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As I've posted in Unrelated, I was in Tokyo last week and these are pictures from last Monday when I visited SuperPotato (www.superpotato.com) in Akihabara.
I didn't see it at first. I was walking down a back alley, just looking for game specialists when I heard it: that beautiful music. I didn't know the tune, but I knew where it came from: an 8-bit Nintendo. You know the music. I looked at the store on street level but I didn't carry anything. Then I looked up: there it was. Super Potato. I'd never head of it before, but I'll never forget it.
(I took this afterwards)
All the store deals in is "dead" video game systems: Famicom-N64. Everything. It and Traders are video game heaven for gamers. They're tiny stores absolutely packed to the gills with stuff, floor-to-ceiling in tiny aisles.
Here was their hardware section for the Neo:
(they had two front-loaders CDs, on in box)
At first I perused their Neo Geo stuff on the shelf -but it was like a 7-11: good games, but nothing above a SamSho2 or AOF2. Then, as I was checking out, I saw the glass case. Holy crap. All it had was Neo stuff. You know the store knew its stuff when it put the "good stuff" under wraps.
Here's the goods... Keep in mind the Yen is right now trading at just above 100 yen = $1. So all you have to do is move the decimal place two to the left and you'll get US Dollars. Oh, and check out their prized belle in the top right.
That's right. Quiz Chibi Delux (JPN NGH) for $1680.
NTM for "only" $1280.
There's no way I'm dumping that much money on a game, but I know some of you will get a kick out of that (current Monday of last week). I mostly finished my Neo collection years ago.
I also picked up a special edition NGPC that was tied into Tactics Ogre, but one of the MN guys already scooped it up from me at-cost for $50.
Needless to say, if you're in JPN you must visit SuperPotato and Traders in Akihabara (I hear Super Potato also has a store in Osaka).
I didn't see it at first. I was walking down a back alley, just looking for game specialists when I heard it: that beautiful music. I didn't know the tune, but I knew where it came from: an 8-bit Nintendo. You know the music. I looked at the store on street level but I didn't carry anything. Then I looked up: there it was. Super Potato. I'd never head of it before, but I'll never forget it.
(I took this afterwards)
All the store deals in is "dead" video game systems: Famicom-N64. Everything. It and Traders are video game heaven for gamers. They're tiny stores absolutely packed to the gills with stuff, floor-to-ceiling in tiny aisles.
Here was their hardware section for the Neo:
(they had two front-loaders CDs, on in box)
At first I perused their Neo Geo stuff on the shelf -but it was like a 7-11: good games, but nothing above a SamSho2 or AOF2. Then, as I was checking out, I saw the glass case. Holy crap. All it had was Neo stuff. You know the store knew its stuff when it put the "good stuff" under wraps.
Here's the goods... Keep in mind the Yen is right now trading at just above 100 yen = $1. So all you have to do is move the decimal place two to the left and you'll get US Dollars. Oh, and check out their prized belle in the top right.
That's right. Quiz Chibi Delux (JPN NGH) for $1680.
NTM for "only" $1280.
There's no way I'm dumping that much money on a game, but I know some of you will get a kick out of that (current Monday of last week). I mostly finished my Neo collection years ago.
I also picked up a special edition NGPC that was tied into Tactics Ogre, but one of the MN guys already scooped it up from me at-cost for $50.
Needless to say, if you're in JPN you must visit SuperPotato and Traders in Akihabara (I hear Super Potato also has a store in Osaka).
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