ta...su...ke...te... (around noon, 14 may, tokyo)

hello. i have to finish my report on "gaming situation in england" whitin 2 days, and i'm stuck.

gamers, please help me... tasukete...

i have sooo many blanks to fill in, for example,
- how much do you pay to play a race game (the ones in arcades, driving games)
- what is the most popular console
- how big is the rental game market

etc etc. i'm in tokyo, and my english is not that great, then how can i know these stuffs! i'm so stuck. (i don't know much about games in the first place.)
as for the arcade, for example, i remembered the big game center in picadelly circus, and i could find the name and their website: but they don't have price info, or game info!

does anybody have suggestions about useful websites to study statistics of games etc? (i also googled out about "screendigest", but i don't have $1mil to register so that i'd have access to their database.)

momo

[Akira]

First off...Hi

1) Normaly 60p to £1, If there old games then there normlay 60p.
2)PS2 is the most sold console here. (dont know why tho)
3)The rental game market is pretty big, Most people over here try before they buy.

[Andy Villa]

arcade costs differ from where you are based regionally i think...

and costs vary from 50p to £2...

and what akira said....

[Blondi]

Hi and welcome Momo, and what they said

[dj017]

hey there.

never paid more than £2 to play an arcade game and the playstation 2 deffinately is at the top over here! I think it is mainly due to the fact that if you go into a local computer game shop they have a wall full of ps2 games an a single rack of xbox games!

as for the rental business. it is massive, personally I have never rented a game in my entire life but I dont know anyone else who hasn't rented games before. it seems everybody does it (isn;t that expensive either)

[Akira]

A single rack of xbox games?.....You been into many game shops latley, I went into my local gamestation and it had a wall and a half of xbox games.

[Scarface]

DOes anyone realy believe this guy is coming back?

Akira san, Ralfwiggum san, Blondi san, dj017 san,

Thank you so much for your info. It filled some of the blanks in my report.
I did not expect that the rental market could be big in UK - I don't see any of them in Tokyo.
Instead, second-hand market is getting bigger and bigger.
People use Yahoo auction for everything (like ebay in US).

(May I ask some more questions?)
It seems like that you have a lot of "virsus city" games (correct me if I'm wrong - I'm new to these technical words). How about bigger ones, such as driving games that you can compete with friends, or shooting games? Do you have lots of those as well in your arcades, and if so, price is still the same range?
In Tokyo, if you go to the arcade building of let's say 7 floors, 1-2f is for eye-catching games (drivings, shootings, dancings, playing musics, prize machines, etc.), and 3f for Purikura (print clubs - do you have them?), and 4-5f is for virsus city games, and 6-7f for coin games.
So basically 1-3f is for light users and 4-7f for the gamers.
How would you describe your arcades?
Do you have prize machines (I don't know if they exist there... you play it to get prizes, such as character figures and stuffed toys. Typical one is called UFO catcher.), or coin games (you buy coins/medals/tokens to play, and you play to multiple them. Poker, horse betting, slot, etc.)?

I visited London a couple of times and I don't remember I saw lots of arcade places. Only place I remember is the Sega place in Picadelly circus, and one in Oriental Market.

Scarface san, I live on the other side of the world, so I wake up when you go to bed...
...and I'm gal not guy.

Momo

[Scarface]

You came back ,im impressed.

You don't even know where I live ,infact our time zones are closer than you think.

Oh, you are awake. I jumped to think this community consists of UK people - as I only meet Japanese people within Japanese internet communities, but of course English is universal and has bigger window.

Your ID says you are from Sector 7-G. Is that which continent if I can ask?

Momo

[Scarface]

Secrtor 7-G is where Homer Simpson works.

I live in New Zealand.

My dream of the moment is to work at WETA workshop in the future.

PS2 is the biggest share there too?

[Andy Villa]

british arcades are nowhere near as big as american and asian arcades...

we normally get one or two floors and its pretty much spread out with a mixture of games, eg, driving, shooting, puzzle and prize games of fruit machines and stuffed toy games...

im not sure what you mean by virsus city games...

ralfwiggum san,

Thank you for your post.
Virsus City - I meant those table games you sit opposite sides to play, face to face but devided with screens. Like this:
http://www.bally.co.jp/goodsimage/vi...ersus-city.jpg

Hmmm... do you play on-line games too?

Momo

[MadFog]

Yeah, people in the UK Play online games, some people from clan 4K Are british ( probably the best warcraft and CS Clan around ), gaming is not as big over here as in america and japan etc, but we still are quite big on online gaming.