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Super Potato Retro Video Arcade Chaos
Doosh! Found Super Potato as planned. It’s amazing, but if you want to pick up some archaic silicon, you’d better be packing a full wallet (Japan, being a cash culture, is a place where shops don’t...
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Street Fighter IV
In other game news, the release date for the XBox 360, PS3 and PC version of the newest installment of Capcom’s Street Fighter franchise looms very close indeed. If you want to get a copy in the US...
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Special Feature: In Search of Street Fighter IV
As promised, I hit the streets of Tokyo to find a video arcade that had the new Street Fighter 4. The obvious choice of starting place was Akihabara, or Electric Town as it is also known, a mecca of...
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Japanese Retro Game Font Fun
Here’s a link to a Japanese site offering a wide selection of retro game-related fonts, mostly bitmap fonts. As you can see, they have the classic Capcom typefaces! I can never find anything to do...
View ArticleU.F.O Catcher Secrets Revealed!
Did you know there was such thing as a U.F.O Catcher expert? Well, apparently there is, and in these videos via Japan Probe, they show some special techniques in acquiring prizes from these usually...
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Samurai Shodown V Special
I’ve been playing a new incarnation of an old favourite recently, the last in the series from SNK actually. Samurai Shodown V Special is the best in the entire series. You’ve got most of the best...
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Uniqlo Retro Game T-Shirts – Final Collection
Yes, Uniqlo’s retro game T-shirts have been out for a while but the preliminary selection didn’t contain anything I really wanted to buy. When I heard they were coming out, I decided I might get the...
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Warehouse Game Centre
Moving out to my new neighbourhood means I’m just a little bit further from popular west-side areas like Shibuya and Naka-Meguro, but even in anonymous areas like Nishi-Kasai you can still uncover...
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Ganbare Untenshi!!
This game is genius if not a little old, and at the detriment of the rest of the modern world, is only available here in Japan. If you can’t tell from the picture above (taken at one of my my local...
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