Super Potato Shopping list

[rainnyx4]

Hit Osaka today and visited two Super Potatoes and i have to say...major let down.

While the selection was fair to middling the prices were nothing i couldn't get on ebay and they had no Swan Crystals and to be honest not many consoles other than a couple of SNES's and Neo Geo units. The first one I visited was only one floor with the upstairs being all phone cards and the retro selection was tiny.

The second one in Den Den was a dark hot sweat house with a nice selection of games upstairs but (apart from the 20 yen Xmas Nights) some astonishingly bad prices (2000 yen for a cart only Super Smash TV?! )

In the end I left with only a boxed complete Super Firepro Wrestling Special for 100 Yen to my name.

The stores close buy were similarly priced and made me wish I'd bought more at the hard-off I visited recently.

I hope better fortunes find me in Akihabara

Like others have said, if you want to find cool stuff for low prices, you're going to have to get out of the major cities. Your best bet will actually be Geo or the "Offs" if you're in the city.

[Betagam7]

Hit Osaka today and visited two Super Potatoes and i have to say...major let down.

While the selection was fair to middling the prices were nothing i couldn't get on ebay and they had no Swan Crystals and to be honest not many consoles other than a couple of SNES's and Neo Geo units. The first one I visited was only one floor with the upstairs being all phone cards and the retro selection was tiny.

The second one in Den Den was a dark hot sweat house with a nice selection of games upstairs but (apart from the 20 yen Xmas Nights) some astonishingly bad prices (2000 yen for a cart only Super Smash TV?! )

In the end I left with only a boxed complete Super Firepro Wrestling Special for 100 Yen to my name.

The stores close buy were similarly priced and made me wish I'd bought more at the hard-off I visited recently.

I hope better fortunes find me in Akihabara

Like others have said, if you want to find cool stuff for low prices, you're going to have to get out of the major cities. Your best bet will actually be Geo or the "Offs" if you're in the city.

Only place I'll be outside of Kyoto and Tokyo from now on will be Yokosuka and I'll be too busy buying capsule toys and avenging my father by driving a forklift when I get there.

The prices wern't great but the big dissapointment about the Kyoto SP is that many people have said its bigger and better than the Tokyo one but on the basis of videos I've seen that's just not the case. The fact that its so hot and dingy also makes it a really uncomfortable place to spend too much time in searching.

I spotted a "Famicom Shop" opposite kyoto Uni yesterday though so will check that out tomorrow.