Walking Through Tokyo's Computer District: Akihabara in 1993
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Back in 1993 I got the chance to walk and shoot Tokyo's computer district-called Akihabara or Electric Town. it seemed to me at the time that they were pretty far ahead of us in terms of the variety of electronic devices, all of which are classics now, and probably highly collectible. I do hope that my subscribers and others enjoy seeing this old computer stuff-filmed before the World Wide Web existed.#Akihabara #Tokyo #ComputerDistrict #1993 #ElectronicDevices #Collectible #WorldWideWeb #HistoryOfTechnology #akiba #akihabara #chuostreet #computerhistory
This Mr. Hoffman, IS GOLD. An invaluable precious piece of history and maybe the only method to travel back in time.
Copyright David Lightman XD (Wargames reference)
I miss gun games.
@@Wanderlust1972 why? We have something better now (VR)
@@azuresky4695 its nice not to have something over your eyes
nah theres always the DeLorean
Just a random businessman playing with a SNES Light Gun on the streets.
Haha imagine seeing that today
Do you know what Superscope game that is?
@@hgrunt100 super scope 7 i think
@@hgrunt100 I had it but I don’t remember what it was called.
My mother took away my batteries, so I went to the store after work to play.
You have to love how UA-cam is the closest thing to a time machine we have.
Digital museum of the future!
I don't, it makes me sad. UA-cam is brand new in terms of my life, might show all this, but being in each time period is completely different then seeing it. You might think it may be warm here because your room you are in is warm, or the current smells and tastes you offer now make you think it is exact to the ones in the video. I'll tell you that it is completely unexpected and different for everyone, but with such little show.. doesn't quite offer enough in it no matter how detailed and specific it may seem. Very strange, like one of those VR games virtualized into a snow setting at night when your in a hot humid room in the spark of the bright day, maybe even in a thunderstorm?
Also the fact that it's free to use and the future generations will be using it even more intuitively than us !
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar everyone thinks they're philosophers nowadays, man just shut up and enjoy the video
Bruh #Facts 💯😂👌
I know I'm getting old when I look at electronics from 27 years ago and it all still looks pretty new and relevant to me.
WOW even though the electronics have changed, the signage aesthetic and marketing techniques sure have not! Also CRAZY QUALITY, WHAT A BACK IN TIME CAPSULE GOLDMINE THIS IS
Check out a old game called popeye
Them chinx was spot on back in the 80s
Exactly the same thought I had - I was recently in Japan and the aesthetic looks exactly the same. Amazing how this footage is over 25 years old but one would almost have to think twice to realize that its 1993.
Agreed - without the title reference it would almost at times be hard to distinguish this from the 2010's or 2020 - amazing David, you're videos are true statements of time for human reference.
i thought the same, it looks just like it does now but just different products on the shelves. it must have been incredibly futuristic to see back then, even so now and the amount of electronic the average person has is tenfold
@@lieutenantfartblow1727 do not use the word ch**k, that is offensive. Don’t be a piece of shit
It is a testament to the quality of Japanese products that the CANON EX-S12 digital camera and the PANASONIC HDC-SD1 camcorder that my Dad bought in Japan back in 2007 still work perfectly today without any problems. I spent my School years in Hiroshima between 2004 and 2009 when my dad worked at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries...Watching this video takes me back to the time when we used to go to the electronics stores just for fun and check all the new stuff every Sunday almost religiously!!! I profusely thank Mr.Hoffann for sharing this video!!!!
The Sega I bought in 1993 still works man.
True mom bought Radio and her freezer lasted more than 30 years
@Chitragupta cuz u poor country bro..
@@bosskelvin195 He meant that sarcastically bro.
I've got a Canon AE-1 Program from 1983 that works womderfully
The 90s...when people actually had money to buy things. Good times!
Well, today people have credit...
@Rahul India won't lmao
@@Melnek1 rEddIt
So true
You have money to buy all the things they bought (except real estate).
Thanks youtube for making this time machine for us...
Thank you David Hoffman for making this time machine for us, not UA-cam. They didn't do anything lol
UA-cam? I think not
UA-cam just take your money from you for "premium" features. They need to be boycotted and now.
@@clementine2234 UA-cam is only as good as its content creators. With how they operate now, its hard to thank UA-cam itself for anything.
Dude, seriously. This is some great footage man.
You don't need a time machine because Japan hasn't changed a ton since then.
This Shop is called "Bic Camera"
It still exists and is still the same.
Take a video for comparison
@@whatbrettdid I remember it from a trip a while back. Even the shelves look pretty much the same with the same space layout. The only real difference is the products.
So what do they sell retro electronic gear ?
Level 42 leaving me now @ 2:42
Somebody please to a current video of this place lol
This looks like it was filmed just recently!
Because it is well preserved...
@RedDemoon This comment is beyond inaccurate.
Mokah yeah lmao
Was it because it's in hd?
yeah thats because 1993 in america is 2013 in japan
いい時代だったなぁ・・・
まだオレの人生が夢と希望と可能性と頭髪に満ちていた頃だよ
リアルに今は逆に輝いてるじゃんｗ（頭が）
でも本当にいい時代だった…
世間ではバブル弾けたとか言ってたけどガキの自分には実感無くて、
まだまだこの頃は本当に夢と希望に満ち溢れてた。
実感するのは就職する90年後半～00年位で「超氷河期」になったときな…
A camera of that quality in the early 90's must have costed the equivalent of 10 thousand dollars.
Seiously, the quality is insanely good for that time. Id say even better than most older Phones we have now
😂😂 still thinking it up here in 2024
This is lost gold. More vintage Japan!
I know this is late but what you meant is retro
I love how the store where the guy was playing the Super Famicom, today sells retro video games, so it feels virtually unchanged in 25 years!
This is gold, back when we had enough tech for an easy life, unlike today where we are hooked to our cellphones, heck I just woke up and am surfing UA-cam, even commenting this from my phone still in bed LOL.
Yeah it was the perfect technologic time. Enough to satisfy us, but it didn't control our life.
@@pfw4568 25 years from now people will say that about our time right now.
@@pumpkinhill4570 I think so aswell. Those new standards in the near future will be funky stuff
The cameraman is a time traveller. The quality of the video gives it away.
Crazy good quality!
There are AI
I'm surprised that this was taken from 1993, yet the quality look like it came from the 2000s or 2010s.
@@Isaac-gh5ku its because it was recorded with a very expensive camera
the author definitely is a time traveler since he is the same person who moved forward in time lol
ZERO of those devices were connected to the internet. Weird thought.
I think some are through ground cables and signal towers
There's something great about that. Even when you were using your devices you still felt grounded in reality. The internet being a gateway to escapism, it's hard not to lose track of the moment. I can't even resist picking my phone up at a red light instead of just sitting there doing nothing for a few minutes.
I think its awesome that they were listening to american music in japan specifically for that reason
This was 1993, there wasn't much of an internet to connect to
@@lander77477 That’s the point of the original comment; many devices support Internet connectivity today.
Some of those gadgets would still look cool today.
Some look cooler than what we have today, simply because product designers and inventors were envisioning a future that, perhaps sadly, didn't go exactly as they thought. We put down gun controllers and styluses for the Internet about a year or two later.
All
In South Africa we are so far behind the civilised world we still haven't had some of those gadgets!
@@DjouMaSeEpos Which part of the country are you from, my guy?
And probably still work today.
Wow! Just randomly searched for 1990s Japanese gaming hoping to find some old commercials or something and this popped up. It's so awesome you got this footage. As others have said this is just like stepping into a time machine!
懐かしいです🥰
The song playing starting at 2:49 is 君に逢いたい午後 (The Afternoon I Want to See You) by 稲垣潤一 (Junichi Inagaki). It is my favorite Japanese song (I'm a 24 year old American). What a bizarre coincidence, and how cool to hear it being played at this time! Thanks for this video! Made my day!
Thanks bro! Tried shazaming it, didn't work.
@@alexandersonmei You're welcome. I'm glad to see other English speakers appreciate the music.
@@423tech it's my kind of music haha... takes me back to times where I haven't existed yet... It sounds strangely familiar to me and triggers some nostalgia feeling idk why.. btw thank you again for letting us know the music bro!
@@alexandersonmei I have a playlist on my channel called City Pop you may enjoy.
Junichi Inagaki - Christmas Carol No Koro Niha
I was born in 1990, and it consistently fascinates me how much technology has changed since I’ve been alive. Also it’s so cool to look at videos from the past, it’s fascinating.
I remember when the first home computers came out. Home IBMs (PCs) and the first Macintosh. They were insanely expensive. I took a short course at a local computer store on the first Mac (which had a black and white monitor), most were small businesses run by enterprising nerds. It's like I was seeing the first telephone.
Love running into old footage like this from the tech boom. Thank you.
This brings me back to my first trip in 1999. Seeing the staff with their windbreakers, calculators and carbon receipts. It was very much like your video as an Electric Town. Now, living in Japan with Akiba close by, it is a shell of its former self with attractions catering to tourists and what they think Akiba should be. There are still places like this, tight alleys of shops but not many left. People forget Akiba was a place to buy electronics, washing machines, faxes and vacuum cleaners in a bargaining atmosphere. You can still do a bit of bargaining with quotes from outlets now, but basically most things are regulated to the Bic Camera, Yodobashi Camera and a few specialty shops.
Wow, Akiba hasn't changed all that much. The crowd is different, but the vibe is the same. Also, 300k Yen for a laptop is insane.
That's about $300 American That's cheap.
@@blitzedpig1651 uhhh.... not quite. in 1993, 1 USD got you anywhere from 100 to 120 yen, depending on time of year. so lets just say 1 USD = 110 JPY. 300,000/110=~$2700. $2700, in 1993, well, if that's still cheap for you, I envy you friend xD
Eh, not quite. A good chunk of the stores here have become anime/hobby-focused shops, and the few remaining electronics stuff either carries stuff you can't use outside of Japan or stuff you could find elsewhere back home (or on Amazon).
Akiba as in Akihabara? Interesting abbreveation.
@@leomignonneau1765 Akihabara is also known as 'Akiba' after a former shrine in the area that was known as Akiba Jinja after a Shinto deity that could control fire and the area eventually became known as Akihabara.
Completely forgot about all the “digital organizers” during that time period. They were the precursor to the “Palm Pilot”, and then ultimately the smart phone. They mostly were just a digital calendar and Rolodex with a general note taking app. I think some had dictionary /thesaurus/ encyclopedia add ons.
Most of these are Japanese dictionaries .. they still use them today
I used to have a silver Casio organizer with a massive 32kb memory lol.
One of my co-workers tried to talk me into buying a "Palm Pilot" in the 90's. Seemed shit to me.
@@tartgreenapple Palm devices were kind of the iPhones of the day, so back then it was considered top technology, really advanced and smart. My dad and myself had them and it was really neat. Believe it or not, the oldest events I can find in my cloud calendar today date back to January 2001! So that’s about 7 years of imported events from my days with a Palm! 🤓
Much better than what people film today!! Heck even my content is crap compared to this 🤣
He literally just walked into stores and filmed what was on sale. Not groundbreaking content or anything lol
@@JaredConnell not groundbreaking, but entertaining and inciting curiosity!!
I have no idea why you think this is so great.
There is nothing special in these videos...these videos are just like 🍷 wine. and dont compare these videos with the modern ones.. they cant even match the quality, technology and perfection put in to it...So dont say blanket statements just so you can !
@@justsomeguy8385 Only 2000's kids would say that
I'm really glad you kept this stuff and released it.
Takes me back to the days of going into Sears/Wal-Mart etc. with my parents and making a bee-line for the electronics section to find the Genesis/SNES display until they finished their shopping and dragged me away. The 90's was a very exciting time for gaming and electronics, constant innovation and iteration. Also, what is that hawker (I assume he's trying to sell something/attract attention) saying at the end?
@Troy Krentz We got the NES fairly late in its life, but I still remember waiting in the car with my sisters, parents said they had a surprise for us, went into I think it was Toys R' Us, came back out with a bag with a NES Zapper set in it. We were all excited.
I was the same, but for me it was the early 80s and the Atari 2600.
For me it was 90s Montgomery Wards, that's where I bought my SNES with Donkey Kong combo:) and 80s Kmart NES.
I'm just imagining how conspicuous filming this must have been in 1993 compared to today.
People did not really like being filmed and it's not like you could be stealthy with a giant hunk on plastic shit in your hand.
Small video cameras were already common in Japan.
Wow miss the 90's. Thanks this is the hidden gold in youtube.
Looks like a golden era of innovative technologies
It was.
It is weird how older camera was able to capture such a good footage while many recording today are so grainy and bad
Ikr, footage is surprisingly good for such a low light scene
Probably was because it was expensive as hell and not a cheap home video camera
@the Game, Review and Reallife Channel 45?
I’m curious what video camera was used.
If this was analog, I would guess the tape was almost never played. If this was digital, it must have been a very high end camera.
@@atomstarfireproductions8695 Hi8 did a good analog job back then. even music videos were shot with them.
Everything was so high tech and new at that time. So much innovations, miss those good ol days.
These are just random stuff that no one would think of putting it on tape... BUT after so many years, I'm actually super glad that you did for posterity. These places are my candy stores.
1993: Lots of buttons, tiny screen.
2013: Few buttons, big screen.
2023 no botton just screen
2030 putting screen inside your eye lans
2033 no buttons no screen
2050: no button, no screen, only inside your brain
Apple has taken this too far already😂
I remember walking into the stores in NYC back in this era and marveling all all the gadgets they had for sale. I wanted all of them!
The moment i wished for a time machine, I realized i would eventually just wish for more time.
:/
A time machine won't stop you from aging. What we need is a fountain of youth machine
@@lander77477 Your best bet is to travel far enough into the future to get in on some life extension tech!
@@saxoman1 dang now that's the right idea. The human body is just a technology, but its an insanely complicated and advanced technology, and on top of that, we didn't invent any of it, so we have to try to reverse engineer it and figure it out. It will take time but eventually we will crack this technology and bend it to our will.
This video transported me to the magical 90's , sounds visuals the texture can be felt...
And now almost all of this stuff is in a landfill somewhere to this day.
𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘢𝘸𝘸 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘪 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘰 𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳. 𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘵 𝘪 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘦
I still have the Motorola Cell Star brick cell phone. And it still works.
Hey, it's the Hamster Tubes!
While I've never been to Japan, I've been fascinated by that country for a long time now, then last year I discovered NHK World, have gone through most of the Journeys In Japan, Cycling Around Japan, J-Trip Plan and Tokyo Eye 2020 episodes available on UA-cam, while waiting for sleep to arrive and take me away.
So this video is a fascinating slice of a very recent past that still feels as far as the dark side of the Moon, thank you very much for posting.
Something else I'd love to see is a video like this of the Kabukicho district. That was still a rough place back then which has since been cleaned up, family-friendly now. Sort of like the Tokyo equivalent of 70s Manhattan midtown.
From what I can tell - Akihabara has not changed that much. It has one of the most unique and exhilarating atmosphere's I have ever experienced.
It's almost like I can reach out and touch the past 30 years later. Wow... Just, wow. Thank you for this gift of a video.
Stores with "Going Out of Business" signs STILL there in 2020, with the SAME sign in the windows, LOL!
Fr? Thats sick, they didnt go out of business
@@noahboat580 Their implication was that some underhand business are always "going out of business" / "closing down" to imply supposed rock-bottom prices. Even some chain businesses are known for shamelessly doing this.
The good old days. The world was much much slower, but we still had 95% of the modern conveniences of today.
I wish I lived in this era. I’m 15 and this would be my dream. I love retro things and back then you had good music AND groundbreaking tech.
Damn I was born in 1993. I wish I had been born a few years earlier so that I could have experienced these times and remembered them. Seems like such a simpler time
Those days were lovely
Wow, those prices! Electronics in Japan cost so much more than they do in the US. I also love the Western rock music they played in those stores :). I was living in Japan in 2004-2005 and I remember being in a grocery store (the only American/Westerner in there) and hearing 1980s Cindi Lauper. Very surreal.
Thanks for uploading this! I would have been all over the video games!
The conversion ratio.. also electronics then we're crazy pricey.. a cell phone easily ran you close to 2k for a flip phone
-woof
@ I hope you realize that back in the 90's $200 weren't the same $200 as they are now
@@rammstein2seth1 I remember seeing the very first mobile phone. It was a white brick the length of a child's arm. And it had a giant antenna like an old walkie-talkie.
I spent 9 weeks in Yokkaichi city in Mei prefecture from mid August to mid October 1993. Maintenance technical training on automated manufacturing equipment. The exchange rate was right at 100 yen to the dollar, which made understanding prices easy. Just drop off the last 2 zeroes of the prices of those electronics and you have the US dollar amount. A big mac meal with medium fry and regular size drink was 850 yen. Move the decimal to the left 2 digits and you get 8 dollar's and 50 cents for a big mac meal 26 years ago. It was a very educational experience.
@Troy Krentz but it came w fries + drink
I was 7 years old then. If at that moment I got there, I would have gone crazy.
The quality of this footage is amazing. I still remember seeing some of these electronics back in 98 when I was 8 years old. It's hard to believe that i was around during this time...... Makes me wish I could go back.
Surprisingly good image quality! Doesn’t look out of place on my iPhone at least.
Interesting look at the resent past too.
You just needed a god camera :D This was analog tape, even. I have some family tapes filmed by my uncle around 1995-6 with this quality (Super8 cassettes).
RealestRealist well, this isn't film either. It's magnetic tape. The audio may be digital.
@@gabrieleriva651 this is not the Super8 I know in a million years, in the 2000s there was as far as I know a sort of reissue of the standard where they made it digital and much better but in 1993??. I dont think so, the colors this not the Res nor the colors of a Video8 Camara, btw just the colors of super 8 are completely terrible, its kind of like a black n white picture with the colors overlapping I swear is really bad
You won't believe the amount of goose bumps I had seeing that Super Scope.
This is breathtaking even today!
'90s Japan was absolutely amazing.
9/10 of those gadgets are now replicated in a smart phone, they're mostly obsolete now.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. Everything must be inside a smart phone now.. SAD!
@@Sebastián8844 uP
@@Sebastián8844 It wouldn't be that way if the devices that came before it never existed. Something had to come first.
That’s why I roll my eyes at any environmentalist whining about the impact of smartphones on the planet. Imagine how much plastic and chemicals have been reduced for each person by packing all the functions of those gadgets into a single phone.
@@burtonl7239 How things could be worse is a poor gauge for the danger of industry to the health of the environment.
Man the 90’s seem to have so much variety when it came to electronic gadgets. Feels like losing all the variety that came with the iPhone era wasn’t worth it
i've never had a chance to see this decade as it happened, i wish i did, though..
This wasnt even filmed in my home country *yet I feel so such a sense of nostalgia. BUTTERFLIES ARE FLYING IN MY STOMACH. This is so cool!*
It feels like it was not that long ago... I'm getting old 😰
having been there not so long ago, it's both interesting and somewhat sad that so little changed in three decades. Japan froze in time. It's almost like it needs a new Meiji restoration to push itself into the new era
I was there summer 2019 pre-pandemic and yeah from the video, everything almost looks the same which is super interesting. But how is it sad? imo I find it good, but to each, their own.
Japan is a wonderful place
It's a symptom of the 'Galapagos Syndrome', which is often used to describe how Japan, as an island economy, has developed differently to other advanced economies. Especially in the field of tech.
For example, touch screen phones didn't gain widespread acceptance until a couple of years ago. And tech that many in the west have long since moved on from, like CDs and fax machines, are still used by many Japanese people.
Even if what's on the shelves changes eventually, I hope that Akiba can keep the same atmosphere. I love it!
@RadRich I was being deliberately vague. Sounds like you have more first hand knowledge, so I will defer to you.
The point remains though, that Japan can, in some instances, be surprisingly behind the curve when it comes to consumer tech.
Hello wonderful person
Oh man, mystic 90's... . nostalgia all over. I'm RELIVING the feeling! ☺️
I visited Akihabara in 1993 and my memories are of lots of fancy “landline” telephone types, solar calculators, camcorders, personal organisers galore and disposable cameras. Everyone was using those back then.
*1:58** EARLY TABLETS.*
Oh, I do miss the days where you could travel to places like Japan and see tech you've never imagined. The internet has kind of ruined it for everyone in a way.
Yeah ruined it... I’d rather not have to travel to Japan
Oh no, I can buy new electronics in my city without having to spend thousands of dollars to travel to Japan! What a dystopian reality! Truly horrible.
@@FuyuNoAi you and Alex miss the point, it's about the experience and unique vibes you get there. Having visited last year I can say nothing beats being there, it's literally a buzz.
The excitement and adventure is definitely gone replaced by convenience.
@@lofi-latmiya I live in Tokyo (Setagaya ward, Sakurashinmachi), it's nothing special and I can buy all those cellphones, TVs, cameras, etc, in Buenos Aires. They don't have alien technology, pretty much all the things I see at a Yodobashi are available in my homeland.
Wow I love this really clear footage of Japan in the early 90s. I was only 1 years old at the time of that recording but so cool to see that technology. Thanks for sharing!
I miss the 90s. Thanks for uploading this.
I somehow miss these days even though I wasn't even born yet.
I still have most of that stuff in my attic. It’s funny to how long the stylus has been around and how little outside of artists, designers and other specialties, it has ever gained adoption.
Millions of Palm pilots were sold, so that was a pretty large adoption of stylus use. Naturally using your fingers is more convenient for anything that doesn't need to be precise though.
Haha - so fun to watch. I just found and uploaded my own DV footage from 99 in Tokyo - but this is superior quality to my video recordings
i was 3 years old. But I love watching videos of the 90s. Thank you!
In my town, in 1993, we still used carriages
This feels unbelievable from 2020, was so new yet so old
Jesus, this was one year before I was born and yet there is a sense of nostalgia for some reason.
Your channel is pure timetravel gold Mr Hoffman. ✌️
I think we're gonna see a lot of this stuff in Ireland next year.
i am glad i could experience this being born in 2000 this was still a reality in my countty till 2010
@Sendit Sunday india dude
Amazing footage. I believe this is an example of they mean by the phrase, the first draft of history. Just some shots of what was for sale on this particular day, in this particular place, it means a lot to us now. Thank you!
The way that man shoots the bazooka so casually and lightheartedly
Every single product category shown was killed by the cell phone and laptop. Amazing the dominance of those two form factors
No reason a cell phone couldn't just be a screen, battery, receiver and a speaker... Cloud computing. Make all these fancy cell phones obsolete.
Okay, old out of today’s standard, but not in my eyes. This is NOT the Stone Age Kids. Try electronics from the early 80‘s. This is very futuristic out of this perspective. Thanks for the upload. An amazing time. Someone still remember the run for the 1 GHz 6 years later?
@Aditya Wardhana oh please, try UNISERVO. That was a pain in the ass to learn to use, took me around 4 months to completely understand, also very confused by Vinyls and their production of sound to perfectly carry a women or man's vocal uniquity, My! Was that something, such advert fascination.
@British Boi yes, who the hell' needs respectability or elegant automobiles, art deco and mid century architecture, respectable clothing? Gee, who could possibly want any of that...better to hop in your 2015 mercedes plastic toy and drive on down to that glass stick for a room at the easy price of 800 a night. The future is just hell, nothing else.
@British Boi your such a copy
@British Boi you speak in meme format, follow the bandwagon of media, and make everything into a high power attempt trying to act god like and on top...you fucking kids are a riot to explain most things that are now foreign in normality. Live life like it is a modern dream, when in reality it is just a dystopia to be.
@British Boi fuckin' silent generation, 1940, you know the decade of product, war, and sexy ass streamline automobiles?
Sometimes i want to just go out and film like this. How everything changes in time is pretty cool to see. Streets, buildings, fashion, cars, even quality of video takes me back.
I remember when my family bought a Japanese CRT TV for the first time in 1994. It was the best! The colors were simply amazing, no US or European TV could compare.
A lot of that still looks pretty modern. Hard to believe it was 1993 and all that time has past.
That man in the suit looks like he's killed before.
That bazooka was the symbol of coolest kid in the neighborhood status back in my day
I was working in a duty free shop in Akihabara from 2006 to 2011. The guy in the very beginning of the video playing with the Nintendo Bazooka was my superior. He was working at LAOX when this video was taken. From 00:44 we can see was is now AKKY INTERNATIONAL main store. This is were I was working. This so weired to see that even if the store owner has changed, the ambience of the store exactly the same even today. Thank you for uploading this amazing document!!
many years have passed since and still many countries do not get the development level of Tokyo in the 90's LOL
@Sendit Sunday like ALL south America and africa?
Alis Fur Africa is a continent with like 50 countries?
I’m not sure what’s more impressive, the technology we had back then or how smooth this guys camera footage is.
Amazing video. I just stumbled this today. It's 93 but it feels like yesterday, the picture is so clear. Also amazing that Akiba still feels the same today (or at least like how I visited in 2018), the tech may have changed but it's still the same cramped town with gadgets stacked on each other.
Oh wow, I was born in Kanda (a station away) and this brings back memories. My friends and I'd take the bicycle from Kanda and always loiter around the game centres back then. Thank you so much for sharing.
The good old days when electronics companies (Japanese) were about durability and quality rather than obsolescence and bottomline costs
The golden age Japan. Making Anime series with better storyline.(Dragon Ball, Gundam, Evangelion, Akira). Pure Masterpieces. Endless innovation and creativity.
An absolutely mesmerizing time capsule.
Thank you so much for posting this!
Beautiful video. Thanks for the look back in time!
People were cooler back then
and there is people who who think apple invented the tablets in 2010...
@Lucifer Did he say apple claimed anything? Read again! He said people think that. Check yourself!! Apple fanboy.
@3,14 _ ok
@3,14 _ 99%of apple haters watch phone/laptop comparison videos all day instead of working buying and checking for your self. Sheep mentality i used to be like you before 2015
@3,14 _ 😂😂😂
@@joelGi i dont own apple, but i use apple product few times. Its a nightmare. The smartphone, the cheapest is too small because my hand is big and tgose small screen keep my thumb to press wrong key. The expensive one, too expensive with little storage, with 30% of that price i can buy cheaper but with same storage but still can compete. Ipad, the only thing was good because it was more responsive then android one but still has cause lot of software crash, and we use ipad for drone shot during that time. Macbook and their pc, worst of the worst. Its OS Media Codec has cause us tons of problem, because of apple own codec than our camera and stupid director want to keep it on his macbook cause media error, bad read, corruption file, and unable to re-post-production on our editing rig because basically the footage and file is gone. And this happen multiple time on different apple pc and laptop which cause us not just to re-shoot everything but also destroyed all a box of hard drive and p2 card.
Next year we switched to windows and non of apple product problem ever happen other than win force update.
THAT is awesome! I remember going there at about that time and being totally blown away by all the awesome tech.
The video here looks so clean like it was just filmed months ago this year