If you were to throw a rock in Los Angeles, you’d likely hit a video game store. Unfortunately, it would either be a GameStop, EB Games, or one of a handful of National video game chain stores. Of course, they’d call the cops on you. There are, however, a few remaining stalwarts run by those who love video games. One such hardy soul is Reflex Gamer in the Little Tokyo Shopping Mall (3rd and Alameda) in Little Tokyo just Southeast of Downtown Los Angeles. From my conversation with Vance I found that they will be treating domestic games and imports with equal importance, so this will be a fine outlet for hard to find titles from Japan and Korea. What makes it even cooler to check it out is that its neighbor is Japan Arcade, a small, clean, and dynamic arcade which carries Japanese coin-op machines we don’t see here in the US. Most games run for one or two tokens, though the larger dance and music systems and the Initial D games run four tokens.

written by Tyler Regas