Review: Japanese Arcades 

Timestamp for the random ramen scenes 1:13 the 1st ramen 3:02 the 2nd ramen 9:52 the 3rd ramen 12:54 the last ramen

"There’s no such thing in the world as absolute reality. Most of what they call real is actually fiction. What you think you see is only as real as your brain tells you it is" *cut to george in vr wobbling on a board*

You're looking good George. Also that Initial D setup is unreal

George walking the plank is the best thing I've seen all week.

We have an arcade in Dublin and it's full of Japanese people. I wonder if there are pubs in Japan full of Irish people?

The gundam footage proves that George is a newtype

That ending was the stuff nightmares are made of.

I didn't realize how much product placement there was in Yakuza, and it just makes me want to go to Japan more

he uses that clip of the noodles like 4 times, maybe he wanted to tell us the noodles were the key?

That robotic noodle bowl is the best thing of all time

I love the depressed george vacation pictures

That was one of the best endings to your videos ever. It really put a smile on my face.

I love how you keep cutting to the robotic noodle thing haha.

Now I want to go to Japan for sure,at least once in my boring life.

WHHHHOA THAT INITIAL D MACHINE THO HOLLLLYYYY SHIIIITTTT

Japan sounds like a dream come true economy, loved those first few minutes especially

Wait wait wait, George, have you found pachinko machines? More importantly THE one specific machine?

check out the corner arcades in mexico man. the kids will wreck you in KoF

what's with the constant fake noodles

Hey no mention of Konami's arcade branch? It looks...well it looks bad

got the high score on one of those urinal games, ladies

Not so much a correction as a 'BUT DID YOU KNOW~' but you mention how Japanese arcades have progression mechanics now. This has actually been the case for a good long while. The earliest example *I* can think of is Tekken 5 tracking your rank and customisation options, all the way back in 2004. This was a BIG part of the game's various ports to PS2, PSP and PS3, simulating a rank-up system albeit against AI opponents - which were *allegedly* all based on AI data collected from the arcades.

"I wasn't convinced I was on top of a skyscraper" "aaahhhh, oooohhh, why am I doing this, uughhhh"

Is that Seaman 2 at the end ? Complete nightmare fuel =))

QUICK! Cut to the bowl of ramen!

my inner weeaboo is screaming

*cough* MGS 3 pachinko *cough*

Jeez how many noodle cuts are there in this video?! That's so memorizing!

I think we're ignoring the real question.. did you buy any japanese porn comics?

WHAT IS WITH THE NOODLES

I used to live in one of those old steelmill towns in PA and it's layout had a mainstreet which basically felt like a city. I could walk out my door and go a block and be on mainstreet and be able to walk to all the shopping/food places I wanted. They even had an arcade. Now I live in a modern house in my sectioned off suburb with a 10 min drive to my nearest strip mall.

Joyopolis is fun. I played everything there(outside the little arcades they had) Storm G was definitely the most memorable thing there. During the entire time I just had Big Blue's theme playing in my head. When I went they also had Anime things fro Psycho-pass and haunted house for Parasite. Also they collaborated with Capcom to do a Pheonix Wright event where there were electronic kiosk scattered around where you interrogate suspects and ultimately solve the case by going to court.

do you just really like that noodle clip

george seriously loves those floating noodles ...

Also mobile suite Gundam was epic. Getting inside that pod with the controls.

+Super Bunnyhop Wow. That was a very interesting video. Thank you, George, and whoever else works on recording and editing for making these videos. Your channel produces some of my favorite content on RU-vid. The hard work the SuperBunnyhop team puts into the content does not go unnoticed.

I'm loving that Seaman sequel at the end.

Why did I see the floating noodles like 10 times in this video? lol

00:50 - rewatching this because nostalgia or something and with this line in particular, along with the one earlier about how the Japanese really love trains, it really strikes me how Americans really don't seem to know what goes on in the rest of the world. I mean, Europe is covered in trains as public infrastructure. If you look at just the high-speed rail network in Europe, it's pretty much covered. And that's just the high-speed rail network. Most, if not all European cities are designed to be walkable. All of the ones I've visited has had good public transport built chiefly around trains/metros and busses. Good video, though. It's nice to see George make an epic return.

gotta say i always see your videos thinking their going to be solid and to the point, especially with your oblique titles but their so much more, love your videos, so much life out of a voice of a man that sounds like he is on his last dying breath

I remember George dissing Adam Sessler for using the word 'lionize' (said it was a 'thesaurus word'). ... and now he uses 'reify' himself. :P

It's really cool to see this in depth video of modern Japanese arcades. I finally made it to Japan this year after wanting to go since I was a kid. We were there for about a week and surprisingly, I only spent like a few hours one night at an arcade. Mostly because there was so much more to see, but I was surprised at Japanese arcades with all these new, modern games in that Dissidia or Pokken style gameplay being all the rage. Funny you mention arcades being cheap because I didn't think so. I basically stuck to the old NeoGeo games, other sit down shmups, older Capcom games and such, and those games were like 50 yen or less. Most every other game was 100 yen, so basically a dollar a play for a majority of machines. That's pretty goddamn high if you're trying to spend a night there. I can only imagine if you play that shit on the regular like they do.

Your videos are still awesome after watching so many of them. Keep up the good work George!

Jesus that footage of you walking on the plank is priceless; I seriously could not have expected this video to be so good.

Gee, I don't know what to put here. I guess I'll just play that noodle sign thing again.

Those spaghettis are fascinating

There are VR arcades in America. Game companies either refuse to sell commercial licenses or make them prohibitivly expensive. This means you're better off hiring your own team to make your own games. But even that is expensive and you end up charging so much the only way anyone can afford your prices is team building outings for corporate clients. Other than that they're the same as internet cafes where eventually your clients realize they can buy a home unit cheaper than coming into your location every week.

Coming back and watching this video during covid makes me sad. I watched this video, then went to Japan and experienced the arcades for myself. I'd love to go back but it's just impossible right now.

Muffled drunk George bumping around and doing drifts is my spirit animal...

God damnit George!!! Now I need to eat some nodels.

Hey George! Great video, you touched on many things that I've noticed in my short time living here. A few things I've noticed: You are very much expected to have a member card for many of the games that track progress. It would have been best if you had got one up front instead of playing through the Ubeat tutorial each time. You can register the card online but you are not required to to start out. So recommend anyone who is visiting to get one. Gundam Vs cabinets are huge, and everywhere, and think they should have got more attention because of that. But you really skipped on a lot of what else is in the generic arcades. There are your fighting games, but there is also a bunch of different card based games which is something I found very interesting when I first came here. They take more of a time commitment to get into though, and are based on you having a card tracking your stats. These are games that would be hard to recreate for home. Going to make sure to check out that VR Project now, thank you for the heads up on it.

Awesome , man! I wish you uploaded more, but, none the less, great freaking video!

George, you look great. Glad to see you enjoyed the trip to japan. Love, mom.

Brett Keane in the end of the video.

Man, I'm really digging the slight change of tone in this one. Nice video, George. You da bes

GUYS! Round One is an arcade bringing lots of these previously japan only games to the US right now! Give them a search! They have many rhythm games and Gunslinger Stratos!

if that Initial D machine didn't blast Running in the 90's, I'd say I'm disappointed without actually being disappointed because HOLY SHIT IT'S LIKE ACTUALLY BEING IN INITIAL D HOW CAN YOU STAY MAD AT THAT?

You really liked that noodle display eh?

Thank you for showing the whole clip at the end. That was great.

Awesome, George! Keep them videos coming! I'll try to translate your videos for the folks here in Brazil someday.

The ending threw me off because it played the ad about the "ghost boy" in the car talking to the adult. I thought it was George and that he took a sudden dark turn. It was great.

Japan is an expensive trip, but I still yearn to adventure through those grand urbanscapes one day. Can someone wire me 10k please?

This sold me into learning Japanese and taking a trip there next year.

George, I like your journalism. You go do stuff. you are reporting on things. thank you. never change.

These arcades look fucking sick. I'd love to go to one of these.

13:27 I own VR and I do actually get that sickness of using WASD for movement. It's kinda like motion sickness from a roller coaster. If you don't get it lucky you - but don't doubt for a moment that it isn't a real thing that people experience.

Being able to experience falling from a skyscraper without actually dying sounds wonderfully terrifying

Wonderful video, George. Thanks for filming that skyrise plank game, it made my day :)

Those fucking noodles!

Would you consider doing a whole episode on Japanese economy? The bit at the start of the video was really great.

Holy shit that Gunslinger Stratos game looked awesome. Good to have you back, George senpai!

I'm in Hiroshima for a month, pretty much can confirm everything. Even did the whole drinking 150 yen tall boys on the way to the arcade. That stratos game was crazy. Only thing you forgot to mention, you can smoke on a lot of the floors and of course..."gambling" floor. Also the games are pretty pricey in retrospect. 100 yen is almost a buck to play any game.

Did George just invent video game tourism?

Urinal games exist.......... Urinal... games... Is there anyone who is good at this game and call themselves pro? I wonder if there's a tournament about these games?

This Katamari Damacy soundtrack hit right home Bunnyhop. Also great to see you loved Japan.

This video was very educational in multiple ways, thank you very much

WHY DO YOU KEEP SHOWING THE MOVING RAMEN SIGN?!?!?! WHAT DOES IT MEAN!?!?!?! WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO TELL US!?!?!

George is the next level of Seaman.

I love that George reuses that footage of the ramen noodle robot almost any time he talks about Japan. It's my favorite thing.

never stop being awesome japan. I want to so go there one day.

I'm not a weeb or anything but...

Those Initial D arcades are amazing, holy mother of jesus

You balancing on that board at the end is hands down one of the funniest things I've ever seen on this channel.

Arcade is really a hits i think in Asia, i'm from southeast Asia and arcades is still big thing especially the dance arcade like Pump it up. Damn i can't wait for next year backpacking to Japan now.

I've missed you , George.

That noodle thing is great

Thank you for making me miss Japan even more than I already did. I spent waaaaaaaay more money at arcades than I should have but honestly, I don't have any use for souvenirs and the arcades were a memorable experience. My good phone broke on my second day there so I didn't get to tape my time at arcades, now I can just show your video :D

"You got a double jump, you can chain in and out of an air dash, and you can occasional wall run" Call of Duty confirmed for Japanese waifu shooter

OMG I love initial D so much. I really want to go play that game.

George becomes a newtype 2016

Oh my gooooood. I love this so much

Came here from LGR. Was not disappointed. Excellent work, sir.

Nah, the best part of Joypolis was the Ace Attorney Investigations game, they have a real life recreation of Miles Edgeworth's office!

Well, the Japanese do know how to use technology that well, especially with games and transportation, I gotta go to Japan.

I'm still watching this but I'm loving the abundance of ghost noodle footage

This made me smile. The plank walk was priceless!

I want to eat spaghetti now.

Katamari Damacy soundtrack excellent choice

There used to be a Sega amusement park in sydney years and years ago that had one of those indoor roller coasters as well as something like a 20 car setup of the sega rally game. it was amazing as a kid

Those arcades are incredible! A place called Round One just opened up near me, it has a lot of the cool rhythm games seen here and even Gunslinger Stratos