Namco Bandai has announced that it plans to release a medal based arcade game based on the Pokemon franchise throughout Japan. The game is titled Pokemon Medal World, according to the blurb the game comprises of simple and basic medal-based gameplay. Each of the arcade units feature large benches, allowing four people to sit together and play. Pokemon fans will also find original video footage playing on the machine’s monitors.

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lol wo0t?

the interesting part is that Namco Bandai is doing it

Arcades are pretty big in Japan apparently. Sega Sammy makes a good portion of their profits from them, or I could just be pulling crap out of my you know what.

Also I have no idea what I'm looking at here.

They are big, at least from the little i've seen in Tokyo so far. Found a small arcade focused on Tekken on the walk to school, multiple Sega arcades in the Akihabara district, as well as a huge Taito arcade.

F-zero GX was also made on Arcade.

And I think that Namco Bandai did a Mario Kart arcade too in collaboration with Nintendo.