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The Japanese game rooms are closing at a record rate thanks to the pandemic, and many do not expect them to return.

The arcades had been a dying business for a while. Since the domestic consoles could produce equal images or even better than real recreational boxes, people have been playing at home more frequently. Nowadays, the game rooms are basically nonexistent in the West and Europe, and it seemed that Japan would still be the only refuge, the last bastion of the noble game room.

Then, the blow of the pandemic of Covid-19 and even the powerful multi-storey game rooms are closing, and it is likely that they never return.

A new Japan Times report points out that there used to be more than 26,000 games rooms in Japan in 1986. By 2019, that number had fallen to just over 4,000, and in 2021 that number is much lower. Some of the largest game rooms in the country closed thanks to the pandemic, and the iconic building Akihabara No. 2 closed last year. Just three weeks ago, Sega was forced to close another tokyo games room, this time the nine floors sega ...