For a really very long time, Sega’s massive arcades had been a mainstay of the Akihabara skyline, and among the predominant sights for anybody making a gaming-related pilgrimage via the streets of Tokyo.
Sadly they both closed or rebranded to Gigo again in 2020, a part of Sega’s wider withdrawal from the arcade enterprise, and for some time now what was as soon as some of the distinguished gaming areas within the metropolis—Sega Akihabara Arcade Constructing 4—has sat empty. However not! After information received out final month, it has now been confirmed that rivals Bandai Namco shall be taking on a lot of the area as a substitute, with the arcade set to reopen subsequent month.
It’ll be a model new arcade, after all, because it’ll be stocked with Bandai Namco’s video games as a substitute of Sega’s, which suggests you may anticipate to see all the things from Tekken to Mario Kart Arcade in there. Alongside the arcade Bandai Namco may even be opening plenty of shops, together with one specialising within the firm’s buying and selling card video games, one other that’ll be promoting capsule toys in addition to a devoted area for claw machines.
For those who’ve ever visited, seen a bunch and are questioning which arcade precisely is altering palms—there are 4 within the space!—Sega Akihabara Arcade Constructing 4 was the large one on the nook with the very cool uncovered escalators. The opposite notable arcades—like Sega Akihabara Arcade Constructing 1, the one you’ll see first popping out of the practice station—are nonetheless there, although these now carry the Gigo emblem as a part of the 2020 rebrand, and so actually simply aren’t the identical anymore.
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Bandai Namco’s new arcade—which is the corporate’s first ever in Akihabara, by some means, with Sega having sucked up all of the oxygen for many years—opens on March 1.