So, I went in the mall from that area, and that mall had one of the biggest arcades I ever saw, which I spent a lot of my young days on. I remember spend lots of coins on Power Drift there, and then growing to go spend a lot of coins on Daytona Usa many years later.
I haven't gone there for about.. I dunno man, 6 years now I guess.
The place was like, 3 times smaller. They lost the 2nd floor and one of the rooms. The place was saddely incredibly EMPTY. They had a couple of emplyers cleaning the place, a couple playing some random dance game (And they only had ONE of them), and there was one guy, which were wearing dusty clothes and smelling horribly, playing The King of Fightres 97.
They still had their 8 Daytona Usa linked Up... all of them had some custom gear stick on them, and 2 of them weren't working (Ohh, those machines were responsible for the biggest lost of coins in my whole life). They still had some games from the last time I had visited the place. Marvel vs Capcom, The King of Fighters 97, Time Crisis, Sonic Fighters and that Police Trainer game (Which I just LOVED to play). They had some pinball tables which were so damn close to each other that I just think it would be impossible to have someone playing on all of them at the same time.
Most cabs had been raped... I remember they used to have a Die Hard Arcade there.. they still have the cab, but the sticks are changed, and they added 2 buttons on it, and those buttons weren't even wired.. and they had HIDDEN TIGER CROUCHING DRAGON playing on it (damn...
) . They also still had the Virtua Fighter 3 cab, but again with more buttons on it. They had a Blast City cab running Spike Out (Which I spend one credit). They didn't had this game before, and at least ONE of the sticks were still original, but the buttons had to be smashed hard to work.Other than that, they still had most of their racing games. Sega Rally 2 was turned off (Maybe not working?), Indy 500, Rad Mobile, Cruisin'Usa and Super GT were there. Also that Jet Ski game from Konami, and a skateboard game which I had never played even back at the old days (I remember when the game was new there, and I never got interested)
Other than that, they also had House of the Dead 3... with LOADING times and PISTOLS instead of SHOTGUNS (Probably just a Dreamcast), and a section for small kids with just toys.
Gone was the cool Star Wars Arcade, F355 Ferrari Challenge, basically nearly ALL of their fighting games, all their shmups, the Sonic Blastman cab.. nearly EVERYTHING.
I know ,this probably was a long boring read, but it just made me sad, to see a place where I had so many good memories from my childhood/young days, being destroyed like that, and I felt I had to share with you guys. I bet some other people had experiences like that.
I lost 200 yen on Pink Sweets and didn't even clear stage 1, because I had no idea how to play 