Have you ever wondered what it would be like to hang out in a Tokyo video-game arcade in the late 70s?

Neat! It’s always interesting to see footage from a past that looks both vaguely familiar and yet clearly a different era. It looks like this footage was shot in and around Kabukicho; it must have been a bit more family oriented in those days.

Classic arcades in Japan have been hit hard by the pandemic — and they tend to be more retro 1990s than 1970s — but there are still some in Akiba.

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