/vr/ - Retro Games

Here's a clip from the Tokyo super potato retro video game store their prices are higher and they mostly cater to foreigners.

https://youtu.be/ujhFDz3zxhM


Just remember Neo Geo and sega Saturn stuff are getting rare in Japan.

>>5310551
>Super Potato
At least try, anon.
That place is known for inflating prices for baka gaijins.
There's this YouTube channel called KidShoryuken who actually shows the smaller and cheaper places for retro hunting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONGcVBuKn_8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g43V4Eax6C4

>>5310557
HARD OFF is a cheaper used video game store in japan but you won't find a NWO GEO aes systems in those stores usually but their prices are fair and not inflated.

https://youtu.be/8eh3UqizKwU

>>5310557
The second video you posted of the store with the Japanese arcade boards is a store is like to visit.

If enough people see that video foreigners will buy out their inventory.

>>5310464
If you do go to japan can you fun some inventory in the used guitar stores.

I'm wondering if stuff like univox and token guitars are still in stock there.
.when I see videos of Japanese guitar stores they are filled with mostly modern stuff.

I'm trying to see if there's used guitar stores in Japan that sell 70's Japanese guitars like Greg's under the Japanese brands

>>5310464
Retro stores are a scam. You have more luck going to Goodwill or some other thrift store.

>>5310593
>go to my local goodwills (there's two of them)
>one has absolutely no retro stuff of any kind
>the other has two cheap ass SNES sports games
>they're in the glass case.
I gave up on goodwill long ago.

>>5310593
The stores are good for collectors looking for stuff.
I don't think you will find a NEO GEO at a good will

But yeah if your collecting ps1 ps2 stuff goodwill is a good place to check.

I've been finding lots of Nintendo WII stuff at goodwill and other thrift shops.

A store like super potato sells NEO GEO consoles and SNES disk systems stuff you won't find at a thrift store in the U.S.

>>5310625
Oh I totally agree that if you NEED (read: are obsessed by) a certain game, you will find it there. But is it worth what they ask there? No, likely not.

>>5310621
I know the feeling, but I feel like it is a seasonal thing, a year ago my favorite local thrift store had a bunch of good retro games, like Ceasar II, but now they only have 20 copies of some EA sports game.
I heard in Goodwill's case it's because they started a second hand game store chain where all the normal Goodwills will send the games to. They still sell games for a very very good price there, from what I heard.

Oh also
>Pawnshops
I had some amazing finds in them, though some overprice their games severely.
Basically just try every place they sell secondhand stuff, you might find gems you weren't even looking for.

>>5310557
The video of that MAK Japan store is awesome too bad the guy got in trouble for filming they actually have the arcade boards I was looking for
The area of that store is run by yakuza he is lucky they didn't drag him out back and knife him up.

>>5310647
I also think some anons want to travel to japan and figure out why not visit a retro game store.
.
The big thing with this is most videos on YouTube show people buying stuff like ps1 games that are cheap on ebay.

I'd like are members of /retro/ to try bringing back rarer items.

>>5310464
Great places. When they get something amazingly rare in, I get first dibs on it at the price they paid for it if I do not already have it. They supply me with content for my channel and streams. Great people and places to support.

>>5310647
Goodwill is supposed to send their games and systems to their online division. Shopgoodwill is like ebay but less known.

I live in Japan. It's pretty good.

Sometimes I visit retro video games stores or general stores that also have retro games to just feel the vibe and lament about how you fucking subhumans come in droves and buy everything out.

My own games I have in digital form on my external HDD.

>>5310593
This hasn't been true for about 10 years.

>>5311607
and with even worse shipping costs

>>5311607
>Shopgoodwill is like ebay but less known.
And more expensive than ebay prices with expensive shipping. Don't ever donate to goodwill, just give your games to some kid or offer it for free, or another thrift store.

They play like a charity so they can pay handicapped people $3 an hour as "interns" or "job training," all while paying nothing for their stock. Should be criminal.

My local EB had two of the coolest employees ever back in the early 00's. Got a free GameShark when I bought an import of Shenmue II because I didn't have a boot disk. They also sold me their personal Black Sports Edition DC after mine kicked the bucket.

No Japanese stores, but I've been to one of the retro shops in my town. It moved locations, and I've been to each location once
First location
>Big floor space
>Lots of selection
>Everything from Atari to PS3 (8th gen not out yet)
>Prices about on par with eBay prices for proper retro stuff though
>Zelda 1 Link rug in front of the register, neat
>Buy nothing
Second location
>Go there to waste time with my friend
>Floor space is absolutely tiny
>Worse location too
>Obviously moved because they couldn't afford their first place
>Many gaps in the shelves
>Nowhere near as many games as before
>More of a used game shop with retro games rather than a shop dedicated to older consoles
>Also an arcade cabinet with NES Punch-Out for some reason?
>Gameboy Micros for $99
>Don't remember much else other than the cool (as in color temperature, shit was almost teal) gray paint on the walls
>Buy $15 copy of Ground Zeroes for my stepdad
>Leave

>>5310647
rippen

>>5310649
>i'm a 12yo: the post

>>5312525
I guess you don't know much about Japan.

>>5313385

Not the guy you're replying to but I live in Tokyo and you're a fucking retard.

>>5310560
You could definitely find a Neo Geo if you're incredibly lucky. 80s PCs and other things are sold there sometimes.

>>5313385
I live in Japan. Unless you're involved in drugs, illegal gambling, loansharking, or the shadier side of prostitution, you'll never interact with the yakuza.

>>5313392
You live in Tokyo not in akihabara
Where the video was filmed.

I dare you to go to the same MAK store in akihabara and start filming.

Your the idiot everyone knows akihabara is Yakima territory

Guys I live in Japan too.

That aside, I'm thinking of travelling to Osaka next month. Does Denden have some good retro stores?

Are Saturns really getting rare in Japan? I see them in ebay, shipped directly from Japan, for $50-60.

>>5313662
They are getting rare compared to 2 years ago.

>>5314163
Okay good to know. My roommate is going to Japan for a couple of weeks and asked me for a list of shit I might want. I'm having a hard time coming up with anything not NPB related, but had tentatively put a saturn on the list. I figured they'd be cheaper and in better condition than one I'd be likely to pick up here in the US. The only other things I could think of were gamecube controllers and maybe Umihara Kawase for sfc; even though I know that game has been memed into being expensive. It has to be cheaper than ebay over there. I'm not even going to ask him to look out for neo geo or pc engine because those are also probably insanely priced.

>>5313662
eBay prices don't necessarily reflect prices in Japan, even if it's from a Japanese seller. I got my PC Engine/CD-Rom2/IFU on Yahoo Auctions for only $60; you'd be lucky to pay twice that on eBay

>>5313609


they used to be cheaper than Akiba.

it evened out a bit in the last years though.

>>5310464


Super Potato is nice to look at likea museum.


but very expensive and yes, they cater to foreigners who pay the ridiculous prices.
there are many retro chains like Surugaya or Mandarake. but most of them have similar prices.


stuff like Mega Drive, Saturn, PCE, SFC, FC almost everything has become quite expensive.


that is if you go for the heavy hitters.

low-end titels are still rather cheap compared to outside of Japan.
most of the resellers and foreign retro people living in Japan go to Hard Off and Book off though.
it definitely helps if you have a car like that Ramon guy.

>>5310464

Go to Hard Offs and Book Offs on the outskirts of Tokyo. Usually a much better selection of things at usually better prices.

>>5314323
>>5314163
So how much are we talking about for a saturn? I was imagining $50 for a complete console. Jap model 2 consoles go for $80 at the import shop near me. Anything more than $70 and I'd rather just buy it here to save my friend the trouble.
I thought about buying on yahoo auctions and having stuff sent to his hotel/pod/hostel but I don't really want him to have to worry about it that much.
Also am I right in assuming gamecube controllers haven't been overpriced due to smash fags?

>>5310464
Years ago I went to this place in Chicago called People Play Games, and bought a handful of NES games, including a CIB Ninja Gaiden. Was really neat; they had everything from 2600 to Dreamcast, and when I went in there, one of the employees appeared to be restoring/cleaning a Genesis box.

>>5314517
$80 is a fair price for a japan import saturn since your not paying shipping fee's.

>>5313385
Not much. Only lived there a few years.

>>5313593
>doubles down on stupid
kek

Cool thread. Reminds me of how I live in Japan.

>>5310560
Speaking from experience? Anyway hardoff is a chain so it’s totally random what they have in stock, they use yaj for their prices, neogeo is not ‘super rare zomg’ here

>>5310649
MAK is run by a fat old japanese guy and he’s super friendly, c’mon kids try harder pls

Nobody has mentioned Friends in Akiba, it’s at the far end by tamtam hobby shop. It’s literally a mom and pop run by an old lady and her autistic son. He has the finest selection of OST I’ve ever seen, really a hoarder. Anyway their shop is cash only, two floors, bottom floor is usual stuff top floor is CD based stuff only.

>>5315468
I got my skeleton saturn at friends for ¥6000

>>5315468


the son and his father are hated by a lot of Japanese retro buyers lol

Are scart cables as common in Japan as they are in Europe?

>>5316164
Not even close, there was a standard called JP21 but it is essentially extinct. Only an enthusiast would even know about it.

>>5315461
ThevMAK store has awesome inventory in it.

There's a few arcade boards there I want to purchase.

>>5315458
Oh wow you found like 10 NEO GEO games locked up in a case at hard off when super potato usually has a bigger selection of neo Geo stuff.

>>5315472
You got it at a extremely fair price too bad nodding your console is illegal in Japan.

>>5310464
Back in the 80s and 90s, we just called them "video game stores".

>>5313593

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>>5316434
>nodding your console
You wouldn't nod a console, would you?

>>5316357
The standard is called RGB21ピン(pin)

>>5310593
i only find xbox and ps2 stuff at goodwill. OH WAIT NOT RETRO

>>5316745
Oh ok.

>>5316430
Super potato has 40 copies of samurai spirits at retarded markup, only a fag would shop there. I guarantee you won't find last blade AES for less than double what this recycle shop had it for.

>>5316430
And another thing, why is super potato always full of smelly French dudes with long hair? Stinking up the joint, fuck I hate French people.

>>5318040
They're always super loud and obnoxious bumping in to you and shit. Fuck.

>>5318031
Made up term by american youtubers and shmup.com

>>5316164
A different standard was used. Different pinout, despite looking similar.


>>5316357
Or someone old like me, when that was all that was available. Life is suffering now, as no one makes things for the Japanese standard. The gSCARTsw made for the Japanese pinout was made in only 1 batch and I regret only being able to afford one. The gSCARTswhas since gained new revisions and improvements that I miss out on using Japanese RGB cables. It would cost too much to switch over to the Euro standardm

>>5318189
Or just solder the pins in the right order it's not super hard. I found a Sony JP21 psx cord at hard off and 20 minutes of soldering later boom it's euroscart.

>>5318105

>>5318037
You can get the Last Blade on Ebay for the same price as pictured in that cabinet. You don't even need to move your arse out of your chair.

This thread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP5lz2CYNR4