Retro Game Hunting in Japan! #9 - Hard Off Crazy in Kobe City!
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- čas přidán 2. 06. 2023
- Today for our 9th episode of Retro Game Hunting in Japan, we are visiting Kobe city, and we're hitting all the Hard Offs along the way! If you guys enjoy the video, please smash that like button and subscribe!
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"Poor kid.... Ohhh Pokemon toys!" LOL!
I was concerned at first, but I seen the kid run to their parents. Just in a grumpy mood and not lost thankfully haha 🤣
Just finished binge watching this entire series and man I have to say the sheer improvement in such a short amount of time is incredible. the production value on last few videos is amazing. Keep up the great work and you'll go far!
I'm going to be going to Japan in a couple years time, most likely in the Tokyo area and I plan on doing a lot of game hunting. Mostly Fire Emblem, Zelda and Pokemon. Watching these videos has inspired me to collect as much as I can while I'm there.
Looking forward to the next retro game hunt video!
Thanks so much for the support, I appreciate it :D hopefully I'll have another episode out by the end of the month.
Otherwise, I hope you make it out here. Japan is such a one of a kind place, and the retro game scene here is insane. You'll absolutely love it!
Thank you for the upload. I enjoy watching your videos from beginning to end. Can't wait to see the next adventure!
Thanks for the support. I really appreciate it :D
Made my day seeing this video on my play notifications this morn, keep up the great work !
Thanks so much, I appreciate comments like this. Thanks for the support :)
I love seeing everything. I love how the gane stores look in japan and how many cool games they have.
Thanks for the support, I appreciate it. And yes Japan is one of a kind :)
Going to japan in September and I recently heard about these stores. Can’t wait to go and explore them myself.
You're going to love Japan when you come here. It's a very surreal experience when you arrive. Thanks for the support on the channel :D
Very cool Frankie so many physical games in Japan you can never run out 🆒👍💿
I know the market here is insane! It's so surprising to me how much retro stock there is
$33 Canadian dollars for SFC wow so cool don’t have a sfc I have like a 3rd party 2in 1 and a famicom disk system… so many loose GAMEBOY GAMES ❤I would take my gameboy to try them in store lol. Watching the re cap so cool your friend sends games from Canada 🇨🇦
Wow, that Pokemon Yellow guide is beautiful. Great pickup!
Ikr I love it! Glad someone else likes it haha
Yay that your saying Canadian Prices!! Best to say CAD and USD lol too. Another great DS game is Osu Takakae Ouendan 2 Morris Nekketsu rhythm game there a 1&2. Have u seen gameboy Prince of Persia? Or sfc? Gameboy Marus mission I ran into that game yesterday in English it also was out in Japan.. sorry I write too much.
Thanks for posting these :) I recently did a 2500km road trip around Japan and we stopped in so many hobbyoffs/bookoffs/hardoffs and offhouses :) Bringing back some great memories!
That sounds like so much fun, take me with you next time! Haha, but otherwise thank.yoj for the support :D
Did the same myself, 6 months across the country just as they opened after lockdown, hitting smany stores daily; as far south as Okinawa and as far north as Abashiri.
The various OFF themes are burnt into my brain as some subconcious conditioning...
It was a great expirence and I'm glad I got to do it when I did :D
Why u stopped to make your videos man???
I love all your videos and watch in loop your game hunts!!
Please come back 🙏
Great video as always. You got some good stuff on this excursion nice going.
Thank you, I appreciate it :D
Also I can't respond to your insta message. App keeps crashing every time I try to open it 🤦
I loved mega man battle network 3 white. Pokemon Yellow Guide is a fantastic find!
Hell yea, I loved that game too! And Ikr I'm so happy to have it, even though I can barely read much of it haha
Nice episode and great pickups! Good idea with loose DKC games. You can never get enough of those.
And woah at that Rockman & Forte for SFC! Amazing price! I always see it for 10 000 - 20 000 yen everywhere.
And yea, I noticed boxed GBA games are getting really hard to find in BOOK OFF's nowadays...
For sure. Can never have too many loose copies for playing 🤣 and I'm not into collecting Megaman ATM asides from battle network, but if I would've known at the time, I would've snagged that one haha. But yea it sucks that GB is getting harder to find there
hey nice to see ya again! got a Super Famicom from Japan recently (online), really excited to play some of the classics. Got Donkey Kong Country 1, 2 and 3 for it, along with a bunch of Mario games and Street Fighter 2 Turbo. Great video as always!
Hell yes I'm glad you got one! What service did you use to order from Japan? Otherwise, thanks for the support :)
@@frankieinjapan I got it through Sendico, I really enjoy how they package stuff, they charge 500 yen per thing you buy so it's good to find bundles so you don't keep paying 500 yen on stuff that costs sub 1000 yen. Luckily the Mario games were all a bundle (Super Mario Kart, All Stars and Yoshi's Island), Super Mario World came with the console and the 3 DK games were a bundle also. Got some Nintendo DSis as well to hack and a spare Gameboy Color to turn into a PoCo.
hope you come back eventually great videos
Great video that game was rockman exe gba blue moon my favourite Megaman game ever 😊it’s a really great rpg game
Thanks for the support :) and yes I love the mega man battle Network games!
great vid the editing is getting good keep it up
Thanks a ton, I appreciate it :D
Oh the psp is kenka bacho bros lol number 3 is very cheap $2.63 cad and ship $7.90 dont understand how ship more expensive and 1 is 15.80cad and $7.90 ship. Will just write it here lol incase u come across them curious on prices lol... thank u
all those digimon wonderswan games I would've loved to of bought!!!
I rercently subscribed. What I like is the shots of video walking to and from the stores and of course inside the stores and then your back at home "haul". Also your dad seems like a cool dude which brings me to the question....did your dad live there before you or did he make the move at the same time as you/ or after? Maybe you already made a video about this stuff but if not it would be interesting to see.
Thanks for the support :) and he's actually my wife's Dad, she's half Canadian. Most people think he's my actual dad because we're both white dudes haha 🤣
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Hi i just subscribed 😊 i would love to go to Japan very cool you are living in japan. I was searching game hunting in Japan and you popped up. 😊 i have a channel to but im in Canada 🇨🇦
Thanks for the support :) and I'm from Canada myself. I'd love to go back for a visit and do an episode there, but north american prices are so insane nowadays haha
@frankieinjapan Hi yes prices up here can be crappy. I would love to go to Japan! What part of canada are you from? Is your family mom...others still in Canada? The only good games i would grab would be platform, fighting, shumps and racing, when it comes to rpg games not many we can play unless we know Japanese. Do you read or understand Japanese or talk Japanese? How long have u been there?
@@segagirladventurespico I've been here two years, and my family is still in Canada. The dad I have here is actually my wife's Dad, she's half Canada as well. I was born in Winnipeg, but spent most my life on Vancouver island. As for Japanese, very minimal, but I can read the two main alphabets. I wanna go to traditional school, but I don't have time for it with work, and the closest school is over an hour away from me unfortunately
@frankieinjapan oh nice i enjoyed reading your msg :) thats so nice you have your father in law there :). Thank you for letting me know a bit about your past in Canada:) hopefully one day you come back to visit :) but Japan looks beautiful have you gone to the hot springs or climbed the big mountain? Is it mount fuji? In the summer! I saw a girl climb it in winter and he died!
@@segagirladventurespico no problem, I enjoy interacting with people on here :) ! And I've climbed one small mount called mt kumayama, but so far that's it. I haven't been to a hot spring yet since I have a tattoo on my shoulder and so many onsens reject people with a tattoo 🤣
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Are there any places in Japan left where you can buy arcade parts old PCBs and things like that? I know in the '90s into the early 2000s it was popular but it looks like it's pretty much dried up. It's all the console and anime stuff now dominating
2:39 those lose dragon ball z characters how much are they? I love hearing the prices of items in japan and most people say it in USD do you say USD dollars or Canadian dollars? Sorry havent finished your video its hard as a single mom to do so much things lol no joke lol today i took my kids and my friend Chris to a retro store i didnt film much wirh kids cant do much lol. I love that you show gameboy games! I would love to see psp and ps vita too :). Today at the retro store i went i saw a few Japanese games for the GBC go go akman for $4.99 CAD and other games but they werent good lol will be on my other video.
They're usually quite cheap. Binned figures are usually between 7$-15$. And sorry I always say Canadian prices because I'm so used to it. Canada to JPY is much simpler sinces it's basically 1 yen per penny 🤣 and I don't have kids yet, but a lot of my friends do. It's gotta exhausting managing little ones and your own life and hobbies. It takes a strong person to do it, idk if I could haha. But otherwise awesome, I'll subscribe and check it out
@@frankieinjapan thank you :) and thank you for saying canadian prices. 😀
I know for a fact if I go to japan, I'd need to buy a new suitcase for very hard/book off I visit.
I'm actually headed to Japan in a couple of months...planning to hit most of the Offs for some retro games. I do have a question though...regarding the Super Famicom boxes games, are the cartridges themselves usually in good condition (no yellowing, not dirty). You can't tell because of the shrink wrap.
That's awesome, you're gonna love it! And the super Famicom games are usually always great condition. They label boxes in most places if there's yellowing, and the super worn down used ones usually end up in a bin for like 100 yen. Every place is different, but usually that's how they handle it.
$44 dollars for Pokémon green??? When I was in vacation trip in Japan I was buying Pokémon games for $5 dollars and that was back in 2019 WOW!! And I seen a bunch of ps1 consoles for $5 dollars, that’s it’s crazy how much they sell for now in Japan! What I notice is that a lot of people are selling on eBay! And is why the prices are so high now! I got a final fight for the famicom for $32 dollars completed and now they sell for almost $200 dollars in eBay! I’m talking Canadian dollars, I got a full set of neo geo cd for $4700dollars a full set, and metal slug, metal slug x and metal slug 3 for the AES for 8k Canadian, back in 2012 and that was the only reason I travel to japan back in 2012 I wonder how much the metal slug games sell for, I can’t find any listing other then one for metal slug x for 5k on eBay, but I think his nuts no a real price,or I hope not
actually yes - most AES prices exploded over the past 10 years and it got worse during Covid. Rare ones like Metal Slug 1 or 2 are somewhere between 5000-20.000$ depending on condition. the "common" Metal Slugs are like 2000-6000$ xD
Still watching your video that’s funny your speaking of LOST IN BLUE I want to pick those up there is 3games In the series I’m watching them on eBay and Amazon. But how do you play it if it’s in Japanese? A great video idea would be to show games that are Japanese and that have English text, there one ds games that has that option I saw it on another CZcams channel Humm can’t remember the name it’s a rpg game.
Hey Frankie! My sister is going to Japan at November. Shel will bring me a used Gameboy Color. Wich places do you recommend to get good prices?
Where is this store I wanna go to this one to???
Frankie, no uploads in six months. Where ya been?
Hey thanks for checking in! We've just been struggling with money, so we haven't had the ability to go retro game hunting haha 🤣 I'll get back to it once we find better footing
@@frankieinjapan ahh I understand 100%. Love your channel
bro your video is cool but can you go slowly when showing us the gameboy advance games? we cant see the price sadly
Okay sorry about that 😅 I will next time
@@frankieinjapan yeah it will be more enjoyable for audience if you somehow invite us to see prices on each game and it almost feel like we are window shopping with you bro. i will be waiting for next adventure
whens the new video?
do you check price only or do you only compare prices from one store to an other?
did Dad and Abbie (abby? one day i'll remember the correct spelling...) buy anything ?
I check prices on price charting if there's something I'm keen on getting. And dad got a couple CDs, but Abbey didn't find a single thing she wanted unfortunately. She's trying to get Ranma 1 1/2 and sailor moon super Famicom games
@@frankieinjapan on the topic of things i always forget, famicom is the "super nintendo" or is it a totally separated console ?
@@yogseventy-nine3460 Famicom is the NES, and super Famicom is the super Nintendo. Same systems and games, but the cartridges are a bit different
@@frankieinjapan okay, thanks !
You still posting?
I absolutely plan on it, I'm just in a financial hard place ATM. If I could afford it with both money and time, I would 🤣 I will come back eventually, promise 🤘
Is your channel already dead? 😢
Love your content but please switch it up. Not negative feedback but after watching 20min its not that like i am still very aware. Take this as some feedback no hate. Just make it more interesting. Maybe you need to involve your wife? More hosts on the video the better. Conversations, maybe more culture, i dont know
the content is perfect such as, no need to change anything or involve private life, just go make your own channel or watch someone else
His content is basically just digging through the crates. He’s not really telling a story. If you want stories then this probably isn’t the channel for you.