Nonetheless that addictive Puyo gameplay remains intact. Its inclusion in Yakuza 6 was just shortly after the puzzler began gaining more international attention after the release of puzzle mash-up Puyo Puyo Tetris, and so features the same modern visuals rather than the classic look of the Puyo Puyo 2 cabinets you’re more likely to find in a Japanese arcade. Tetris may be the puzzler known the world over but in Japan, Puyo Puyo is king, a drop puzzler built with competition at its heart as you aim to pop as many of the titular bean-shaped things, setting off a dizzying chain of combos that sends more garbage Puyo over to your opponent’s screen. Also, a fun fact: the big Club Sega in Kamurocho’s Theatre Square (pictured above) is actually the site of the Humax Pavilion Shinjuku complex in real life, so who’s to say Club Sega can’t live on in virtual fiction? Out Run While we don’t know what these new developments mean for future Yakuza games, here are just some of the best arcade games you should play in the Yakuza series, if only to get a taste of Sega’s good old blue-sky coin-op days. By also including Club Sega arcades, I guess you could say they’re also preserving that history. Besides being known for its gritty melodrama, bone-crunching action and wacky humour, these games have always offered an authentic slice of Japanese culture for virtual tourists, the streets of Kamurocho evolving with the times as much as its real-life counterpart of Kabukicho. Nonetheless, if that’s got you pining for Sega’s arcade yesteryear, those times fortunately live on through Yakuza series, as well as its spin-off Judgment. Ultimately, the impact of this news will be far more visible in Japan where the big blue Sega logo has adorned arcade centres across the country for decades, which are all set to be renamed to GiGO – at least whichever ones new owners Genda intend to keep open.
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