A SEGA WORLD THAT ISN'T A STINKING, RUSTING, PISS-BUCKET FROM HELL, OR CLOSED
Not all SEGA WORLDs have died and/or fallen into disrepair! This one hasn’t. It’s probably got a good six months left before the “S” stops working and they close the place instead of spending the money on fixing it.
“Hello! When in Nara (Japan) recently – I took this photo with UKR in mind. Then I thought, “Nah, they don’t like stuff like that anymore, forget it.” But, your last update suggests otherwise ! So here you go. Looks quite cheerful, eh ? Fitting for a town where deer roam the streets freely, perhaps. No-one in there though. Enjoy your time, M.”
Cuddly toys don’t count as paying customers, and it looks a bit empty. Has anyone ever seen more than three people in an arcade since 1996?
“Enjoy your time” – that’s a message to the staff of SEGA WORLD Nara. They’ll be selling noodles down the market this time next year.
filed in ENTHUSIASM on May.21, 2007
May 21st, 2007 on 2:51 pm
It won’t shut if its in Japan will it? They fucking always go the arcades there.
May 21st, 2007 on 2:58 pm
I just involuntarily drooled.
What’s going on in Japan, are all the Otaku learning social skills and getting birds or something?
You should ALL be visiting your local arcade(if there are any left in the UK) because clearly they’re a dying breed, and you know you’ll be regretting it once they’re gone.
I loved the days when you could walk into an arcade and get your ass kicked on a fighting game, and the only thing I could do to defend my pride, was to comment on his sweaty armpits, and that he must go in games workshop a lot.
May 21st, 2007 on 3:37 pm
I always see a bunch of people in ‘Gold Vegas’ on Oxford Street. That’s an arcade. Sort of.
May 21st, 2007 on 4:24 pm
That’s the shiniest, happiest building I’ve ever seen ever. I want to live there.
I was going to say “opposite it” but then realised that the stupid amount of light pollution it emits would piss me off completely about 5 minutes after I moved in…
May 21st, 2007 on 5:56 pm
Yesterday, I saw a big lorry that said “UKR” on it and today I saw another big lorry that said MEGA DRIVE on it. I feel someone maybe trying to tell me something. I would have gotten pictures but that would have involved illegalness.
May 21st, 2007 on 11:17 pm
I don’t like to post link but… http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=380962059&size=l
May 22nd, 2007 on 12:49 am
i actually used to hit up the arcades back in when i was in grade (year) 9 in like 2000. of course, all i did was go play sniper scope, fuck being social and playing 2 player games with other people.
May 22nd, 2007 on 12:15 pm
its all well and good that it isnt a piss bucket from hell, like say, the trocadero is…
BUT the bigger problem here, is where’s my “RIP 2007-2007” t-shirt.
May 22nd, 2007 on 5:10 pm
I agree that the Trocadero’s usually wank, but they’ve got Mario Kart GP back so that’s all good.
Wel, it would be if that twat Pac Man wasn’t in it.
May 23rd, 2007 on 12:27 pm
Mine hasn’t arrived yet…
vytwze: what i will think when the t-shirt arrive…
May 23rd, 2007 on 10:56 pm
It’s like a beautiful glowing vision from a dream sequence. I don’t want to wake up.
Don’t make me.