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A Famicom cart that fits on your fingertip
Behold, the smallest copy of Wild Gunman you are likely to ever find. About one-tenth the size of the regular cart:I just picked up a set of Famicom erasers and this was by far the smallest one in the...
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More Famicom Erasers
As I mentioned in the previous post, I picked up a lot of Famicom erasers last week. They are pretty neat little things, basically mini versions of Famicom carts.I am pretty sure these were released by...
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The Blog is not quite dead yet: Nintendo Hanafuda Cards Arrived in Mail
It has been about four months since my last post, how has everyone been doing? Well I hope.Unfortunately this is more like a visit than a resumption of regular content. Work and family commitments...
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New Year Update: Retro Gaming Withdrawal Symptoms
As I mentioned, by way of explanation for my four month absence from blogging, I had a big move/ job change back in October. Sadly, since that time, I have been almost completely out of my beloved...
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I`m Back Again: My CIB Small-box Nintendo Famicom Collection
As the part of the title that precedes the colon states, I`m back. Well, I never left really, I have just been too busy. Today I am home sick from work (just a cold, nothing to worry about) and for...
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Famicom Storage: the Next Generation
As I mentioned in a recent post, I moved about 6 months ago. One of the sacrifices we had to make while packing up was my beloved Famicom shelf system. Painstakingly constructed from 100 yen shop...
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The Atari 2800 Saga
I made a pretty nice pic up on Yahoo Auctions last week: my very own Atari 2800!!!That is correct, Atari 2800 and not Atari 2600.The Atari 2800 was Atari`s abortive attempt to export a version of the...
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The RF/ AV Divide: The Ugly Carnage the Switch to Digital Broadcasting has...
In the summer of 2011 something happened in Japan that made life a bit more difficult for retro gamers. One day all the television broadcasts switched from analogue to digital. For years prior to...
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Retro Rarities: Amada LSI Game Mini Cards
Barely a week into June and this is already my second post this month, I seem to be getting back into blogging!I picked up something totally awesome on Yahoo Auctions the other day and I wanted to do a...
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Happy 30th Famicom!!
I just realized that today is the 30th birthday of the Famicom. Sadly I don`t have time to do a long post, but I couldn`t let the occasion pass completely unobserved.I remember my own 30th birthday....
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Kansai Famicom Shops Part 1: Kobe
I just got back from a few days in the Kansai area and was happily enough able to do some retro game shopping (well, mostly retro-game window shopping) while I was down there!Back when I lived in...
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Kansai Retro Game Shops 2: Den Den Town in Osaka
On the last day of our Kansai trip I finally was able to make the pilgrimage to Den Den Town, Osaka`s neighborhood dedicated to electronics (`Den` means electricity). As such it is also the centre of...
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Kansai Retro Game Shops 3: Super Potato in Osaka!!
I have long wished to make a pilgrimmage to Super Potato, the godfather of all Famicom shops. They don`t have one in Fukuoka so I was never able to visit one while I collected games down there,...
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Kansai Retro Game Shops 4: Mandarake in Osaka`s Amerika Mura
The final retro game store I got to check out during my trip to the Kansai area was Mandarake in Osaka`s Amerika Mura neighborhood.Amerika Mura is kind of a neat area. It mainly has clothing shops...
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The Yahoo Auction Price Explosion: Woe is me
It has been a little over a year since I first started buying Famicom games on Yahoo Auctions. It was so awesome at first: tons of Famicom games selling for bargain prices.In the past nine months or...
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Retro Find: Frogger Handheld by Konami/ Gakken!!
Frogger is one game that I have a lot of fond memories of as a kid. I had a big floppy disk version of it for my Apple IIC back in the 80s and it was one of my favorite games. I remember sitting at...
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Warehouse Find? An Unopened Case of Famicom Choujin Ultra Baseball!
Just a couple of weeks after complaining about how Yahoo Auctions no longer has any deals I find myself in the awkward position of having a deal that I scored on Yahoo Auctions to report.My score was...
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Cruising Around Town in a 1972 Nintendo Lefty RX
This is the city. I live here.And this is my car. 1972 Nintendo Lefty RX. Blue. Only turns left. Don`t ask why.I like to cruise the streets with it. Looking for trouble in all the wrong places....
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Some More Atari 2800 Love....and Hate
The mailman brought some more Yahoo Auction Goodies (YAG) yesterday: seven CIB Atari 2800 games!As I mentioned in an earlier post, as of May this year I officially became an Atari 2800 owner. The 2800...
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Yahoo!! A Red Lefty RX!!
After taking my broken old blue Lefty RX on an awesome tour around town last week I decided to do a little online shopping to see if there were any available as I didn`t have a complete, fully...
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