Game culture spread world wild

An American gamer walking into a Japanese arcade would probably find themselves quite confused. At first glance, everything appears as it should be; Flashing screens, deafening sounds, and a token machine in the corner, waiting for your cash. After one converts their bills into the ubiquitous golden funny money, tokens, they may notice something has gone awry: The games they’re so used to are nowhere to be found. There isn’t a single Centipede machine! In its place, however, there is a game in which the player can take the place of a percussionist in a virtual band. In fact, not only are the games ifferent in theme, but many of them don’t even have a joystick, the staple control scheme Americans expect to find on just about every arcade game and are instead View the rest of this article