What are the best retro vidya places in Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo? I have a couple of days left in all three and looking to bring some games and merch home. Ideally something off the beaten path.
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What are the best retro vidya places in Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo?
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No offense or anything but copies of retro games leaving the domestic market is becoming a big problem. I'm sure you're a nice person and all but I'm not going to share that kind of information with you and I don't think that anyone else should either.
That being said, while you're in Tokyo check out an arcade called Mikado you will love it.
>the year is 2033
>all Famicom cartridges are owned by American scammers who sell them between $100 - $500 per cart
No one here is going to tell you because they don't want competition but here are some tips. You are in the main tourist/population area so there arn't many deals to be found there. Den-Den town in Osaka was decent but seems like its picked clean now. Go to super potato if you want to look at an overpriced store. Suragaya specialty store and Mandarake are decent and located in big cities.The better deals are in the country side away from train stations, look for hard-off or book-off. It isn't as good as it used to be but still had deals to be found.
Rare games sure but most of the stuff here is just junk by their standards. As long as an arbitrage opportunity exists people will keep buying. Only way to stop the flow out of the country would be if they raised prices but the yen is falling faster than that.
Thanks. The Taito Station from OP was in Kawagoe, but I didn't find anything cool in the vicinity. I'll keep looking, I guess.
Yeah it totally has nothing to do with retro gaming in Japan being as popular as in the rest of the world.
It's always the foreigner's fault. Those damn baka gaijins.
Yes I realize your post was probably bait
It wasn't bait. Even the national archive had acknowledged that it's a problem as they decided to set up an official archive of games. I'm not even joking. Thousands of tourists come to Japan stop in Akiba looking to buy retro games. Prices are going up as supply decreases. Then you have buttholes like Pink Gorilla and Game Camp who are straight up shipping hundreds of games abroad.
>Thousands of tourists come to Japan stop in Akiba looking to buy retro games. Prices are going up as supply decreases. Then you have buttholes like Pink Gorilla and Game Camp who are straight up shipping hundreds of games abroad.
yeah and that still sounds like a drop compared to the entire market. In the west we just blame coomlectors who don't even play games and resellers, Japan be like
>it's the baka gaijin's fault!
Anon, you can disregard the problem all you want but meanwhile tourists and shops are moving cartridges and disks overseas by the thousands and the domestic stock is getting smaller, therefore prices go up. Imagine that combined with a market of gamers which makes it even worse.
When even the national library cited it as one of the reasons they set up their archive, you know it's a problem.
I thought you exaggerating, but it is true; NDL considers foreigners buying up retro vidya an issue: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Media-Entertainment/Save-game-history-Japan-preserves-its-cartridge-bound-treasures
Maybe it will soon be like Japanese coins, which are forbidden to be exported.
I hope so. Animation cells should be on the no-export list also.
>Prices are going up as supply decreases. Then you have buttholes like Pink Gorilla and Game Camp who are straight up shipping hundreds of games abroad.
Oh no, almost sounds like the dynamics of capitalism don't make an exception specifically for japanese retro games!
Same poster just variations on the text. I asked for help on this topic but you will inevitably get a stream of idiots crying about people buying up there stuff, and every time they do I order more shit from Japan sellers w awesome thankful notes and extra games etc. b***h
And I specifically said I wasn't going to help you
Just buy one or two games that are important to you and leave the rest to the Japs. They have a massive stick up their arse about piracy, they don't understand PC emulation, and they're afraid of being sent to the shadow realm for soft-modding their consoles. Leave them be and just take some cool photos of games you like from Super Potato and other tourist traps. It's not like you know moon runes anyway. Get a flash cart and just appreciate how neat it is for all these games to remain circulating in good condition.
i also agree with this guy, why would you buy a japanese moon runes game if you cant even play it? stupid collectors ruin everything for everyone
>>>/jp/ not even trolling.
Ojamakan Fukakusa Store in Kyoto, close to fushimi inari, that one was good. But is true, if you go to the stores inside the cities you wont find anything worthy and the prices will suck.