Friday, April 11, 2003

Aso Bit City I love games. I love places that sell games. I love Aso Bit City! This is an eight story building in Japan dedicated to NERDS. The ground floor is all console games. Entrace area has the newest Japanese titles lined up against the walls. XBox, PS2, and Nintendo basically rule this floor. Here's the breakdown by floors: Console games Music, Movies, and Anime .. like Tower Records & Videos + Anime (only Japanese) Books .. mostly gaming books Omocha (toys) .. worth mentioning are the remote controlled mini-tanks that shoot infra red Models of guns, Guns, Gundam, and Gundam (Japanese only)  PC games .. BOUGHT Command & Conquer GENERALS (foreign[US] games available) including a PC gaming LAN w/ broadband connection preinstalled w/ various games. AV (Adult Videos) .. basically porn and Anime porn. Events area (click to see larger photos) Streaming video of a PS2 taiko (Japanese drum) game: - PS2 Taiko No Tatsujin (Windows Media 240x180 stream from Playstream) Downloadable movie: - Final Fantasy X-2 (Windows AVI format / NOT streaming) 1:30:37 AM    comment []

No Smoking in Akihabara Did you know that there's no smoking in public at Akihabara!?! That suprised me since it seems like smoking and Tokyo are soo attached to each other. Kentaro's younger brother Dai showed me around 'Akiba', short for Akihabara, and he got the urge for a hit.. so we headed over to Smokers' Style. This is shop or I should say private area that's available to the public for smoking. It's owned and run by .. suprise suprise JTI (Japan Tabacco Inc). JTI owns Japan or should I say that the Japanese Gov't owns JTI. Check out this article at tobacco.org. (click to see larger photos) 12:08:26 AM    comment []