🕹️ [4K HDR] SUPER POTATO Akihabara | A RETROGAMING Paradise in Tokyo 🇯🇵
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ย. 2021
- If you are into retrogaming, Super Potato shop will feel like paradise!
This shop is located in the heart of Akihabara and it has 3 floors. We start this video on the top floor where you will be able to play old-school arcade games. In the 2 other floors, you will find a lot of old video games and consoles including Super Nintendo, Playstation, Sega and so on.
The prices are not super expensive so if you feel nostalgic and want to play old games again, make sure to visit Super Potato! Here's the exact location of the shop: goo.gl/maps/3Z9jKKJZB68Eh4tVA
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It's always good to see retro gaming still living on....
It lives online as well as through homebrew games, man.
@@paxhumana2015 that is not what he thought
One day Cyberpunk 2077 will be considered retro.
If you want retro Japan is the place. 70% of music sales are still CDs. It's both good and bad.
For me personally I embraced digital many years ago and would just rather have a load of emulators and roms but I don''t have a huge amount of physical space to hoard old games that'll I'll probably never play and just sit on a shelf gathering dust
The thing about Japan is that they treat the old school nostalgic stuff and games and maintain them so well. Very attention to detail . They will never neglect the past besides the present day treating them with respect and care.
These videos of Japan always make me sad because I know that here in the USA, our public areas will never be so neat and clean. Japan is so stunningly beautiful.
I'm sad because here in the USA MOST of these games cost at least 10X as much or more!
@@tatecheddar same in germany.
Easy fix
100$ fine every time you through your crap on the floor
@@vitorted yeah... that'll help in the US. The place where you'll find mile long stretches of junkies shooting up heroin and fentanyl in every major city. The place where "mostly peaceful protests" are accompanied by people burning, rioting and looting everything in sight. The place where kids are being coaxed into mutilating their reproductive system because the political climate tells you being "cis" is "problematic". The place where people are either killing themselves or others because they buckle under the pressure of crippling financial dept.
I'm sure a $100,- fine will do the trick, yeah...
@@vitorted Funny thing is that's pretty much the law everywhere already, they just don't bother to enforce it. Only time I see anyone fined for littering is if they're dumping a large amount of stuff somewhere.
Dude I love how there are all the little nooks and small shops, mini arcades. Just people enjoying their time.
I have 45 years old , its awesome, i feel like a child in 80s and 90s.
Oh my god, is my childhood😮
子供の時、毎日日本から来たゲームをしていたけど大人になったから全然ゲームをしない。毎回、秋葉原にいる時、ちょっと子供の感じがある。マジで良い感じ。次回、秋葉原のブログを作りたい。日本の田舎も楽しみたい。ビデオありがとう！
It's insane how much effort is put into these shops.
And money tied up in inventory must be through the roof!!!
@@SnuggleBugAcademy Games are much cheaper in japan, but still
毎日、秋葉原に行ってます。秋葉原は最高な街です。
Super Potato is legendary. I would love to go one day.
wow. this store is incredible. and the condition of everything is unbelievable. hardcover guidebooks in plastic that look never opened. so many games in their original cases, even NES boxes looking like new. incredible. So many game & watches!! so comparatively rare here. Awesome stairwells! That MULTI-Layer STACK of famicoms wow!! How is there so much of this stuff still out there?? Japanese culture must not throw out stuff a lot.
It's like a time capsule from the better days. I really love retro gaming and Japan ❤
Long Live Japan!
I miss Tokyo a lot, it feels like ages since the last time I visited there because of the pandemic.
yay another tourist weeb that fetishizes a whole nation...
My favorite shop in Akihabara. Bought my son a plastic Super Mario bowl there that he still eats cereal out of. If you're into video game culture (particularly retro), it's worth the trip. Akihabara is worth the trip in general.
this is also something i've always liked in japan, they always have an old game store
The entire world have old games store,I live in a country in the middle of nowhere & there's tons of old games stores,these are facts.
So clean, love it❤
22:48 those Famicom cartridges look so beautiful
This video was super nostalgic for me. Being next to Japan, Korean arcade spots were always updated with the latest Japanese arcade machines.
沖縄にもアーケードゲームあったらいいな！😊
I’ve been reminiscing the past lately and feeling nostalgic for GameBoy, DS, 3DS and PS Vita stuff so this warms my heart seeing all my childhood games in one place! ❤
same...sad nostalgic feeling.
lol how can someone be nostalgic for something from 8 years ago. Boo, y'all don't even know what nostalgia is.
@@ianswift3521 A LOT can change in just one year my dood
@ianswift3521 no you don't know what nostalgia is,Taylor swift fan,the word nostalgia doesn't mean from childhood it means something from the past that makes the person happy(it can even be something from a second ago since that's the past & if it makes the person happy then it's nostalgic,learn words before commenting,your stereotypical troll brain is as rotten as other trolls therefore you know nothing)these are facts.
Totally awesome to get a tour of the city. It's interesting to me that down these unassuming alleyways they lead to all these cool little shops. Nice video 😎
Cyberpunk 2022
I miss Japan so much. I was there in November in 2019 right before the pandemic happened. I got engaged in Sumida to my wife and my family was with me when we did. We also hung out from the 2-11 of that November. I remember landing in Narita and taking the train to Oshiage station. I miss the conbinis, public transport, the food, the atmosphere, EVERYTHING! 😂
I was there at the same time and its amazing the impact it had on me
I was there at the same month too. Stayed in Asakusa. Went to Shibuya, Ueno, Fuji, Kawaguchi-ko and Gotemba.
I remember my time there as well.
I ate so much cotton candy I got pink eye
@@customsongmaker doubt it but good rib lol
I saw you on the train!
I love this kind of video because I can't walk so I feel free again. I can go anywhere in the world!
everything is so bright and welcoming here... and CLEAN!
Japan knows how to make great video games
for me megaman is the best in retrogame but pc game is the best game of all time especially Age of Empires 2
I’ve bought and imported a few Gameboy games from Super Potato! I’d not realised it was an actual shop. I’d love to visit Japan one day ❤
The cool part is there are different Super Potato's around Japan to. I went to one in Osaka back when I used to live there 8 years ago. Do not remember if it was in Nippombashi or Nanba.
It had 2 giant life size statues in front of it. One being Mario and the other being Naked Snake from Metal Gear Solid 3.
King of cyberpunk still .
Stacks and stacks of impeccable looking retro consoles, cartridges and cd's... incredible. And those prices are great too.
Where I live any of those things cost around 3 times as much and they're always in horrible condition.
Very nice to see that Melty Blood is still living on.
Yes I love it too!
Excelente video,te felicito,se ve que en tu país Japón,hay una tienda que tiene,artas consolas retro y juegos retro para elegir,osea en conclusión esta tienda tiene de todo un poco en consolas y videojuegos para todos los gustos,adiós y saludos desde Chile🇨🇱.
Loved it! Very cool tour, thank you.
Gotta love it that they are showing episodes of Game Center Cx! Awesome tour of this legendary game store! ARINO KACHO- ONNNNN!
Legendary Game Center Cx!!! You are welcome my friend 😃
insane!
日本の誇りを世界に届けてくれてありがとうございます！❤
for me megaman is the best in retrogame but pc game is the best game of all time especially Age of Empires 2
スーパーポテト！自分はレトロゲー好きなので彼女とアキバデートにいつも寄ってましたｗｗ
It's pure magic!
paradise in earth
I went there in 2019 and prices weren't great. But that was the busiest time in tourism ever for Japan. In this video they were still closed, so they couldn't get those tourist dollars, leading to better prices. I head back in October, I'll check this place out again, and see if its worth buying anything.
The non-retro shops in Akiba have great prices though. I got a few then-new PS4 games for cheaper than expected. Like games that were $40 on PSN digital, for 2000Y.
YOU WINS
nice video , i love the walk from street into the super potato , good sightseeing. its crazy how many rar/good video games the potato have. greetings from germany
The hardware is incredibly cool. I saw stuff like the 3DO and several NEC PC FX machines. They even had what looked like a PC-FX GA which was this add on card for Japanese personal computers you could fit to play the PC FX games on your computer. I love the idea of waking up and feeling like you want to go and buy a mint SNES to play and you can walk in here and just pick one up like it's 1992
KHFODMLUF HJ
Thankyou so much for this video. I have always dreamed of seeing the place, and feel I have seen it in some capacity. Really appreciate your efforts.
Retro gaming becomes bigger and bigger and i like that!!
10:55 the xbox dead or alive got me drooling
Great video quality and camera work. 👍
Awesome video !
Retro Game / Hardware 爱好者的天堂！
for me megaman is the best in retrogame but pc game is the best game of all time especially Age of Empires 2
So much cool stuff! A quick Google search will show that the prices aren't bad either. Wish we had something like that in my town. I saw a few original Playstation consoles for basically $25-$30.
$30 for a ps1? that is a steal
@@hypnos9336 FGAO
You see them a decent lot on flea markets and stuff. I don't buy them at 30. Has to be 15 or less for me.@@hypnos9336
Wow awesome shop!! That Star Fox statue is so good!
These prices are exceptionally tame compared to the US Used game market. It's how much classic games used to cost here. Made collecting fun.
Этот магазин скорее напоминает святилище.
The best game shop I've ever seen.
WAUUU 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
My favorite place to go to lookin forward of going. Peace and love japan
Awesome ! Thanks for this video ! 👍
You are welcome my friend, I’m glad you liked it!
that side eye @9:40
Merci pour cette video !!!
I can’t believe I walked by this place and didn’t know it was there. I was just a block over on the main strip. I know where I’m going next time I’m in Tokyo! Thx for this. ❤
wow amazing prices!! awesome!
I love this! Too bad America thinks arcade machines are for toddlers and they have only prize machines for ticket exchanges! This is a REAL Arcade! The kind I remember as a kid! =)
How can you not love the place or the people if they naturally created such an utopia for gamers.
Depends on what kind of games you like seems japan only likes fake rpgs & other weeaboo nonsense & those aren't my type of games so it's not an utopia for me & billions of other gamers who don't like that stuff,these are facts.
@@drizztdourden666 I like old school games from the time when they reigned supreme, but even today there is Zelda and other amazing Japanese games.
@jge123 i only like those games when I was a kid since they are made for kids & are childish but as a man I matured & so did my tastes,these are facts.
Missing these places in Japan... Nice video!
I wish we had this culture in my country
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Jesus seeing Final Fantasy ps1 games for less than 1000 yen is crazy. If I ever visit Japan Super Potato is definitely on my bucket list of places to go. I just hope I can get by with my English 😅
oh my. Thats on my "i need to see that when I am in japan"- list =) - Looks like a refurbished-retro store.
I visited Tokyo and Akihabara about ten years ago but never found the Super Potato store and that made me kind of sad. But found so many other gaming stores so was after all pretty happy about the trip! I also visited Tokyo Disney Land Water Land (or what it's called) the New Years Day and had a blast there to!
ambience sounds put me instant sleep
It is almost a museum
Great
Thanks for sharing!
You are welcome my friend! 😃😃
Right when you turned to go back downstairs from the arcade area there was this really cool Zelda Oracle of Seasons/Ages posters... I would love to have those. (And a million other things of course)
Whoa! Were those PS1 games about $2 USD each? That’s crazyyy
Thank you for sharing, I hope to visit Super Potato sometime
Wow, lots of rare hardware. I'll be daydreaming about some of those PC Engine variants. I think I saw an LT tucked away in there someplace
Wow! Super Potato seems amazing. And excellent video quality? What gear are you using to film so well at night?
Que viagem.......❤❤❤
Will definitely go there in September, when I will visit Tokyo :)
Pretty cool location and thanks so much for showing us! I wonder why all prices end with an 8.
Fun fact: Mr. Kojima San himself did an interview with that exact Big Boss statue. He seemed surprised half the gun was missing 😅
look like heaven.
The amount of merchandising is mind boggling.
This place is paradise
6:05 a piece of art by CAVE in a beautiful candy cab… What I’d do to own one of those PCBs… that’s a piece of gaming treasure right there
Ooooh wooooow i wanna go there toooooo.
But in all honesty I like the european classic arcades way more. Especially those in UK were awesome. Not so cramped, loud and disco like at the entrance areas usually and the lighting and design was so cool and colorful and darker. Which was more atmospheric. These white super lighty places in Japan also look sterile and more like a museum than places to have fun at
they don't want waitu piggus like us there. gaijin not welcome.
@@ianswift3521
Okay weirdo annoy someone else with your xenophobic crap
could have fooled me with the way the natives hit on me@@ianswift3521
they don't want fat and ugly people in the Japanese shops anyways I'm talking about you
Zoooo!
Om gek van te worden.
Blij dat ik in het bos woon en wakker word van vogelgeluiden in plaats van deze herrie om je heen….
wow! in those stores were some very rare consoles one of them being a competition towards the Atari 2600.
Watching this while eating my Ramen in Europe. Best regards.
Amazing
좋네요............
I am so amazed about the superb and marvelous condition these games looked. And the prices seem to be like nothing. Compared this to eBay prices here in Europe or how games look like in a store like GameStop here in Germany there are worlds lying between them.
Honestly, if I would go shopping in that store with 50 bucks, I would come out with bags full of stuff. Sadly I can't read or speak Japanese so I have no chance to see if they ship to EU countries.
A lot more people game in japan than anywhere else in the world i think, and thats probably why stuff is a lot cheaper too. Germany is also ridiculously cheap.
It also likely has something to do with the fact that they're a store dedicated to retro games and are running on passion, whereas a store like gamestop could be said to be more of a "nerd pop culture" store with a heavier focus on the newer stuff that's running for profit.
The guy above is also probably right about how there is likely just more of a sheer abundance of retro games, and the Japanese people were probably more willing to sell them off, rather than keep them and treat the games like an investment like them like what's happening in the west.
Früher gab es bei uns in Deutschland auch solche Läden. Preise waren natürlich höher aber das ging ja auch je nach Zustand.
In meiner Stadt hieß der Laden "Willi's Spielewelt"
Wurde dann aber durch EB Games was später Gamestop wurde verdrängt.
@D3sdinova that's not true,the biggest gaming population is in China,these are facts.
the majority of the video games shown are only japanese, so the relatively low prices are unfortunately of no use to you 😉
As soon as I heard the Mario Bros. 2 ending music I knew this was going to be legit.
Amazing❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Not only do people have swag but they also big gamers.
6:45 I can hear the snake eater trumpet playing 🎺🐍
There is one in Osaka, and it is amazing. I did not know that it was a franchise I went to Akiba but did not have the time to look around as much as I would have liked. Next time for sure.
I can't believe how affordable their inventory is by comparison of the used market in the U.S. I just bought a PS1 original for $75. Meanwhile they have used PS1's starting at 3828 yen (~$27)
And this store because is so well known is kinda pricy compared to other ones.
Dodonpachi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am sad as I miss the good old days of the arcade culture in Singapore...
i did go once years ago and thought probably would love working at a old school arcade
LOL, look at all the masked drones!
All those CRT monitors... working perfectly.