【新闻周刊 20131118】独自游戏在东京

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【中文标题】独自游戏在东京
【原文标题】Gaming Alone In Tokyo
【登载媒体】新闻周刊
【原文作者】Andrea Frazzetta
【原文链接】http://www.newsweek.com/gaming-alone-tokyo-3457



游戏厅文化在日本依然盛行，尤其对于喜欢单人游戏的人来说。

日本的游戏中心——称作“吉森”——是城市里高端的大都市娱乐公园。里面充满了各种灯光和电子音乐，遍布东京和日本各地。人们独自娱乐，与朋友一起消遣，年轻的情侣在不断晋级的过程中获取爱情。

美国和其它国家的电子游戏早已从游戏厅转移到家里的客厅，但日本则是新老共存。五颜六色、灯光闪耀的吉森照亮了一个神话般的世界，这里有各种各样的游戏方式，从简单的机械臂到复杂的纸牌角色扮演。日本的角子机——也叫弹子机，玩法是让小球落在恰当的位置以获取积分——是70年前的产物。

东京有900万居民，但是家庭规模在过去几十年里变得越来越小。2012年，东京平均每户人口数量不到2个人。《日本时报》一位主编哀叹道：“东京逐渐变成了一个孤独的城市。”独居越来越普遍，并且被人们所接受。人们独自吃饭、独自饮酒，甚至独自唱卡拉OK。在家里玩游戏或许更实惠，但游戏中心可以让日本独居的人在一起享受孤独。


东京池袋区。


涩谷区游戏厅的入口。


一个男孩在今年9月份东京游戏展上试玩一款新游戏。


秋叶原算是东京的“电子城”，人们在弹子机上试运气。


涩谷区的游戏中心。


这款角子机游戏结合了角色扮演的因素，目标是庆祝一场完美的婚礼。


两个人在梅田欢乐城欣赏景观，这是坐落在东京湾人工岛御台场上的一个娱乐游戏厅。


在东京都厅舍上看到的日本首都景色。


秋叶原一处繁华的游戏中心。


人们在丰岛区的池袋吃拉面，这里是东京最繁华的场所之一。


新宿的一个游戏厅。


花园神社的台阶，这是新宿区的神道教圣地。


东京一个游戏厅。


很多“薪水男”——白领工人——在一天工作结束后到池袋找乐子。


池袋一家游戏厅的内景。


浅草区巷子里的一家小店铺门口，坐着一个算命者。


原文：

Arcade culture is still thriving in Japan, especially if you're keen on playing solo.

Tokyo’s game centers—called gei-cen for short—are the city’s high-octane metropolitan amusement parks. Filled with bright lights and a cacophony of electronic sounds, they can be found throughout Tokyo and all across the country. People game alone, or with friends, and young couples earn each other’s love as they progress through the levels.  

While gaming in the U.S. and other countries has moved from arcades to living rooms, in Japan the old and the new coexist. The colored, flashing lights of the gei-cen illuminate a fantasy world filled with myriad gaming options, from simple mechanical arms to complex card-based role-playing. Japanese slot machines, called pachinkos—where a small ball must land in the right spot to deliver the jackpot—date back 70 years.

Tokyo is home to 9 million people, and family size has gotten smaller in the last few decades; in 2012 the average household size in Tokyo was fewer than two people. “Tokyo is a lonelier place than ever,” an editorial in The Japan Times lamented at the time. It’s a city where solitude is common and respected: People eat alone, drink alone—even sing karaoke alone. Playing games at home might be cheaper, but game centers let Tokyo’s solitary denizens can be alone together.

In the Ikebukuro district.

The entrance of a game center in the Shibuya district.

A boy tries out a new game during the annual Tokyo Game Show this September.

In Akihabara, a part of Tokyo also referred to as “Electric Town,” people try their luck at pachinko.

A game center in the Shibuya district.

The goal of this game, which combines elements of role-playing with a slot machine, is to celebrate the perfect wedding.

Two people take in the view at Joypolis, an amusement arcade on the artificial island of Odaiba in Tokyo Bay.

Japan’s capital seen from the the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building.

Inside a popular game center in the Akihabara district.

Men eat ramen in the Ikebukuro district, park of the larger Toshima district, one of Tokyo’s busiest regions.

A game center in Shinjuku.

The steps of Hanazono Jinja, a Shinto shrine in the Shinjulu district.

A Tokyo game center.

Many “salarymen,” or white-collar workers, find entertainment in the Ikebukuro district at the end of a work day.

In an Ikebukuro game center.

A fortune teller sits in the entrance of a small shop among the alleys of the Asakusa district.

青蛙小王子

几乎不 玩游戏   不 知道游戏的魅力     貌似身边也没有发现几个游戏厅

Pentium_5

在特色社会正义治下的祖国，今天，这些早已不再新鲜。

沐霜

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