It's amazing that you stopped by Nintendo's HQ while you were in Kyoto. Not to mention the Fushimi Inari-taisha shrine as well, which (fun fact) was a massive inspiration behind the Star Fox series by Nintendo. The kitsune statues guarding the shrine inspired the series' protagonist Fox McCloud, while the ten thousand torii inspired the space runway/gate that you take off from and land in.
@@MachoNachoProductions FYI, PC Engine was one of biggest consuls of the 8bit/16bit era in Japan. So if that one was an early edition and mint/unopened, it might explain its high price. It was still too expensive, but then you could understand why the owner was trying to mark it up.
Why do I feel like you and Elliot from The Retro Future went together on a trip to Japan? 😅 Maybe just a coincidence. But yeah, I wished they released that gameboy pocket outside of Japan.
Well sendico did sponsor both their trips. So even if they aren't friends and they didn't technically go together, they probably were at the same places since sendico set it all up.
I totally remember Tower Records! I really enjoy seeing the sites of Japan in the video and I really like how to compiled everything. I think it's great you met up with Scruffy and The Retro Future is another great channel. It's funny how in our retro space a lot of us have heard of each other.
4:25 - Correction. Secret of Mana is Seiken Densetsu 2. Seiken Densetsu 3 is what some people called Secret of Mana 2 as part of fan translations, but now officially it's Trials of Mana with the recent remake, as well as part of the official translated compilation that came out a few years ago.
I've been waiting for this Kyoto video and it didn't disappoint! Thanks for taking us along again. Wow, that Imagineer GBP would have been in my bag in the blink of an eye!! Looking forward to the Tokyo vid. Cheers again!
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed this video! 🙏 totally agree, the imagineer pocket was an incredible find! Really hope you enjoy the Tokyo video when it goes live! Cheers!
Hi Tito! I ended up buying the Mega Drive Ghouls and Ghosts copy (timestamp 11:51 on your video) from the book-off in Kyoto! Next to the turtles return of shredder copy that was too expensive 😂😂 Great to have it on video also!😊
Damn, I miss Tower Records and music stores in general. Very jealous of your awesome trip to Japan, so glad you got to make it, and thank you for sharing. I still dream of making my way there one day, family responsibilities permitting.
watching these videos gets me excited, going to be in Nagoya/ Suzuka in a few weeks as my first trip to Japan and Ill be definitely be game hunting. A CIB Char Gamecube and matching GBA SP are my goals.
I'm just going to say that's crazy! I was just in Kyoto during the start of June and I went to Surugaya Ebisunocho and I almost bought that Mother3 GBA Micro unit. But I did pick up a GBA SP Famicom, a complete in box Famicom GBA Micro and several other great finds. I even had the same shop attendant help me with my tax free processing! Wonderful store and glad you found it as well.
Looks like you had a real nice trip. My favorite game boy pocket is still the variant with the DMG colors. For some reason the classic colors with the more sleek look really tickles me.
Nice video. What a coincidence, I am on my last day in Japan. Did not check for games in Kyoto, too busy with the sightseeing. Osaka was great, priced were very and better than what I saw in Tokyo today.
my wife and i hit most of these major landmarks on our honeymoon in japan in 2019. best trip ever. jealous you hit all these game shops! i had to suffice with odaiba island in tokyo for my gundam fix.
Great job filming... I felt like I visited Japan too! So much history on that little island country. So much gaming goodness. Analogue just announced that same color design on the Pocket today 😂
I gotta say, I love these videos Nacho. My favorite thing in the world is going to places like this and looking at retro games and consoles. Keep these up, made my day.
Asahi was my father's favourite beer. He even left a few bottles behind when he passed away. I even bought him some when I was in Tokyo a decade ago. That is how he began to like it in the first place.
When I was in Japan, Aug. 2016, I pulled my wife around Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, and small towns surrounding. We went to so many game stores. Let's just say next time we go back, I will be on my own for a few day or making the trip by myself.
We still have a Tower Records here in Ireland. It's a fairly decent store here. I still like going there from time to time for 4K movies, even though it specialises in vinyl.
Another great video man. Love the cinematography. Look like you guys enjoyed Kyoto and there definitely were some amazing hidden gems down there. Ive been to Kyoto many times but never thought to visit the Nintendo building good work.
Tower Records!!!! Hell yes, we had one in Chicago when I was a kid in the 80's. Only went there a couple of times, but they used to have all the big groups coming through the area doing apperances and album signings and stuff. Had a buddy wait in line for hours one time to get his copy of Master of Puppets signed.I do remember that place being gigantic, though.
Sendico was able to send a lot of you TH-camrs out there :) That hotel looked great. I'd like a Dino greeter. I've also seen they have bars with dancing robots, I'd like to visit one of those someday.
Love me some Tower Records! I miss that store so much but not the high prices 😂. I’m actually going to JPN for work in a few weeks and hope to retrace all these spots on the trip. Cheers!
I'm about to go to Osaka. Do you think you could give me some pointers which are the cheapest or better places to buy retro stuff? Thank you and as always, Great vid!!
If you can, make you're way out of major cities. In my Tokyo video I got to places just outside of Tokyo. Even in touristy places like Super Potato, you can still find some good deals. Hard Offs are also great places to look at
@@MachoNachoProductions Thank you very much!!! I will for sure visit the same places you've showed in your videos and i will see if i can go a bit out of the way to close cities and check those outs too! Thank you!!!!
I love this video series. You should go to Japan (or elsewhere) more often ;-) TOWER RECORDS Seattle was one of my favourite places to hang out when I was a teen and had time to get down there!
So glad you’re enjoying the series! I definitely want to make my way back soon! There was a tower records i Annapolis that me and my friends would hang out back in the day. Good times!
$40 for a boxed n64 Biohazard 2 is pre-pandemic price... you'll never see that price again. And since you shared the names of every store.. guaranteed deals will dry up soon. In a couple years Japanese game hunting will soon be just as expensive as in the US because of social media.
There will always be the obstacle of having to know how to read Japanese, especially for RPGs. And while it's cool to just own a few games, theres not a lot of enjoyment unless you can actually play them. That's left pacing relatively low for quite some time.
As a matter of interest, are the Hard Off stores affiliated with the Book Off stores or is it just a pure coincidence? And as Sendico provided the means for your trip, did they ask you and Retro Future to visit different stores?
Japan is not even close of what it was a few years ago! I was there for 16 months in 2019 to 2020 till I was available to come home when the stupid pandemic happen, yes I travel to japan in December 2019 and I was supposed to be there till March but I have to stay extra time for the stupid pandemic ( good thing my dad lives there!! Anyways, whe I was there the games where súper cheap, all the resident evil games for the game cube were like $5- $10 dollars, all the Pokémon games for gameboy were under $20 dollars in perfect condition, the broken GameCube I got a orange one for $3 dollars, now they sale for 10 times more? All the prices that you show in your video are crazy!! A few years ago you find all the items you mention for a 1/4 of the price! Is un real how everything is going up in Japan since all the websites like sendico and buyee and more let people from all over the world to buy thing from Japan! Now everything is going up! I picked up 5 pc engines gt and 2 pc engines Lt and one LT with original box they were all sell as junk but I paid under 2k dollars for everything, now they are asking 2k for one pc engine lt and a broken one 😂 WOW!! anyways I love Japan and I’m hoping to go there very soon!! One tip for people going there, but everything you want and ship it to your self! I paid very cheap shipping to Canada I send 5 boxes more then 27 kilos of games, including a x68000 in original box and I pay $450 dollars for 5 boxes full of video games, including large items like the x68000 3 neo geos AES with original box, 1 neo geo cd, pc engine duo 4 controllers for the Aes with original boxes, a shit loads of games, 5 pc engines gt 2 pc engines LT like 6 pc engines with controllers and cables and one core grafx 2 with original l box in total for all the games and consoles was over $30k Canadian dollars, I shipped about half of that and that was the 5 boxes, I end up shipping the rest but that was a different transaction, so the fist time for 5 big ass boxes was close to $500 the second time I paid over $800 for shipping but that was because I shipped a super rare pc engine monitor and a Sony pvm 14 inch Only those two times was over $400 bucks, but is cheaper then taking it on the plane with you! That’s for sure!! Remember for USA and Canada you can use DHL or FedEx is cheaper then japan post, if you box is to big use japan post but I’m talking about big box like 40x 30x 25 inches box and maybe 15-25 lb If you have smaller boxes FedEx and DHL are the best ans cheaper!! Anyways I hope some one uses my tip
There are many variations of the "hard-off" brand. Many sell the same items even though they are supposed to focus on a particular category of merchandise. There are even some that sell liquor and other collectables. To answer your question, yes, you can still find retro games in a book-off.
congrats on getting to make the trip. i lived in country for 2 years. my best advice to you is to make sure you leave plenty of time to be in tokyo because it's vast. super potato and the sega arcade are pretty life changing, but make sure you get some of the night life and the cultural stuff, too. oh, and make sure to eat all the street food (man, now i'm jealous). have a great trip
Buying Japanese games is a waste of time unless you go through the effort of getting an English patch ROM, or you already speak the language. And then you have to deal with PAL vs. NTSC, so it's all pointless
I also hope u actually had time to relax because I know when u bring a camera and are getting content it totally takes over and sucks up all your time and mental capacity
Japan dropped all of their mask mandates in late spring of this year. While Japanese still wear masks culturally as they always have... youre literally making something out of nothing. They've virtually stopped wearing masks to prevent covid. If you go there you'd know.
It's amazing that you stopped by Nintendo's HQ while you were in Kyoto. Not to mention the Fushimi Inari-taisha shrine as well, which (fun fact) was a massive inspiration behind the Star Fox series by Nintendo. The kitsune statues guarding the shrine inspired the series' protagonist Fox McCloud, while the ten thousand torii inspired the space runway/gate that you take off from and land in.
That is a really cool fact! Now I need to play some Star Fox!
@@MachoNachoProductions FYI, PC Engine was one of biggest consuls of the 8bit/16bit era in Japan. So if that one was an early edition and mint/unopened, it might explain its high price. It was still too expensive, but then you could understand why the owner was trying to mark it up.
when is the next video coming out of this series? @@MachoNachoProductions
@JJiG very soon 😁
sweet! Thanks for the reply!@@MachoNachoProductions
Why do I feel like you and Elliot from The Retro Future went together on a trip to Japan? 😅 Maybe just a coincidence. But yeah, I wished they released that gameboy pocket outside of Japan.
I also think they were together
@tito, WE NEED ANSWERS.
I think they are, no doubt about it.
Well sendico did sponsor both their trips. So even if they aren't friends and they didn't technically go together, they probably were at the same places since sendico set it all up.
🤣 for real!
I totally remember Tower Records! I really enjoy seeing the sites of Japan in the video and I really like how to compiled everything. I think it's great you met up with Scruffy and The Retro Future is another great channel. It's funny how in our retro space a lot of us have heard of each other.
4:25 - Correction. Secret of Mana is Seiken Densetsu 2. Seiken Densetsu 3 is what some people called Secret of Mana 2 as part of fan translations, but now officially it's Trials of Mana with the recent remake, as well as part of the official translated compilation that came out a few years ago.
I've been waiting for this Kyoto video and it didn't disappoint! Thanks for taking us along again. Wow, that Imagineer GBP would have been in my bag in the blink of an eye!! Looking forward to the Tokyo vid. Cheers again!
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed this video! 🙏 totally agree, the imagineer pocket was an incredible find! Really hope you enjoy the Tokyo video when it goes live! Cheers!
Hi Tito! I ended up buying the Mega Drive Ghouls and Ghosts copy (timestamp 11:51 on your video) from the book-off in Kyoto! Next to the turtles return of shredder copy that was too expensive 😂😂
Great to have it on video also!😊
Damn, I miss Tower Records and music stores in general. Very jealous of your awesome trip to Japan, so glad you got to make it, and thank you for sharing. I still dream of making my way there one day, family responsibilities permitting.
I'm sure you'll make your way out there dude!
watching these videos gets me excited, going to be in Nagoya/ Suzuka in a few weeks as my first trip to Japan and Ill be definitely be game hunting. A CIB Char Gamecube and matching GBA SP are my goals.
That's awesome! I know you're going to have a blast! Best of luck, I hope you find everything you are looking for!
I'm just going to say that's crazy! I was just in Kyoto during the start of June and I went to Surugaya Ebisunocho and I almost bought that Mother3 GBA Micro unit. But I did pick up a GBA SP Famicom, a complete in box Famicom GBA Micro and several other great finds. I even had the same shop attendant help me with my tax free processing! Wonderful store and glad you found it as well.
The Inari gates were the inspiration for Star Fox where you fly through the gates. I think there's a statue of a fox there too. Pretty cool right?
Oh man, I never knew that! That's is really cool! thank you for sharing
Looks like you had a real nice trip. My favorite game boy pocket is still the variant with the DMG colors. For some reason the classic colors with the more sleek look really tickles me.
Love the original DMG color scheme also!
Nice video. What a coincidence, I am on my last day in Japan. Did not check for games in Kyoto, too busy with the sightseeing. Osaka was great, priced were very and better than what I saw in Tokyo today.
my wife and i hit most of these major landmarks on our honeymoon in japan in 2019. best trip ever. jealous you hit all these game shops! i had to suffice with odaiba island in tokyo for my gundam fix.
Another fantastic production video, as always the editing is top notch!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great job filming... I felt like I visited Japan too! So much history on that little island country. So much gaming goodness. Analogue just announced that same color design on the Pocket today 😂
Checked out the Nintendo HQ myself this spring. Totally surreal.
OMG Tower Records... I remember buying all my 12" Vinyl from them.
I gotta say, I love these videos Nacho. My favorite thing in the world is going to places like this and looking at retro games and consoles. Keep these up, made my day.
You should have gone and paid your respects at the site of the Kyoto Animation arson fire. If I ever go to Japan this will be one of my MUST DOs.
Asahi was my father's favourite beer. He even left a few bottles behind when he passed away. I even bought him some when I was in Tokyo a decade ago. That is how he began to like it in the first place.
That gameboy is pretty cool. I’d consider getting it if I was some game boy fanatic
I remember Tower Records, but my nostalgia lies with The Warehouse. That’s where I got my Jaguar CD at release
Beautiful. I need to travel more.
When I was in Japan, Aug. 2016, I pulled my wife around Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, and small towns surrounding. We went to so many game stores. Let's just say next time we go back, I will be on my own for a few day or making the trip by myself.
Tower Records was a dope store! I miss those.
Ah this is the perfect utilization of your great video skills. I love travel vlogs, and Japan, and vintage game shoppin!
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it! 🙏
We still have a Tower Records here in Ireland. It's a fairly decent store here. I still like going there from time to time for 4K movies, even though it specialises in vinyl.
Another great video man. Love the cinematography. Look like you guys enjoyed Kyoto and there definitely were some amazing hidden gems down there. Ive been to Kyoto many times but never thought to visit the Nintendo building good work.
Whoa Tower Records! Used to buy vinyl there.
you should do more travel blogs! these are really fun, and i like how you cover video game and non video game content
tower records was awesome. They, like many other companies i have fond memories of are now just hallow shells of what they used to be.
Yeah, you definitely should have bought that rare Game Boy Pocket for yourself, what a find!
When I was in Tokyo, I went to Super Potato in Akihabara. I wish we had these prices here in the US.
Tower Records!!!! Hell yes, we had one in Chicago when I was a kid in the 80's. Only went there a couple of times, but they used to have all the big groups coming through the area doing apperances and album signings and stuff. Had a buddy wait in line for hours one time to get his copy of Master of Puppets signed.I do remember that place being gigantic, though.
Sendico was able to send a lot of you TH-camrs out there :) That hotel looked great. I'd like a Dino greeter. I've also seen they have bars with dancing robots, I'd like to visit one of those someday.
The last Tower Records I was in was in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Some dudes go there to see geishas, other dudes go for the videogames :D
incredible
I am SOOO JEALOUS!!! Thanks for taking us along on some of your visit to THE MOST AMAZING COUNTRY ON EARTH!!!! :D
Whole trip should be called, all the things I wished I'd picked up. Next time, next time.
I forgot that HQ of Nintendo was there, wow. That's an iconic memory & yeah I hope you snag some good finds out there. Great B roll btw
I so want to go there one day, but going there is freakin' expensive, let alone spending nights. You're so lucky to have found this rare find.
Secret of Mana is Seiken Densetsu 2. Trials of Mana is #3.
i always get it mixed up 😅
Thank you. I was looking through the comments to see if someone else caught that before I mentioned it.
Tower Records ++ so many finds I still have after all these years.
This vid posted at the same time that Analogue announced a glow in the dark Analogue Pocket (like the GBP Imagineer). What a crazy coincidence 😂
Love me some Tower Records! I miss that store so much but not the high prices 😂. I’m actually going to JPN for work in a few weeks and hope to retrace all these spots on the trip. Cheers!
3:10 Remembers me of Yakuza Series!
I love the GB Pocket. I had a red one with Pokémon blue and that was my childhood dream 🖤
Awesome Video Tito! You should have grabbed that 3DO!
I really want to go to Japan one day.
Wow, what a unique piece!
Trying to go there myself in the next two years, hope to snag some goodies myself while I'm there
It would have been funny if you also ran into Elliot Coll, who was also there very recently (doing a thing for Sendico).
Bro. Come stay at my house in Yokohama and teach me how to solder. Lol.
I totally miss Tower Records. I’m glad there is a store somewhere in the world. Hopefully there will be one in the US at some time. Hopefully near me.
Tower...Records??? Now _that_ is a name I've not heard in a long time...
I'm about to go to Osaka. Do you think you could give me some pointers which are the cheapest or better places to buy retro stuff?
Thank you and as always, Great vid!!
If you can, make you're way out of major cities. In my Tokyo video I got to places just outside of Tokyo. Even in touristy places like Super Potato, you can still find some good deals. Hard Offs are also great places to look at
@@MachoNachoProductions Thank you very much!!! I will for sure visit the same places you've showed in your videos and i will see if i can go a bit out of the way to close cities and check those outs too!
Thank you!!!!
Great vid, I love your videos
Thank you so much! 🙏 so glad you’re enjoying the channel!
Was in Tokyo for July loved Japan but no real pick ups due to tourists
Loving your Japan content! I’m planning to go next fall and enjoying the ideas! Would love to snag some gameboys and games while there.
Wow, I really need to go one day.... nice to see. Always wanted to go to Japan....maybe I will someday..
I love this video series. You should go to Japan (or elsewhere) more often ;-) TOWER RECORDS Seattle was one of my favourite places to hang out when I was a teen and had time to get down there!
So glad you’re enjoying the series! I definitely want to make my way back soon! There was a tower records i Annapolis that me and my friends would hang out back in the day. Good times!
Great video man!
Fun fact: Henna means “unusual or strange”
Wait did you take this trip with Elliot who also was sent to Japan courtesy of Sendico?
Aaah you should have visited the original Nintendo building too!
Crazy that just 3 years ago all this shit was 1/3-1/4 of the price.
Great travels!!!
This vid makes me want to go back
$40 for a boxed n64 Biohazard 2 is pre-pandemic price... you'll never see that price again. And since you shared the names of every store.. guaranteed deals will dry up soon. In a couple years Japanese game hunting will soon be just as expensive as in the US because of social media.
There will always be the obstacle of having to know how to read Japanese, especially for RPGs. And while it's cool to just own a few games, theres not a lot of enjoyment unless you can actually play them. That's left pacing relatively low for quite some time.
Was the gameboy mint? It's actually nice price!
Oh yeah, it was mint. And it had the matching serial number on the certificate 👍
Jeez, Japan's retrogame prices are catching up to eBay. Soon it will not be worth it to travel there anymore. Lol.
I spent 2,000 dollars on Gameboy Light at the Super potato in Osaka 😅😅😅😅
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ😅😅😅😅
Yoooo you should do a collab with Elliot!
Would absolutely love to!
I feel like I remember mention of tower records in an Eminem song
Edit:
Steve Bernam skit 😂
starts playing are you Big in Japan....
great trip! :)
u and elliot in sync rn haha
Ma man said the lil stores at the train stations makes Japan convenient lol tell me you ain't never been to New York 🤣
As a matter of interest, are the Hard Off stores affiliated with the Book Off stores or is it just a pure coincidence? And as Sendico provided the means for your trip, did they ask you and Retro Future to visit different stores?
great values in japan!
Hey , I have a question please... did the gameboy pal games run at 50fps or 60fps on a gameboy console ?
Very cool! 🤩
11:29 lemme guess, transistor?
13:13 #1 ☝️😅
bad capacitors.
Japan is not even close of what it was a few years ago! I was there for 16 months in 2019 to 2020 till I was available to come home when the stupid pandemic happen, yes I travel to japan in December 2019 and I was supposed to be there till March but I have to stay extra time for the stupid pandemic ( good thing my dad lives there!!
Anyways, whe I was there the games where súper cheap, all the resident evil games for the game cube were like $5- $10 dollars, all the Pokémon games for gameboy were under $20 dollars in perfect condition, the broken GameCube I got a orange one for $3 dollars, now they sale for 10 times more? All the prices that you show in your video are crazy!! A few years ago you find all the items you mention for a 1/4 of the price!
Is un real how everything is going up in Japan since all the websites like sendico and buyee and more let people from all over the world to buy thing from Japan! Now everything is going up! I picked up 5 pc engines gt and 2 pc engines Lt and one LT with original box they were all sell as junk but I paid under 2k dollars for everything, now they are asking 2k for one pc engine lt and a broken one 😂
WOW!! anyways I love Japan and I’m hoping to go there very soon!! One tip for people going there, but everything you want and ship it to your self! I paid very cheap shipping to Canada I send 5 boxes more then 27 kilos of games, including a x68000 in original box and I pay $450 dollars for 5 boxes full of video games, including large items like the x68000 3 neo geos AES with original box, 1 neo geo cd, pc engine duo 4 controllers for the Aes with original boxes, a shit loads of games, 5 pc engines gt 2 pc engines LT like 6 pc engines with controllers and cables and one core grafx 2 with original l box in total for all the games and consoles was over $30k Canadian dollars, I shipped about half of that and that was the 5 boxes, I end up shipping the rest but that was a different transaction, so the fist time for 5 big ass boxes was close to $500 the second time I paid over $800 for shipping but that was because I shipped a super rare pc engine monitor and a Sony pvm 14 inch
Only those two times was over $400 bucks, but is cheaper then taking it on the plane with you! That’s for sure!! Remember for USA and Canada you can use DHL or FedEx is cheaper then japan post, if you box is to big use japan post but I’m talking about big box like 40x 30x 25 inches box and maybe 15-25 lb
If you have smaller boxes FedEx and DHL are the best ans cheaper!!
Anyways I hope some one uses my tip
Isn't Hard Off the place to go, not Book Off?
There are many variations of the "hard-off" brand. Many sell the same items even though they are supposed to focus on a particular category of merchandise. There are even some that sell liquor and other collectables. To answer your question, yes, you can still find retro games in a book-off.
congrats on getting to make the trip. i lived in country for 2 years. my best advice to you is to make sure you leave plenty of time to be in tokyo because it's vast. super potato and the sega arcade are pretty life changing, but make sure you get some of the night life and the cultural stuff, too. oh, and make sure to eat all the street food (man, now i'm jealous). have a great trip
Kyoto pronounce it like you would in Spanish. Many Japanese words are pronounce the same way you would in Spanish.
envy u! great video
Please tell me you went on the Mario Kart ride
Yay
Buying Japanese games is a waste of time unless you go through the effort of getting an English patch ROM, or you already speak the language. And then you have to deal with PAL vs. NTSC, so it's all pointless
uh-oh, you're gonna get some backlash in your comments for going to yasaka...
I also hope u actually had time to relax because I know when u bring a camera and are getting content it totally takes over and sucks up all your time and mental capacity
I'm not a fan of people advertising for another youtuber or company mid video.....
JP👍
Just pop the bottle and leave the cap on the ground i guess
Oh god! Please don’t use this captions pop up sound anymore :)
dont like new intro song, go back to original please
It's only for this Japan series
0:32 oh yes the foreigner with no mask on while surrounded by japanese wearing masks. How american can this picture be
Japan dropped all of their mask mandates in late spring of this year. While Japanese still wear masks culturally as they always have... youre literally making something out of nothing. They've virtually stopped wearing masks to prevent covid. If you go there you'd know.