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sdsichero
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Nooo! It's a landmark! 
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Spike Terra
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2025 8:33 am |
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Sad to see it go, I went there in 2018 and 2024. In 2018, it was one of the best in Aki. In 2024, it was a shell of its former self. As stated by the article, Covid played a major role in hurting the arcade scene in Japan. Maybe one day it will return.
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TarsTarkas
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2025 8:33 am |
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Not sure if I am correct, just sounds like their lease expired, and someone else acquired it and intends to use it for the same purpose as the outgoing lease holder.
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Greed1914
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2025 9:00 am |
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| TarsTarkas wrote: | | Not sure if I am correct, just sounds like their lease expired, and someone else acquired it and intends to use it for the same purpose as the outgoing lease holder. |
That is accurate, but I think there is the implication to take from it that Gigo would have renewed the lease if business was going as well as it wanted. It's easier for everyone to renew than to move out. Add in the optics of this particular arcade being something of a landmark, and someone unrelated coming in to do a similar business still seems like a sign of the times.
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FlamingFirewire
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2025 10:13 am |
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Amusement facility largely translates to Pachinko in Japan... if it is the replacement, it's a sad day
While #1 being gone, #3 is better anyway as it has most of the same games anyways, plus the more unique RETRO floor, if memory serves me correct.
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hikura
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2025 6:48 pm |
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A legend will be lost.
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Cardcaptor Takato
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2025 1:44 am |
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| Quote: | | GENDA retroactively said later that "GiGO" stands for "Get into the Gaming Oasis.") |
So they in fact did not get into the gaming oasis.
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