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L'histoire d'un Petit Robot et un Virtual Boy.
Il y avait untrèspetit robotdont le nom étaitPhil. Un jour,Philvoulait jouer avecson Virtual Boy.MaisPhilétait trop petite. Phila demandéde l'aide.Puis ilpourrait joueravec son Virtual Boy. PuisPhila...
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Famicom Shopping News: Super Potato Just Opened a Shop in Nagoya
Super Potato is almost without a doubt the most famous of all Japanese retro game stores. I`ve never visited the Akihabara one, but I have taken in the one in Osaka and it blew me away.So I am glad to...
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Rarities: Nintendo in Store Display from the early 1970s
The above is one of the most interesting things in my vintage Nintendo collection. It is a 1950s store display used to advertise Nintendo playing cards. The big white characters 任天堂 spell out the...
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More Famicom Rarities: Amada Puzzles and Menko
In the mid-1980s a company called Amada had a contract with Nintendo and a number of game producers like Jaleco and Konami to produce novelty items related to Famicom games. I first got interested in...
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Yahoo Auctions: Somebody auctioning off an entire CIB collection of Famicom...
I was browsing through the Famicom listings on Yahoo Auctions yesterday when I noticed one seller, mad-masax, was without much fanfare putting up what looks like it may be one of the most impressive...
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Some Interesting Famicom Price Information: 88 Games Worth More than 5000 Yen
As I mentioned in my last post, a seller on Yahoo Auctions has been putting up an amazing collection of CIB Famicom games with low starting bids. In fact he seems to be putting an almost complete set...
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Interesting find: Atari 2800 Discovery?
I just picked the above Atari 2600 game up off of Yahoo Auctions. Gangster Alley is the name, shooting is the game. I am always on the prowl for Atari 2600 games to feed to my (admittedly difficult...
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Yasuda Fire & Marine Safety Rally: Oh God, What Have I Done?
Last night the two massive cardboard boxes pictured above arrived at my home. They were heavy, I had to lug them in one by one from the doorway after the deliveryman, who had used a push cart to get...
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Famicom Price Information Part 2
Last week I presented a list of sale prices from a massive auction that is taking place on Yahoo Auctions of CIB Famicom games. The seller is putting up over 1000 CIB Famicom games (which would be...
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A Minor Quibble with the Festering Cesspool of Racism that is Japan's Yahoo...
Rant time. Sorry, but I'm pissed. I was cruising Yahoo Auctions earlier today and was about to put a bid in on a Famicom game from this seller by the name of gs76u87o. Then I stopped because I wasn't...
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Some Famicom Playing Cards - Mach Rider Style
Famicomblog is not dead! Its owner and curator does, however, have a 6 month old baby at home to keep him occupied, leaving precious little time for blogging. I do have a few minutes to spare here...
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It has been a few months since my last post. If anybody is still reading, don`t worry, I am not dead. I am just a father.My son is now 10 months old and the old saying about your children becoming...
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My Childhood Video Game Stash has been Found!
Been a while since I last posted. Am still alive and well. Thank you very much.In September I made a trip back home to Canada with my family in tow to visit my parents. It was the first time back...
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The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Retro Video Game Market
If you look over on the archive of this blog you`ll note that its first 3 years (2009 – 2012) were a lot busier than its most recent 3 years. Take a glance through the posts in that first three year...
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Yes, I'm still alive after over a year
Its amazing how time flies, its been over a year since I updated this blog, which is usually a good barometer for declaring a blog "dead". But this one isn't, its just in hibernation as its curator...
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Bringing the Blog Back to Life
Not sure if anyone is still out there but hello, my name is Sean and I like Famicom games. This is, or at least was, my blog.I have been out of blogging for a few years now. I started this blog...
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Kyorochan Land and Delayed Effects Product Placement
I bought Kyorochan Land the other day. Its the first Famicom game I have scratched off my want list in over three years and I'm quite happy with it.I have been aware of this game for years because it...
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The Awkward Relationship Between the Famicom and NES Collecting Worlds
I was doing a Famicom related Google image search the other day when I spotted the above picture at the top of the results. I recognized it from this post I did 6 years ago about some of the better...
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The Last Famicom Game: Adventure Island 4
This week I scratched another game off my Famicom want list - Takahashi Meijin's Adventure Island 4! It was released 24 years ago this month (June 24, 1994) which gives it a distinguished place in...
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Oh No! Japanese Retro Video Game Bars and Cafes are Getting Shut Down by the...
A few years ago I wrote about what I thought was one of the coolest things in Japan: Famicom bars. Basically these are bars or cafes which cater to retro gamers. For an hourly fee they allow...
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