GameSetWatch - GameSetPics: Sega Joypolis, Pt.2

Well, we already started checking out the vaguely eerie (scary Sonic! scarier Michael Jackson!), but pretty popular location that is Sega's Joypolis amusement park in Odaiba, Tokyo - so let's finish off a look at some of the other sights viewable around the arcade/park attraction. (I'll try to take some pics in some more 'normal' Japanese arcades later this week, though they sometimes have 'no photograph' rules.)

Wow - a recently released Sega driving school arcade game, apparently adapting a sim made specifically for driving schools by producer Yu Suzuki. I kid not.

A view over the balcony so you can see all of the 3 floors of the Joypolis entertainment center.

Not one, but _two_ typing action arcade games, including the infamous 'Typing Of The Dead', yay.

Attendants managing the queue for House Of The Dead 4 Special, explained on the Wikipedia page: 'The game makes use of two 100 inch screens, one in front of players and another behind, as well as a five-speaker sound system'.

My new favorite arcade machine - it's two player, features a plastic mallet, and the object is to see who can button mash the single button the most times within a time limit. Whoever loses has the mallet fall on their pinky, haw.

Sonic, waiting to be grabbed - but not inappropriately.

The little girl-centric dress-up Sega CCG arcade game Fashion Witches Love & Berry is so popular that it has a special 'dress up like Love & Berry in real life' area in Joypolis. Yikes!

Comments

A Yu Suzuki driving sim? I can see a Ferrari with a big ol' "student driver" sign straped on the roof.

I really wish I would have come up with the Love & Berry concept. Who knew virtual paper dolls could make so much money?

Posted by: d | September 17, 2006 8:39 PM

What, no pictures of that interactive projection thing? I thought that was cooler than most of the games there, I mean who wouldn't love kicking virtual pool balls and making ripples in the Joypolis logo? One of the great parts of being an American in that arcade is pwning the Japanese teenagers in the boxing simulator.

Posted by: Mike Jenkins | September 18, 2006 6:31 PM

I wasn't too excited by the projection thing cos we have one in a local mall in California, oddly (Great Mall in Milpitas!) Is _is_ fun, though.

Posted by: simonc | September 19, 2006 1:29 AM

Call me an otaku, but I can't wait to play Lupin The Third The Typing...

Posted by: teknotom | September 19, 2006 4:02 AM