ARCADES FOREVER

Taito Hey

2018

The Broadway Arcade, Broadway & West 52nd St, New York (1990)

I saw this in another post on the side and just had to find it as the focus because I really like the look of it! This is probably the coolest 7Up Cool Spot video game related thing I've seen.

The Game On! Arcade in Lake Grove; where gaming champion Billy Mitchell once visited it before. It's no more after five years of operation. The mall proposed to raise their rent four-fold and the arcade said "no". It's the norm here on Long Island where smaller businesses are driven out because of near-impossible rent prices; not lack of clientele. They still have another arcade in Riverhead and both gaming stores still stand.

Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-Kun (Technōs Japan, 1986)

Developed/Published by: Technōs Japan/Taito Released: 05/1986 Completed: 08/03/2026 Completion: Finished it (Saving after each level.)

It was announced on April 5th that the designer of Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-Kun, Double Dragon and more, Yoshihisa Kishimoto, had passed away. There’s a sad coincidence here, as I’d just played both Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-Kun and Double Dragon for an unrelated reason. These weren’t Kishimoto’s first games–he started at Data East and created some well-regarded laserdisc games, Thunder Storm and Road Blaster (also known as Cobra Command and Road Avenger) but they are his best known works, so as tribute I’ll be posting my articles on them this week and next.

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