Japan Game Junk

Another beautiful episode about another visit to the wonderful Surugaya in Utsunomiya, Tochigi! This time, on May 11, 2025, I bought 3060 yen of games which felt so good as 3000 yen purchases gives you 500 yen in discount AND free parking for 2 hours yesssssss

On May 5th of 2025, I could visit again the Koshigaya Minami branch of Hard Off in Koshigaya, Saitama! So much cheapness to be found in Nintendo cartridge games featuring grappling, and cheap Killing Time for 3DO!

On April 28, 2025, I visited the Book Market in Iwaki, Fukushima, which is supported by Surugaya. It is a nice little store and you can get AUDIO CDs. Also some 50 yen games.

On April 28, 2025, I visited the Hard Off store in the Taira section of Iwaki, Fukushima. It had some special nude software! Also someone made a Game Boy better.

The newest and worst Surugaya, located in the Higashimurayama AEON shopping mall in Tokyo, was visited on April 27, 2025! Very little to note other than TURB.

The first crossover between the Japan Game Junk podcast and Japan Game Junk University. Please watch and learn about how to streeeeeetch your yen when filling your shelves with gaming goodness. Or badness. This is pristine content worthy of international praise.

On April 14, 2025, I visited the Hard Off store in Tomisato city of Chiba! It has been a while and they had so much retro goodness including only the third time I have ever seen a working Atari 2800!

A brand new Hard Off store with nice smell but first I explain how I SPECTACULARLY ESCAPED CERTAIN DEATH! Then some stuff in the new Toride, Ibaraki branch, as visited on April 12, 2025.

Helloooooooo and this time I'll secribe a fun little store visited on April 6, 2025, being the Omiya Miyahara branch of Momotaro Kingdom in Saitama city! You can get the priciest Bonk ever or perhaps Gubble!

The second Hard Off in Saitama city visited on April 6, 2025, this is the Saitama Omiya Nishi branch! It has been so long for me to visit and going back, I can say it still is one of the least interesting Hard Off branches! But go if you like, I guess!

In the heart of Saitama city is the Saitama Kami Komachi branch of Hard Off! I visited on the 6th of April, 2025. Very much they do have disc software compatible with Sega consoles released between 1995 and 2001!

Back to visiting a Hard Off, and this is one that 20 years ago was full of junk cheap gaming goodness. Things were very different on March 30, 2025, however. The Hitachi, Ibaraki branch may hve fewer rare treasures but it does have some sort of unopened Chinese language Switch game!

Get your 100 yen coins and head to Otachu in Hitachi, Ibaraki! I did on March 30, 2025! Lots of 100 yen junk and cheap Super Famicom games! Plus used sneakers and watches or whatever the kids need to feel happy and fulfilled in life.

It is NOT a Hard Off as I return to the chain that fueled my dreams of gaming over 20 years ago. I wistfully revisited the Naka, Ibaraki branch of WonderGoo on March 30, 2025. The once powerful store now offers a powerful deal on 8bitdo!

It's a Hard Off! This time I talk about a visit to a the Fujisawa branch of the store in Iruma, Saitama on March 23, 2025. More PC-FX than most stores... IF YOU CAN HANDLE IT

WHAT? It is not a Hard Off? This time I talk about a visit to a kanteidan store on March 23, 2025. It's the Iruma branch of Guruguru Empire and you can get mint boxed Nintendo games on the cheap! You can also play a ten yen crane game to win gum!

A new Hard Off was visited on March 23, 2025! It opened just a week earlier in Zama, Kanagawa. It smelled good. Did I decide to find love on the Neo Geo Pocket or give an alligator a hammer to hit things?

Just a short one describing a March 22, 2025 visit to the Sano, Tochigi branch of Hard Off. A couple of slightly interesting things but honestly it is much better to visit this store for computer stuff rather than game stuff.

Hello to you, and feel free to listen in on a visit to the Higashi Omiya branch of Hard Off in Saitama city! On March 22, 2025, there was a number of video game related merchandise on offer including a DIAMOND PICKAXE KEYCHAIN FOR ONLY 100 YEN CAN YOU BELIEVE IT I MEAN IT IS AMAZING AND REMINDS YOU OF MINECRAFT

On March 15 of 2025, the cute little Hard Off branch of Urawa Ota Kubo in Saitama city was visited! Coincidentally many noteworthy items were 3000 yen! Many pro wrestling games were 100 yen in the junk section! And Japanese people in the 90s liked RPGs!

The last of the fuzzy microphone trilogy, please learn about a fresh Hard Off store in Hidaka, Saitama! On February 3, they had TWO Wondermega systems and a Majima pin with an insulting curse!

The fuzzy microphone blues continue as I discuss a really interesting Hard Off store. This is the branch in Higashi Yamato city of Tokyo, visited on March 3, 2025! It has lots of little things you don't see elsewhere. Pop n' Pop!

Sorry for a fuzzy voice as a microphone was tried that will not be used again! This time I talk about a Hard Off store in Koganei, Tokyo, being the Hana Koganei branch visited on March 3, 2025! For those curius, the cheaply bought items not mentioned were Amiibo figures and disc-only Sega Saturn games!

Have you ever heard of Inagi city? It's in Tokyo! It has a Hard Off! I visited that Yanoguchi branch on February 24 and bought some scary stories for 3DO. Perhaps you want to get some... Coleco? In Japan?

You WANTED an update on the games available in the Kiso branch of Hard Off in Machida, Tokyo, well, you GET an update on the games available in the Kiso branch of Hard Off in Machida, Tokyo, as visited on February 23, 2025! So many foreign games and Playdia pleasures!