OK, I'm so going there in the future. I loved the video--what song did you have playing over it? Sort of YMCK-esque, yet not quite them.

I would have begged and begged you to pick me up a Sega Mark III system! I need to fulfill my long-standing obsession of wanting to play Woody Pop on real hardware with the paddle controller. I've got the game, and I finally have the paddle controller (my fiancée was recently back in Japan for about 6 weeks and her Otaku friend found it for her and she sent it to me!). The game works beautifully in an American SMS (it's a card), but the controller is not compatible. I asked her to ask her friend about the system, but she never heard back from him. I'm still holding out for a possible Christmas surprise.

I'm not too much into the scene anymore (or more accurately, at the moment), but I think that my being in that place, standing upon that hallowed ground, would have energized and excited me like nobody's business.

Sounds like a great trip! Where and what did you eat?