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TEKKEN DIRECTOR ASKS WHY AMERICANS WANT WAFFLE HOUSE TO BE A STAGE IN TEKKEN 8

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By Jonathan Bolding
published 31 March 2024

Obviously it is so that the combatants can sit down for a nice waffle and a cup
of coffee.

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Katsuhiro Harada is a lifelong creator of fighting games, serving as director on
the Tekken series since Tekken 3 and right up to the recent Tekken 8. Harada
often has a lot of interesting or helpful stuff to say on social media, and is
quite responsive to fans—which means people often reach out consistently with
ideas, concepts, memes, and downright jokes.



Recently, Harada has been getting one request for a new Tekken stage: The
American Southeast's 24 hour a day, seven day a week diner Waffle House.



"Ok, I will only ask once about this request. Why do some communities send me
requests for 'Waffle House'? Please be sure to explain the basis for the
request, including the original story, history and background. I look forward to
an explanation from someone who knows more," asked Harada on Twitter/X.




Why do people want Waffle House, Mr. Harada? Because the place has become
something of an internet meme for its status as somewhere that's pretty dang
cheap, open 24 hours a day and—therefore—a place where drunk and high people get
into fights. Fights with each other. With employees. With themselves.

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Not that I condone this, of course, but you can find any number of internet
fight videos set in a waffle house. This has been true for years, and as a bona
fide American Southerner I haven't ever seen a fistfight in a Waffle House but I
know a dozen people who've seen some kind of conflict—though mostly folks keep
it to the parking lot if something's going to pop off.



The meme status of Waffle House fights went big time viral last year, though,
when a Waffle House employee in Texas got caught on video catching a thrown
chair and deftly twirling it aside.

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Prior to this, the real meme for Waffle House aficionados was the part where
it's not just open 24 hours, but it has contingency plans to be open in almost
any weather or conditions—and we really do got those in the often Hurricane-hit
southeast. If the power's out, they have a menu for that. If the water's not
running they have a menu for that too. The government's disaster response team
calls it the Waffle House Index.


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Food and travel writer Anthony Bourdainonce called Waffle House "an irony free
zone where everything is beautiful and nothing hurts; where everybody regardless
of race, creed color or degree of inebriation, is welcomed. Its warm yellow glow
a beacon of hope and salvation, inviting the hungry the lost the seriously
hammered all across the south to come inside."

If you would, in absolute truth, like an example of what the Waffle House is to
many places in the American south you need go no further than Anthony Bourdain's
 journey there on his show Parts Unknown. I've linked it there, and I'll embed
it below.



As for Tekken 8? That's been a huge success. We called it "a beautiful blend of
nostalgia for longtime fans and a pair of welcoming arms for newbies" in the PC
Gamer Tekken 8 review.

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Jon Bolding is a games writer and critic with an extensive background in
strategy games. When he's not on his PC, he can be found playing every tabletop
game under the sun.

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