Since I got to Japan I have been on the hunt for some good retro games. Every time I had come in the past I was able to find SNES, GBA and original Game Boy games with relative ease. This time it has not been so easy, I was able to find a few GBA games not much (so I didn't write about it), mostly the "retro" game section has had me feeling old with mostly N64 or PS1 titles. Apparently I need the retro-retro games. Anyway for some reason I decided to go into this old recycle store (people that have visited here should remember it) literally a 5 minute walk from my wife's parents house. When I walked in it was what I expected, a complete mess with only some idea of organization. Even with the clutter I soon found a book shelf with about 30 or so SNES games and a bunch of Famicom games, they also had a few PS1, PS2, XBox, and N64 games. I was excited to see the SNES games and looked though them, they were reasonably priced at $3.00 each (not great but not bad for the right games). After looking though I picked out Chrono Trigger, Yoshis Island and Final Fight 2 some really good games.
They had a few that interested me but I thought I would wait on those for now (Final Fantasy 5 was one of them).
I decided to look around the rest of the shop just to make sure there was nothing else when I came across a shelf with a PS2 (fat), a PS1 (original design) and a Super Famicom (SNES). It was in good shape and had 2 controllers. The controllers were in great shape actually, they seemed almost new, it had the A/V cable but no power cord. Then I noticed something, the system was sitting on top of a original Super Famicom box (if you know me at all you know I love original packaging!!). I put everything down and opened up the box there was another SNES inside with 2 controllers and an A/V cable but again the power cord was missing. This system however was very yellowed (a common issue with old SNES systems in both Japan and the USA) the controllers were also less in quality to the one that was sitting on top. So I switched the units :), I put the good one with the controllers in the box and set up the other one as the display model. I ask an employee there about the power cord and she was able to find the right one and she hooked it up to a TV so I could see that it worked. With that I bought the system complete and with the box. The whole thing only cost me $25.00 I say only because that's the cost of shipping one from Japan to where I was living in the Boston.
I decided to look around the rest of the shop just to make sure there was nothing else when I came across a shelf with a PS2 (fat), a PS1 (original design) and a Super Famicom (SNES). It was in good shape and had 2 controllers. The controllers were in great shape actually, they seemed almost new, it had the A/V cable but no power cord. Then I noticed something, the system was sitting on top of a original Super Famicom box (if you know me at all you know I love original packaging!!). I put everything down and opened up the box there was another SNES inside with 2 controllers and an A/V cable but again the power cord was missing. This system however was very yellowed (a common issue with old SNES systems in both Japan and the USA) the controllers were also less in quality to the one that was sitting on top. So I switched the units :), I put the good one with the controllers in the box and set up the other one as the display model. I ask an employee there about the power cord and she was able to find the right one and she hooked it up to a TV so I could see that it worked. With that I bought the system complete and with the box. The whole thing only cost me $25.00 I say only because that's the cost of shipping one from Japan to where I was living in the Boston.
Awesome man. Nice find. Any other cool things you've come across there (cool PS1 games (American))?
ReplyDeleteno american games but I did see the sequel to I.Q. or as it is known in the states intelligent qube (that really cool puzzle game for the PS1 we played that time you came over), I.Q. Final it was only $3.00 but I didnt pick it up.
Deleteor as it is known in my house, best game ever! ps, this post made me laugh a lot. don't you have better things to be doing than finding old games? like finding a job?
DeleteI am still waiting for my visa so yea nothing better to do :)
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