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When I lived in Japan, I was really surprised what the average Japanese person thought about Arcades. There are Sega-, Taito-, Konami- and other branded Arcades
by suction 5y ago
When I lived in Japan, I was really surprised what the average Japanese person thought about Arcades. There are Sega-, Taito-, Konami- and other branded Arcades in the bigger cities, but "normal" people wouldn't go near them, because they are run by the Yakuza or Yakuza-owned front businesses.
With the ongoing rumours that Konami itself is a Yakuza company (see the news around the Hideo Kojima firing scandal) and Nintendo having started as a supplier for Yakuza gambling parlours, I wonder if video game arcades in Japan are simply the modern version of those gambling parlours.
So if there are rigged arcade machines, I am not surprised.
- lostgame 5y agoThere are similar rumours - and have been for years, before the creation of the actual 'Yakuza' game; about SEGA as well. The launch of the game did nothing to help those rumours, but certainly made it a bit more difficult to find information about online. :P
- krapp 5y agoGuru Larry's channel covered one such rumor that "A certain Japanese game publisher" hired the yakuza to kidnap a developer's sister[0]. Covered in "The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers Vol. 2." [0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K2muFAuJsg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K2muFAuJsg