Hunting For Retro Game Bargains In Japan | Price-Checking In OSAKA! 

I was told (& I can’t confirm this) that Super Potato is a tourist trap & they jack the prices for tourist. If you want good deals on retro games go to Hard Offs or Book Offs in Japan. I went to Japan back in 2008 & again in 2009. I wish I had this info back then (well don’t know if Hard Offs existed back then). Also the Japanese definition of broken can be just missing stuff, so it is a good idea to pickup cheap broken hardware to be refurbished & good items can be found in those bargain bins. Have a nice hunt & good luck!

Sick. You and Elliot (retro future) have two totally different filming styles. It’s awesome to see your trips and how they differed. I really want to visit Japan. Dead of summer is not when I want to go, though 😂

one day I'll go to japan...

I went this year to Japan and Japan is so awesome for retro game hunting. I visited every retro game store I could find. For Mario Land, I have a good tip: The USJ (Universal Studios Japan) attractions officially open at 9 am, but you can enter the park itself before that time. Once inside, you can explore everything without limitations (Mario Land would be the best choice).

My wife and I went to Japan in April for cherry blossom season and went to the same places! Love the people and culture. Grabbed some good games etc.

Love your high quality modding vids. You can directly see it back in the vlog style vids. Very handy you also add prices in different valuta's 👌Looking forward to the next video !

Man, what a dream come true. I love that you enjoyed the sites of the country while there and didn't just stick to "retro game hunting".

Perfect timing for me to see this video. I’m planning my trip in october and was just looking at walkthrough videos of Super Potato and other retro game stores. I’m probably going to have to ship all my purchases back home because I know I’m going to buy too much stuff to fit in my luggage lol

Glad you are giving location details of the game shops that you visited - keep it up!!

Japan looks amazing, I’m glad you got to go see it and put together this great video! Awesome work Tito!

I really enjoyed this video and am looking forward to the rest of your adventures in Japan.

Osaka was hands down my favorite place to visit. Loved the food, Osaka Castle, and the aquarium.

6:37 my face when I visited game shops in Japan a few years back

Fun fact, the bracelet from Universal works as an amiibo. If you play smash is pretty cool. The character you get matches the amiibo

Sendico is great. And the videos from you, Zez Retro and The Retro Future are great for reliving some of my short trips to Super Potato, Hard Off and the like.

Awesome vlog! cant wait to see the other videos in this series. stay awesome Tito!😎🤙

great video! Excited to check out Osaka on my next trip. I really want to explore Den Den town. My tip for everyone going to japan is to skip super potato, as they have become more of a tourist spot, and look for smaller mom and pop retro game stores on the outskirts of the city. Thats where the really good prices are.

I really appreciate the shot of the PC-FX games at 6:22. I just imported one and despite the language barrier I am having fun with it!

Very well produced video! Just intrigued by the title as my own channel follows my passion of game collecting in Japan as cheaply as possible... and it is still very possible!

loving this different type of content! you had an awesome trip!

Great job on the video Tito! Very enjoyable!

Seems like you had a blast! Can't wait to see what other videos you have in store from the rest of your trip.

Toured Japan in 2011. What an awesome place. Need to go back asap

Wow man so jelly. Looks like a great trip. I love the architecture over there. The t-shirts that are packed in the Famicom and FDS boxes are so cool. There is a Metroid one that is awesome. Looking forward to the next videos 👍

I'm going to Japan this saturday! Can't wait!!

I wish Sendico would send me to Japan, probably spent enough on there to get there at this point :D Awesome video dude, look forward to the next ones.

That SuperGrafx that cost 2000 is brand new for what it is worth. Says so right on the box. Another interesting note is that Osaka Castle is actually a replica, the original was destroyed many years ago, and most recently a replica was destroyed in the second world war I think. Still cool to check out though.

It's kinda fun that all videogame/console youtubers eventually do their pilgrimage to Japan.

going to Tokyo next week! looking forward to your Tokyo shopping vid so I know what places to hit up lol.

Looks like you had a great trip! Can't wait for the next video!

I went in April during cherry blossom season to Tokyo and Kyoto and Hakone. Definitely would go again soon

Very cool, one of those things on my bucket lists to do and go game hunting.... If you didn't know, Super Mario is coming to Universal in CA and will be going a year or 2 later to Florida. So, you can visit it local in a year or so....

looks like a really fun trip, i'm so jealous! hope you had fun as well :)

Loved Japan as well! What a nice country!

Great video Tito. Can't wait to see your haul.

This looks like such a fun trip! Cant wait to see the ither 2 videos and what you picked up :)

Not sure how much interest you have in the retro arcade scene, but there is a KILLER arcade in Osaka called Retro Arcade Zarigani. It's multiple floors of the best arcade classics!

Welcome back Tito, been missing your videos!!! I went to Japan this March, and 2 weeks is not enough, if I got the chance I'd like to visit Japan again.. When you went to USJ did you get the Mario Kart and Star popcorn bucket? Should get them, they look awesome displayed!!

I'm very glad you enjoyed your trip to Japan. I envy you!

That' so funny. I just returned from my own adventure in Japan. I was in Kyoto and Tokyo. So there's a good chance we were in the same city at the same time.

For what i understand from other ytuber, places like akihabara catches the deal with tourism and raised prices accordingly. If u want to find real bargains you have to hunt down little/less known shops, or ask a local ;)

日本へようこそ！　　日本からいつも楽しく観ています。　 welcome to Japan! I always enjoy watching it from Japan. 「スーパーポテト」「まんだらけ」は価格が高すぎます　　「駿河屋」はもう少し良心的な価格です。 Super Potato and Mandarake are too expensive　Surugaya is a little more conscientious price

Lots of bargains to be had in Hard-Off and sometimes Book-Off outside the 23 wards of Tokyo and around Osaka. However, you need to drive to get to them.

Is that the 8 bit guy at the end? Great video. I wanna go to japan some day

Tito! Looks like you had a load of fun at Nintendo World at USJ. Lookin forward too see the rest of the series especially lookin forward to see what you picked up.

If there’s any place in the world I’d like to see it would be Japan for sure. Nice vid dude

Awesome, we loved our trip there. There’s nothing like Japan anywhere else.

I wish that there was a Super Nintendo World in the UK.

Looks like an awesome trip!

You are the second youtuber (that I watch) that Sendico has sent to Japan.

Hey! Any plans for a picofly video? Like the installation and which version to get

Gilco were sponsors of New Japan Pro-Wrestling in the late-2000s.

Great video Tito! I'm heading to Japan in October, and wondering if you saw the average cost of a PS Vita? Always love your content my man. Looking forward to the rest of the travel vlog.

Fantastic! Looking forward to Kyoto!

Where are the shops then? Informative as I'm going soon myself.

Hey! I'm going to Japan in March, we are going to Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo. Did you worry about import duty on the stuff you brought back? Also did you use any shipping service to send your stuff back or did you bring it with you on the plane? Thanks!

I would love to visit Japan one day. Great video!

Hi, surprised you didn't go to a Hard Off to look for video game stuffs. Can't wait for the next one.

Nice trip!

Hope one day you visit Korea too. We have a gaming center here at Nambu station exit 5 call "Kukje Electronics center" and is on the 9th floor of that building. Is a fun place to go too. Plus the retro cafe next to it is also fun.

A UFO catcher with PSP games in it? I'd probably sink some yen into that.

Great vid, went in 2017 and ill be going again this year!

Looks like you had fun. I think i would get confused with the difference prices in yen. I would be constantly looking at my phone trying to figure out the exchange rate.

Living your best life Tito!

Can't wait for the Tokyo video. I hope you found your way to BEEP.

Tito! You should have tried the the biohazard walkthrough they had at universal studios, I was just there last week and that place blew my expectations on the quality they put in.

Super Nintendo World! Where the lines are slow, and the processor is even slower.

Japan is a retro paradise.

Super jealous. I'll get to Japan someday...

Japan is such a great country! 🇯🇵❤️

Oh cool! Hopefully you didn't clear them out, because I want to do the same thing when I go there this fall!

I Wonder if you and the RetroFuture were there around the same time or did they give you the option on when you would travel? Sure it was a long trip.

I love that font you are using, what is it?

Hey! How do you get all of your finds out of Japan? I’m about to take a trip there and I’m not sure of the best way to get retro games and such back home to the US. 🙂

😢 I WANT!!!!!! 😢 - I am SO JEALOUS!! I know SO MANY people that went to Japan this Spring and Summer, but I just don't have the $ for a vacation like that... maybe I'll just move there LOL I didn't even know you were going.. I would have helped you out with places to go and see in Kyoto, I've learned so much about the Ancient Capital over the past few years.... But I don't think it would be my FIRST CHOICE of locations for my First Japan visit.. it's just too 'touristy' and expensive, so I would have to go there in the off season and I'd want to make it an extended stay.... There are just too many temples I want to visit and see in person.... But as far as a quick 'tour' of Japan, especially being partially 'game themed' you picked the THREE BEST LOCATIONS IMO .... but as you just showed us, it was HELLA CROWDED!!! - But I had NO IDEA that 'Super Nintendo World' even existed!!! Or that Universal Studio teamed up with Nintendo like that.... MIND BLOWN!!!! - I'm a bit confused tho... did you NOT pick up ANYTHING in this first video? You seemed to tell us all about the stuff you WISH YOU PICKED UP, but didn't say that you bought anything.... But I guess that's the hard part about not pulling the trigger - the grass ISN'T ALWAYS GREENER, ya know? Well I hope you DID eventually find some good deal in Tokyo... but I'm gonna say that I'm like 99% sure that whatever you did get, it was priced for tourists :( - You'll find a LOT of REALLY RARE and AMAZING things in Akihabara stores, but you won't find great deals very often.... - I feel like they were probably cheaper in the 90's and early 2000's but now it's just as expensive as any other Megalopolis around the world.... in other words 'how cheap do you think buying rare video games and systems in downtown Manhattan would be?" and Now that being a 'gamer' has fairly 'mainstream' and everyone has access to the internet, going to Tokyo to find cheap stuff (in the gaming world) just isn't a thing anymore.... AND as a few youtubers demonstrated after going to Computex in Taiwan, even going to Hong Kong and even mainland China isn't gonna find you ANY great deals anymore... globalization has pretty much KILLED THAT when it comes to TECH, not just GAMES. - - ANYWAY... THANK YOU SO MUCH TITO!!!! This was a REALLY FUN look at Osaka (ESPECIALLY THE CASTLE!!!

I was just in Japan a month ago and I found way better deals at the Book Offs and House Offs especially the ones in the less touristy areas

Super potato is one of the most expensive stores in Japan

Wow, Super Potato in Tokyo is even more expensive than Super Potato we have here in Nagoya! Tourism making that happen I guess!

Oh I see you didn't go to any HARDOFFs in Osaka... they have a Junk section with untested electronics so you could get some amazing deals as you have the knowledge and tools to fix stuff. I bought a "broken" (just needed some cleaning) PS3 controller for less than $5 and a Nintendo DSi with broken shoulder buttons for around just $10! I hope you went to HARDOFFs in Kyoto and Tokyo! And also, Summer is the worst season to travel to Japan... Autumn, Spring and Winter are definitely more enjoyable!

really fun looking trip, I will definitely be doing some retro game hunting myself. I'm making my first visit to Japan in September for the F1 Japanese Gran Prix. Anyone have any advice for a complete Japanese illiterate?

I LOVE the spiderman ride i ride it multiple times everytime i go to universal orlando

Do you have shops to recommend for good deals?

awesome!

It'd be funny if you ran into Eliot from The Retro Future.

Awesome!

That's the castle from COD world at war.

Best place in Japan for deals is yahoo auctions. Just got to be prepared to wait for it.

You went to Dorenbori without a Yakuza reference? Nani?

2:40 25k for Green 😂 prices are higher than our western scalpers mark their stuff like REALLY out of control. absolute meme prices in these shops

Osaka and Tokyo prices are Messed up, I got home from Japan like 2 weeks ago. Both Book-Off, Super Potato are more expensive than western prices

Hope you did so ‘hard-off’ stores for some cheap deals!

Sad to see the days of going to Japan to pick up some cheaper than the west games are dissapearing.

next time check out Akiba Kart Osaka for some real life go karting

nice!

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A claw machine filled with psp and ds games?!

Why was the hdmi PS2 mod a live video??? Can't put a comment on it.

There's plenty of bargains. And what's cooler going to Japan or just buying it off ebay?

Please tell me you picked up a silver model Ps2/dvr PSX! Lol

Hey Tito, my wife and I -are going to Osaka in 3 weeks. This is a serious offer, would you like US to pick up Shenmue 2 for you?