Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - KGO - 20120412:10:56:00
73-year-old hisaki itara is considered middle-aged at this tokyo arcade. he says he's made plenty of friends. it's no surprise considering more than a quarter of japan's population is over 65 and increasingly living alone. in a country littered with arcades, video game centers have become the natural place to find entertainment and company, and gamemakers are cashing in. this senior center was started by the same company that created pacman decades ago. they brought back old games like whack-a-mole because they say the motion involved in the game increases the brain's blood flow and helps prev...