Exploring Japan's Last Sega Arcade: Tokyo Joypolis 

btw I also made a tour of a Japanese retro arcade here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fdyRA9xhl1U.htmlsi=qeT8yDMunnzog8WJ

Just back from Japan. People love negative stories, but I saw so many arcades still open. The only difference I noticed was less fighting games since I last visited in 2018. GIGO, Taito, Round1 chains still going strong. We're lucky to have import arcades in the UK with Dancerush, Taiko, Chunithm, Maimai DX etc but if the scene in Japan dies, it will affect everyone in Europe/The US so... Let's hope arcades in Japan will carry on for a few more years yet. Nice video! You have a soothing voice!

I used to visit the Sega arcade in Akihabara, on a regular basis, before COVID wiped it out. They had a Gundam multiplayer setup on the fourth floor that was a lot of fun. 😊

I get a bit annoyed about the Sega arcade "shut down" stuff. It makes it sound like the arcades have been wiped off the map. In reality, Sega sold their arcade division to GiGO, and those places are currently thriving. That side, I appreciate your tour of Joypolis. I'm excited to go there myself one day.

The Space Harrier cabinet is what I been looking for.

One of the best things that I miss about arcades is the physical aspect. Having a mockup cockpit, or weapon to play with is such a great experience and many kids may never enjoy that. Sure we have VR now but it's just not the same. There's no recoil like in an arcade light gun, there's no "thunk" of a Daytona shifter being slammed with full strength. There's no weird people smell and oily joysticks! Gosh this brought back memories. Thanks. I'll have to pay Joypolis a visit one day.

The Storm-G is pretty wild! I did not expect a full 360 flip

Very cool video. I’m surprised that one Sega’s arcade still running. I live in Aichi Ken and hope someday can visit this place. Thank you.

the only reason i ever wanted to leave my motherland to go anywhere else on the planet was to a Sega arcade in Japan. This is awesome and kinda sad to be the last of the Mohicans.

Thank you for this video. I appreciate that you actually gave us a tour of everything, and didn't do crazy fast cuts and edits with loud music. I could actually appreciate the footage you filmed.

It's a shame that the stores are being closed, but unfortunately it makes sense. It hurts my heart to think that I'll never see one of these up close, I'm glad you made it. amazing video :) congratulations.

aaaah I was just in Japan in Feb and didn't know this was still here! It looked so cool, hopefully it'll still be there whenever I go again! Great video as always! These are so chill and fun :)

Thank you for this. Good to document what's going to be known as the good-old times.

Hi Pixxellie. Really enjoyed your tour of Joypolis. Good quality video and camera work - 4k looks great and the camera is nice and stable making it easy to view. Also enjoyed your voice over which provided a good overview and highlighted what you enjoyed. Top job!

What a nicely made video, very glad to have found your channel prior to my trip.

I had to run to this video! This is like the number one thing I've wanted to see from your time.

Man, I really wanted to go in here but I just didn't have the time that day. Thank you for making the trip and showing people - there's so much cool stuff at DECKS! I loved the replica Showa-era shotengai that's on the floor above Joypolis so much that it made my day and kept me smiling for the rest of the trip.

Oh my gosh!!! I so want to go there!!!! Thanks for sharing !

Soooo coool! At least you got to experience this place. I wanna visit japan someday.

thank you for making this

Apart from gunpla shopping in local hobby shops, I can see myself spending half the day here.

Wow!!! All these rides are so interesting and the sonic merch at the end is worth the trip alone!!

Love and grew up with Sega from the good old days of the Arcades and the Master System , Mega Drive consoles so when I see videos of anything to do with Sega or Sonic warms my heart this place looks awesome would love to visit some day we over here in Australia we don’t have anything like this I remember in the 20** we had a Sega World I remember going to but was nothing like this place and ended up closing done. Great video thanks for sharing 👍

Great content,thanks for filming. I don't feel sad at all,cuz sega still make fun arcade games. Maimai and chunithm are pretty popular here in the city of nanjing which is where I'm from

Thank you for the walkthrough. I used to work for Bushiroad and would visit as many arcades as I could when I would visit our corporate office in Japan. I didn’t know this existed at all. I ended up taking a large amount of cabs back with me for home use when many of the arcades shut down. Will drop by this Summer when we visit my wife’s family. My favorite arcade out there was Namco Tower in Kyoto. Thank you for sharing and subbed. 😊

Thanks for sharing!

Thank you! I love your voice and narration 🍻

I never knew this existed! I have to go when i get back to Japan!😮

Cool video,if I remember right years ago we had Sega in hamleys then it moved to trocadero in London

Good stuff right here 🍻

Sega and Dreamworks did a similar game arcade in the USA in the late '90s called Gameworks, and it featured such games that consoles could not substitute. I first visited Joypolis in 2000, and went again in '06. So much has changed since then. Mad Panic Gaming did a video of a nearby retro game center, which I believe is in that shopping mall across the way from there. The one with the big Gundam in front. Your channel is a lot like the way mine used to be. Now I don't do game center videos much anymore and primarily do model builds. I'm going to send some traffic to your channel as I know one subscriber of mine watches your channel and I'm sure many more would be interested. The discount clothing store Shimamura occasionally releases Sega fashion items. I don't know where there are any Shimamura locations in Tokyo, but they are ubiquitous everywhere else it seems. I spent a lot of money on the latest Sega merch explosion, with Megadrive, Saturn, and Dreamcast hand towels, bath towels, cushions, tissue covers, and storage boxes. In the past I bought a Dreamcast jumper jacket and Saturn pajamas there.

Good job!

I really hope that I can get here before this goes away... I love arcade's so much. Arcades in the 90s were just so incredible. You have a very lovely voice. Thank you for this awesome video.

I remember visiting Joypolis in 2016 and being able to play the Initial D game with the full sized RX-7 and tofu car.

Very fun and informative review. One thing I do wish for is for your voiceover to be integrated into the sound from the environment so it doesnt feel like we're listening to a silent movie.

Love seeing some arcade exclusive stuff. It's well worth documenting because it can disappear at short notice too.

This and disneyland are some of the few things i would endure going to a big city like tokyo for.

I'm in a wheelchair and they didn't let me on pretty much all of the rides except the Initial D game. Probably worried about me being a liability in an accident. This was back in 2018 so hoping they're a bit more lenient now...Appreciate you showing what it looks like post-covid.

Oh wow this is crazy. I just got back from my second trip to Japan and I was wondering what happened to all the club SEGA arcades. I was surprised when I exited Akihabara station via the electric town gate and saw that the club SEGA that used to be there was now a Bandai Namco arcade.

so cool

Man, I wish they had some huge arcade attraction like this in the UK, ideally Edinburgh. And it could still be Sega themed, but a Nintendo themed one would also be great too. Also, on a side note, Nintendo really should add arcade areas like this to its Super Nintendo World parks. I feel like that would be a really great finishing touch there.

great video, i always wanted to visit, Warehouse Kawasaki. A 5 story arcade made like the walled city in china but it closed in 2019 sadly. Hopefully Sega will keep this open.

I am curious for HOTD Attraction Arcade! Hope one day I can try it 😊

an arcade tower where 8 hours can fly is incredible; I can't imagine the experience and energy people get in that place; it must be like a parallel univers. Japan should not erase in the city its signature known for its talent in entertainment; it's like removing Mario from the game. And a 360 unit; Sega's Afterburner was already something back then, that Storm-G is fantastic!

I went in 2014. Looks like there's a lot of new stuff, although I think Storm G and the Phoenix Wright setups were there back then. Mai Mai machines were very prolific. Unfortunately my time was limited as I got there late and wanted to proceed to to the nightclub ageHa, which sadly closed down recently like the other Sega arcades. Something I remember of Joypolis was a bunch of interactive screens that used cameras and Kinect sensors to do odd stuff to people that passed by. Like having your face on a fish, or turning you into a bunch of spheres. Also there was a video game attached to the men's urinals that would give a score based on the amount of peeing you did!

Idk who u r u just popped. Man your voice is so amazing damn

I need to go here 😊

Rad stuff 😮

Are there still many video game arcades in Tokyo?……..It’s sad if there isn’t as arcades were one of the big reasons why I want to go to Japan. Great video by the way and excellent guide around this SEGA arcade.

When I read "Sega's last arcade" I expect something worse for wear. I'm impressed by how well maintained and clean everything looks. Awesome 😎👍 Do you think, this place will still be open around May next year? I'm currently planning a trip to Tokyo and I would love to spend a few hours there ❤

Really cool!!! Also, just a bit curious.... were those disks of light in the sky at the 9:15 mark in the video reflections of the lights on the inside of the cafe?

I miss Joypolis here in Osaka been gone since 2018. Went there as a kid and a big kid sad to see it go. Never went to the one in tokio tho.

Thank you for this! I'm in kyoto right now and planning my trip to tokyo next weekend and this is my number one place to go! Was a virtual on there in any form?

I knew sega through their consoles and consoles IP I was a bit surprised and disappointed to not see much (almost nothing) in joypolis that was using their own IP outside of sonic. No sakura taisen, street of rage, shinobi, phantasy star, shenmue etc. Maybe not make a roller coaster about all those IP but at least in the goodies if you could buy a keychain or stamps or cap or T-shirt or images I would have bought a couple of stuff

Wow 👍🏽

I think going forward the best way to keep arcades alive is to give players an experience they can’t get at home due to space and expense limitations like Storm G for example. I remember as a kid my favorite Sega arcade game was Hang On, it was a motorcycle racing game. There was a motorcycle you would sit on and tilt to steer the bike in the game. Things like that. Although there was a home release of the game on MegaDrive, it wasn’t the same without the tilting bike to control.

Can you do more video tours of arcades in Japan? I like your authentic style would enjoy more arcade tours.

How much was your entire trip? How does this video not have more views?

I love SEGA. Boy, I would love to go here, before it closes, too.

Playing virtua fighter 4 evo will be bittersweet now

Gotta take my kids for Sonic’s birthday… special chili dogs!

Cool video. I will support Sega whatever it decides to do. Even if they make a console every 10 years

i wanna try storm g hehe looks fun!

Echt traurig das es das rote Haus mit Sega nicht mehr gibt. Das lehrt nur das man nicht zu lange warten sollte mit seinen Träumen

Seeing these Japanese amusement parks (especially what Nintendo is doing now) really makes me dream of a Bandai amusement park. They own so many franchises and are closely tied to so many franchises, they could build a whole park off of it. Then there wouldn't be a stupid limited timeframe for their life-size gundam statues. I'm imagining a giant room with life-sized cockpits of every Gundam, and you're allowed to sit in them. And think of all the gift shops. We can get even more Haro-themed junk.

Wondering if they had any retro games here? Like Outrun, Space Harrier, Super Hang-On, or Virtual On?

I have not been there before, just curious, do I need to read and understand Japanese before I go in and have fun? Do they have friendly employees to help me with the language? Thanks!

The place looks fun, but from what I understand, you either buy a day pass or have to pay for each ride/game individualy. So if you are only going for the games, are they really worth the trip or should I just go to a regular GIGO arcade?

Thanks for the video. View were the prices?

Cool, I'll have to go here in January! We were there 8 days, we'll, in January and there's just WAY too much to see in tokyo/japan

This is my dream place to go when I visit Japan in October. Something like this cannot exist in any other country because the place would be disgusting, rude people and dont even get me started on the bathrooms. Plus the arcades would be broken and kids in the us would be so annoying and loud.

I hope you checked out the retro arcades next door :)

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I wonder what the closest thing we got in Sweden would be.

Was there anything initial d related?

I went here in 2017 and it looks like Storm-G replaced their Initial-D racing game. Looks rad. Also the yokai spirits experience looks like it replaced a similar Resident Evil 7 attraction . I remember we had to duck down as a group in a room to hide from a zombie but i was too tall so it was extremely obvious where we were and yhe zombie had to pretend they couldn't see my head sticking out as it walked by. Thanks for the great video! Hope anyone who has the opportunity goes to it. The unicorn gundam is right nearby too!

They are closing down all of their arcades? It's not even worth going to the s3x conventions if these don't exist.

No more House Of The Dead

Sega is a wonderful, but poorly managed company. I will miss their Sega arcades. . . . . Sega blamed the pandemic for having to sell their arcades, but the reality is that they have a reputation for not handling their finances very well. Sega loves spending money, and not preparing for the future. Look at Sega's competitors. Even though there was a pandemic, Namco and Taito still have their arcades open in Asia and Japan. Both are fine, but only Sega shut down. It's a real shame that Sega is run by people who can't manage their company properly. Now all their arcades are gone except Joypolis.

Quick Google search shows there are lots of sega arcades still open in Japan

8/10 slighty more game footage and one half face half machine mirror wave

I was at the Sega building that’s not an arcade I went in cause it said Sega there was no arcade games no Sega games consoles to buy it was gambling not an arcade

There is no purpose of arcades if they don’t get new games released like the last ones was tekken 7 in 2016 where was tekken 8 to play before it came out arcades are dying now demos are coming slicing which I care less about

so cool