Japan Game Junk

What a day as a new region of the country is breached, as after Kanto and Tohoku, this is the first episode describing a visit to a store in Chubu! Even if the store was not great! This is the Book Off store in Iwasa Hirose in Yamanashi visited on July 6!

On July 1 of 2024 I visited a store to which you have not been before! Unless you live in the area or are a driver trying to visit the far reaches of used gaming in rural Japan! It's the Ibaraki Kanteidan store in Kamisu, Ibaraki! Get yourself an instant Famicom collection or a bottle of liquor if that is your thing!

A Hard Off visited on July 1 of 2024, this one gets some good stuff as it's the only one to be found in almost an hour in any direction! It is the store in Kamisu, Ibaraki! This is the best character ever made, Kamisu-Koko-kun: https://www.city.kamisu.ibaraki.jp/kanko_sports/coco/index.html

Way back when on June 30, 2024, I visited the Oizumi Gakuen branch of Hard Off store in Nerima ward of Tokyo! It had a number of games at 2000 yen that were good buys! It had untested junk consoles! It had a huge Pikachu!

A store that happily hasn't changed much since being bought out by a different chain, this is the Koriyama, Fukushima branch of U☆Pura visited on June 24, 2024. I wonder how a beautiful 3DO console can be sold for just over half the price as a little screen performing the same function as a smartphone.

Not the best Hard Off store was visited on June 24, 2024 as the Shimo Kameda branch in Koriyama, Fukushima is described. MIDI is appreciated.

Visited on July 26, 2024, this is Mandai Shoten warehouse style used shop in Kawagoe city, Saitama Prefecture! It was recently remodeled with the game stuff moved from the second floor to the first floor but that likely does not matter to you! Serial Experiments Lain was there and very expensive!

The second Surugaya related store visited in Koriyama, Fukushima prefecture on June 24, 2024. This Book Market had video games and video game accessories. You are allowed to take these home after providing currency through cash, barcode payment, or credit card.

Back to Momotaro Kingdom, this is the store in Hashimoto of Sagamihara city in Kanagawa prefecture, visited on July 26, 2024, the date that it had its grand opening! There were some deals and some rarities and I could get a free drink!

This episode marks the first visit into the Tohoku region, being the Surugaya store in Koriyama, Fukushima prefecture! This visit on June 24, 2024 followed a pleasant meal in Iwaki city.

This episode describes visiting the newest Hard Off store in Japan at time of publishing, the Kami Yokota branch in Utsunomiya, Tochigi, as visited on June 17, 2024. It is so clean and nice.

The first episode with a repeated visit to a previously featured store! What has changed between the first visit and June 17, 2024? Hope many new boxed copies of Virtual Boy games remain? The only way to find out is to press play!

The second episode from a Hard Off in Sagamihara in Kanagawa, this time the Shimokuzawa store visited on June 10, 2024

Monumental timing as episode 50 marks the completion of a region; adding the Hard Off store in Yabe, Sagamihara, Kanagawa. This store was visited on June 10, 2024. Now all prefectures of the Kanto region have been represented. Not so much treasure in this store unless you want slightly inappropriate underage girl fan service media from the mid 1990s.

One of the better stores in Akihabara, this is the original Surugaya store in the area visiting on June 3, 2024. You are actually MORE likely to find software for the Apple Pippin than to run into Scotty Pippen! Plus more games with naked women and the best MSX ever.

A true must-visit store in Akihabara in Tokyo, this is BEEP as visited on June 3, 2024. Computer parts from the 70s, lots of 8-bit wonder, arcade boards, and naked girls.

Happy episode 47, and I'm happy to share the Mandarake store in Akihabara as visited on June 3, 2024. Well worth a visit and some unique finds. Just don't make the long climb of the stairs.

What the unwashed gaming masses consider a mecca of retro game shopping, this time I'll describe a visit to Super Potato in Akihabara taken on June 3, 2024. Indeed worth going, but don't get dazzled into opening your wallet so quickly. As mentioned in the recording, two videos linked related to this episode: General description and warning about Super Potato and advice on smart game buying in Akih...

It's Akihabara time! The first in a few episodes going over some spots for retro gaming in the world's gaming mecca. This is TRADER in my first visit since the remodeling, visited on June 3, 2024,

A visit to Hard Off in Sakado, Saitama on June 2, 2024 for 30 percent money back on everything! Lots of good stuff including good junk. I got a computer.

In Koshigaya, Saiyama is a recently cut in half sized A-too Book Market. Some wacky things and some good deals and some sad feelings about how it used to be better.

Another fun trip to another Surugaya store, this one in Narashino city in Chiba, albeit in a neighborhood more famous to foreigners by its station name than the city itself. Listen to learn a hint for parking for free!

This time I'll describe finds in the 4th best Surugaya store, the one in Konosu, Saitama as visited on May 19th, 2024! You can get the most expensive PC Engine ever and then go downstairs for a hot and fresh pepperoni pie!

Another day, another Hard Off; this describes s visit to the store in Kitamoto, Saitama on May 19, 2024. I hope you like old game-centered computers.

Learn about Japanese immigration and emigration as I explain a bit about the town of Oizumi in Gunma. The Hard Off as visited on May 13, 2024 had many interesting rarities also. Come for the LaserActive LD-ROM games, stay for the grilled meats and Brazilian pizza!