I took some video of all the Akihabara arcades I went to. Check it out here!
I went to Japan last weekend, and in addition to the normal sightseeing things, I also had to visit the gaming mecca of the world....
After wandering around with my friend for awhile, we finally stumbled upon what we'd been looking for all day:
It helped that they were blaring the music from Metroid out into the street as we walked by
Most of you already know about Super Potato, but if you don't, you just need to know it's hands down the best retro gaming store in the world, in both size (3 floors!) and quantity of games.
Plus, it's got a famicom throne.
The first floor is nothing but 8 and 16 bit games.
The second floor has newer games, but nothing beyond PS1 that I could see.
The third floor is a retro arcade. And Solid Snake.
See the rest of the Super Potato pictures (and other pics of Japan) here!