Hey guys. Just finished my second full day in Tokyo. This trip wasn't a good one. Either I couldn't find the stuff, or it was too expensive. These are the results so far.


Heero Yu
Virtual View Megumi (PS2) - not found
Metal Gear Solid: Ghost Babel (Gameboy color) - not found
Action Replay 4M Auto Plus (Sega Saturn) - not found
Virtual View RCT Eyes play - not found
Biohazard 2 N64 - not found

Zenix
Retro Nintendo Famicom Battery & Card Reader - 円2600 (bought)
Humping Dog USB Memory Stick - not found

Andrewcha
Rechargeable 3DSLL battery - not sold
Rechargeable new 3DS battery - not sold

Faidzal
Radiant Silvergun (Saturn) - finished at Trader, not found in Super Potato
Battle Garegga (Saturn) 円20086 - price too expensive
Batsugun (Saturn) 円18334 - price too expensive

Chinsc
Sega 32X starwars arcade - not found
PCE hucard - genpei toumaden 1 and 2 - not found
PCE hucard - Ninja Spirit - not found
PCE hucard - R-TYPE I - not found
PCE super cd - Cho Aniki 円14800 - price too expensive
Neo Geo AES - KOF97 円11800 - price too expensive

I won't be going to Akihabara anymore for this trip, so the next one will be in DenDen Town during the Osaka trip. I'll be leaving on Sunday, and will most likely check out DenDen Town on Tuesday 22/9.

This post has been edited by tripleB: Sep 18 2015, 10:59 PM


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Update:

Just finished my DenDen trip. Nothing really new, some stuff are still very expensive. But I did get one item for Chinsc

Chinsc
Sega 32X starwars arcade - 円780 (bought)

I'll PM you and Zenix on payment instructions and courier/COD details.



This post has been edited by tripleB: Sep 22 2015, 05:51 PM

Generally speaking yes. But depends on what condition you're looking for. Fully boxed is more expensive than loose for example.

Hey bro haven't you see here for a while. Can I just ask what was the game you were looking for?

Oh cool. You already research DenDen? It's actually in Nippombashi, and can also be accessed from Nanba Parks mall. DenDen is smaller than Akihabara, but it makes iy easier to find the shops you want.

Oh my bad. I thought you are trying to go there for the first time. What are you looking for specifically?

Zenix and Chinsc, I'm still waiting for the transaction to appear on my credit card statement before I can quote you the price. Will update again once I have it. Thanks.

Ok credit card statement is in. The conversion rate is kinda high, sorry that I can't do anything about that. I will PM chinsc and zenix separately to discuss.

It's a 3600mAh power bank + card reader basically. It's not a controller, in case you're wondering. But there ARE retro inspired controllers in Akiba / DenDen. Famicom, Super Famicom, even Megadrive and Saturn I think.

Err I mean there are retro controllers for PC, that just look retro, but are actually for modern PCs.

Yang tu dia tak bawak stok to TGS. Only for pre-order, and they deliver only within Japan. Luckily my friend ada guna forwarding company in Japan, so I got the Megadrive and Saturn ones. Dreamcast habis

Was that for me or Faidzal? I do have another trip line up next year though. Not kidding when I said I go every year. But it's gonna be a new location this time. Hokkaido.

So which locations are you checking out? Osaka is kinda small. I assume you're also checking out Kyoto/Nara/Kobe too?

Ooo. So Nanba and Dottonbori then. Nipponbashi too.

Which shop(s) did you buy from?

What happened? Kena tahan ke?

Haha that part I understand. Sometimes beli too many games in CD cases (Saturn, Playstation) and it gets roughed up a bit during travel. Ada minor cracks sometimes, but tak pernah pecah la. Hardware wise I only bought arcade stick, Twin Stick for Saturn and controllers, no issues with damaged stuff. Beg la jadi berat macam anak gajah.

Kan? I was like, banyaknye nak rembat. Then I remembered to get this in my luggage, and I had to cut back on purchases. Just asking, you bought the original AES or one of those NeoGeoX systems?

I was a dedicated PC gamer in the 80s and 90s, and only because my dad uses a PC for work in the 80s. Later on in 1997, I needed an excuse to beg for a PC because I needed to do assigments (sure... assignments).

I used to buy Computer Gaming World religiously, and later on, PC Gamer too. I also bought some stuff like Brady Games' guides to Tekken, Final Fantasy VII, etc. And only knew about EGM and EGM2 from a friend. And I then became a loyal EGM reader too. Loved the occasional pullouts or posters EGM used to give out.

Today's game mags are kinda lacking in actual news coverage, but I feel it's because most information are on the Internet nowadays. So I don't buy magazines as often as I used to anymore. But they will always have a special place in my heart.

Back before the Internet became common, game magazines were my go-to place to get game demos. Computer Gaming World (CGW) and PC Gamer gave away some cool stuff back in the day. That's where I first learned about the Turok Dinosaur Hunter port for PC (!) in 1997.

I also bought a ton of EGM and EGM2 back then. They had some exclusive contents, like first reveals, interviews, artwork, and of course the occasional pullouts. And sometimes they have stuff like the Fighting Games Special issue. I still have almost all of my magazines!

I've never heard about Incite Video Games though. What year was that?

Err I never used that somehow. I was more of a PC Gamer UK and PC Zone reader in the mid 90s, then later on did I move to PC Gamer US. One of the coolest thing I ever got was a DVD demo that came with PC Gamer UK. Back in 2000, it was very rare to find DVD ROM drives on most desktops, since it was still expensive.

Anyway, that demo disc was so packed with content, including Alone in the Dark, Blair Witch chapter 1 and Nocturne. Nocturne in particular impressed the hell out of me. I was already on Geforce 256 DDR, and that game showcased how well DX7 (hardware transform and lighting) implementation can be done. And it was the first game to use Terminal Reality's Infernal engine, which went on to spawn the Bloodrayne games.

I didn't read much of Gamefan, Gamepro or CVG, but I remember in 1993, when I had a friend who was really into Megadrive, I used to go through tons of Sega Power. Man, if my dad allowed us to have a Megadrive, I think Sega Power would have been a strong influencer for buying games haha.

I had like 3 friends who had Megadrives. 1 of them was using a Japanese Megadrive, so he was the odd kid out of the three, because he couldn't share games. But he did brag about having Super Shinobi II, which caused the gamers in the class to get jealous. Since I only had an AMD 386 SX/33 with only 2MB RAM, no sound card, no CD drive, my gaming experiences were limited to repeats of Golden Axe, Bubble Bobble, Outrun, Shinobi, and the "PC version" of Street Fighter II.

For those who remember, there was an unofficial version of Street Fighter II for PC, which I think was ported from the PC Engine version. The digitized speed were there, playable just on the built-in PC Speaker. It only had the 8 World Warriors, and even then, Dhalsim was swapped out for another Guile. No bosses, no endings. But man, Street Fighter II on PC!