Not just any game at that, but the Kantai Collection arcade game. Awesome!
Kantai Collection, or KanColle, features anime girls that represent warships. It started out as a free to play game and turned into a phenomena, spawning manga, an anime series, a PS Vita game and an upcoming animated movie.
いやぁ、艦これアーケード楽しいですわ
とりあえず最初は叢雲を5分くらい触り倒しました pic.twitter.com/hS5u15dt9I— kamiyanuko (@kamiyanuko) April 26, 2016
待ってた
艦これアーケード指導 pic.twitter.com/vB1V3Moth8— キラ。〜この雲の果て〜 (@kira_0903) April 26, 2016
As Kotaku previously reported (here and here), the game is immensely popular in Japan. Today the arcade version hit Japanese game centres, and drew lines of fans, with some waiting up to several hours to play.
艦これACはすごい行列すぎて断念……また来るお。 pic.twitter.com/OsgoDbScTN
— かえで (@spicapolaris) April 26, 2016
【新機種 AM#艦これ】
さきほど艦これアーケード稼働開始致しました!
ご覧の通り大盛況です!
只今2時間ぐらい待ちが出ています!#ラウワン富士 #艦これアーケード pic.twitter.com/3u1qaAQPcP— ラウンドワン_富士店 (@r1_fuji) April 26, 2016
艦これおじさん恐るべし pic.twitter.com/z2RGFJccg7
— たくみん (@takumi082240) April 26, 2016
艦これアーケードすごいことになってるw
むっちゃ行列w pic.twitter.com/k2NA1gmCDp— かおす。@9/30 FF15全裸待機 (@kaosu2525) April 26, 2016
艦これアーケード??(´ω`*)
(´ω`*)………?
……………( °Д°)!?
多いよニート共!!!!! pic.twitter.com/Mw8PUmNIGt— -平沢憂-少尉 (@BrilliantAzrue) April 26, 2016
People wanted to check out the arcade version, which spits out cards for players to use.
初の改排出!
大井を使い続けてレベルは12。
やはりレベルを上げていくと改が排出されるようです。#艦これ #艦これアーケード pic.twitter.com/vvjivMnWHR— -遊々亭- 艦これアーケード担当 (@yuyutei_kan) April 26, 2016
3回目やれました
カードはこんな感じです#艦これアーケード pic.twitter.com/WnzsudfQ3N— 海風 (@DDumikaze) April 26, 2016
Expect people to spend lots of time and money to collect the most desirable and rare cards. Earlier this year, one rare card, snagged during a location test, went for 84,000 yen ($973) in an online auction in Japan.
艦これアーケード行列できてる pic.twitter.com/Dx27n58IMT
— ELSIE (@k07tk02on1) April 26, 2016
ラウンドワン横浜、艦これAC待機列 pic.twitter.com/Irr7RaQayn
— 風邪引き太郎 (@A_THFL) April 26, 2016
本日稼働の艦これアーケードの様子です。
こんな行列初めて見た!!! pic.twitter.com/s00VAfI0zB— ごじゅん (@shironeko_gojun) April 26, 2016
【アーケード情報】
本日4/26より艦これアーケード当店は4台稼働開始しております!
大人気ゲームの為待ちのお客様がいる場合交代制となっております
提督の皆様ご来店お待ちしております٩(♡ε♡ )۶#苦ラ #ラウワン #艦これAC pic.twitter.com/xs6nUKbKrw— ラウンドワン_仙台苦竹店 (@r1_nigatake) April 26, 2016
なぅ!
超並んでるwww
これ平日だよな??#艦これ #艦これアーケード pic.twitter.com/2TobPzVsh8— アルカプチマンP@絶対特権主張主義 (@puchimann) April 26, 2016
艦これ16台もあるのに、めっちゃ並んでる! pic.twitter.com/YjuBCGJlKp
— ちるふ (@coin_eater) April 26, 2016
町田タイトーの艦これ絆を殺してる pic.twitter.com/kneku71xHn
— ぷーすと (@puusuto) April 26, 2016
Keep in mind, this is a weekday! That’s incredible. It’s great to see an arcade game going strong.
[Top image: shironeko_gojun]
Comments
6 responses to “It’s 2016 And Japanese People Are Lining Up For An Arcade Game”
I miss arcades!
Same here, even the ones that are still lingering about are damaged. Times have changed.
This is why Japan has a declining birth rate.
So they have people lining up to get in, while here in OZ the few that remain open have damaged games.
(For some reason the calibration on all Point Blank machines are off and the blue gun is always broken)
Remember lock-ins? Man, those were the days.
I used to work in an arcade, and there was a really horrible subculture of people to attended our store (they weren’t customers, they loitered) who thought the place was “public property” and they could do whatever they want. The damage and vandalism we had to deal with on a weekly basis was mindblowing – from simple things like stealing the basketballs to the utter insane like punching in the huge 50″ rear projection diffuser screens. Then there was the graffiti, the unpeeling of the stickers and decals, “joystick abuse”, the idiots who hold the kick-back on the Namco light gun games because they thought it allowed them to shoot quicker (yes geniuses, that DAMAGES the guns) – the list goes on and on… Arcade maintenance was incredible – and is the big reason Australian arcades didn’t get lots of new product, we were spending our profits fixing the stuff people would damage. That issue doesn’t happen in Japan.
TL;DR – if you don’t want damaged games, report the idiots who damage them
I just came back from Tokyo, the trip was my second to the city. All the major arcades I went to had PRETTY MUCH the same game lineup as the time I went 2 years ago. The only ones I noticed that were new were Pokken Tournament and Tekken 7, instead of Tag Tournament.
I played a lot of Tekken. It was rad.