/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10200575
Is a tourist trap for "collectors" that follow what YouTube tells them, go to any hard off and you will get way better deals, though if you want something specific just go to super potato or gamers.

Tourist trap like any tourist site, local craigslist will have better deals

>>10200575
No. Try Kansai region instead. Found a ton of stuff over the years in Kobe, Kyoto and Osaka.

>>10200575
no idea but I know they have arcades and stuff to play there, probably not going to see a large price difference between that and elsewhere.
but for general collecting? definitely not ideal

>>10200575
it's absolutely worth seeing. Especially if you have a few drinks and visit any of the arcades that have retro floors. For shopping, yeah can be a bit pricey but an unbeatable selection of options arguably anywhere in the world.

>>10200726
actually maybe not the best selection unless you speak Japanese. There's some english games around though. Still super fun place to visit idgaf

I go there to visit Sakura-chan all the time desu

>>10200575
I am jealous. It has been years since I've last gone, and I remember when that was a Sega arcade which I would imagine tough for me to see it no longer holding onto the name. Long ago it used to be a very cool place to be, but the deals are further out from the city proper. Youtube has been flooding my feed full of these game shopping in Akiba videos, and with the favorable exchange rate with USD to JPY now I really wish I could enjoy $1 games again: https://youtu.be/dF17qPpjDds but work has gotten so demanding for so few dollars now coupled with inflation that makes a trip there no longer feasible. Enjoy your time there as there's so much more than just games.

>>10200575
its not very good anymore imo, online buyers have kind of killed japan as a place to score deals. dont sleep on checking out the big bookoffs though

>>10201384
based, i also bought extreme power for 100yen or something like 10 years ago

It's worth seeing and you can still find good deals in the small dingy stores. Super potato is fun to walk through but overpriced. Nakano Broadway is a fun side trip as well.

>>10200575
its interesting to see at least; Not the mecca it once was, but pretty neat

Great for playing at arcades and seeing cool stuff, bad for buying things unless it’s something rare af that you’ll only find there

>>10200575
You can go anywhere for retro shopping really. There's tons of places. If you're dead set on Akiba then be sure to visit Super Potato.

>>10201407
>online buyers have kind of killed japan as a place to score deals
On the contrary, Mercari has made it easier and cheaper than ever to buy retro games and consoles.

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>>10201782
kys import scum

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>>10201926
blame the "collectors" I just want to play my games

I don't want any of you dirty plastic-coomlecting cuckolds in my country.

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>>10202987
Not that anon but stay the fuck out, tourist trash.
Don't need plastic collecting garbage people sullying my country trying to buy stupid nintendo shit.

make sure you go to HEY Arcade

>>10203003
No. I will go to your country and fuck your women, you beta cuck.

I’m beginning to think these japan game shopping threads are just made by the guy who larps as a japanese national just to take out his impotent rage on anyone he can.
Same responses every single time

>>10203036
That would explain a lot. The average poster doesn't care at all. ODDEs and Flashcarts are a genuinely better way of playing games than the real thing for me and I am not a Japanese person who lives in a glorified broom closet who needs the space.

>>10203036
sorry takeshi san, but I will continue my vacations to buy your plastic and fuck your women

>>10203117
I’m not that guy and I don’t give a fuck what you do. Enjoy your video games and sex with foreigners

>>10203982
I too would love to partake in video games and sex with foreigners!

why do faggots fetishize Japan so much
cities there are just like cities everywhere else only way more racist and with way more pervs walking around

>>10203003
No one goes to Brazil to buy nintendo shit Pedro.

>>10204163
No. I travel all over the world, Tokyo is the best city on earth - no competition. Get a passport and go see for yourself.

>>10201926
>import
Is it really "import" if I live in Japan?

>>10204242
Lmao
This is so spot on, like there's a crap ton of Japanese Brazilian in Brazil and the grand majority of them never went to Japan and barely speak the language but like to larp about the samurai and their homogenic nation like if they live there.
Japs even have a slang for them "Dekasegi".

>>10201384
Did you get to tap any Azn Goddessess?

>>10204249
>I travel all over the world
But of course you do, sweaty. That's why you have no experience in Japan and ignore well known problems while shilling weeb Meca as "the best city on earth". Tokyo rarely ranks #1 on any list of best cities for anything.
You don't see and understand the world by reading/watching shit about one place you're obsessed with, or even going there. You do it by actually traveling all over the world, getting out there, experiencing it for yourself. You've obviously never done that. Anyone who has would never say shit like "hurr durr teh best city evar!"

>>10205297
OK.

>>10200575
You are like 2 decades late for Akihabara. You can get everything online and half the shops now are just cheap Chinese accessories.

>>10205297
USA #1! USA#1!!

You're such a fucking retard.

>>10205687
That's a might big crisp you have on your shoulder Mohamed

If it's still like when I went 3 decades ago, make sure you exit the train station on the right street. I walked from Akihabara all the way to Ueno and saw nothing but office buildings.
If I had turned the other direction that first time, I would've been in the wonderland everyone talks of.

>>10207316
akihabara 3 decades ago was just computer/PCB shops and appliance stores so u werent missing much

>>10207347
I didn't not find it, just delayed things by an hour by traversing the loop I made counterclockwise instead of clockwise.

Spent a month there in 91, weirdly *not* intending to go game shopping (for myself, just for friends.) Was just interested in music, and thought I had money for maybe a dozen CDs. Used shops I had no knowledge of.
Instead I returned home with a used MD in the box that could've passed for new with at least a dozen games, and a pile of CDs

It brings a tear to my eye how this board has matured. A few years ago you australian morons would have been all like: "kys plastic coomlector", etc etc. Oh wait.... you are still like that.

>>10207404
>Instead I returned home with a used MD in the box
What games did you get for your MD?

>>10200575
Not for vr stuff. It’s good for more weeb type stuff. I found some amazingly cheap shit in obscene rarities we don’t get in the TCG for my yugioh decks in aki. I found my good vr stuff in the hard offs around the place. Not all of them understand what they have.

>>10204163
> only way more racist and with way more pervs walking around
Who would have fucking thought that people would want to be around others with the same mentality as themselves?

What if I want to buy some cool Japanese jazz CDs or CityPop or whatever? Is there a suburb in Tokyo for this purpose?

>>10207581
This was 3 decades ago, I'm pretty sure I picked up these games while there:
Megapanel
Volfied
New Zealand Story
Valis III
Kujakuo 2
Mamono Hunter Yoko
Cuty Suzuki Ringside Angel
Star Cruiser
Quackshot

I might have bought some of these there, or they were pick ups for friends. Or I bought them soon after returning home, so it registers in that era of memory.
Sonic
Shikinjoh
AirBuster
Whip Rush
Arrow Flash
Forgotten Worlds
Truxton
Darius II

Random memory. I'm pretty sure I saw an MD Tetris in the case while there, and not the common bootleg with Chinese titling. But it was 7000 yen, so a pass for me. I did see a lot of Rambo/Tetris multicarts for 3000yen, but passed on those too.

>>10205687
This, but unironically, and it unironically makes you mad that you're not #1.

>>10200575
NO NO NO NO NO

>>10207762
You'll score a lot of good stuff at Book-Off and Book-Off Super Bazaar, just go through on Google Maps and mark every location in the general vicinity of the area you'll be in, and hit them up for CD's. I picked up a ton of Casiopea, T-Square and Kasumi Horii Project CD's just scouring Book-Offs.

>>10207347
That's not fucking true, there absolutely were video game stores and arcades, it just wasn't a tourist trap aimed at otaku yet. If anything, the 90's was the untouched Golden Age of Akihabara. This pic is from an Akiba game store around late-1995/early-96.

>>10207576
Why single out Australians?

>>10200575
Super Potato is worth a look, as are some of the retro arcades and hentai stores. but maybe you're more after Book-Off/Hard-Off and Nakano Broadway

>>10207865
I heard there was a giant Konami sign at one point. I suspect that was the point when it was a genuinely cool place.

>>10200575
I will never understand why people would travel for stuff when everything is available online. in any city in any decent country you will have access to 100% of what you can ever want. even in countryside now that there's companies that can deliver.
traveling is like going to a museum, it's just to attempt to stimulate your physical senses, and you can live great things already where you live.

>>10207865
you do know video game stores and arcades fall under the category of PCB shops right?

you've just made a fool out of yourself for no apparent reason lol

>>10207882
>Why single out Australians?
Old meme

>>10208209

Terabump

Prices in Akihabara are seriously about 5 to 10 times higher than absolutely any other area. The game stores are absolutely swarmed with clueless white people these days basedfacing and thinking they're getting a great deal.

>>10200575

just weeb shit and men looking for weeb prostitutes.. but they fuck just like anyone else..
certainly not something i'd sit in a plane for... the food isn't that great either.. just fish and salat stuff..

depends where you go and depends what you buy. don't listen to anyone else. I've been there recently and have been a weeb for 17 years

>>10203010
HEY why

>>10200575
Hope you're having fun. My youtube feed just keeps recommending me Japan videos that make me miss being there: https://youtu.be/QtJcmZYCg2k

>>10201409
The junk section was full of treasures useful to me. There's nowhere around me that has so much useful for low prices. Luggage is the real expensive part.

>>10205109
Unfortunately no, most people there prefer to keep to themselves. I was more concerned if I offended anyone, since there's so many unwritten rules of socializing that I was not familiar with in Japan.

>>10208139
You’re high as hell

>>10216551
your comment makes no sense, elaborate

>>10207673
shut the fuck up, racist trash. people like you deserve a bullet in the brain

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>>10217025
>people like you deserve a bullet in the brain
Look everybody it’s the tolerant left!

God you people are fucked. I don’t wish to be around you, not even harm you just not be anywhere near you and your response to this is that I must die. Amazing how you lack the awareness to realise perhaps this is WHY I don’t want to be around you.

>>10200575
It was, 15 years ago, before faggots and youtubers raided everything.
/thread.

>>10219443
I agree but please stop namefagging.

>>10207576
Which one of these fucking galahs told you that I wasn't going to bully you? You coomlecting poofta cunt. Get a job ya fuckwit LMAO

>>10208139
True today, but back in early 2000, you could not find rare stuff on the net like you did in akihabara. there were literally hundred of small shop with unbelievable stuff not released in west. you could just pick up 3 HiSaturn or Street Fighter Arcade PCB for nothing
Everything was so cheap, plenty of stock because nobody cared. I purchased a SF2Turbo CPS1 PCB for 6500 fucking yen at MAK Japan back in 2008.
SNS and normies destroyed this.Japan was great when it was the galapagos niche place to go for weird people by weird people.

>>10207576
What happened to the Aussie guy that had a hate-boner for Castlevania 4?

>>10222526
He 8-direction whipped himself to death.