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I recently stumbled across Points, a series of short videos on the people and places behind video games as well as gamer culture as a whole, with a particular focus on Tokyo.

Apparently, there exist such things as game bars. Nice. That’s automatically two of my favorite things right there: gaming and drinking.

What’s more, two of these bars, 8-Bit Cafe and 16 Shots, exist within a few minutes walk of each other, so if you’re tired of one place you can move on to the other and start wreaking drunken gameplay havoc there. That’s right, the places themselves have large libraries of old skool Famicom and Super Famicom games which you can play, as well as some video game-related memorabilia. Talk about nostalgia.

Japan is just chock-full of quirky little secrets, wouldn’t you agree? And this is only their first episode. Check out their site for more good stuff.

P.S. Kudos to 6955, the dude who cooked up the chiptune sounds for the vids. Real smooth work.