There are vintage video game shops, vintage toy shops that seem to contain every obscure 90s toy I ever pined after, crowned in the upper levels by Mandarake, the doorway to which is built out with bright red torii gates, giving it the feel of stepping through a portal into a slightly different world. This dense, elaborately decorated space was built in 1966 as a luxury shopping mall, but is now a 13-storey vintage paradise. Booking in advance is essential – the booking fee covers a cocktail, some snacks and a delightful gift. The walls are covered in original illustrations and signatures, and there is a display case with objects in it that made me – a lifelong Nintendo enthusiast – gasp. 84 Hashi has been a drinking spot for Nintendo employees of times gone by, but opens its doors to tourists during limited hours, with customers led by a friendly interpreter. This is a tiny hidden bar run by Toru Hashimoto, who contributed to some of the most well-known games in Nintendo’s history, including Pokémon Red and Green, Yoshi’s Island, and EarthBound. Guardian games correspondent Keith Stuart suggests the Final Fantasy Eorzea cafe and Monster Hunter bar. It’s the perfect little bolthole to take the edge off the overstimulation that comes from an hour wandering around towering electronics stores such as BicCamera, or to decompress while you work out how to fit a vintage translucent pink Nintendo 64 in your suitcase.Īlternatives: Jon Doyle, director of specialist video game book publisher Lost in Cult and regular Tokyo visitor, also recommends the hobby shop and game museum Suruga-ya, and the vast book store, Book Off. My favourite spot after an evening trawling around is Barfly’s Stomp, a tiny punk bar (and shop) tucked away on a side street. If you haven’t time to give Akihabara a full afternoon or evening, Super Potato is the place to swing by. An atmospheric little arcade is on the top floor, too. There are stacks of old game guides and magazines to leaf through, displays of merchandise from huge game releases of years gone by: a lifesize statue of Fox McCloud stands proudly at the cash desk. Seeing so many different kinds of video games from throughout time in one place gives a real sense of how far the medium and culture have come. Though the majority will be in Japanese, some of them region-locked, there is joy to be had browsing what feels like a museum, even if you can’t read kanji. Down a narrow corridor and up a tiny elevator, there are floors of games from every era, the beloved and the niche. Super Potato is the jewel in Akihabara’s electric crown. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Roaring neon skyline … Akihabara. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using the Brave browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse, then send that data back to a third party, essentially spying on your browsing habits.We strongly recommend you stop using this browser until this problem is corrected. The latest version of the Opera browser sends multiple invalid requests to our servers for every page you visit.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
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