00:03 John Daub: Good morning everybody. Sometimes you'll be just in one of these hotels. There's Hana right there from the 1980s. They're back before that. And they have these retro game centers that are still alive. They've still got some playtime in it. And that's the case right here at Hotel Yumoto. This one is a train simulator. I have not seen something like this since I came to Japan over 20 years ago.

00:32 John Daub: Look at the game. Now it's flickering just because of the frequency of the voltage here. But apart from that, I just want to show you some of the stuff here. Check out. They don't make stuff like this anymore. It's like made out of metal. The buttons are all really well made. And this one is the gas. And the pedal down here. Look at that. So we're going to try this game. But I want to show you some of the other stuff. This one is made from Taito. It's called Densha de Go 2 (train simulator). Or in English, Let's Go by Train 2. This one is Ridge Racer. I've never seen this one before. Rave Racer by Namco. Oh this one's busted. It says it's busted. And then this thing. I used to play this as a kid. Hana you know what this is. This is the Kaizoku Gan (pirate eye). Right. And then I guess yeah one of these will eject the pirate on top of there. But this is a life size one. Check it out. Hana's like standing next to it. Check it out.

01:37 John Daub: That's crazy. This is kind of like a patrol. This one is from the 60s it looks like. This is so worth it. You know to come. This is a reason to stay at this hotel. They have like an ancient UFO catcher. This one is a little bit older. This is the one that plays this background sounds that I remember from 20 years ago. Here's another Pocket Racer. A small retro racing game from the 1980s. I think before the 80s. And then this one is a Doraemon thing. Ellis would like this one a lot. Where you get to I guess touch him. I'm not sure. It looks a little creepy. You know because Doraemon has a pocket with a lot of objects inside of it. And then here's some more retro games here. Retro arcade games. There's even an air hockey table. How cool is that. And then over here we have the drum game. This is from the 90s.

02:40 John Daub: This Taiko (drum) game. And then of course the knockdown game. We don't have a lot of time to play these games. So I just wanted to kind of show you. This one is called Gun Barrel. And you have two guns to shoot at the screen with. Oh man that is so retro. And this game of course is a classic. You can still find this in some places. The Taiko game. With the cho-chi no less.

03:11 John Daub: Alright let's go play this train game. Where do you get the thousand yen? Let's change it. Let's get some change. Yes. I was born ready. I was born to crash a train. For a hundred yen. Oh the beautiful sound of one hundred yen coins. It's game time. Hana doesn't like these though right Hana? The bear collection. Again like very retro from the 1980s. Those are real bears. Real animals. It's such a throwback from more than a generation ago maybe. Pachinko and slot machines. But no we're here for this. This is the train thing.

04:23 Kanae Daub: I'm not sure. Do you want to go first? I'm not sure exactly how to play.

04:32 John Daub: So let's just take a look here quickly. It says number one. The light will go on. Number two the brake. Which is here. This one is the brake. You have to turn the brake here. Yeah. Number three. This. Mask-on. Okay. We call this the axle which is in Japanese the gas is called the aksel. Axel yeah. And then mask-on. Cut. So then you turn it on and cut it and move this right? Yeah. And then game start. Right. I guess. I think that's how you do it. You have to have studied the train guys. You have to have studied. Yeah. Why don't you go ahead and crash the first time. Go ahead and crash it.

04:51 John Daub: Are you ready? Because let's go.

05:12 Kanae Daub: So you're going to Akita.

05:15 John Daub: Oh, you can change the train. Whoa! There's a Shinagawa to Ueno. Are you going to do the Shinkansen? All right, dude, do what you want to do. Then there's one from Shinagawa to Ueno. What is that, the Yamanote line? No. That's pretty cool. You can pick the train line that you want to do. So you have 30 seconds. This is the Komachi Shinkansen. So you have 30 seconds to get to the next station, I think. And there's the time on the top there. Hana, hurry!

05:57 Kanae Daub: I don't know!

06:04 John Daub: Shinkansen, he said. Shinkansen. Are you pushing? Do you have to push that thing down there? You are? Are the dials moving? It is moving! I guess you really have to focus.

06:35 John Daub: And it's not as much fun to watch. I thought the Shinkansen would go faster. But it is pretty neat to see that this thing still works. I'm interested to... Yeah, you're supposed to go... That was the Shinkansen music. Did you hear that? That's coming from these speakers on the right and the left. Do you know what you're doing?

07:11 John Daub: Okay. You're just going? This is the... Oh, this is so cool because it actually... If you've ever ridden up here, this is the actual train line. I guess this is what Japan looked like in the 1980s. It hasn't changed. But this is going to Akita. And Akita up in the north in Tohoku. This is what's flashing on your thing. So... Yeah, this isn't a lot of fun.

07:43 John Daub: What are you doing? You're not even... You're just... Oh, okay. Wait. You got points off? How do you win this game? You have to arrive at your destination safely.

08:01 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

08:02 John Daub: We did have a typhoon in Tokyo earlier today. But we're in Niigata on the other side of Japan. And we had just heavy rains this morning. But I've gotten reports it's already sunny in Tokyo. So the typhoon has passed. And there's some beautiful clear skies all the way to Mount Fuji. Instead, you're watching a live stream of us playing a Densha de Go train simulation game. So I don't think... Look at the bottom there. It says here... So you have one kilometer to go until the station. Apparently. I'm just guessing. Oh, I think you're going pretty... Oh, you said game over. You were... Because you took that turn, Hana, at top speed. You totally crashed that. You took the turn at top speed. Big no-no. Yeah. All right. That wasn't very exciting. I'm just going to pass on this game. Sorry. It's not your fault. It is cool.

09:01 John Daub: Ridge Racer looks pretty fun. But we're going to try this one here because I know this is going to be fun. This isn't Whack-A-Mole. This is something else. Hey, what is it called in Japanese?

09:12 Kanae Daub: I don't know.

09:13 John Daub: All right. We're going to put 100 yen in here for you just to try this out. This is one of these pirate barrel games. And you put the sword in there and one of them will make it pop.

10:09 John Daub: It's making growling effects here. Hold it for a second. All right. You're going to... Now you're going to play out there because it looks... This is what it would look like if you're playing. You don't want him to pop out here. Safe. All right, Hana, go ahead.

10:32 Kanae Daub: I don't know if this game is like... Maybe it's broken.

10:34 John Daub: Maybe it's broken. Do it, Hana. You said something. Oh, so I guess we're supposed to have him shoot out. You don't want him... Oh, no. I stuck it in real deep. All right, go ahead. I think we're out of... Wait, what? That's it? You know, games in the 1980s really stunk. That's it? We don't get to see him pop out? No. Oh, my. All right. We're going to try one more. I don't know which one... Is there one you want to try? The barrel game? The punching game? Maybe? Knockdown 90. All right. You want to do this, Hana? You look pretty angry. Angry young girl. Oh, that's a ten yen coin. All right.

11:45 John Daub: If you want to see... If you want to see Hana... Ding, ding, ding, ding. If you want to see Hana knock this out, it's time for you to hit the like button. Let's get the 200 likes and Hana will knock out some inflatable thing.

11:57 Kanae Daub: Yes.

11:58 John Daub: All right. Here you go. It's up to you. All right. We're waiting for the people. Hold on a second. Give the people some time to catch up. It's up to you, the community. You have a say in this. Until we get the 200 likes, Hana will be warming up. Let's see. Let's see your war face. Yeah. She doesn't have a war face. So we're going to get this in a second. And if we have some time, I might try the shooting game or the taiko game real quickly. But hit the like button if you want some more. It's up to you, the 438 people. Do you want to see this girl punch? Click like. Do you? Yes, they do. All right. I think we're almost there. All right. Go ahead, Hana. Thanks, everybody.

12:53 John Daub: You got to put the gloves on. Does it record your pressure? This is from, like, Rocky IV. Whoa. All right. Let's see how tough you are. Wait, were you just bouncing?

13:15 Kanae Daub: Yes.

13:15 John Daub: You're bouncing. You've done this before. All right. Punch. Oh, my word. 40 kilograms. I don't know. Let's see what you punch next. There's another try. All right. Okay. I don't know if I'm going to be able to beat that. That's what I'm scared about. What if I punch like a girl? I don't. All right. I can't do a running. You can't. Bouncy. All right. Rocky. I didn't know if this was going to be safe. This is just weird. This is just bizarre. All right. So I beat you by 13. And that's it. That's our 100 yen games in the 1980s. I guess you tell your friends about it. You have to call them up on the telephone. There's no SNS, so you have to call them up. Hey, Mom, I just got 56 kilograms. 53 kilograms. All right. Let's try one more. This one is kind of retro. Here's 100. Show us how it's done. Yeah. Taiko game. Yeah. You weren't even born when this was made. Were you?

15:01 Kanae Daub: No.

15:02 John Daub: Oh, you have? Wow. It's a classic. She was not born when this was made. And yet she knows the game. So watch this, everybody. Yeah. All right. Hana's going here. I don't know how the quality of the video is. I can imagine that. Go ahead. I'm just going to move a little bit away. See if I can get a better signal. So Hana's playing this game, but we're all right. I actually have four. I have only two bars. So we're in deep in the countryside. You're not going to get, like, that great reception, but we're doing okay. Hana, you're typing in your name or something. It's choosing a song. Okay. All right. Refresh your screens. Push the refresh button. Maybe. All right. We're ready. Hana, you can change the world with a Taiko drum.

16:30 Kanae Daub: I have to.

16:37 John Daub: It's not very exciting. It's not so much fun to watch. Did you put beginner mode standard? You should have done, like, super advanced. This is really easy. This is boring as the train game. I don't know. You keep playing. I'm just going to walk around. You're probably still be playing. I think you're going to. Oh, is it getting faster? Does it feel like a real Taiko drum? Or like. So you don't get the same kickback, same reverberation as you would from a real drum. So it's kind of not the same. She's actually really good at Taiko drumming. So this game is going to be so easy for her. So we're just going to come back. I'm going to do one more loop around and show you this weird, really weird game center.

17:48 John Daub: I've been to several retro hotels out in the countryside in Japan, especially once built in the 1980s. And you'll find these retro game centers still exist. We tried this to stab a pirate game and he wouldn't pop out. And then Hana tried this train game and she took a turn too fast and the game was over. It was kind of boring and slow. There is an air hockey, which is so cool. I wish more places had air hockey. There's slots in Pachinko, but I'm not really into that. I don't actually know how to play. And then there's these here. The lucky crane. This one is like ancient. The UFO catchers before the UFO catchers. They were like pinball machines. And then is it over? You lost. Oh, you won. And then they say, give us more money. What is supposed to win and keep on being?

18:43 John Daub: I played a game called Mat Mania in the 1980s. Mat Mania was a wrestling game. I did that for two hours on one quarter. I know if you just and we're kids. If you did one move, it was the elbow move. You could continuously defeat any boss. You just do that same move over and over and over again. And we would do that as kids, even though it was boring. But we would say we got to play for two hours. Yeah, I'm just saying sometimes it's legendary. All right. We also have this here, which is pretty retro. I don't even I guess you shoot balls and you try to get it into the hole. Yeah, that's hard. All right. Let's see how hard it is. Okay. All right. Thank you. Just do it. This is a game from an era, the golden era. Everything was golden outside. Black and white era. All right. Do it. Shoot it. Oh, it doesn't. It doesn't spit out at light speed. You have to time it. Feel the force. Young Padawan. Feel it. Oh, you were close. A game that requires both skill. And maturity. You want to try once? All right. I can do this. All right. I'm trying this for you. The people that I lost. Oh, no. Is that the final ball? I have another one. All right. I got to feel it. You feel it. We stink. Shoot. Only if we lived in the 1980s. Now it's a little bit more practice. I don't even know what this is. Total drop. Little drop. You have to drop something. Stuff. Yeah. These things will fall and drop and you have to collect them. These are one of these pushy games. Things push out here. And then there's an ancient baseball pinball like game where you can hit home runs. This one looks pretty cool. All right. So that's about it. And this is outside the hotel. You can see that it rained pretty heavy and the typhoon is gone. But we had some fun. Thanks, Hana, for being our player.

21:20 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

21:21 John Daub: Playing retro games from the eighties, you two can play. You just have to come really far to this hotel. Or there's a place in Takara Nobaba and Tokyo that has some pretty cool retro games. You want to check it out? I did a video on the main channel last year on it called Tokyo's Retro Game Arcade. Pretty title pretty much explains it. We're going now to a festival. We're going to be live streaming in about two hours from now. A lunch. We're going to do some street food at the festival. So you may want to make sure you click the subscribe. And tune in. So in about two, two and a half hours, we'll be live again. So bye bye from the retro game center. See you soon. They really did know how to make games back then. Look at that. Everything was really made well.