Against the Machine
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"Sorry, I'm taking a break."
That's cool, man. You chill out. 🍹😎☀️
It says © SEGA but this is a fake, homemade notice in the dodgy dive that is Game Spot 21 (see 1,000 other posts about this seedy little game-hole) 🕹💉
Custom cardboard is all over Tokyo. Dreamt in your tech-utopian youth that it was all flying cars and shit. True, but *boy* do they love the ‘board.
Think: when 80s/90s sci-fi was lickable spaceships, Akira was bombed-out hell.
Still the international totem of tech-based boom, Japan carries a surprise suspicion of the machine. Traces of the tangible are a reassuring check on the robot takeover.
Photographer and writer covering Tokyo arcade life – the videogames, the metropolis and the people