Housetek's Guide to Japan Arcades

[aveehay]

cool i didnt know that

[rumbazz]

what's the etiquette for playing fighting games in arcades?

[7MGTESupraTurboA]

The other problem is players not wanting to learn, always wanting to win so they stick with games that they know that usually have ryu and ken in it and spam fireballs, then when I step up and beat them without using a single special move they don't come back.

i knew this kid who was spamming a glitch in marvel capcom 2, I got in and effed him up with Jin, Dr Doom and CapAmerica, he never saw what hit him

[7MGTESupraTurboA]

one of the biggest problems with US arcades is that there would be kids or guys going there and smashing the buttons and damaging stuff instead of learning howto play worse is arcade shops not wanting to do mainenance or just not having themoney to constantly fix broken machines

[FranticWolfInc]

lol i used to have 1.2m points on my initial D skyline but my card went missin and the arcade i played in no longer exists

[GuardianDemonX]

your vietnamese dude ? me too, and i alway want to go to japan but never got the chance, so is japanese girls kawaii ?

[8BitFox]

Thanks for the vid! i was planning on trying to make a trip to see club sega! so this is very useful

[provokingmatter]

Very knowledgeable. I'll probably go there soon. But I should of course further my study into Japan culture.

[Anudari11]

YOU ARE AWSOME MAN THANK YOU SOO MUCH YOUR HELPING ME ALOT!!!

since i m going to japan.

hey can recommend any snacks????

[xenepp]

Nice video. I want to go to Japan in the next year or so, I'll be keeping an eye out for the shmups though, I hear Hey in Akihabara is good for those.

[OWNEDmuch8o8]

If u see alot of smoke coming out its probably the paccinco lmao :P

[kisftw]

Lol, wanna know something funny? Us asians started the Coin-queue. ^^

[japlandkilla]

You are adorable :D

Lmao, I've been staying in Japan for the past seven years now, but I'm surprised they didn't let you take pictures o: Jajaja, typically the big no pictures rule is for shops so maybe your arcade was stuck up ;P

[briankun]

Sweet video! I'm glad the arcade scene is alive somewhere.

[tomato5798]

i would love to go to japan i have a question do all the people speak Japanese??? your videos are great! keep making them please =P

[michael1384]

Thanks. I really want to move to Japan when I'm older.

[Funspirit18]

woot arcades

[matthiasriehl]

looking forward to my tokio trip in december

[baby2bla]

good keep informing us of japan I am moving there

[HipHop24Seven]

Damn i wanna play Tekken 5 in the arcade with my custom Bruce and Craig Marduk...shame Japan is a billion miles away.

[toosobervideo]

very informative - thanks!

[kinglynx]

what do u do in pachinko?

[housetek]

its kinda like gambling, you get credits from a machine and go to a pachinko machine. put the card or coin or credits in the machine and you get a bunch of metal balls. which u put in the top and it goes down the machine kinda like Plinko from "the price is right"

lot of types of machine with slots and animes and stuff. you can move wear the balls go at the top and you can win more metal balls and cash them out for credits and win prizes or money

[darklightjg1]

Good shit Housetek!

This was very informative and I'll be sure to remember it when I save up enough to take a trip to Japan.

[berry02]

what are you doing in japan??? or are you japanese?? just curious =)

[kinglynx]

yeh i wanted to know that too..

btw: u cant take pics but u can take vids right?

[housetek]

Im Vietnamese actually and me and my friends just randomly decided to go and i fell in love with japan and ended up stayin there for a year

[Twigleaf]

2 questions... I have always wanted to go to Japans famous electronics and entertainment district.

1. On the Pachinko (sp?) , I know there are these "backdoor" places where you can actually cash in your winnings rather than the official ( teddy bears, etc ) rewards in the parlor. Kind of a loophole per say. How is a good way to locate those. I know the owners are in cahoots to pay out real cash to keep people coming.

How much Japanese is needed to know, for the Pachinko parlors ? etiquette ?

[housetek]

honestly i have no idea lol! i DO see some places have the metal coins for cash RIGHT next to the pachinko places.

As far as i know you just go cash your metal balls in for Metal coins go around the corner just hand them the coins and u get money.

[pesadilla38]

the arcade days ended in the early 60s the true arcade days was in the 80s. specially late 80s early 90s by 95 it was kinda goin down by but it came back strong up to about 98, after 99 it went dying at a drastic speed and by 2001 it was all dead.

[housetek]

its a shame that arcades died out in most places in the US

[freak98976]

Interesting. Too bad I'm not much of an Arcade person, but it would definitely be worth while to check out. :)

[anotheruchia]

lol dude, nice hair. btw r u origonally from japan cause if u r, ROCK ON xD

[xoxo23neener23xoxo]

and im going there next year so ill know first hand. and ull be there to show me around. cause u lub me. a lot. xoxo

[BboyCasual]

mmmm super mario..

[Mugenai]

..sunshine whoohoo