Ikeda Minoru – One Million Power

Ikeda Minorock x Gichi Otsuka

07/29/2024

Minoru Ikeda, owner and operator of Mikado arcades in the Tokyo area, and author Gichi Otsuka sitting together at a table, drinking, and discussing arcade game history while looking at old magazines.

“Darius, without a doubt, represents the ultimate form of arcade games as machines, continuing from the ‘70s and ‘80s.” – Ikeda Minorock, Mikado arcade owner and operator

Game Center Chronicles Part 6

08/06/2023

He wants it to be a place where people can always come back to in order to get away from their troubles.

Game Center Chronicles Part 5

07/30/2023

…and opening this new location was Ikeda’s way of defiantly shouting out that small arcades weren’t going to just die.

Game Center Chronicles Part 4

07/23/2023

He also began holding many more fighting game tournaments, drawing players in with favorites such as Gundam EX Revue, Fatal Fury 2, and Samurai Shodown 2. And he streamed them all.

Game Center Chronicles Part 3

07/16/2023

Ikeda remembers there being so many people packed into Hey to play CSV2 that they couldn’t all fit on the floor that it was on at the same time.