video games developed in japan
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Ditch Your Sofa to Make Room for These Ridge Racer and Tron Arcade Machines
It feels like few companies actually listen to their users, but Arcade1Up once again proves its ears are open to fan requests with two new scaled arcade machines that retro coin-op enthusiasts have been begging for: a stand-up version of Ridge Racer with a steering wheel and pedals, and a beautiful recreation of the classic…
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Deadpool, Missing Chairs, and Skeletor’s Staff Highlight the Week in Toys
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, Gizmodo’s regular round up of all things good and plastic in the world of merchandise. This week: Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool gets inducted into the world of S.H. Figuarts, we’re very perturbed about the lack of a chair in an action figure, and things get downright martial with replica staves and…
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You Won’t Need Your Parents’ Basement for These Tiny Atari 2600 and Dance Dance Revolution Setups
For a few years now, Super Impulse has been miniaturising nostalgia with tiny replicas of classic arcade cabinets and squeezing popular retro games into credit card-sized consoles. For its next trick, it’s focusing more on authenticity (relatively speaking) with a pair of retro gaming experiences that look and play exactly as the originals did, but…
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Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop Invites Us to Jam With Its Jazzy Opening Titles
There are perhaps few anime openings quite so burned into a fandom’s collective psyche as Cowboy Bebop’s “Tank!”. The stylish silhouetted animation has been the subject of homage and parody for decades, but it’s the rhythmic, hypnotic brass and bass of Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts’ banger of a theme that has convinced weebs they…