THE BEST ARCADE IN AKIHABARA!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- Checking out the amazing Taito HEY arcade in Akihabara which is without a doubt my favorite in town, tons of old and new games to keep me playing all day long.
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when gamers die, this is what heaven will look like for them
no truer comment exists
@Michael Higgins anyone that knows arcades well enough has seen that free play arcades are garbage. Because they dont care about collecting coins so everything is set to the easiest difficulty. It's so aggravating
@Michael Higgins In my personal opinion, it's the coin inserting and wasting lots of money to master it, is what makes arcade games special. You will just treasure the minutes of gameplay more then unlimited lives.
Akihabara is literally heaven on earth. Oh how I wish I could go back.
The third floor seems like heaven almost teared up here at it's beauty.
Same bro!!!
Fr. not just the games but actual ppl to play with. Americans, FOR THE MOST PART, are so boring and only play new, trendy games.
@@unfuckinglovable thats why the angryvideogamenerd has so many viewers and so many retro Games playtgriughs...
That streetfighter intro at the 6 minute mark had me pumped up. I miss the days of putting a quarter on the cabinet screen as a form of “i’m next”. Thank you for this amazing video.
I live in Japan and I go very often to akihabara. I know lot of good place but this arcade center I never entered. Thank you I’ll go as fast as possible!
Did you go? Was it fun?
Yes it was amazing there is a huge choice of shoot them up!
For those asking, most normal single cab games cost around 100 yen a play. Claw machines and the big gundam machines can go from 300 yen plus
I love these videos. I'd like to see the variety of Arcades in different neighborhoods. The second floor of Taito HEY would keep me busy for hours...
I've got plenty of neighborhoods and plenty of arcades on the shooting schedule. :)
Spent the whole day here. Hands down my favourite. Old school
8:11 you took me back to 1994 with the STREET FIGHTER II MOVIE commercial for SSFII. That "Cry" song was awesome. Ah, the memories😊
Loved the first person perspective of not only the arcade but also just general street views. Very good look into everyday life :) And the commercials were great bonuses!
Damn, you weren’t joking about this place, wish I’d known about it when my wife and I were in Tokyo last year (on our honeymoon!). We only found claw games and strange modern games which look like the stuff on floor 4 of Hey. Love 90’s shoot ‘em ups in particular.
So cool. My son is really into gaming and arcades. Just like i was/am... would love to make a trip and do this with him when hes old enough
How old is he?
I remember walking into this place. Every game you spent months mastering when your friend finally was bored playing it.... walking into this place... just a big firetruck water hose full of them.. It's just mind blowing.
I've been collecting arcade PCB board shooters for 12 years now, and some of the shooters seen in this video I can now play for free in the comfort of my dojo, Battle garegga, batsugun, progear etc. Retro will never die!
That's awesome!
@gebbletook yes i know of the emulators but some games are NOT emulated correctly so i buy the PCB boards for those. win, win situation for me. thanks.
@gebbletook
arcarde cabinets are cool. it's not the same thing to play on an emulator
totally agree, HEY is Akihabaras best arcade, when I have friends visit, this is the usual first stop in town.
Another cracking vid Jim,love these roaming about ones.
Ahhhh take me back to japan 😭💔
Thanks KidShoryuken, love the videos and thanks for taking me back! Love that your videos show a lot of interest without being over the top, also love the Japanese adverts. Awesome!
Rediscovered your channel after years. Thanks for keeping it up!
My pleasure, and welcome back. :)
I had been hoping I could find a youtube channel that visited arcades in japan like this. Keep up great work
Walks across a street.
Immediately hears Love Live!
Ah, it's like heaven on earth there...
I keep watching thos video over and over. Please make more just like this one! I love seeing all the arcades including the lesser known obscure ones
almost every shmup ever made, driving games, fighting games AND BEMANI?! you weren't kidding!! I love these walk around videos from Japan!
stayed here for ten days 10 months back. Explored every nook and cranny of the town
My favorite part of Taito HEY is the basement
I love all the gods just kinda going ham on the rhythm games. It's beautiful.
Love your videos, particularly the video arcade ones! I'm coming for my 3rd visit to Japan this April and will be sure to visit this Taito HEY arcade. Thank you!
finally a good selection of old games, beutifull arcade!
Just stumbled across.your channel and could not be more grateful I did. The style of the channel is excellent. Big fan of the exploration vids. Thanks for the posts.
Wow i love this video and the arcade is so nice big screen and all the retro games is still there.
Oh man this makes me so bittersweet about my local arcade closing, and even places like the laundromat getting rid of their cabinets. I’m just happy such a place exists.
I love how every floor of that arcade is dedicated to one specific genre.
lord that's intense, I'd probably spend a majority of my time just deciding what to play...and then defaulting to SF lol..
Best to go on a busy night then, just play whatever is free.
Man, this is such an amazing arcade. Great video!
Thank you!
7:38 YES, BLAZBLUE 😍
The staff at these arcades are so nice. When I was at our honeymoon, I was trying to get this cat plush toy for my wife but I kept dropping it.
The guy saw me trying so hard to get it, he moved the toy so it was dangling over the hole. I managed to get it after that. I was so happy I shook his hand and thanked him :)
These videos are always welcome, Jim.
Plenty more on the way. :)
So glad I found your channel. I plan on moving back to Japan in the next couple years, and watching your videos are really building the hype lol.
Yes love it 👍 especially the fighting games section
@4:26 CITY HUNTER!!!! City Hunter UFO prizes!!!! I am an absolute FAN of City Hunter!!!!!
Okay, I had to get that off my chest, this is Arcade Heaven!!! I live in Florida U.S.A. and
arcades are basically extinct!!!
My, "Things to do list while in Japan" is almost complete.
Sega arcades
Taito Hey! arcades
Akihabara Prefecture
Yodobashi Camera - the main building-
Gundam Cafe
Tamiya Model Headquarters building
Ghibli Museum
Shinkansen bullet train - the Nozomi series trains -
Snow trip to Hokkaido
.........................and eating delicious food!!!
Loved this thanks for the tour great quality all the best :)
Hey Jim, love these video tours around Japan. Definitely my dream vacation.
Greetings from Indonesia🇮🇩, Souheast Asian. This is My Favorite Japanese🇯🇵 Arcade Racing Game (2000s) :
1.湾岸ミッドナイトWangan Midnight Maximum Tune (at minute 2:00 and 4:20)
2.頭文字D (Initial D) Arcade Stage
3.Mario Kart Arcade GP, GP 2, GP DX
4.Battle Gear 2, 3, 4, and 4 Tuned (at minute 4:16)
5.Dead Heat Arcade 2010
6.SEGA Race TV
7.SEGA World Drivers Championship
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I was really geeking out over this. Thanks for sharing!
Love this video! I've been to Tokyo twice and stayed in Akihabara both times because that's where the best nerd stuff is. If you like retro game centers I highly recommend Natsuge Museum which is close to the Tokyo Metro Akihabara station (a few doors away from my favourite ramen shop, Menya Musashi Bujin). More videos like this, please!
Great video! I can't believe almost all of those Egret 2 cabs using Egret 3 control panel. I've been looking for a 2-player Egret 3 panel for a while for my cab. Now I know they are all in this arcade, lol.
Great Video! I love HEY game center in Akihabara! When I visited Japan the first time I found my gaming Nirvana there. Haha.
In Germany this kind of gaming culture died and was buried already a long time ago.
The second floor of HEY is just amazing. You can play through the complete history of STGs. :D
Best games in my opinion: Batsugun, Guwange, DDP Daioujou and Tatsujin Ou.
HEY is equally good as Mikado game centre at Takadanobaba station. Similar games but less crowded and they have some pinball machines. I would appreciated it a lot, if you would make a video about this one too. :D
I love Tokyo... miss it so much!
i know back in the days as streetfighter and kof 94 came out,it was crazy.
The sound of an arcade the sound of an ecosystem, something never change
If I ever became rich, screw fancy cars. I want a bunch of American and Japanese arcade cabinets @.@ All those variety of shmups, so delicious.
Cars are nice, though, but I wouldn't be able to drive them...oh well, I will let the wife and children (when they are old enough) deal with those headaches themselves, Ritz.
You don't need to be rich. Everything there can be emulated. Ryzen is dirt cheap.
Am fully aware, but emulation is not always 99% accurate. I also enjoy the atmosphere of old arcades, the noises, sounds, smells. All of which you cannot achieve with emulation. (I am also aware you can just build your own arcade cabinet and run an emulation PC under it granted there's the issue with an arcade accurate screen.)@@100Bucks
@@RitzyBusiness It's find for me, got my own cabinet as well. The only game you can't fully emulate properly is Astroids. I know that because we have one at our job. Astroids was built with a special screen. When you emulate it on Mame it's plain. The real thing looks like star wars light sabers when you shoot. Every other game looks and sounds accurate to me. If the game is not accurate it means the computer doesn't have the required specs. Mortal Kombat 4 on Mame is another game I can't run properly. I'm on a Ryzen 7 1700 the first generation. It's still not enough for that old game. Issue with rom maybe or just specs.
Why not both?
So cool to see all this. Great music selection as well!
I would be intetested in more arcade videos! Enjoyed Akiba when I went a few years ago and would like to see more arcades to explore in Japan.
Plenty more on the way. :)
Dude seriously, thanks for this cool video. Geez I miss playing fighting games in an arcade here in the US. In my opinion, playing against people online has nothing on the arcade experience. Knowing how I am I'd be at that arcade almost everyday. lol
What's great about a lot of the newer machines is that if you don't have anyone to play against where you are, the games are connected to other arcades around the country so you can at least find someone to play with.
While I was really impressed by the second floor and all the Shmups, the third floor is where I'd spend all day every day! Your video takes me back to when arcades were a thing in the US, and people would line up to play the latest fighting game. "I got next!", **places quarter or token on game** LOL! Thanks for sharing, your videos are always great!
Sounds like you'd love the competitive arcade scene here.
Wow they seem to have all the classic shooters - I could spend days there. Thanks for sharing.
No problem, it was my pleasure. :)
Oops, I almost forgot to add Super Potato on the list because I have a Neo Geo GOLD system, and
I need some game titles for my system!!
l was very glad l found this arcade while visiting Japan. Most of the others had a ton of claw machines, those games that used cards, rythm games etc. whch l dont really care for. this one had all the classics, had a great time there, especially the fighting games floor
Thanks for posting these!
My pleasure. :)
Great video, your channel is underrated!
As a fighting game player this arcade looks so fucking fun, I envy the fact that you were able to go here.
This is the best one yet! Let's see some more!
There was a racing game i used to play in the arcade in the mall by my school it was a japan drift race game where the chair you sat in moved as you drift and you actually had to down shift turns and all that good stuff long story short i never saw it again and i don't remember the name.
The only drift racing games I've ever played are Initial D and Midnight Tune.
D1GP also has an official arcade game but by far the best is Battle Gear 4 Tuned!
When I think of japan I think of a city filled with buildings covered in japanese signs, ramen filling the air, and video game arcades
I remember when i was a kid and i wanted to work at an Arcade Center called "Sacoa" once i grew up.
A part of my died when they closed that place.
this was a dope video. when you said you can play the different variety games, if you want, but you choose fighting games i felt that lol.
Best arcade in Akihabara. I remembering standing in front of it and saying to my group "Hey... It's HEY Arcade!" and then I ran out of money on my suica card, thankfully there is a refill kiosk inside.
Great video! You should def do more like this! I hope to go to Japan myself one day and see these kinds of places in real life.
6:07 thats Melty Blood
Glad to hear Mega Man 8 getting some love with the Astro Man stage music haha
Nearly cried as soon as I saw Akihabara again D': I miss that country so much. I'm not much of an arcade game kinda guy but I loved the UFO catchers there
I wish Arcades were still around and plentiful in America. Or at least in my hometown. I am really impressed with this Arcade. Would love to go to Akihabara some day, but I'm sure I'll have to settle with going to Ground Kontrol in PDX some time I guess,which is fne, because that's also a dream of mine.
Yes please make it a regular thing,,,also a couple pachinko parlors would be cool too
oh my God, I went to Akihabara for at least 4 days and didn't know this place exists! I will def gonna go there again (planning my 3rd visit in 2020 or 2021) thanks for the video!
Tokyo seems like such an awesome place, to bad it's one of the world's most expensive cities to live in.
The home of retro gaming!
Dude you always pick good background music but that Astro Man theme's got me playing Rockman 8 again. XD
Nice, always happy to get people playing Rockman 8 again.
WOW. SO COOL, IT'S LIKE I WAS ALMOST THERE. WUD DEFO LUV TO SEE MORE OF THESE STYLE VIDS CHECKING OUT THE OTHER ARCADES. WISH SUMONE MADE VIDS LIKE THIS OF THE ARCADES IN THE WEST BEFORE THEY ALL CLOSED DOWN, FOR THE HISTORY RECORD & NOSTALGIA, OH WELL LOL.
P.S. DIGGIN UR TASTE IN GAMES & MUSIC CHOICE & THOSE AD BREAKS WERE PURE COMEDY XD
=)
ooohh these memories : ) thank you for your video. I guess I would spend a lot of time in arcades when I would visit Japan : ))))
Def need more of these.
Thanks Jim for teleporting us!
Now thats a arcade that value 2d scrolling shooters. These are hard to find. In the future fans need to visit there.
This is my favorite arcade in Tokyo, in my last trip to Japan I went there a lot just to play fighting games (especially Guilty Gear) when I needed to relax from all the walking.
Love the video
This is getting me hyped up for my trip to Japan in November!!
I did enjoy this place when I was in Akihabara
Thanks for sharing this. That arcade looks great, and it even has Melty Blood!
6:34 blazeblue❤
Great channel, love the remixed music
Man... So many games from my youth & childhood (@v@) Nostalgic...
Euphoria! I loved the fact that you did this review. When you played Astro Mans song, I lost my mind. Legit!
excellent video looks like a really great place to go to and shooters are my favorite also i love them
You make me want to go visit Japan
Awesome! Do it!
I just found your channel and I love it. Your commercial cuts are FANtastic bro. Were do you find all the footage?
I just look around on TH-cam for retro game commercials, they're pretty easy to find.
1 word,AWESOME!!!!😱😱😱
I love this arcades, could spend my whole day in it.
Thanks for sharing this. The place looks amazing!
It was my pleasure.
Whoa 12:00 I got that when was a child in the 80s , great
I'm planning on going to Japan and visiting here. Your videos will be extremely useful.
Project Justice machine is how I measure if the arcade is good.
Yo! looking at all of those, i can tell thats def the best arcade! I cant believe i missed that while i was there! I was only a few doors down at Sega and didnt see that one! Next time ill be there for sure though! Thanks for the vid man. I saw some blaze blue/ guilty gear action and that sold me lol