Author Profile
Roland cut his gaming teeth on the BBC Micro, eventually graduating to the N64 via a Barcode Battler. He loves gaming with his kids, reminiscing about pre-pandemic Japanese arcades, and writing about himself in the third person. He has been contributing reviews and features to Nintendo Life since 2017.
I also ran the photo blog arcade.tokyo/ and contributed essays and photography to the wonderful book Supercade 2: A Visual History of the Videogame Age. I didn’t know it at the time, but my hundreds of photos of Japanese arcades captured the end of an era, just before COVID-19 changed the scene forever. Check them out!
