RolandDeveloper: Sega, Arcade: Sega Akihabara 2-Kan, Year: 2017, Subject: Arcade Exterior, Location: Akihabara

Sega Gonna Get You

RolandDeveloper: Sega, Arcade: Sega Akihabara 2-Kan, Year: 2017, Subject: Arcade Exterior, Location: Akihabara
Sega Gonna Get You
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A Sega tower with seven signs bulges over the Akiba crossroads. This slice of the city is Sega, from gutter trench to scraped sky.

Escalator escalator escalator escalator escalator. Lit-up tubes for Sonic to spin through. Sega has engulfed this edifice and nothing will stop it from engulfing the rest of the world.

A slice here; a slice there: you’re next.

Photographer and writer covering Tokyo arcade life – the videogames, the metropolis and the people

RolandDeveloper: Sega-AM2, Year: 2016, Subject: Kantai Collection, Subject: KanColle Arcade, Location: Akihabara, Arcade: Sega Akihabara 3-Kan, Subject: Arcade Exterior, Subject: Tokyo StreetComment

Enormous Kantai Collection Billboard

This is a seven-storey-tall billboard showing the teenage-girl-cum-aircraft-carrier stars of an arcade trading card game. 

RolandDeveloper: Sega-AM2, Year: 2016, Subject: Kantai Collection, Subject: KanColle Arcade, Location: Akihabara, Arcade: Sega Akihabara 3-Kan, Subject: Arcade Exterior, Subject: Tokyo StreetComment
Enormous Kantai Collection Billboard