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Got a copy of Metroid at a local pawn shop with instruction manual both in great shape for only $16. Back of the manual has passwords written down by the original owner, always fun to find stuff like that. Also got a new Retrobit s-video cable for my Dreamcast above for only $6.

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I still need to grab Metroid on NES. Nice looking manual on this one.

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Having the manual makes a big difference, I’ve lost count of the times that I have found some useful information, gameplay tips or some controls that I didn’t know existed by reading the manual, even on games I have played for many years.

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They used to expect you to actually read those things! It’s true though that often I would be playing and have no clue some feature or function existed in a game (or that there was a map!) because I forgot to look in the damn book!

@AgentUnknown Great snag on that S-Video cable. Given your want to stay cheaper, that’s a hell of a buy. :slight_smile:

We’ve been talking about it. Here’s a pic of mine. Arrived yesterday…

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Looks good, more comfortable than a standard MD/Genesis pad?

It’s a bit more substantial than the 6 Button controller and probably on par with the original 3 button in heft. It’s light, but doesn’t feel cheap at all. Most important though is the precision. It just seems to respond perfectly and @Kawika’s post in the other thread seems to bear that out with technical proof.

It will be a long wait for my 2.4g M30s to ship to Australia.

At least you know it’ll be worth it!

Sold a bunch of games I never play and paid $11 total out of pocket for these.

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Well this is only my second Japan trip, but I plan to make it an annual or twice a year thing from now on. Hauling that by myself is part of the fun, but yeah things would be simpler with fewer pieces of luggage, only bigger. Wanted to get so much back, specially Neo games, but really ran out of space, and shipping to Mexico gets rather expensive, best save up for another trip later this year.

I can only imagine how good it was back then, before prices went up for everytning! Still a better deal than paying ebay prices.

The golden Age of Akihabara was before the PS2 came along. That console basically ruined Akihabara in my opinion. Before it was a thing there were so many excelent Retro game stores but once PS2 took off many retro game stores turned in to DVD shops and then came the stupid maid caffees. The maid cafés have nothing to do with the PS2 of course but the bloody DVDs did.
I used to visit twice a year from 1995 to 1998 before moving here for good in November 1998. Akihabara was golden back then. Games as far as the eye could see. Multiple stores using entire floors dedicated to one or two systems and of course prices were cheap or reasonable. I’m pretty sure rip off merchants, Super Potato weren’t around then either.

The ubiquitous porn shops (“DVD” lol), maid cafes, idol crap, and persistent smell of BO makes Akiba unbearable today IMO.

That’s a really great deal on skies of Arcadia!

Welp, that’s me out

In reference to persistent smell of BO; I recently found myself thinking about how far my hobbies have come in that regard. Where at one time in my life it was just a fact of life at any event/dedicated hobby shop I went to but now it stands out in an oddly nostalgic kind of way. Like “oh yeah, I remember how terrible this use to be”.

Guess it’s similar in that way to the smell of smoking. Where I wouldn’t even make note of it before it was so prevalent but now it is noticeable only because it isn’t.

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Yup! Zelda on NES came with a map, and it’s much better to play with one imo.

Picked up a bunch of 5$ games for Xbox, Wii, PS2 and Xbox360:

I also finally bit on the PlayStation Classic, for a whopping 29.99$. Man those things tanked hard (good price for me though!):

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You’re in Ottawa, right? Did you happen to find a thrift store that actually carries videogames?

Hey @poptart, yup I’m in Ottawa.

Only got Mario Party 8 from a Thrift store, all others were bought from various private sellers / game stores in Ottawa and Montreal.

The local scene is pretty dry, I have to admit. I’m so glad I made most of my retro gaming purchases over 10 years ago…

I didn’t smell any BO while I was there however I wasn’t there in the middle of summer and I’m also 1ft taller then anyone else in the area. I had a fantastic time in Akihabara and had a good laugh Everytime I went to the floor marked " DVD" and was promptly greeted by a poster or video of a woman with tentacles doing uh, what tentacles do. One elevator even had a video explaining how to properly enter a woman. It’s absurd and definitely not something you would see in a random store here in Canada.

The maid cafes struck me as incredibly sad though. Every girl I saw dressed up and passing out flyers looked absolutely miserable.