Pokken area, Club Sega, Shinjuku.
Pokemon means pocket monsters. Tekken means iron fist. Therefore: Pokken means pocket fist.
Right?
Named for the scooping of hundredyens – or the skulking home in the cold.
Photographer and writer covering Tokyo arcade life – the videogames, the metropolis and the people
Welcome to the Pokken room at Taito Station Shinjuku Minamiguchi Game World.
What do you think of when you see this slick plastic carrier with Shiny Sonic decal?
There has long been a trend of reporting on Japan that selects and spins niche, non-news stories to contribute to a collaborative caricature of “Weird Japan”. One popular pastime is to point at sexual perversions – where many “perversions” are merely wayward of Western norms, presented absent acknowledgement or awareness of the imperfections in how we all cope with sex the world over.
A controller dangling off the front of an arcade cabinet? What a flimflam! Like a Toys R Us demo booth with a coinslot.
In your capacious Western home you probably have *two* display cases for prizes you have won in UFO catchers: one for the Japanese schoolgirl figurines and one for the model aircraft-carriers.
