That isn't a Japanese controller, that's the controller bundled with the "New-Style Super NES", released in 1997. The Japanese controllers look completely different.
didn't the japanese have the cool RGBY buttons? Stinks they changed it for the US I think those look cooler, but I still love my snes controllers from back in the day.
Aren't theya whole different shape to begin with? riigghhtt just looked it up that was the NES (Well Famicom) the Japan SNES are pretty much the same as PAL.
@@cliffjumper1984 because you worked at a video game store, it automatically means you've seen ever single game, accessory and console ever made and have all knowledge of them. Clown.
Honest marketing kills companies. The whole JC Penney thing years ago showed us that when you tell people the truth about your "sales" you lose hundreds of millions of dollars
@@neversleep8820they call it a sale which is exactly what it is. No matter what price if they sell it it's a sale. Now if they call it a discounted price and it was never discounted then it's illegal. The word sale in a legal sense does not mean discount.
What a lot of retail stores do, (eg Kohl's), says that the item is on sale when the "SALE" price has always been the regular price all along. Let me give you an example. They have this men's Polo shirt at their regular everyday price of $40.00. Now, the company realizes that they have been sitting on that specific style of shirt for too long and wants to get rid of them. That is when they put the shirt on "sale." In the ad, they will state that shirt was "originally" $55.00 and it is now $40.00. This gives the consumer the impression that they are saving $15.00. Yet they are selling the shirt at their regular price. These and other types of games retail stores play with the non-informed consumers' minds, have been going on for I don't know how long.
That "different parts" thing with the coloring is actually normal. the different parts react differently due to UV light interacting with the slightly different plastic formulas and changes at a different rate.
That pop noise you heard when you were opening up the SNES implies the screws have never been loosened, which means there's no way it was cleaned, I think they just got lucky with that one.
I am so glad Jay is going to be a continuing presence on this channel even once Rich's daughter is healthy again and he can come back full time. Y'all's weird sense of humor is fantastic and you compliment each other really well without making the channel feel disjointed. Really enjoyed this one, Jay. You made me laugh more than once. Great job!
I'm surprised that Jay gave a skaving review over LukieGames. I bought a 3DS from them and it worked fine. My only complaint is that it had a third-party stylus (seriously, LukieGames and DK Oldies needs to stop delivering third-party controllers to us!).
Fun story: I was in Miami a few years back and noticed they had an address there, I thought it was a store. It was just a warehouse with a motorcycle parked out front
I bought a NES 2 from Lukie games a few years ago and it was in great shape and works great. It came with 2 original square controllers and original hookups. I have always ordered games from lukie and have never been disappointed.
@@robertw31968 still overpriced though and people have received items from them which haven’t been refurbished. Paying overprice for a item is kinda stupid to begin with
I can tell that when you opened the box and removed the components, the reason why your power adaptor prongs were bent is the same reason why your SNES has those gouges on the side. Looks like the adapter was put in the box right next to the side of the SNES with the prongs on the plastic and the console took prong to plastic damage and the adapter took a prong bend in shipping. So I'd chalk this up to bad packaging or bad luck in transit.
if they have the money they will heck i paid almost 400$ for a dreamcast bundle from them with 2 games it showed up perfect but canada post fked up the shipping so they had to send another one then exactly a year later i got my original order so i ended up with 2 for the price of one but overall lukie games i trust
I bought a system at a glee market I didn’t have as a child and paid to have it refurbished. Total I paid $140 and I know it was done right. Thing sells online for about $170 online not listed as refurbished.
@@TurboChards For a couple of years I've seen at a flea market a SEGA Genesis model ... 2? + 32X + SEGA CD, and I really want to buy it, but holy cow IDK 1) if the $150 is worth it, and 2) if it works, which IMO would probably justify the price...? I SO WANT to buy it if they still have it this year...
I think it all depends on your order and what you buy. I've bought some sale items that maybe added up to 20$ and they came in iffy condition. I've spent 200$ on games and accessories from them and they came looking brand new.
@Viper like I said, it's more about the order. If you're putting all that money into an order and buying an expensive game and console, ofc they're gonna go all out. They want you as a customer. But when you buy a game on sale for 15 dollars, and that's it, they're not as likely to go hard on making sure it's the best. It's not worth it for them. They'll give out the more worn-out copy during sales and save the good ones for when they stop. I mean, that's smart for them. They need to make money, but sucks for the person taking advantage of the sale.
I bought a Gamegear from Lukie back in the day. Within a week, it started showing signs that they refurbished not a damn thing. Warranty was not honored, and I now have a Sega branded paperweight with rotted boards.
Regarding the SNES casing, It may not be parts from different systems. Different parts of the system tend to yellow at different rates. Seen it happen on some childhood systems of my own.
Been buying Lukie Games for a while (after JJGames no longer ships their games, accessories and consoles to Puerto Rico), had no issues from them at all. Even used reward points and got Fuzion Frenzy (came with only a disc, but still works perfectly). Definitely worth it (though I still shop at a store where they still sell older video games, albeit a bit pricier until I move to the states next year).
I had my SNES in a closet for something like 25 years and I powered it on a month or so ago. I did open it up and I was amazed how clean it was, especially after watching, say, DKOldies reviews. Pretty much the only thing I needed to do was take a Clorox wipe to the little rectangular insert that goes into the dip of the cart when the power is on. That got really grimey. Everything else was ok.
The bent prongs was actually common practice, at least it seemed like it. It was to keep the those blocks from unplugging off the wall cause how heavy they were and loose they stayed on the wall. I've done it with all my consoles as a kid. Never caused any problems.
I would have thought since Jay worked in the gaming industry he would heard about or experienced this himself. I bent plugs thousands of times as a kid playing games or even plugging in electronics and they were never damaged thankfully.
@@Sammy-iw9en this is the first time I'm hearing of it because normal people used extension cords for extras like that. You kind of had to since the TV and the cable box would take up the only two that existed otherwise. If it's plugged into an extension on the floor then there's no "falling out". There's also the very real possibility that you could, in fact, have damaged it by bending it. So even if you didn't have a cable box connected to the TV you were using if with, if it wouldn't stay in the wall then the right thing to do is to use an extension rather than risk damaging it. This just sounds like a problem for people with too much money where you don't care if it gets damaged because you can just replace it but most people wouldn't have that luxury and an extension cord was cheap and would have multiple uses. The same even applies now really. If I were experiencing this problem right now with a Switch adapter, for example, even though I don't have to worry about money now like we did when I was a kid I would still go buy an extension cord rather than attempt to replace it because it's like a third of the price to buy even a more heavy duty appliance extension. I swear, more people need to grow up poor so they can realize how wasteful and destructive they're being. It seems like if you even have five digit income your children are prone to being garbage at life.
@@RunicSigils I was never rich. The dual wall outlets on the wall were so cheap that they didn’t even hold a feather weight of a plug in place ( I lived in a mobile home), it literally unplugged itself. I also couldn’t afford an extension cord as a kid 🤦♂️ I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s, parents didn’t have money for extension cords. I had to make it work by carefully and slowly squeezing the prongs together.
@@RunicSigils imagine getting so worked up that you start throwing a pity party for yourself and assuming others must be richer. My guy, it’s not that deep. Some people have a couple outlets along the same wall and some people have a TV without a cable box. There’s literally a million reasons other than “you must be rich.”
Great vid, Jay. I also like that you had pictures of the dirtiest parts of the bundle too. Would have been great to have those i the other dkoldies vids.
The prongs on the ac adapter might have been bent "in" on purpose by the previous owner. Sometimes those old heavy adapters would fall out of old outlets. You could carefully bend the prongs "in" to hold it in place. Not the smartest move, but it worked...
In England we didn’t get either the USA-NES-top loader(FamicomAV in Japan) nor the SNES 2 redesign(SuperFamicom JR) That isn’t a Japanese controller, it’s the controller that came with the 1995/96 US and Japan exclusive SNES2/SuperFamicomJR, it’s well wanted due to it being a ‘fresh’ official Nintendo product with newer membranes.
I used to buy from Lukie games many years ago and was always happy with them. I only purchased games, but the prices were good and condition was as advertised. This was close to 10 years ago, so a lot has probably changed since then.
i still buy games from them every now and then, pricing isnt terrible on most things, it might be slightly more then some ebay listing but I have always received basically mint condition games from them.
It's crazy that your SNES has issues turning on. I have that same exact third party controller from Lukie and anytime I tried to turn it on with that controller connexted, it wouldn't turn on. But it would turn on every time with my first party SNES controller. Maybe there is something with that controller that influences the initial functioning of the system.
I will stick with my local retro stores. I got a good deal on a Model 1 Sega Genesis. I went with the HDMI bundle which was about 130 bucks. It came with an original controller, the system, HDMI converter, and 50 dollars worth of games.
I believe the second controller they might have just picked up a dirty controller accidentally and the plug could have got bent in shipping, it makes no sense they cleaned the console, and one controller and on purpose they didn't clean the second controller.
Is there any retro game shops that you guys can actually recommend for refurbished consoles? We could use a good source for comparison because it’s starting to seem like we have no options for good refurbished consoles.
Super Famicom and EU SNES Controllers have 4 differen coloured face buttons. I think the "japanese" controller is just a different revision or has parts replaced from non-OEM controllers
Great video man! The bent prongs may have gotten that way in shipping. As for the wrest, lukiegames shows promise. Ive just recently ordered a gba game from them. Thanks for taking a look at these systems. I really enjoy watching. Birds!
I've bought games from them on 3 separate occasions. Out of all the games I bought (which were about 10 or 12) only one had issues And it was a disc game
The engraved controllet is still OEM, just a later rendtion. I actually have one on the box. Also it is not a super Famicom controller, it would have the signature red, blue, green, and yellow colored buttons if it was.
I bought a couple of Pokemon games from them a while back. I remember distinctly that the copies of X and Y that I got from them did not have their save data erased. With X having leftover Pokemon from a player going by the name Selena. I think I might have taken Selena's shiny Mew and added it to my Home account before releasing it, as I had suspected that most of those shinies she had might have been acquired via hacking means. I can't complain too much as the games ultimately served their purpose.
I would be curious to see if a modern refurb console (Xbox, Playstation, etc) from them would show up as clean as that one did, since they're a lot harder to take apart and clean thoroughly.
Here's a tip: When you power the console on and it comes up black despite the game having clean contacts, have the game inserted all the way then you push down the eject button to slightly lift the game while still in the slot and power on the console. It works majority of the time if you have a working game.
Honestly I would give them another chance due to the fact that the dust and dirt I saw really wasn’t a whole lot and the console actually worked with no issue outside of the initial start up. Now I know refurbishing means there should be nothing but I rather have this minor stuff then all the crap dkoldies is doing to screw the consumer over. I really feel this was just an honest oversight that should’ve had another person go over the work with them to double confirm. Nevertheless only time will tell once y’all order again
I haven't got any hardware from Lukie Games, but I have purchased dozen of PS2 games/accessories, as well as a few 3DS games. All of them were in excellent condition, the games even came complete with the manuals.
I used to work for a refurbish company and guess what? We had to clean out the products, replace parts, get them working. But sometimes we lack the screws. When this happens we either check if they were critical screw or replace them with unoffical screws. Why? Cause we couldn't get offical screws if they were missing. And yes sometimes we skipped certain screw points as they were deemed "Non critical" as the older the product... the more unnessarcy screw were in there. Though in some cases we would take screws from "dead products" of similiar stock and put em in the refurbish one. Again it depended on the product... For some we had high stocks and others low stocks and in some cases we didn't had 3rd party.
They've got some of the best game prices I've seen. 12+ ds games from my childhood for like 60 bucks, half of them with cases and manuals included. Heard that ever since this dk oldies drama kicked off that their consoles were not really ever worth the money
They're deep investigation into DK oldies that is becoming a dead horse aside, you'd be hard pressed to find any RU-vidr in the gaming sphere that'll give a positive review to anything. From my experience the vast majority of them are overly harsh negative reviews.
The only good thing is that few consoles work by RNG luck or tries, but in the end, you need a console that’s truly refurbished to extend the lifespan of the consoles considering how extremely old they are. And again, if they were just selling consoles that’s categorized as used or not refurbished, none of the drama would’ve been happening, but the fact Drew has the nerves to say that his company “refurbishes” everything while also doubling down into putting the warranty stickers, which is heavily illegal in most places since it’s considered a scam tactic, on where the screws of the consoles are is the main reason why the drama is still happening. And not to mention, it’ll already be a dead horse only if Drew admits fault or actually changes the description of the items. At least with Lukie Games, they don’t put warranty stickers on every console since they show they have nothing to hide once it ships out, especially to gaming engineers or shove many social media clips in our faces to sweep their scams underneath the rug.
This is why I just buy all of my consoles off of eBay. Sure many times you get them dirty but at least you get it cheap you clean it yourself and refurbish it I actually do recaps on most of mine as well.
Jay, check the port that the power cord plugs into. Has a piece broken off? My SNES use to shut off if that cord was bumped, and it turned out that the port was busted. I had to buy a replacement on eBay, but it was super cheap. You just have to desolder that whole back piece with all the ports and solder back on the replacement.
My experience with Lukie games for the first time like a week before this video was terrible. compared to this video. Mine came with a third party controllers, third party AV Cables, and third party power adapter. At a first glance it seemed clean until I moved the power switch and quickly revealed this nasty dry brown substance. It looked like someone spilled Coca Cola that has been sitting underneath the power button since 1990s. I even saw the dry spillage spread under the eject button and where the you insert the cartridge. All the way close into the motherboard. It was very hard to get into it but it was a lot. I am surprised this even works. Not just that I even found a dead spider inside it too. So yeah to me from my experience Lukie Games is a scam just like DKoldies.
Just cuz no one’s talking about them doesn’t mean they aren’t a scam. That’s like saying you have a cold and you’re feeling every symptom of it, but when the doctor doesn’t speak up about your symptoms, you’re declared “fine and healthy”. 🙄 And besides, at least Lukie Games doesn’t include warranty stickers on screw locations and spam social media vids to sweep every sin underneath the rug and away from the rays of the sunlight.
With how almost every review of DKOldies' stuff has had screws missing, they could probably run side business selling replacement screws for retro console
Take a shot every time the Canadian makes a reference to Canada, whether it be that he is Canadian, from Canada, or enjoys maple syrup. He hasn't even said poutine yet. Not a real Canadian.
Thanks for helping people find out if it is worth buying from these places. Companies should be held accountable for not selling the customer what they are suppose to get.
Rich thank you for still making videos. I can’t stop feeling for your daughter and how I would feel if it was one of my sons. Please take all the time you need or anything. I won’t unsub.
Lol the bent ac prongs was a bit dramatic I’ve had to bend a few plugs to stay in a wall outlet that’s kinda old . They don’t stay in especially with that heavy snes ac adapter
Bought OEM Original Xbox Controllers from them recently. One "S" and one "Duke" . Both had issues. With the "S" it would barely work unless I moved the wire at the base. With the "Duke" there was a rattle. I disassembled and cleaned both. The "S" controller had a broken wire and needs a new set soldered in. The Duke had an over torqued screw that shattered the screw mount. The Duke was an easy fix but the "S" I put in a return request. I was told that they have a tester that tested both. I told them that the person needs time off or to be fired. She didn't respond but indicated I didn't need to send the "S" back and they will send a new one. It arrived today and works perfectly. So they get a D for lying about the tester and an A for standing behind their warranty and letting me keep the original S. I replaced the whole lead on the original "S" and now have 3 nice controllers. BTW all 3 were very clean.
@@Jasper18601 i bought super metroid re3 mega man x2 and a dreamcast bundle and many more and have had zero issues with them they are pricey though because i'm from canada as well but i will still buy from them they got good quality
About three years ago I got scammed very badly by Lukie my n64 had very clearly be on fire in the past and when I returned it they said it was my bad and gave me no money bad for any of my stuff I lost $194 I was very angry 😡
As a Miami resident, I’ve ordered from a couple times. Just games not consoles. The cartridge games I ordered were a gamble. Some were dirty but easily cleaned, and others were clean right out the box. CD based, haven’t had an issue yet. But I haven’t ordered from in years
It seems like they are potentially referring to the console itself when they say refurbished but that still doesn't add up as the internals weren't a1 clean inside. Even just a few sprays of an aerosol air duster would have improved the inside of this.
"This is Jay from ReviewTechCanada, signing off" Made me laugh for real, haha!! Also big up to Canadian content creators!! I gotta support my fellow Canadian people!
Those power bricks are quite heavy, they typically fall off the outlet so that’s why it’s bent that way to avoid it falling out. It does not affect the console whatsoever
I for certain tell you that these old cartridge based systems need to be warmed up a bit before some games fire up. It sounds silly but it’s a real thing for snes, n64, genesis, etc. once you get the game/system started up, it will work fine after that. However, if you don’t use out for a while, you may find it will happen again. Not saying this is 100% all the time, but when you play enough retro games on enough consoles, these quirks start to come out. Doesn’t mean the system is bad, it’s just the way the technology works. Back in the day, we were playing so often that the system had more consistent use.
Well, I "on-and-off" collected until around 2006-7'ish, and then I really started collecting, never threw my old Nes games or old big box pc games away so they are safe. But when I started collecting through eBay, I almost always bought games from Lukie Games, and mind you I live in Norway, and their prices and shipping fee has always been awesome to me. I've bought a TON of old games from them for the last 12-13 years, and only ONCE did a game not work, "Xexyz" for the Nes, and when I told them about it they were like "oh, well that's fine, we'll send you your money back and don't worry about the game, you can keep it.", and a couple of years later I bought a clone console because my NTSC Castlevania 3 copy was acting up on my PAL Nes console, and hey! Suddenly Xexyz works perfectly on that clone console. I haven't ordered any consoles from them so I can't comment on that, but that Snes console you had there looked pretty spiffy even inside if you ask me. Now, were all my games cleaned when I got them from Lukie? No, but if you have retro gaming as a hobby you would be a fool not to clean your cartridges before you test them yourself, so it really doesn't matter to me, because they ALWAYS get cleaned here before I play them, and that's why I haven't had the need to clean my connector pins even once since the late 80's. So yes, most were pretty clean, some few could've been cleaner and a rare few were flat out dirty, but like I said, I don't care, I clean them myself. I would recommend Lukie Games for sure when it comes to games, don't know about consoles though.
Looks like they barely used some compressed air to only briefly blow out a little bit of the dust, but it wasn't properly cleaned, didn't clean the other controller, and the original SNES gamepad was missing screws.. That definately was not a "refurbishing" at all. and $260 for that set is MASSIVELY over priced. One could get a working, great quality SNES from ebay for about $30, and open it up and clean it with isopropil alchohol and a clean dust towelettes; and then buy the AC adapter and video cables and Controllers seperately, it would alll only total about $115 ~ $120-ish that set is NOT worth $260 at all ffs
