hello everyone thanks for coming today we're going to talk about used game
stores in Japan obviously the most famous place to go and buy used games is
in Akihabara sometimes though the prices can be a little high and there's a lot
of crowds and a lot of competition to fight for the game that you're looking
for so I've decided to go to a shop north of Akihabara in a place that is
not a touristy area at all let's take a look at this shop the name of this shop
is called zest they have games and a whole lot of other things too it's
located in Saitama city in kita-ku we couldn't take our cameras in completely
because of this room we were allowed to record but we could not have anyone's
face on camera and of course I couldn't do a stand up there so we're going to
have to do it FPS style okay first up let's take a look at modern games that's
ps4 xbox one and Wii U let's take a look at the selection we've got there first
we're looking at ps4 okay you can see uncharted last of us god eater there's a
lot of new games there of course ps4 is only about two years old the price
sélectionner you can see most of them are between four and five thousand yen
there's farming simulator 15
take a look at xbox one not much selection just grand theft auto 5 and
star wars battlefront was anything I found interesting Wii U it's a little
bit better get a good deal on Mario maker but again not not that many games
out as it is let's take a look at the handheld's 3ds and vita take a look at
PS vita first there's an amazing selection almost every game that you
could find and a lot are exclusive to Japan only a lot of hundred plus hours
of RPG games or idle games it's a great selection here's a look at the DS stuff
of course you know some of the famous ones like Mario Kirby and Zelda they're
all there I saw blue dragon for DES also hiding out there ok let's go to semi
modern games ps3 xbox 360 and wii some of these are discontinued some are not
so let's see what we have here the xbox 360 selection I think it's pretty good
there's a lot of Japan only titles there there's some western games to there you
can see alone in the dark there's halo over there so you've got a pretty good
next Call of Duty going to we of course you've got the basically just the
Nintendo only titles there were a lot of wii games but they just weren't that
many in this shop
sonic games to take a look at ps3 a very large selection of course because ps3 is
still active don't want to take too much time talking about the newer stuff we're
going to get into the older stuff here's some semi retro so i could say ps2
dreamcast n64 ps1 game cube as well let's take a look at what they have this
is the giant ps2 wall you can see some games sticking out there like Xenosaga
freaks berwick saga clock tower 3 honestly there's over a thousand names
here this is the ps1 selection of course it's a lot older so there's not as many
games circulating out there anymore but one thing I found interesting here's a
dragon quest 7 but when I look very closely I realized it's the US version
that's why it's 2,000 yen gamecube you know just like the wii and the wii u a
lot of nintendo only games but you can see some pretty good deals there there
in the thousand to two thousand yen range and 64 there's no end labels but
we do see golden eye for 3,000 yen and there is Ocarina of Time in the box
complete for only a thousand yen that's a pretty good deal okay moving on to
dreamcast the selection is not so great there weren't as many dreamcast games as
other systems but you can see a few good titles including shimu a 2 and
underneath that is the sega saturn selection there's a couple games there
as well and again there's a look at same way to probably the best deal i could
find in this I want to point out soul calibur cuz
it's only 200 yen I paid a lot more for that when it was released okay next
we're going to talk about the retro and vintage games Famicom Super Famicom game
boy pc engine what's retro and what's vintage i'll let you decide so here's a
pc engine best deal is obviously East 34 only four hundred yen it's very
different compared to the US version right you see some other games like Far
East of Eden they're always in the used game shop val is for 2,000 yen a pretty
good deal I found two pc f x games that's pretty cool all right looking at
the super famicom selection the carts that are open out in the open not that
great of a selection but some of them that are sealed up in boxes like FC Gann
gene super FCA engine super mario karts Yoshi's Island you find some deals there
there's all your Game Boy Advance games you can see the prices are pretty low
for some of them here's the original game boy with some game boy color of
course you've got all the pokemon games there think you see Donkey Kong land
underneath it not bad if you're looking for the original cards right and look we
found a sealed Game Boy Tetris for 500 yen definitely worth picking up
500 gained a pretty good deal there's all kinds of loose carts under here as
you can see but there's one thing I found and there it is it's a gameboy
Tetris for 500 yen with no box next to the game blue Tetris with a box for 500
yen I don't know what they were thinking but they're the same price I'd go for
the box okay Famicom time bother eighteen hundred yen not bad that's an
idle game I've never played that one before this one is poww there's Mike
Tyson's punch-out it looks like someone painted on the cartridge I think that
one's pretty rare in Japan and lastly that is Jekyll and Hyde for Famicom some
good deals here we found rockman for for 800 yen there's FCG engine 8-bit version
Tiny Toons for 600 pretty good game that is popeyes English lesson 500 yen and
look what we found here this is Stadium events for only twelve hundred yen again
very big discrepancy between us and Japanese prices here's donkey kong and
there's something i noticed here take a look at this every sticker has the
release date the system of course and the original price when it was released
every game in this shop has the sticker and I just think it's quite fascinating
how didn't even know what the release dates and prices were for some of these
things okay there's a big glass case in the middle of the store and it's where
you've got some really rare stuff obviously they lock it up I see one Xbox
game you know I see a mega drive to there were no mega drive carts on the
wall but there were a few in the K we can see neogeo games summer two
thousand yen in summer twenty-five thousand yen so I can't understand that
some Saturn and PlayStation here super famicom again super FC Gann gene we've
got turtles in time almost 20,000 yen and super back to the future as well
there's Famicom bubble bobble two for twelve thousand yen and a few others
there's a neo geo system is it a ps1 mini couple AV famicom nine thousand yen
that's a better deal than in Akihabara for sure I see those for fifteen sixteen
thousand yen usually so you might want to pick it up mother 3 for Game Boy
Advance there's the Megadrive stuff again ok we took a look at the rare
stuff in the protective glass case now let's take a look at the stuff in the
cutout being
and we can see there's a game gear game there's derby stallion which has some
kind of data pack or maybe that's a Game Boy Advance game that goes in there or a
game boy game not sure I hear some generic Famicom cards here's a gameboy
player for only 25 hundred yen and a virtual boy game Bomberman for four
hundred yen in the box I don't know what to say I think it's a great deal
definitely pick it up here's some hardware Super Famicom box 5,000 yen n64
3,000 yen pretty cheap there's a ps1 I'm not exactly sure what year that's from
they had a few different revisions but it is the full sized one there's a Sega
Saturn 5,000 yen as well and a dreamcast next to that for 3,000 yen definitely if
you were away from the tourist area it's a great place to pick up hardware
there's a Famicom for 4000 a couple PS ones without the box there's a couple
superfamily cons down there dreamcast as well here's some guidebooks a lot of
guidebooks for a lot of different games especially RPG this I thought was
interesting a gamecube for 2,000 yen but it says 2,000 yen off that makes it free
no it's just 2,000 yen that's what they told me ok there's a lot of non gaming
stuff too let's take a look at that first on the wall going all the way
across the store it's just pictures of idols singing I animals and you can buy
their pictures summer 100 yen summer 500 yen here's a couple action figures from
final fantasy I eight and ten and a couple Gundam
figures that you can build as well more than half the stores figures as well as
games and there's cars to model trains there's a racetrack that you can test
them out on at this time though nobody was using it and look guns they're
actually air guns but they do look pretty scary and ninja swords these were
quite expensive and they were locked up in a case and you have to be 18 and sign
a waiver before you can pick one up there's a couple UFO crane prize
machines as well which had some pretty cool stuff and all around it's just a
great store to go to I was the only person in here for a while I spent two
to three hours just going around looking at stuff and the selection was amazing
if you want new games middle-aged games old games if you're looking for DVDs
soundtracks if you're looking for figures all kinds of stuff is here so if
you come to Japan course go to Akihabara but I recommend taking one day going off
the beaten path maybe come out the Saitama and look at zest thanks a lot
and see you next time