Buying Neo Geo games in Japan!

[krautcroissant]

Don't know what happened to my attachments there. I will upload them again as I am sure there will be some people here that will enjoy looking at the carts and the prices. Here goes:









All these are titles for sale at Trader in Akihabara, apart from the last one which is from Super Potato, same location.

 

[krautcroissant]

Here are the 'wanted' posters at Trader.... which surprisingly enough do not offer a lot of cash for homecarts (when compared to what they sell them for especially).

 

[krautcroissant]

And... the following pictures were all taken in Mak, Akihabara. Enjoy

 

[BladeDancer314]

I got my kof 2002 aes cheaper locally lol

 

[xorthen]

Sweet pics. Looks like Neo Geo games are running dry in glorious nippon.

 

[frazer99]

Thanks for the pics

 

[snes_collector]

Awesome pics, thanks for sharing! Looks about like ebay for most of it.

 

[Kid Panda]

I'm surprised Hit-Japan hasn't scooped up everything, that guy is a flipper jerk.

 

[cr8zykuban0]

man those aes prices are sad to look at! mvs and pgm games dont look too bad in price. Hoping i can find some deals when i head out there next year

 

[ChuChu Flamingo]

lol those prices, 72000 for double dragon.

 

[wyo]

LOL, Japan retail makes eBay prices look good.

 

[LoneSage]

lmfao at a homebrew selling for $1,400

 

[terry.330]

I think I threw a couple of those carts away a decade ago.

 

[oliverclaude]

...I am sure there will be some people here that will enjoy looking at the carts and the prices.

Absolutely, thanks a lot!

...which surprisingly enough do not offer a lot of cash for homecarts (when compared to what they sell them for especially).

I don't know, partly: yes, like the 60k offered for Andro Dunos. But 60.000 for Matrimelee & 150.000 for RotD/Sengoku 2001 are almost eBay level. Seems that Noise Factory games are very hot in Nippon. Also quite high for an acquisition price offered by a store are the $755 for MotW.

 

[Yamazaki]

made the same experience when I spent a month in Japan this april.

Prices are through the roof, even sunfaded and terrible looking carts fetched high prices.

LOL at Double Dragon - I paid 400$ at Super Potato for it just 3 months ago.



btw - a well used strategy bei ALL retro shops in Japan: if a game does not sell > drop the price. If it sells > raise the price the next day

 

[xsq]

Hoping i can find some deals when i head out there next year

if you go to Japan, do anything but shop for video games. There are so many and so much better things to do/experience there.

 

[xorthen]

I'm surprised Hit-Japan hasn't scooped up everything, that guy is a flipper jerk.

He didn't used to be back in the day. I pretty much spent around $1000 on a shit load of AES games. Walked away with Top Hunter, SSIV, V, KOF 2002, KOF 95,96,97,98,99, and the Last Blade. Those were the days man.

My guess for the rising price is that Japan figured out that tons of Gaijin were ransacking their stuff so they purposely jacked the prices up in order to quell/preserve some of their stock.

 

[Yamazaki]

..well I had discussions with Japanese retro collectors who argued that foreigners should be banned from buying retro games in Japan....

 

[xsq]

what's Japanese for leech?

 

[Liquid Snake]

what's Japanese for leech?

リーチ

 

[Atro]

22000 Yen on that Supergun isn't a bad price. I love that stick

 

[uiengineer]

what's Japanese for leech?

Liquid Snake

 

[Liquid Snake]

Liquid Snake

Ban Plz

 

[uiengineer]

Ban Plz

lol. Nice location. Are you trying to steal Steve's identity now?

 

[suicidekiller]

I don't know, partly: yes, like the 60k offered for Andro Dunos. But 60.000 for Matrimelee & 150.000 for RotD/Sengoku 2001 are almost eBay level. Seems that Noise Factory games are very hot in Nippon. Also quite high for an acquisition price offered by a store are the $755 for MotW.

Yep, some of those wanted price are well over ebay level. They give you 150,000 Yen for Sengoku Denshou 2001? I wonder at what price they will try to sell it (with emphasis on try)