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Guardians of the Galaxy Tom Marks Age of Empires 4 Leana Hafer Rust Kat Bailey 1. Open year round, 24 hours a day. The top floor of Akihabara's Super Potato retro games centre is an old-time Japanese arcade, complete with s-style glass-top cocktail arcade cabinets.

Besides arcade games, there are manga comics for perusal, bottled Coca-Cola for purchase, and a giant chair made completely of Nintendo game cartridges. The decor fails to match the retro theme — it's more like a jungle, with the rafters covered in fake leaves and vines, sheltering a camo-clad life-size statue of Snake from Metal Gear Solid, with pistol cocked. Open Mon-Fri 11am-8pm, Sat, Sun 10am-8pm. Short for Hirose Entertainment Yard, Hey! Rows and rows of arcade machines flicker under the fluorescent lights, and you'll need guts of steel and quick reflexes on the arcade's second floor, dedicated to crazy "bullet hell" shoot-'em-up games like Mushihimesama, in which endless streams of projectiles are fired at players.

The third floor is filled with fighting games, and the regulars are some of the best gamers in Japan. It's where they go to show off. Open daily 10am-midnight. Arcades in Tokyo are smoky — a major turn-off for many visitors. Namco Nakano, near otaku shopping centre Nakano Broadway, is a little different — clean, spacious arcade gaming with strict no-smoking sections and air purifiers, as well as the usual array of arcade games.

What it lacks in smoke it also lacks in personality — the place is sterile compared with the grungier, older arcades, but the atmosphere is relaxed, and the competition isn't nearly as stiff as at pro-gamer haunts such as Hey!.

It's a good place for "casuals" building their way up. Open daily 10am The stubbornly strong yen is a drain on visitors' wallets. Please send an email to newstips ign. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN.

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