When people ask why I’m in Japan, I tell them that I’m here to eat.
This is not strictly true. I’m here to eat and play weird Japanese video games. The one I ran across today in Shinjuku is a classic. You get to play sushi chef. LED renditions of live, writhing fish appaer on the screen and you use a plastic knife to try and slice them up in the limited time available.
I saw octopus, fugu and hirame during the demo sequence, but I’m sure there are more.
Unfortunately my quick photocam shots cropped out the name of the game. It was all in kanji anyway, so I couldn’t tell you what it was called. What I can tell you, however, is that the title ended with the number “2”. So, this was the second in an ongoing HIT SERIES of food-related video games. Excellent.
A game in which you ….cut up fish as the objective. Blinks* Well actually, come to think of it, Ive heard of worse. In japan theres an
Arcade hit. Dont remember the name, but theres
a giant hand with two fingers pointing out. And
an ass in front of it. You take the hand..and jam
the fingers in the ass. the harder you jam the fingers in, the more points you recieve. And yes
this is partialy why ill stay here…and get my own little taste of Japan through this website:P
Pachinko anyone?
Wow.
Posted by: emily b. hunt at February 4, 2004 1:33 PMhah…no kidding huh?
Posted by: Patrick Daigle at February 5, 2004 7:32 PMyeah, but the finger-machine is like 5 years old and almost nowhere to be found, and pachinko is for taxi-drivers.
tatakon anyone? =)