It is quite hackneyed to come across common places in Japan where people comgregate to play individual and collective games: these are common gaming areas with relatively cheap prices and a wide selection of games. What is better than playing against a friend in a car-race game after a hectic day at work or school? As a matter of a fact, in Japan, there is no age limit to playing games, people from different ages hit the gaming shops to unwind. There are video games of disparate genres: action, action-adventure, shooter, race, and fighting games. The other games were mainly dance games where u basically select a coriagraphy and u have to step on the buttons that light up one by one. I ventured once inside one of these gaming places in Korakuen and I met two friends who showed me around. They advised me to try the car race game. I managed to take a picture of two teenagers racing against each other.
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I like how game arcade and video game in general aren’t view negatively in Japan but instead it serve as an acceptable social activity where everyone can have fun with their friends. But you have to be becareful while you are in there, although each game doesn’t cost you much, you could totally spend the entire day in there and come out broke!