The Sights Of Tokyo Game Show 2022

Let me fill you in on a little secret most people won’t tell you: the real way to enjoy a video game show is at home, comfortably on your couch, watching the event on YouTube. 

Over the years, the game press has done a remarkable job tricking you into thinking otherwise. The shows look extravagant, energetic, and almost like we’re getting glimpses into the future, which we then curate into bite-sized news stories and on-demand trailers for our faithful readers back home. 

The reality is much more depressing.

Whether it’s E3, PAX, Gamescom, or in this case, Tokyo Game Show, going to a video game trade event means dealing with the near-lethal combination of jetlag and overwork. The brutal FOMO of being in some of the coolest cities in the world but spending all your time in convention halls. The unbelievable cacophony of thousands of people talking at once. The unbelievable smells of thousands of people all standing too close to each other. The never-ending lines of thousands of people all needing to use the toilet at the same time. This doesn’t even touch on the unavoidable safety concerns of having a video game conference in the midst of an ongoing pandemic. But I digress.

All that said, there’s some fun stuff to look at, like big, gaudy statues and giant booths that likely cost tens of thousands of dollars for games you’ve never heard of and likely will never play. Stuff that really makes it all worth it. 

While we’d love to fly each and every one of you out to Tokyo, sadly, we only had the budget to fly out two of our full-time employees. So in lieu of attending yourself, please enjoy my curated batch of pictures of what I saw on the show floor. 

Well, there you have it, folks. All the fun of TGS without actually being there. See you next year!

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