Tokyo Game Life

✨ NEW EPISODE ✨ Featuring: 👊 Hong Kong 2097 w/ @KaniProGames 🌌 The Super Mario Galaxy Movie in Japan 🗼 Tokyo events and new merch Listen now! 👇 tokyogamelife.com/episode/hong-k…

Pragmata on Switch 2 is sold out at a local Bic Camera. Guess you’ll have to just make Hugh and Diana in Tomodachi Life in the meantime.

@cosmicbossman It’s a joke based on the insane amount of Splatoon amiibo I see here in Japan. Though Japanese people say most of Japan’s plastic is used for Gunpla, and one can only assume that’s true 🤖

@TokyoGameLife If this isn’t a mistranslation or typo that is absolutely insane

Japanese stores now have Splatoon Raiders for pamphlets introducing the game! Did you know half of Japan’s plastic is used to make Splatoon amiibo?

I spent Golden Week in Gunma, which you may know as the setting of Initial D! I ran into a lot of fun Initial D stuff there, but sadly didn’t find Sega’s arcade games based on the series…

Came across this cafe in Ikaho with a random mix of Dragon Quest and Ghibli decorations. Totoro could pass for a DQ monster I think… 🤔

I’ll be in the Namco excavator if you need me

I visited Ikaho Toy, Doll, and Car Museum which has a small area dedicated to video games. Mostly just discs slapped on a wall, but it was cool to see. Not sure what Super Scope did to be put in jail though.

The only place where you can hear behind the scenes about the development of Hong Kong 2097 in English

I’m at Shibukawa Skyland Park, where there is a severely sun-damaged Mario statue. He needs to be free.

Mario, Pokemon, and Kirby all had special physical hanafuda sets. What Nintendo franchise should get one next? 🤔

New podcast episode tomorrow! The developer of Hong Kong 2097 joins to chat about making a sequel to Japan’s worst doujin game! And I detail the Mario Galaxy movie experience in Japan! Follow Tokyo Game Life on: Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tok… Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7oDaILmLV…

Dual advertisements for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and the Galaxy collection on Switch at Shinjuku Station! Kinda funny to see both Switch 1 and 2 in the same ad.

RE Engine meaning Reach For The Moon has big “DS means Developer’s System” energy

Sanei is releasing new Donkey Kong Bananza plushies this August! Please tell me a Grumpy Kong plus is in the works.

These are all real screenshots from Evangelion video games. We chat about the weird and wonderful world of Eva games in the latest podcast episode: tokyogamelife.com/episode/evange…

What if Yoshi had a mysterious book? The Japanese title uses 図鑑 which is more specifically a picture book or field guide.

@Tonykc1992 It’s on 5F of Shinjuku Marui Men! 0101.co.jp/074/

@TokyoGameLife By chance do you have a Google map link? 🙏🏻

Visited the newly opened Hard Off in Shinjuku! Quite a large stock with a little bit of everything. It also feels a bit fancier than some of the other stores.

Now at Family Mart: Pokemon Pokopia collab with new sweets! Warabi mochi is probably the closest thing to biting into a real Ditto.

@LewisJFC We sure did! Both were highly recommended from my guest.

@TokyoGameLife Hope you cover these two!

Before Smash Bros, the crossover of the century was Eva and Good Friends, a mahjong game featuring characters from Evangelion, Nadia, and Gunbuster. Smash mahjong when? We chat about Eva games in the latest podcast episode: tokyogamelife.com/episode/evange…