Top Video arcades in Shinjuku City, Japan

Grip strength on UFO games is abhorrent.

It's stated that the game center would close at 2315. However, the Japanese drum games were all shut down at 2245. Huge disappointment...

None of the claws are strong and they keep letting go. If you play here you will just be wasting your money. Go somewhere else.

Crane machines are rigged here as others have pointed out. No strong grip ever happening. Go there expecting to loose your money.

Next to this really difficult crane catch things are there only one drum game and 4 other games. Some variety I hope it had.

Edit: floor b1 has video games elevator on the left. So I'm good. But the payment system below I could not understand in English

The staff in this place were the nicest of any we met in Japan. They were really fun and attentive quickly providing bags for our UFO treasures after we figured out they actually really do want you to win!

This is also a much nicer neighborhood where I would feel comfortable taking younger children.

I had a fun time playing a ship game. Everything is (of course) in Japanese though.

Great place to have fun. The crane game machines are actually not that rigged and if you have the skill you can win some of the prizes. You just have to use your commonsense to determine if something is actually solvable or needs a huge amount of money to move it.
The other games are also really funny, it's best to go there in a group, as that's a lot more fun and there are also many 2 player games in there.