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Please Stay Tuned, Regularly Scheduled Famicomblog Content Will Resume Shortly
Please stay tuned, Famicomblog will resume shortly.My blogging content has unfortunately fallen off to zero this month due to the perfect storm of being busy that has suddenly hit. I somewhat...
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Exed Exes on Waikiki Beach
I was in Hawaii for a few days earlier this week. Unfortunately it was not a pleasure trip, but rather for business so I didn`t have much time to myself. I did manage to sneak in a few hours on Waikiki...
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Them Hard Off Label Peeling Blues. I got `em. Got `em real bad.
Famicomblog is...almost back! One more week and I should be back to normal! In the meantime I thought I`d take an hour here to do an homage post to the Hard Off price tag blues which, as the title...
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Puck Man Says: I am so Pucking Awesome.
Went to Mandarake two days ago. Looked in their glass case. Saw the above. Price was reasonable. So, you know, I was all like:Puck Man! Woo yeah!This is one of those little bits of gaming history I...
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Kung Fu Fighting!!
Kung who? Kung FU!Despite being insanely busy over the past two months I was nonetheless able to make a few acquisitions to my precious Famicom collection that I would now like to post in a boastful...
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Japanese Retro Game Shops in Decline?
The above is probably the last photo that will ever be taken of Omocha Souko, my favorite game shop ever, which sadly closed in April. Within a few days all that will be left of that massive beautiful...
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My Famicom Collection: A Short Update
Famicom CollectionA few days ago I went from working 7 days a week and going almost 2 months without taking a day off to suddenly finding myself with some free time on my hands. This allowed me to...
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On the Famicom Hunt in Kitakyushu
Kitakyushu`s Mandarake is in thereYesterday I had a few hours and decided to do something I have never done before: make a trip to another city specifically to check out their Famicom related...
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They want HOW MUCH for Metal Gear?
Every once in a while I like to see what Famicom stuff is going for on Ebay. Because my Ebay searches automatically filter the results with the highest priced stuff at the top I get to see what the...
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Top 80s Movies that Would have been great in 8 bit
Part of my love for the Famicom is probably dervied from the fact that there are a lot of Famicom games based on 80s movies, which I love. These generally fall into a few categories:Good movies made...
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A Million Euro Collection on Ebay that Might Actually Be Worth It
The craziest thing ever on Ebay: a video game auction with a million Euro buy it now price that might actually be worth it. Well, its hard to measure how much something like this is actually worth, a...
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Japanese Game Shops: Service is Second to None
I was reminded recently of one of the other great things about Japanese game shops: the customer service is incredible.As I recently posted about, last week I went to Kitakyushu to do some game...
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Free Stuff: Why I have been drinking so much tea lately
The above is how I have decided to pimp my ride. Yoshi style. Old school.When I walked into a convenience store a few weeks back I discovered that the beverage companies were doing another one of their...
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Sega My Card: Hero
One of the things that I picked up on my recent trip to Mandarake was my first Sega My Card. The game is simply called Hero. It is a pretty good game, Simon over on Red Parsley did a mini-review of it...
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Losing my Yahoo Japan Auction Virginity: Better than Losing my Actual Virginity
I finally did it. After years of procrastinating the closure of Omocha Souko finally forced my hand: I got myself a Yahoo Japan Auctions account.The fact that I no longer have a decent Famicom store...
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Precious Namcot games.....Precious....
Some new `pieces` for my collection: the first four games Namcot released for the Famicom complete in box!I`ve been wanting to get a set of the first 18 Namcot releases (they are numbered) complete in...
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Crisis Force for the Famicom: Somebody got a Bargain
As I have alluded to in previous posts, I have been doing a lot of shopping on Yahoo Auctions recently. I`ve been buying mainly stuff in larger lots since the per-cart cost is pretty cheap when you do...
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Sharp Donkey Kong Jr/ Donkey Kong Math: The Famicom`s first Multicart
One of my recent Yahoo Auction purchases was the above little footnote in the Famicom`s history, the Sharp Donkey Kong Jr/ Donkey Kong Math multicart.This is a pretty hard cart to find but it has an...
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My New Holy Grail: 1968 Nintendo N&B Block Leisure House
My interest in pre-Famicom vintage Nintendo stuff began a couple of years ago when I found a boxed Electro Safari SP light gun target set from 1970 on a shelf at the now-defunct Omocha Souko.It was...
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Yahoo Auction Treasures: Epoch TV Vader
I think I need help, I`ve been buying stuff like crazy on Yahoo Auctions for the past month. There is just too much good stuff to stay away.The latest piece of vintage Japanese retro gear to arrive on...
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