bored of the arcades precisely because of what I largely still see; just endless Street Fighter clones and Daytona clones. Yeah those were great in 1992-94 but I really want a lot more variety than just dozens of fighting, driving, and rhythm games. Where are the new action platformers, run and gun, and puzzle games ala Contra, Ghouls 'N Ghosts, Strider, Tiger Road, Magic Sword, Knights of the Round, etc. After 1991 they basically stopped making anything but 1-on-1 street fighter clones and driving games. It's what drove me away from the arcades largely. Glad to see the indie scene these days basically give me what I finally want though: brand new 2D sprite based pixelart arcade style games.
You said all the links to the arcades' youtube channels would've in the description
Ooh on telegram. I don't have one
What is the first piece of instrumental music on the montage of the first floor called?
I would be interested to know how much you spend on average in these arcades. And what they charge or how you pay per game?
Daigo Umehara should be there
This is one of the biggest reasons I want to travel to Japan. To go to Aki-motherfuckin’-habara and the arcades. They have Exa machines. Man do I want Senjin Aleste (I know it’s not EXA but hear me out), Aka and Blue and Daemon Bride to get home console or Steam ports. I want the New Akatsuki Blitzkampf to make it home also which I’m asking to death for. I’d even beg for games of my dreams to get made like a CLAMP crossover fighter from Team Arcana (because lack of anime nostalgia in video games) and Arcana Heart 4 which I’m practically begging for to be a real thing in arcades and on PS5 as I’ve been clamouring for an announcement of a new anime 2D fighting game, especially on Sony’s big white book with black pages.
And to those who get in my way of accomplishing my lifetime dream flight, do your worst. You will regret it. Just the many obstacles that accomplishing big dreams have.
Great Video will definitely check out these places but come on ! no Music list!? cant have slapping music and not share
If only they had Usb ports to plug your own stick in
i hate sanwa's
Hey, do you know where it’s possible to play time crisis 3 in Tokyo?
the game with Tokyo Tower on NesicaXLive what game is it?
I just noticed something due to the camera that didnt sync with the CRTs: I always tough that vertical games would refresh top to bottom but it looks like they are refreshing right to left?
You do realise they're just normal CRTs mounted sideways right?? 😂 Why on earth would they design 16:9 / 4:3 CRTs that specifically refresh top to bottom!? Because of course that would be so much simpler than just rendering the game at 90 degrees. Wow, just wow.
@@jorisbonson386 I always taught that vertical arcade machine had the same 4/3 tubes put sideways but that the refresh would be inverted.
What a normal consumer grade TV can do and what the tube can do are two different things.
PVM can be tweaked in ways standard TV cannot so I assumed arcade RBG monitor set vertically where able to refresh top to bottom in that position.
I assumed refreshing sideways would give an headache and refreshing from top to bottom would be easier on the eyes.
@@zeusaegiduchos2981 'Easier on the eyes'? The refresh is supposed to be imperceptible. I'm fully away how a magnetically directed cathode ray could be redirected obviously, but that would be plain dumb.
How was the trip to Tokyo 🗼 and how much was it??
I live in Tokyo
Nes Gradius is more forgiving. Just saying!
Yeah, Gradius 3 arcade is especially brutal
12:22
Интересное место
hello, what did you shoot on, the screen does not flash?
Shot most of this footage with a GoPro Hero 9
@@MadPanicGaming thanks bro
12.8.22 no ww3
일본은 아케이드 게임 센터 살아있구나.. 한국에는 2015년 이후에 급격하게 멸종하기 시작해서 이제는 없다.. 2011년까지 아케이드 게임 센터 한국에도 많았어... 그러나 조금씩 없어지기 시작했고 2016년부터 급격하게 멸종하기 시작했다..아쉽다...
Are masks still required in Japan Jim?
Businesses can require masks if need be, especially a place like an arcade where everyone is in close quarters and sharing all of the machines. That's how it is in Tokyo anyways.
Thank you Jim. Never miss a vid man! Love the channel!
What's the song at 33:35?
czcams.com/video/drjN9pwemDY/video.html
@@MadPanicGaming Thanks! I love the Sonic R soundtrack and somehow I never heard this song.
Is covid back in your country ?? Our country is not as advanced as yours but our pandemic situation is stable and under control we are living normally no stupid masks
Covid hahaha we almost forgot this name !
Japanese don't see masks as being political or purely about covid. It was common even before covid to see people wear masks for a variety of reasons, especially while commuting or in the service industry, and alcohol gels in washrooms, particularly after the SARS outbreak in Hong Kong back in 2003. Japanese also have some long established hygiene habits like gargling water and hand washing when returning home or visiting Shinto shrines. Having said that, of course the globalists response to covid was full of mistruth and propaganda to keep the public scared and compliant, and the data on face masks and lockdowns for covid is inconclusive at best.
Tokyo arcades are weird. Hundreds of identical machines, all playing games 30+ years old... with swathes of Japanese men getting embarrassingly over excited at the dancing, shooting and drumming stations. Can't think of anything more dull 🤔 If I wanted retro I could play it at home for cheaper, or even on my phone for crying out loud. Step forward 30 years into the best US/UK arcades and we have modern technology and variety 👍
You do realize the concept of "retro arcade"? 🙄
Plus you're not exactly right on your "modern technology" claim. See older systems have CRT's and controls are hardwired. Sure emulation can get close, but it's not the same as emulating on with ie. BT controller and normal LCD display. First thing is that input latency is a thing on emulation. Second is simply the old display tech. It really makes a difference in many older systems. I still heavily regret selling my good quality CRT years ago. It would be so nice with retro systems these days. Now I haven't seen any similar CRT's for sale in many years.
Great trolling - you managed to generalise and show your [intentional or unintentional] ignorance, in an utterly pointless comment.
@@Ruylopez778 you go and enjoy your sweaty Japs 😂
Love seeing these arcades in other areas of Tokyo. I only know the ones in akihabara so the few times I make it to Japan that's where I always go.