The Covid-19 pandemic has hit the Japanese arcade industry hard. With the country closed off to tourism, it might only seem like big city arcades are the ones that are hurting the most. That’s simply ...

Tatsujin has announced Amusement Arcade Toaplan, an iOS and Android application that will allow users to purchase all 25 former Toaplan games and create a Toaplan arcade on their smartphone. A release ...

Sega will set up a booth showcasing its arcade games at the Amusement Expo in Tokyo Big Sight with tournaments and new information about existing titles. The booth will be available at the venue’s ...

Living near Paris, Iyane (He/Him) is mainly covering Japanese media on DualShockers. He started his writing career in 2018 after being scouted for his blogging and talent for live-translating Japanese ...

Toaplan was a popular arcade game developer in the 80s and 90s that had a huge influence in the shoot ’em up genre. In Amusement Arcade Toaplan you can experience the classics and design and expand ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. While it's possible that the cabinets will make their way outside of the country, they're bound to be rare--arcades are still fairly common in Tokyo ...

As school and work wrap up, crowds fill Tokyo's many bustling arcade halls -- not to battle it out in fighting games, but to snag plush toys from claw machines. In one of these gaming meccas in the ...

The next step in Sony’s plans for PlayStation VR involves rolling out to arcades and possibly even amusement parks in Japan, according to a report on Wednesday. The Wall Street Journal reported Sony ...

"Arcade operators, machine manufacturers, and even prize suppliers depend on this business," he told AFP. Some 80 percent of the 22,000 arcades Japan had in 1989 have shut down, but revenues have held ...