Japan »
Income results on Japanese arcade games
One thing that operators always want to know about before buying a game is “Did it test well?”. Good testing generally (but not always) indicates how well a game will do elsewhere although publishers
Read More »An arcade by women for women
Perhaps if the translation of the page made more sense I could make a more complete commentary on this but in Japan there is an arcade that is “made by women, for women”. This
Read More »Even more Street Fighter IV News
It’s never ending isn’t it? Two more pieces of SF4 news has filtered through, both from Kotaku. First up there is talk that the console version of Street Fighter 4 will include a bigger roster. This
Read More »76 "Mom and Pop" Japanese Game Centers
If you enjoy checking out the many arcades that are out there(or have been in the past), this may be of interest. Oga from Japan pointed us to a site that covers information on
Read More »Our Japanese Arcade Friend
We received an email the other day from a fan of ours who comes all the way from Japan. He sent us a few links to some strange looking arcade games as well as
Read More »AOU attendance rises by 10,000
Final attendance numbers for the recent AOU show have been posted over at Arcade Renaissance, showing a large increase over 2007’s figures. The overall attendance for the two days was 38,442 – up 10,529
Read More »AOU 2008 ends on a high note and AOU Booth Babes
(Image via Famitsu) AOU 2008 is over now and one thing is certain – there is still plenty of interest in arcades despite the presence of the Nintendo Wii in people’s homes. The lines
Read More »AOU 2008 Famitsu report – arcades bringing new innovations to the scene
With the flurry of news coming around with AOU, it’s hard to post about all of them on the current schedule I have (although Arcade Renaissance is doing an excellent job at that) but
Read More »AOU 2008 – Videos of Jubeat, Action Cop, BlazBlue, Gundam and KOF XII
From youtube user Gigazine comes some videos from AOU 2008. I have to say that it’s nice that so much attention is being given to arcades right now because of AOU but at the
Read More »AOU Pamphlets of Street Fighter IV, Blazblue, Jubeat, more
One site has posted scans of some pamphlets of several games being showcased at AOU. All the text is in Japanese of course but you still can get an idea of what’s going on.
Read More »AOU 2008 Begins
AOU 2008 has begun in Japan and with it come images. AM Net has posted a number of images up to their site already and expect to see more over the next few days
Read More »Delta32 – new generic cabinet out of Japan (AOU 2008)
Among the many new things we’ll be seeing out of Japan over the next few days, here is a new generic cabinet that is making it’s debut. Arcade cabinets in Japan have their own
Read More »
