JAPAN THREAD 2012: 2011 was a bit shaky, but we're still here!

Yeah just visiting my friend this is her Hometown

I’ll check out round 1

I played at some arcade yesterday but only had vanilla 4

Hey guys. I just moved to Japan, I’m in the US Navy and I just got stationed in Misawa, Aomori, Japan for the next 2 years. My PSN is UnD34D Zealot.

I mainly play Tekken 6 (and now Tekken Tag Tournament 2 I suppose) and SFIV AE2012.

I found one arcade in Hachinohe but it didn’t have any SF, only TTT2, which I beat some Japanese highschool kids at, which felt pretty good. I don’t think they understood when I called 'em trash, but whatever. Anyways, nice to meet you guys.

Welcome UnD34D!

added you to the top PSN listing and what not.

I need to get started on TT2 myself but just dont have the time to pick up a new game (KOF is also on my list…)

if you have any arcade recommendations for your area please post the location and what not so I can bump it up top!

Yo my ps3 ID is Spiiiking, I live in North Chiba and I go into the city a lot to play SF4 or GG. I don’t actually play online much these days cause I love arcades and guilty gear better but that might change when skullgirls and gg come out on PSN. Anyway hit me up if anyone’s bored and wants to get a beer and play some super slow fighter 4 or whatever. If you live in chiba my favorite arcade is Sonic Beam by Matsudo station, everything is 50en and almost all are 3/5 game.

Thanks man, not yet though, since I just got here I don’t have a car and haven’t had a chance to really explore yet. I heard there’s a pretty beast arcade in Hachinohe’s Sega World though. What games ya been playing? I got dece at KOF and kind of dropped it because, no lie, I just don’t have as much fun with it as I do in AE.

Spiking you should come play some GG with me at Mikado sometime in Takadanobaba. I live in Gunma but I am in Tokyo often on weekends to play games and get drunk.

Got my Japanese PSN account working: XenoVlade

This is the only PSN account I will use while in Japan so I suggest updating the OP.

Hey sounds like fun dude. Shoot me a message or something next time you’re coming into town. I could use someone to talk about GG with in english. I wanna up my game some more but I feel like I’ve hit a wall recently.

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I’m alive!!! I swear. . . . It was a VIDEO GAME EVENT!
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So is anything else happening? I take it that FRB is over?

yeah, season 2 is done… we in ATL for FRXV NOW! w00t

im sure scott will post more info about next season some time in the future

Hi guys. I’ll just copypasta my post from the fighting game discussion. I got redirected here ^^

We’ll only be staying in Tokyo for a couple of days, so I figured I wanted to check out a good arcade (or two) just to try it out. Since I live in Sweden, I have never actually played at one :slight_smile:

For SF, the taito station in Shinjuku is your best bet. The club sega there might be decent, too. Hey hey hey in Akihabara is also good for a buncha different games.

Alrighty. Thanks. Our hotel seems to be like 600-800 meters from the Taito Station, so that one will be the main pick I guess :smiley:

there are 2 taito stations in Shinjuku. make sure you hit the one near south east exit and NOT the one near Sportsland / Kabukicho since that one is no good.

Event @ Club SEGA, Ikebukuro.

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Can anyone translate? Is the event tomorrow or does registration start tomorrow?

its a qualifiers, there are a lot of qualifiers but the one at GIGO is tomorrow, registration starts at 10am, tournament starts at 230pm, 3on3

im sure i saw a few tweets about this event earlier, but i just got back to Japan and imma just rest at home tomorrow

how did you do at final round hfx?

didnt get through pools =(

lost my first match vs Aquasilk’s gief (lost 2-1, took the first match but ate U2 in almost every round later lol)

lost vs a Guy player(yeah, i know, i had super confidence in this match up but i messed up) in losers

tough luck

my pool started at 4+pm instead of 1pm… not blaming that, just sayin that it was wayyy more tiring than i thought itd be… ill be more prepared for the next major im attending (which is probably next years FR lol)…