RETRO GAMES really DISAPPEARING from JAPAN!? │ RETRO GAME HUNTING in TREASURE OTAKARA SOKO SHOP 

Great to see you back in Japan, doing some back to the roots game hunting videos. 😊

Good to see prices are reasonable and shelves have plenty of stock👍🏼 Keep it going man👌

I’ve waited so long for this!

Hi mate great video glad to see u back 😊

More of the goodness man :) Enjoyed the video as always

Good to see prices are still reasonable. Flying to Japan myself end of the month . So excited !

Very cool seeing you in Japan and I can't wait to see where in Japan you'll go next.😊

So nice that you are back in Japan! I would have picked up that SOTN for sure 😄

Great video!! Fun to see a place not usually visited in the game hunting videos here on YT

Another excellent video, Adam. Love your work! I think I told ya, I can't remember, the Hard Off near my work has a Neo Geo console boxed for 660,000 yen. I am kicking myself for not picking one up a few years ago for a third of that price!!!!! Hahaha! Ah well... Anyway. Keep the videos coming! I'm loving 'em!

Hi Adam I been wait a long time for your Japan video OMG IM SK EXCITED!! I still have to work on our secret console video lol for my channel. Starting your video I’m so excited 😊

dude it was so hard for me to find what I was looking for while over there. so many empty shelves.

Det är drömmen att kunna besöka Japan och leta retrospel. Riktigt bra videor, hoppas din kanal växer

good video, so many cool games for decent prices!! and 7:28 that's pokemon mystery dungeon - red rescue team. and at 9:34 there is a 16bit pocket md!!!! it's a portable for mega drive cartridges, which was a official release by sega (in 2019, if i'm not mistaken). and 11:50 the 8bit pocket for famicom cartridges. i really love these consoles that make home console games into portable games, it's so cool

Good variety at that store from the looks of it. Retro games are still here in Japan, you just have to go where the tourists aren't going, which in a way makes it more fun because you'll probably go to some area that you probably wouldn't have gone to if not trying to find a random Hard/Book-Off in the middle of nowhere, haha.

It is really sad that I went to Japan recently and several book offs and hard-offs had small collections of gameboy games(or were extremely overpriced), one of the book off stores had 6 loose gameboy cartridges. Hoping something would reduce the prices soon.

13:38 The signs say 売り下さい (please sell) so those are the prices that the store wants to buy those games at, not the prices that the games are sold for.

Helt otrolig video :). Skulle varit roligt att åka till Japan :). Fast man hade väl blivit helt snurrig av alla retro saker :)

I was just in Nagoya in May and I can't believe I didn't know about this place! My trip started in Osaka then Kyoto, Nagoya, and Tokyo. By far the best selection of games and consoles was in Osaka. Because I didn't want to lug around 2 giant suitcases the whole trip I waited until Tokyo to buy the majority of the big stuff. I ended up getting a Gen2 Famicom, Super Famicom, and N64 - all in boxes. I would have paid less and gotten better condition boxes earlier in the trip since I found it surprisingly hard to find them in Tokyo. Akihabara especially felt kind of picked over. And I want to say, do not buy the IPS 8Bit Pocket - it worked all of one time. A total waste of 10,000 yen. Great video - makes me miss the island already.

This joint has a decent selection it seems. Prices also appear to be a tad lower than the stores in my neck of the woods. Also, I have Under Defeat HD on the PS3. It's good, but the slowdown can be brutal. Looking forward to the next video, cheers!

even Japan is going digitally, make sense with small apartments.

It’s incredible Nagoya has game shops open till midnight! Baffling! Glad common games are priced fairly anyway. Boxed games are way cheaper than boxed Swedish games for sure!

Love your video.❤ I 'm watching in Thailand.

Looks like they still have a lot of games.. Awesome stuff ...

Man, I was in Japan 10 days ago, I do hunting at Hardoffs & bookoffs just like you, I focus on Tokyo outskirts areas, I once did Sapporo , I don't do videos like you, It's more personal to me, I could swear you are right, the good deals & really rare stuff are fading out, I can notice it because I did couple of tours before this last one, I feel it the most with PS1 games & consoles in general. Love this hoppy & I love the fact that there are people like me from the world are doing it too, I just don't wish that too many people start doing it because then games will disappear even more quickly hahaha and some empty collectors are really doing it in a harming way, they collect everything even stuff that they don't have personal memories with (for flipping I guess 😡), stupid. keep up the good hunt, give consoles more focus please. Thanks

to chime in on this topic: I do think that to some extend Japanese retro games are disappearing from the local market. Since foreign collectors and also players do not usually sell them back to the stores or other Japanese people for obvious reasons. not as extreme as portrayed by some on the internet but there is some impact. I'd think that during Corona a lot of ppl probably also sold off their stuff due to financial reasons which might have helped the shops to stock on games. due to time limitation (I was in Japan for 3 weeks and came back last Friday) I was limited to visiting Akihabara and Osaka Dendentown only :/ which was quite a letdown.... prices have gone up high since my last visit in 2018 and due to Corona I guess. Japan opening it's borders to all tourists probably also had an additional impact. The high end and sought after games were extremely expensive.. What also shocked me (at least for PC Engine and Saturn) was that a lot of low to mid level games that cost likd 2000-5000 Yen where now between 10.000 to 30.000 Yen....crazy... not to talk about the Neo Geo - those prices were outright bs... also that fresh and retro feeling when you enter the shops went somewhat missing with 99% of the people inside being tourists ^^ only Japanese I saw at Potato and Trader where the sales clerks xD I kept asking myself each time whether I am visiting Tokyo or Paris xD

11,800 yen for Metal Slug for the Saturn, yikes! I still remember buying it off someone from a forum a decade or so ago, $10. 5:04 That beautiful boxed copy of Puyo Puyo Sun for N64, I have the Saturn and PS1 versions (I still lack the GBC one), and if I had an N64, Sun would definitely be in that system's collection. But it's tough collecting for NES/FC, SNES/SFC, Genesis/MD, Game Boy, some PS2, a little PC Engine CD (No console to run the 4 games I have, so I run the legit discs in emulator), PS1, and Saturn. I have a PSP and a DS, as well as a Wii, but I don't collect for say for those, though the PSP has stuff I do want. As I said in another video, those games behind glass don't tend to be rare, few are. Those games that are stupidly high priced are the games most sought after by collectors, myself included, but I won't break the bank to pay the ridiculous prices those same games go for online. I have managed to get at least 2 Saturn games that were horribly expensive then, for a mere $20 a pop, a middle of the night start of a buy it now Elevator Action Returns, and a manual less buy it now Kingdom Grandprix. Rare would be something like the Gold Punchout FC carts, or Tetris on the Mega Drive, both don't have a ton of carts made. Stuff like Mizubaku Daibouken on Saturn, aka Liquid Kids, from Taito, those didn't really see a high print run, probably why the game fetches up to $1,000, yes 1 grand in price, for copies. A friend snagged one for me from a French seller over a decade ago for $75, complete with spinecard.

Rip... Guess they are all gone😂 jk Great vid as always! Thankfully ill be hitting up Japan soon for some retro games... and maybe start some retro game hunt videos.

haha they got some nice stuff overe there in Nagojja! I'd want that metal slug

Wonderful!

Hello rétro moments I was in Japan in November 2022 and in March 2023 and I made the same conclusions as you. I saw in four months games increased. Good trip ✌️

not according to Mad Panic Gaming. Have u checked his channel yet ? He found retro treasures every episode. Akiba stores are where all foreign tourists go. So of course retro game stores in Akiba have empty stock

I kinda cringed when I saw the price labels on the label of the carts. Are they easy to get off without ruining the cart label?

Nice vids, what is the name of this shop and where it is? Thx

Aren’t you afraid walking around at night?

Bro can you lend me the adress of this store? , i wll go to Nagoya in 1 week!!!, i want to pay a visit there

that is one godawful version of "fast car" 🤢

it looks like retros games are staying in Japan

Im number like 69 😊

Yes they are disappearing because i'm buying them all.

You sound Swedish, am i right?