Seth Killian here, checking in from what’s proven to be a last-minute excursion to Tokyo to check out Capcom’s booth at this year’s AOU Show. Held on the outskirts of Tokyo, this is a major gamer festival, the arcade world’s version of Tokyo Game Show/E3/Games Convention. Abusing my Capcom staff powers, I snuck into the show early to grab some photos of our booth before the show officially gets underway. Come with me (or check out our flickr set) and I’ll take you for a special Unity insider preview of the arcade show that will undoubtedly become known as “the first time the public was able to play street Fighter IV.”

Sure, that makes total sense.

What’s up next for the convention center after AOU? ROCK!

AOU expo banner feat. unappealing mascot

AOU show overhead during setup

Inside the Capcom booth, aka Street Fighter IV central.

The new tag line for SFIV???

Full view of the SFIV AOU arcade machine. The final production arcade unit of the game may look a bit different.

Description of how the arcade machines cross-link with each other to find a new opponent from amidst a larger bank. It’s very surprising when it matches you with someone sitting right next to you–just like an American arcade.

Control panel for SFIV cabinet, featuring characters playable in the AOU build and their move lists.

I totally busted some guys from SquareEnix coming over to sneak a peek.

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