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The Most Expensive Famicom Games at Super Potato
I made a trek out to Super Potato in Nagoya the other day. I love Super Potato even though I don't buy a lot there, its just such a beautiful shop to stroll around in and gawk at the amazing stuff...
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Famicom Menko are so Cool!
Menko are cool. They are cards made on thick cardboard and designed to be thrown at the ground. You win the game if you can use one menko card to flip over another one. They were extremely popular...
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Cleaning Poo the Famicom Way
As the father of a baby I often find myself looking for stuff to clean up baby mess when I go shopping. As a Famicom fan I often find myself looking for Famicom stuff when I go shopping. Never...
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Went back to Fukuoka, Did some Game Shopping
I was back in Fukuoka for a few days for some work related stuff a couple weeks ago. I love that city so much, I can't believe its been 6 years since I left. They added a Godzilla to Canal City since...
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Sony PS2s can no longer be repaired by Sony: Meanwhile millions of Famicoms...
I just read that Sony has announced it will no longer repair PlayStation 2 consoles .That is the end of another era, I can't believe the PS2 is nearing its 20th anniversary. Its actually older now...
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My Blog and Donald Trump Have a Bizarre Thing in Common
I was super excited today to realize that my blog and Donald Trump have a really weird thing in common: they have both been at the top of Google image searches for the word "Idiot".This made headline...
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The Year You Stopped Being a Kid
Image Source: https://brickset.com/sets/6893-1/Orion-II-Hyperspace Happy New Year.We had a great Christmas holiday at my house. It was a Lego themed one for my son, who is now massively into all...
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Gratuitous Sales Post
I'm trying to clear some space for my 1 year old daughter to have a bedroom. The room she will use is currently full of Famicom extras. So if you want to help, head over to my sales thread on Famicom...
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Fake Famicom Games? The Curious Case of Gradius Archimendes.
One of the more popular holy grails out there for Famicom collectors is the Archimendes version of Gradius. It was released in 1985 as part of a promotion by Otsuka Corporation which sold a cup ramen...
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Horrible Things are Happening in Nagoya's Osu
I made a pilgrimage out to the Osu neighborhood in Nagoya, which I've highlighted on this blog before. It is Nagoya's version of Akihabara in Tokyo or Den Den Town in Osaka - full of electronics,...
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Famicomblog 10th Anniversary
Holy crap, I just realized that last week was the 10th anniversary of my first ever post on here! Time flies when you get old!I haven't really been keeping up with the blog so much lately. By which I...
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Putting the Family in Family Computer
Hope you all are doing OK out there. I’m doing fine.We are under a kind of light lockdown here in Japan now. No school and I’m mostly working at home, and glad to still be working!On a lighter note,...
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Lego Mario and Ice Climber
I was playing Lego with my kids on a rainy day over the weekend when I decided to try out an idea I had been toying with for a while: making Super Mario Brothers characters out of Lego blocks.I wasn't...
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Super Mario Kart Race: Suburban Japan Edition
My kids are really getting into Mario stuff since I introduced them to the Famicom a couple weeks ago. The characters have gone from zero to the top of their "childhood fascination" list at break...
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Extremely Valuable Used Ice Cream Wrappers and a 1986 Famicom Contest I Never...
There was a very interesting thing that sold the other day on Yahoo Auctions: Super Mario Brothers Ice Cream Bar Wrappers. Without the ice cream.According to the listing these were originally sold in...
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The Famicom Rides Again
These are some happy Famicom games inside a happy Famicom. They have an interesting story which began back in the 80s. A mom and dad bought them for children who had seen them on the shelf in the...
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Top Riders!
I recently decided to do something I'd been waiting six years to do: break out my Top Rider inflatable motorcycle controller!Back in 2014 I remember buying a big lot of miscellaneous Famicom stuff off...
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Revelations: Famicom's Sexiest Game Probably isn't Very Sexy
I was browsing Yahoo Auctions earlier when I stumbled across an auction for a CIB Famicom Disk System game called Sexy Invaders which I had never heard of. Actually it seems most of the world has...
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Famicom Jigsaw Puzzles are Awesome
I picked up these on Yahoo Auctions recently: four Famicom jigsaw puzzles!I already had a couple of Famicom game jigsaw puzzles featuring Star Force and Yie Ar Kung Fu which I picked up a few years...
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The End is Near: Planning for our first, and last, Retro Game Christmas
As I've documented in a few posts this year, 2020 has been the year of the Famicom in my house. I gave my AV Famicom to my son back in April and we've played it together almost every day since....
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