Dream 2024.12.7

I was reading on Wikipedia about a branch of the "Don Caballero's" arcade chain in Tochigi that once famously had a giant statue of PaRappa outside it, somewhere in its giant parking lot, but it was eventually removed because the arcade version of the game was no longer there. The story went that people were fighting in the arcade and since arcade cabinets were valuable, someone got it as compensation for the injuries they received in the fight. Tony Hawk also apparently had done some extreme unicycling inside once which was only documented on some bootleg dvds from China. Eventually I found some English language radio broadcast archives from an Utsunomiya radio station that featured a guy explaining that it was all a myth and none of that stuff ever existed. I was preparing to write a blog post about it since I figured Wikipedia wouldn't allow my edits.