Retro game stuff talk
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@FlyingTomahawk that square button famicom is awesome. I am however, glad both sega and nintendo switched to plastic buttons.
Ido have a passport. Now i need to sell my life belongings to move. ;) japan is the only country that is on my bucket list. I hope to get there one day. And seeing all this beautiful game stuff i really want to go now.
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lol
Well, if you do come one day let me know.
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@FlyingTomahawk will do. :)
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@FlyingTomahawk so where are you in japan?
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Osaka
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@edmaul69 said in Retro game stuff talk:
@FlyingTomahawk so where are you in japan?
After the photos we've been seeing, I wouldn't be surprised if he bumped into Shigeru Miyamoto during today's outing.
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lol
He is in Kyoto. Not far...
I have passed by the Nintendo buildings a couple of times but never met any staff.
I just took pictures of something hilarious.
Something you don't see everyday, even here in Japan. -
@FlyingTomahawk said in Retro game stuff talk:
Something you don't see everyday, even here in Japan.
Is that even possible? I thought japenese people have seen everything. :D
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@edmaul69 said in Retro game stuff talk:
@FlyingTomahawk said in Retro game stuff talk:
Something you don't see everyday, even here in Japan.
Is that even possible? I thought japenese people have seen everything. :D
Everything
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@obsidianspider ok, now i have seen everything. :)
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Just finished my run for today. Not so many good stuff this time.
@obsidianspider
Sorry, no Famicom today. There were 3 but way overpriced. Not tested 1790, 1980 and 2190Yen.
2 of them were actually very white-ish and one pub-yellow.Maybe next time I get lucky.
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@FlyingTomahawk I love that "pub yellow" is the new name for those old discolored Famicoms.
Not that I'm in any kind of hurry, but did you end up going back to Hard Off to see if that Gameboy Pocket was still there?
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While not totally "pub yellow" I just dug out my old SNES that I got in the spring of 1992 and it's definitely not aged as well as one of the controllers it came with.
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@obsidianspider its funny how many old computers and video game consoles turned yellow due to the flame retardent used in those plastic parts. An apple 2's monitors plastic is the most toxic plastic i have ever dremeled through.
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@edmaul69 and here I thought the most dangerous thing about an Apple II was Oregon Trail.
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@obsidianspider yeah the smoke it creates is like a huge chemical fire. There isnt words to describe how toxic it was. I will take the dysentery over that.
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@obsidianspider said in Retro game stuff talk:
Not that I'm in any kind of hurry, but did you end up going back to Hard Off to see if that Gameboy Pocket was still there?
Yeah I went back and checked it out, told the staff to show it to me. Thin scratches on the display, left side. No good.
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Here the images of todays tour.
CPSII
Famicom Sofa!
They really used real games for this.
Famicom Micro
Another white GBA
not so rare after all
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@FlyingTomahawk Interesting that the clear purple GBA was more expensive than the white GBA. You see a lot more of the clear purple ones in the US.
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yeah here too actually. not sure how they make those prices. The last white one was 2160Yen this one is only 1620Yen.
Hard-off is known for it to have different prices depending on the store and location. I saw 4 Famicoms for 540Yen each I went to over 6 different other Hard-offs and none could match those prices. They were mostly 3-4 times higher.
Sometimes you get lucky and sometimes not. I am gonna go again soon to that other store which had those 4 and if the other 3 are still there I'm gonna get them.
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