A lot of the arcade and videogame scene in Japan was Servicemen importing stuff so other servicemen could have stuff from home. Jukeboxes, games, speaker systems, and more arrived in random Japanese bars. It proved lucrative with the Japanese themselves and grew from there.
Is this line suggesting that the origins of Japan's arcade culture was from imported electronics brought to the island to amuse US troops occupying there?
Stuff like pinball machines and electro-mechanical shooting galleries? Those old EM machines are so fascinating when you get to see what's inside them.
And more. They dominated the late sixties and early 70's to become the big name in arcade. The company even made a semi standardized box with viewer so games could be right next to each other. This was early JAMMA stuff. In Japan, SeGa was king of the arcade.
Is this line suggesting that the origins of Japan's arcade culture was from imported electronics brought to the island to amuse US troops occupying there?
Yes, yes it does.
Stuff like pinball machines and electro-mechanical shooting galleries? Those old EM machines are so fascinating when you get to see what's inside them.
It's like a mad scientist experiment inside of them.
SeGa created stuff like
https://www.arcade-history.com/?n=helicopter&page=detail&id=14344
https://www.arcade-history.com/?n=grand-prix&page=detail&id=14483
And more. They dominated the late sixties and early 70's to become the big name in arcade. The company even made a semi standardized box with viewer so games could be right next to each other. This was early JAMMA stuff. In Japan, SeGa was king of the arcade.