Retro Game Store Reviews: Hard Off Tachikawa Nishisuna
About a year ago I was well into my mission to visit every Hard Off and Book Off I could find in the Kanto area in my search for retro games. I’ve talked… Continue reading
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Retro Game Store Reviews: Surugaya – Hamamatsu Ryoke branch
I came across the Surugaya Hamamatsu Ryoke branch completely by accident. My wife and I were checking out Hard Offs and Book Offs in western Shizuoka prefecture near Hamamatsu a few months back… Continue reading
Retro Game Store Reviews: Hard Off Koza Shibuya
I have a lot of killer stores in my backlog of articles to write but sometimes it’s nice to talk about the rare unsuspecting gems that you’d never come across in your daily… Continue reading
Retro Game Store Reviews: Zest Totsuka
I found the Zest Totsuka store completely by accident. On a previous retro road trip to some Book Offs and Hard Offs way out in western Kanagawa, I drove past this. Noticing the… Continue reading
Retro Game Store Reviews: Book Off Super Bazaar Machida
Today I’m focusing on a smaller store but a good store nonetheless. Living in Yokohama, I’m constantly heading past the city of Machida on my way to and back from work during the… Continue reading
Retro Game Store Reviews: Super Potato Nagoya
I actually wrote an article about this Super Potato when it first opened up in Nagoya about 10 years ago. I wasn’t as much of a gamer back then as I am now,… Continue reading
Retro Game Store Reviews: Nagoya Surugaya
The Osu Kannon area in Nagoya is a gold mine of gaming, trading cards, anime goods, and more. You can find whatever you’re looking for in an area much smaller than that of… Continue reading
Retro Game Store Reviews: Meikoya
A few weeks back I visited my old stomping grounds, Nagoya, and while I knew that the city had a lot retro gaming stores, when I lived there I wasn’t into the scene… Continue reading
Retro Game Store Reviews: Hard Off Hachioji
Welcome back to the retro game store reviews! In the first article back after my retro video gaming series, I thought I’d talk about one of the biggest, if not THE biggest Hard… Continue reading
The State of Retro Gaming in Japan: 2024 in Review – Other Systems
I’ve been wanting to write an article about this topic for a while now. Ever since retro gaming got big in western countries and prices got out of control, I’ve liked to compare… Continue reading