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  • Tokyo pt 10 - Street Fighter IV + Yet more Ramen...

    2008-07-09 8:08PM / 標準BLOG / Japan-Related Blog / 會員可以看
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    After the Hamasaki Concert we grabbed a late dinner in Shinjuku (without incident!)
    浜崎ちゃんのコンサート後、新宿で食事した：

    Yakitori... oishikatta!  ご馳走様でした

    The next day we took it easy, we went to Ikebukuro(池袋) and stopped off at a video arcade, guess what game had just come out?　次の日池袋に行った、ゲームセンターに止まった、新ゲームが有った：
    Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGCWatkNOO0


    Yes,  Street Fighter IV!
    Apparently it hasn't come out in the US, I think this was the first week in Japan too... they had it playing on a big screen TV facing the street, we stopped for a while to watch:

    Chun Li kicks Ken's ass w/ some kind of splits throw... チュン・リーちゃんとケン君。。。


    It turns out the screen on the street was showing a head-to-head games going on inside the arcade.  We went to go watch:

    Yes, thats a super game otaku woman playing... I secretly snapped this w/o anyone noticing.
    スーパーゲームオタクオバアサンが居た、彼女とても上手だった。

    They moved a Gundam game out of the way for this special SFIV station (they had a rope line behind these guys w/ like 10 people waiting).

    A key thing with this Street Fighter IV arcade console is that you can play 'network battles' against other players on other consoles.. so no more of that ghetto sharing-the-same-console two player stuff like we used to do back it the day. :-P


    Drum Master V5 and Guitar Master V5.  Guitar Hero may be big in the US now, but these kinds of games have been around in Japan for like 3-4 years at least.

    I didn't get a good picture of this, but i saw it at two game arcades:

    They had a bunch of these pod things in a row, it turns out they were full screen pods for playing a multiplayer Gundam game (similar to the 'Battletech' things they had in the US before).  On the right you can see inside one of them. Its a clamshell like thing that completely closes when you get it in. its got an enveloping curved screen and some fancy duel joystick + footpedal controls.  8+ guys get in these things and battle it out.  While you're waiting for your turn you can watch the progress of the battle on a map on a TV screen.  

    Funny thing to note, if you zoom on the picture on the left, you can see a warning sticker that warns against 'drunken playing' (depicted by a guy pouring beer down his pac-man-like gullet.)  Next time I'll try it. ;-)

    After the arcade we went for....... more ramen.

    Its the Ikebukuro location of my favorite private-booth ramen restaurant - Ichiran! (一蘭)


    This one came w/ pictographic instructions chained down to each booth.


    Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

    For those keeping score - yes, our 3rd trip to Ichiran in 3 days...

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  • racewong
    藝術家空間  黃婉佩
    留言於2008-07-12 2:33PM [举报]
    i'm drooling..
  • Amey
    Amey
    留言於2008-07-10 9:52PM [举报]
    一蘭ラーメン、麺はバリカタですか？
    スープは濃い目？
    博多ラーメン、おいしい店はほかにもあります。
    また東京に来たら別の店にchallengeしてね。
  • JoanneSanderson
    JoanneSanderson
    留言於2008-07-10 5:04PM [举报]
    Oh Arcade travelling is definitely on my to visit list in Japan
             
    Ichiran is really going to miss you two!!
  • bao3
    bao3
    留言於2008-07-10 12:44PM [举报]
    yep.. i'm waiting to snap up a copy of SF4 for my ps3.  looks good.
  • xibanyae
    xibanyae
    留言於2008-07-10 7:56AM [举报]
    wow, chun li has the b00bs! ;)
  • justicevancho
    藝術家空間 Justice Vancho
    留言於2008-07-10 4:08AM [举报]
    The Gundam pod game is awesome.  I loved it, but I only got to play it once.  I still have my card from it though.

    I wanna play SFIV too though.
  • janechu
    janechu
    留言於2008-07-10 12:49AM [举报]
    10 people waiting? wow... so the person that loses has to get up and let the next person play? that's pretty cool... hahaa... ;)
  • Etchy
     Etchy
    留言於2008-07-10 12:45AM
    chung - no, i don't even try ramen in HK anymore...  

    SFIV: its 3D graphics but the perspective is fixed from the side like the old one.
  • chungtsang
    藝術家空間 Chung Tsang
    留言於2008-07-09 11:30PM [举报]
    wow, sf 4.  Graphic looks lifelike and movement is awsome.  I think I may still perfer SF2 though?

    Man, I need to find a good ramen place.  I saw one in central at the end of Kau U Fong street near SoHo.  Outside looks pretty good, you guys been there?
  • miohk
    miohk
    留言於2008-07-09 11:29PM [举报]
    Oh, I've been to this Ichiran!!
  • rottendoubt
     rottendoubt
    留言於2008-07-09 11:23PM [举报]
    yum!
  • zuzu
    zuzu
    留言於2008-07-09 8:33PM [举报]
    Again 一蘭～～！！
    haha!!
    yappa
    Tonnkotsu yane~~~!!
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