>>12362908
What are these?

arcades were a free smoke zone.

>>12363110
Uh, arcade machines?

>>12362908
The Japanese don't get as much BO as westfags, so the smell is probably not that bad.

>>12363112
Not in Japan. Arcade vets in Japan talk about the smoke getting so thick you could hardly breath in there sometimes.
USA varied by location and year.

>>12362908
>imagine
anyone old enough to be here can just remember

>>12363170
That's how you remember silly

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>>12363163
>the smoke getting so thick you could hardly breath in there
Wouldn't that be bad for the hardware?

>>12363698
Yes, but 100 yen coins going into machines is good for business.

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Sailor Moon tricked me. It made me believe there were actually cute school gamer girls that hung out at arcades. Instead it was all neckbeards and cringe nerds.

>>12363723
body odor is genetic, a lot of asians dont have it

>>12363736
so many weebs get felted when they move to Japan and find out it's not like their cartoon shows

>>12363737
Diet plays a big part in it.

>>12363723
aprocrine sweat glands vary by race. east asians have few, europeans have a medium amount, and aub-saharan africans have a lot.
this is also why east asians have dry ear wax and their asmr ear cleaning videos are scratchy.

>>12363736
They did back when the show was being made.
And there are many different kinds of arcades. You won't find a cute school girl in Mikado.

It's my opinion, after many hours of research on the subject, and with the aid of modern machine translation tools to read lots of Japanese publications, that modern Japanese arcades are just as "soulless" as anything you find in the west these days. And worse. It's over. It's been over. It's all over.

>>12363749
Seems like the majority of them are just UFO catcher bullshit game centres these days.

>>12363112
in the 70s and 80s you could smoke everywhere

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>>12363112
in Spain arcade machines even had ashtrays/cigarette holders next to the controls

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Smoking inside a Japanese arcade was allowed up until 2020-2021, where smoking in-doors was banned in the country

>>12363112
>>12363785
>>12363787
A tip for you ESL retards: "free smoke zone" is implying you can just smoke without consequences. Your English comprehension is poor and you're instead reading it as "smoke free zone"

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

>>12363785
Lol, I remember my coworker telling me that his dentist used to smoke a cigar while working back in the 70's.

>>12363863
No one fucking says "free smoke zone" so people assumed you made some mistake, and corrected it in their heads, especially if they were just speed reading through posts. If that was intentional then your joke didn't land and you just gotta accept that instead of being a passive aggressive bitch and resorting to calling others "ESL retards", retard.

>>12363863
A tip for American education system byproducts, those are called smoking areas. "Free smoke zone" isn't proper English.

>>12363890
Nobody called them that in America, retard. Cool meme though.

>>12363787
I see:
Sunset Riders
Street Fighter II
Bad Dudes (Vs Dragon Ninja)

Anyone else care to make out the other two that aren't FBI screens or too far off?

>>12363863
Clearly the first anon who replied to that did interpret it as "smoke free" zone.

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>>12363863
>It's your fault that "smoke free zone" is a more common term than "free smoke zone"
Nah
>>12363890
>>12365176
Smoking sections are indoors, smoking areas are outdoors

>>12363863
Just stopping by to say I agree with you and understood what you meant, only because I knew these were places where smoking was common so it was obvious you didnt just mix up your word order.

>>12365237
OP here, I was certainly implying the walls smelled of old tar and the air being full of mildew (it's abandoned). That said, "free smoke zone" is a neologism outside of any vocabulary I've ever seen as evidenced by this very thread being the second result when searching "free smoke zone"

>>12365206
The two between SFII and Dragon Ninja look like Run and Gun / Slam Dunk, possibly in a dual screen setup.

>>12365260
Nice. Thanks.

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>>12365314
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>>12365253
Its not a common phrase but if you are actually good at english you should be able to infer meaning when another english speaker uses it in a unique way.

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I wish I had an arcade near me with lovely crt screens, smoking and booze. The world is so cruel

>>12365224
>designated smoking area
smoking areas are more recent than arcades, back then there were places where people could ask you to stop (out of courtesy rather than law) and places where if somebody bothered you about smoke then they were little bitches and they were told to go fuck themselves. those places were colloquially called free smoke areas.

>>12365356
>those places were colloquially called free smoke areas.
Bullshit

>>12365329
>I am good at english for using a familiar term in a unfamiliar way
Everybody so creative

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>>12365356
Being told to go fuck yourself never designated your imaginary term culturally or legally.

>>12365329
>when another english speaker uses it in a unique way
when an absolute moron who cannot even write the one and only language he barely knows uses it unidiomatically

>>12366054
thanks for closing that

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>>12365356
>those places were colloquially called free smoke areas

>>12366120
shut up dork

what's up with some people here having revisionism and gaslighting as their main hobbies? such a strange thing to do.

>>12363849
Is that a Jojo reference

>>12366125
because you're wrong you fool

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>>12365964
Sorry Pablo but you are not white. In that scene, you are actually the nigger.

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>>12363163
>put one of these on
Yep, it's gaming time.

>>12366498
https://youtu.be/2TA9_1OwRoU

>>12362908
Like your mom kek

>>12362908
>open office design
disgusting

>>12362908
have you never been to an arcade?

>>12362908

>>12366540
Not retro.

>>12369776
his mom is 18? Fucking grim

>>12363742
japanese people are incredibly polite but deep down them they are quite xenophobic (lost most humans tbf) even towards westerners. weebs wont admit it ever because they had a pleasant 2-3 week vacation and they base their whole opinion on that experience and some animes lol

>>12362908
High school girls tampon or sweat?