Check out the latest trailer for Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R. The game is getting location texts in Tokyo early next month.
“I’m some loser street artist from Western Australia,” said the email. “I call myself GIRL. Anyway, I made this sick-ass fluffy arcade machine that I thought you might find cool.”
Video arcades are a dwindling business in Japan. Since the peak of the market in 2006, the number of arcades and scale of individual arcades has been dropping steadily. Kiyoshi Kameyama, the owner of the Amnet Gotannda arcade described the current video arcade climate in an interview with website Online Player EX.
Crane games typically offer stuffed animals, not real animals for prizes. This crane game, however, looks to be anything but typical.
It’s all fun and games until the giant claw descends from the sky and threatens to make you the unwilling plaything of a surly teenager.