For me personally I embraced digital many years ago and would just rather have a load of emulators and roms but I don''t have a huge amount of physical space to hoard old games that'll I'll probably never play and just sit on a shelf gathering dust
The thing about Japan is that they treat the old school nostalgic stuff and games and maintain them so well. Very attention to detail . They will never neglect the past besides the present day treating them with respect and care.
These videos of Japan always make me sad because I know that here in the USA, our public areas will never be so neat and clean. Japan is so stunningly beautiful.
@@vitorted yeah... that'll help in the US. The place where you'll find mile long stretches of junkies shooting up heroin and fentanyl in every major city. The place where "mostly peaceful protests" are accompanied by people burning, rioting and looting everything in sight. The place where kids are being coaxed into mutilating their reproductive system because the political climate tells you being "cis" is "problematic". The place where people are either killing themselves or others because they buckle under the pressure of crippling financial dept. I'm sure a $100,- fine will do the trick, yeah...
@@vitorted Funny thing is that's pretty much the law everywhere already, they just don't bother to enforce it. Only time I see anyone fined for littering is if they're dumping a large amount of stuff somewhere.
My favorite shop in Akihabara. Bought my son a plastic Super Mario bowl there that he still eats cereal out of. If you're into video game culture (particularly retro), it's worth the trip. Akihabara is worth the trip in general.
I’ve been reminiscing the past lately and feeling nostalgic for GameBoy, DS, 3DS and PS Vita stuff so this warms my heart seeing all my childhood games in one place! ❤
@ianswift3521 no you don't know what nostalgia is,Taylor swift fan,the word nostalgia doesn't mean from childhood it means something from the past that makes the person happy(it can even be something from a second ago since that's the past & if it makes the person happy then it's nostalgic,learn words before commenting,your stereotypical troll brain is as rotten as other trolls therefore you know nothing)these are facts.
wow. this store is incredible. and the condition of everything is unbelievable. hardcover guidebooks in plastic that look never opened. so many games in their original cases, even NES boxes looking like new. incredible. So many game & watches!! so comparatively rare here. Awesome stairwells! That MULTI-Layer STACK of famicoms wow!! How is there so much of this stuff still out there?? Japanese culture must not throw out stuff a lot.
Totally awesome to get a tour of the city. It's interesting to me that down these unassuming alleyways they lead to all these cool little shops. Nice video 😎
Stacks and stacks of impeccable looking retro consoles, cartridges and cd's... incredible. And those prices are great too. Where I live any of those things cost around 3 times as much and they're always in horrible condition.
I miss Japan so much. I was there in November in 2019 right before the pandemic happened. I got engaged in Sumida to my wife and my family was with me when we did. We also hung out from the 2-11 of that November. I remember landing in Narita and taking the train to Oshiage station. I miss the conbinis, public transport, the food, the atmosphere, EVERYTHING! 😂
Excelente video,te felicito,se ve que en tu país Japón,hay una tienda que tiene,artas consolas retro y juegos retro para elegir,osea en conclusión esta tienda tiene de todo un poco en consolas y videojuegos para todos los gustos,adiós y saludos desde Chile🇨🇱.
The hardware is incredibly cool. I saw stuff like the 3DO and several NEC PC FX machines. They even had what looked like a PC-FX GA which was this add on card for Japanese personal computers you could fit to play the PC FX games on your computer. I love the idea of waking up and feeling like you want to go and buy a mint SNES to play and you can walk in here and just pick one up like it's 1992
So much cool stuff! A quick Google search will show that the prices aren't bad either. Wish we had something like that in my town. I saw a few original Playstation consoles for basically $25-$30.
Right when you turned to go back downstairs from the arcade area there was this really cool Zelda Oracle of Seasons/Ages posters... I would love to have those. (And a million other things of course)
I went there in 2019 and prices weren't great. But that was the busiest time in tourism ever for Japan. In this video they were still closed, so they couldn't get those tourist dollars, leading to better prices. I head back in October, I'll check this place out again, and see if its worth buying anything. The non-retro shops in Akiba have great prices though. I got a few then-new PS4 games for cheaper than expected. Like games that were $40 on PSN digital, for 2000Y.
nice video , i love the walk from street into the super potato , good sightseeing. its crazy how many rar/good video games the potato have. greetings from germany
I visited Tokyo and Akihabara about ten years ago but never found the Super Potato store and that made me kind of sad. But found so many other gaming stores so was after all pretty happy about the trip! I also visited Tokyo Disney Land Water Land (or what it's called) the New Years Day and had a blast there to!
Ooooh wooooow i wanna go there toooooo. But in all honesty I like the european classic arcades way more. Especially those in UK were awesome. Not so cramped, loud and disco like at the entrance areas usually and the lighting and design was so cool and colorful and darker. Which was more atmospheric. These white super lighty places in Japan also look sterile and more like a museum than places to have fun at
I am so amazed about the superb and marvelous condition these games looked. And the prices seem to be like nothing. Compared this to eBay prices here in Europe or how games look like in a store like GameStop here in Germany there are worlds lying between them. Honestly, if I would go shopping in that store with 50 bucks, I would come out with bags full of stuff. Sadly I can't read or speak Japanese so I have no chance to see if they ship to EU countries.
A lot more people game in japan than anywhere else in the world i think, and thats probably why stuff is a lot cheaper too. Germany is also ridiculously cheap.
It also likely has something to do with the fact that they're a store dedicated to retro games and are running on passion, whereas a store like gamestop could be said to be more of a "nerd pop culture" store with a heavier focus on the newer stuff that's running for profit. The guy above is also probably right about how there is likely just more of a sheer abundance of retro games, and the Japanese people were probably more willing to sell them off, rather than keep them and treat the games like an investment like them like what's happening in the west.
Früher gab es bei uns in Deutschland auch solche Läden. Preise waren natürlich höher aber das ging ja auch je nach Zustand. In meiner Stadt hieß der Laden "Willi's Spielewelt" Wurde dann aber durch EB Games was später Gamestop wurde verdrängt.
I can’t believe I walked by this place and didn’t know it was there. I was just a block over on the main strip. I know where I’m going next time I’m in Tokyo! Thx for this. ❤
Jesus seeing Final Fantasy ps1 games for less than 1000 yen is crazy. If I ever visit Japan Super Potato is definitely on my bucket list of places to go. I just hope I can get by with my English 😅
I love this! Too bad America thinks arcade machines are for toddlers and they have only prize machines for ticket exchanges! This is a REAL Arcade! The kind I remember as a kid! =)
There is one in Osaka, and it is amazing. I did not know that it was a franchise I went to Akiba but did not have the time to look around as much as I would have liked. Next time for sure.
I live in Australia the state up the top called NT in Darwin I’ve always had a fascination with Tokyo surely will eventually make a visit to come over it’s my dream but still have a long way to go but will get over there eventually it looks amazing.
I was here may of this year..i already miss this!!! going on the subways to travel aroudn..using my limited japanese to try to understand the cashiers at the konbini ( I said yeah insteand of "hai" and yeah kinda sounds like no in japanese, I didn't correct and lived with my mistake lolol) . The feeling of safety ( unless you are at shinjuku) at night, the cleanliness and all the games i got..i also miss the food..I just wanna go back!! I did stop by all the traders as well as Super Potato and was not disappointed
I returned from my first trip in Japan this week and I’m watching videos from places I visited. It’s 100% the same experience, even myself saying yeah rather than hai
@@Matias-zh3dp You are not the first one to tell me that. I am in the US though who's used to seeing exorbitant prices and low stock for retro games. Super Potato may be overpriced, but I'd pay those prices for games over the ebay prices I see.
@@physalis17 I mean, as a last resort yes. I meant "overpriced" for the akihabara retro market, you should only buy at super potato if you cant find that product in any other store.
Relative to US Prices for the same stuff, nothing at Super Potato is overpriced lol. I had to do a double-take and make sure the prices weren't per x100 or x1000 yen @@Matias-zh3dp
What's a copy of Dragonquest 4 for NES / Famicom run? Here in the states it's several hundred dollars. Or Snow Bros again for NES - what does it cost? RC Pro-AM 2? Star Tropics 2? @@Matias-zh3dp
I can't believe how affordable their inventory is by comparison of the used market in the U.S. I just bought a PS1 original for $75. Meanwhile they have used PS1's starting at 3828 yen (~$27)
It's always good to see retro gaming still living on....
It lives online as well as through homebrew games, man.
@@paxhumana2015 that is not what he thought
One day Cyberpunk 2077 will be considered retro.
If you want retro Japan is the place. 70% of music sales are still CDs. It's both good and bad.
For me personally I embraced digital many years ago and would just rather have a load of emulators and roms but I don''t have a huge amount of physical space to hoard old games that'll I'll probably never play and just sit on a shelf gathering dust
The thing about Japan is that they treat the old school nostalgic stuff and games and maintain them so well. Very attention to detail . They will never neglect the past besides the present day treating them with respect and care.
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That's what 2 nuclear warheads do to you
子供の時、毎日日本から来たゲームをしていたけど大人になったから全然ゲームをしない。毎回、秋葉原にいる時、ちょっと子供の感じがある。マジで良い感じ。次回、秋葉原のブログを作りたい。日本の田舎も楽しみたい。ビデオありがとう！
These videos of Japan always make me sad because I know that here in the USA, our public areas will never be so neat and clean. Japan is so stunningly beautiful.
I'm sad because here in the USA MOST of these games cost at least 10X as much or more!
@@tatecheddar same in germany.
Easy fix
100$ fine every time you through your crap on the floor
@@vitorted yeah... that'll help in the US. The place where you'll find mile long stretches of junkies shooting up heroin and fentanyl in every major city. The place where "mostly peaceful protests" are accompanied by people burning, rioting and looting everything in sight. The place where kids are being coaxed into mutilating their reproductive system because the political climate tells you being "cis" is "problematic". The place where people are either killing themselves or others because they buckle under the pressure of crippling financial dept.
I'm sure a $100,- fine will do the trick, yeah...
@@vitorted Funny thing is that's pretty much the law everywhere already, they just don't bother to enforce it. Only time I see anyone fined for littering is if they're dumping a large amount of stuff somewhere.
Super Potato is legendary. I would love to go one day.
My favorite shop in Akihabara. Bought my son a plastic Super Mario bowl there that he still eats cereal out of. If you're into video game culture (particularly retro), it's worth the trip. Akihabara is worth the trip in general.
I’ve been reminiscing the past lately and feeling nostalgic for GameBoy, DS, 3DS and PS Vita stuff so this warms my heart seeing all my childhood games in one place! ❤
same...sad nostalgic feeling.
lol how can someone be nostalgic for something from 8 years ago. Boo, y'all don't even know what nostalgia is.
@@ianswift3521 A LOT can change in just one year my dood
@ianswift3521 no you don't know what nostalgia is,Taylor swift fan,the word nostalgia doesn't mean from childhood it means something from the past that makes the person happy(it can even be something from a second ago since that's the past & if it makes the person happy then it's nostalgic,learn words before commenting,your stereotypical troll brain is as rotten as other trolls therefore you know nothing)these are facts.
It's like a time capsule from the better days. I really love retro gaming and Japan ❤
毎日、秋葉原に行ってます。秋葉原は最高な街です。
It's insane how much effort is put into these shops.
And money tied up in inventory must be through the roof!!!
@@SnuggleBugAcademy Games are much cheaper in japan, but still
I’ve bought and imported a few Gameboy games from Super Potato! I’d not realised it was an actual shop. I’d love to visit Japan one day ❤
wow. this store is incredible. and the condition of everything is unbelievable. hardcover guidebooks in plastic that look never opened. so many games in their original cases, even NES boxes looking like new. incredible. So many game & watches!! so comparatively rare here. Awesome stairwells! That MULTI-Layer STACK of famicoms wow!! How is there so much of this stuff still out there?? Japanese culture must not throw out stuff a lot.
Totally awesome to get a tour of the city. It's interesting to me that down these unassuming alleyways they lead to all these cool little shops. Nice video 😎
Cyberpunk 2022
22:48 those Famicom cartridges look so beautiful
This video was super nostalgic for me. Being next to Japan, Korean arcade spots were always updated with the latest Japanese arcade machines.
that side eye @9:40
Japan knows how to make great video games
for me megaman is the best in retrogame but pc game is the best game of all time especially Age of Empires 2
everything is so bright and welcoming here... and CLEAN!
Stacks and stacks of impeccable looking retro consoles, cartridges and cd's... incredible. And those prices are great too.
Where I live any of those things cost around 3 times as much and they're always in horrible condition.
I miss Tokyo a lot, it feels like ages since the last time I visited there because of the pandemic.
yay another tourist weeb that fetishizes a whole nation...
日本の誇りを世界に届けてくれてありがとうございます！❤
for me megaman is the best in retrogame but pc game is the best game of all time especially Age of Empires 2
8:00 that side eye LOL
I love this kind of video because I can't walk so I feel free again. I can go anywhere in the world!
Gotta love it that they are showing episodes of Game Center Cx! Awesome tour of this legendary game store! ARINO KACHO- ONNNNN!
Legendary Game Center Cx!!! You are welcome my friend 😃
this is also something i've always liked in japan, they always have an old game store
The entire world have old games store,I live in a country in the middle of nowhere & there's tons of old games stores,these are facts.
@drizztdourden666 no they are not.
So clean, love it❤
I miss Japan so much. I was there in November in 2019 right before the pandemic happened. I got engaged in Sumida to my wife and my family was with me when we did. We also hung out from the 2-11 of that November. I remember landing in Narita and taking the train to Oshiage station. I miss the conbinis, public transport, the food, the atmosphere, EVERYTHING! 😂
I was there at the same time and its amazing the impact it had on me
I was there at the same month too. Stayed in Asakusa. Went to Shibuya, Ueno, Fuji, Kawaguchi-ko and Gotemba.
I remember my time there as well.
I ate so much cotton candy I got pink eye
@@customsongmaker doubt it but good rib lol
I saw you on the train!
Very nice to see that Melty Blood is still living on.
Yes I love it too!
Excelente video,te felicito,se ve que en tu país Japón,hay una tienda que tiene,artas consolas retro y juegos retro para elegir,osea en conclusión esta tienda tiene de todo un poco en consolas y videojuegos para todos los gustos,adiós y saludos desde Chile🇨🇱.
Loved it! Very cool tour, thank you.
The hardware is incredibly cool. I saw stuff like the 3DO and several NEC PC FX machines. They even had what looked like a PC-FX GA which was this add on card for Japanese personal computers you could fit to play the PC FX games on your computer. I love the idea of waking up and feeling like you want to go and buy a mint SNES to play and you can walk in here and just pick one up like it's 1992
KHFODMLUF HJ
So much cool stuff! A quick Google search will show that the prices aren't bad either. Wish we had something like that in my town. I saw a few original Playstation consoles for basically $25-$30.
$30 for a ps1? that is a steal
@@hypnos9336 FGAO
You see them a decent lot on flea markets and stuff. I don't buy them at 30. Has to be 15 or less for me.@@hypnos9336
Dude I love how there are all the little nooks and small shops, mini arcades. Just people enjoying their time.
Oh my god, is my childhood😮
Long Live Japan!
wow amazing prices!! awesome!
スーパーポテト！自分はレトロゲー好きなので彼女とアキバデートにいつも寄ってましたｗｗ
Right when you turned to go back downstairs from the arcade area there was this really cool Zelda Oracle of Seasons/Ages posters... I would love to have those. (And a million other things of course)
Wow awesome shop!! That Star Fox statue is so good!
I have 45 years old , its awesome, i feel like a child in 80s and 90s.
King of cyberpunk still .
沖縄にもアーケードゲームあったらいいな！😊
I went there in 2019 and prices weren't great. But that was the busiest time in tourism ever for Japan. In this video they were still closed, so they couldn't get those tourist dollars, leading to better prices. I head back in October, I'll check this place out again, and see if its worth buying anything.
The non-retro shops in Akiba have great prices though. I got a few then-new PS4 games for cheaper than expected. Like games that were $40 on PSN digital, for 2000Y.
YOU WINS
The best game shop I've ever seen.
nice video , i love the walk from street into the super potato , good sightseeing. its crazy how many rar/good video games the potato have. greetings from germany
I visited Tokyo and Akihabara about ten years ago but never found the Super Potato store and that made me kind of sad. But found so many other gaming stores so was after all pretty happy about the trip! I also visited Tokyo Disney Land Water Land (or what it's called) the New Years Day and had a blast there to!
Awesome video !
paradise in earth
Ooooh wooooow i wanna go there toooooo.
But in all honesty I like the european classic arcades way more. Especially those in UK were awesome. Not so cramped, loud and disco like at the entrance areas usually and the lighting and design was so cool and colorful and darker. Which was more atmospheric. These white super lighty places in Japan also look sterile and more like a museum than places to have fun at
they don't want waitu piggus like us there. gaijin not welcome.
@@ianswift3521
Okay weirdo annoy someone else with your xenophobic crap
could have fooled me with the way the natives hit on me@@ianswift3521
they don't want fat and ugly people in the Japanese shops anyways I'm talking about you
My favorite place to go to lookin forward of going. Peace and love japan
oh my. Thats on my "i need to see that when I am in japan"- list =) - Looks like a refurbished-retro store.
Watching this while eating my Ramen in Europe. Best regards.
I am so amazed about the superb and marvelous condition these games looked. And the prices seem to be like nothing. Compared this to eBay prices here in Europe or how games look like in a store like GameStop here in Germany there are worlds lying between them.
Honestly, if I would go shopping in that store with 50 bucks, I would come out with bags full of stuff. Sadly I can't read or speak Japanese so I have no chance to see if they ship to EU countries.
A lot more people game in japan than anywhere else in the world i think, and thats probably why stuff is a lot cheaper too. Germany is also ridiculously cheap.
It also likely has something to do with the fact that they're a store dedicated to retro games and are running on passion, whereas a store like gamestop could be said to be more of a "nerd pop culture" store with a heavier focus on the newer stuff that's running for profit.
The guy above is also probably right about how there is likely just more of a sheer abundance of retro games, and the Japanese people were probably more willing to sell them off, rather than keep them and treat the games like an investment like them like what's happening in the west.
Früher gab es bei uns in Deutschland auch solche Läden. Preise waren natürlich höher aber das ging ja auch je nach Zustand.
In meiner Stadt hieß der Laden "Willi's Spielewelt"
Wurde dann aber durch EB Games was später Gamestop wurde verdrängt.
@D3sdinova that's not true,the biggest gaming population is in China,these are facts.
the majority of the video games shown are only japanese, so the relatively low prices are unfortunately of no use to you 😉
WAUUU 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
wow! in those stores were some very rare consoles one of them being a competition towards the Atari 2600.
6:05 a piece of art by CAVE in a beautiful candy cab… What I’d do to own one of those PCBs… that’s a piece of gaming treasure right there
I can’t believe I walked by this place and didn’t know it was there. I was just a block over on the main strip. I know where I’m going next time I’m in Tokyo! Thx for this. ❤
Retro gaming becomes bigger and bigger and i like that!!
Jesus seeing Final Fantasy ps1 games for less than 1000 yen is crazy. If I ever visit Japan Super Potato is definitely on my bucket list of places to go. I just hope I can get by with my English 😅
ambience sounds put me instant sleep
Wow, lots of rare hardware. I'll be daydreaming about some of those PC Engine variants. I think I saw an LT tucked away in there someplace
Will definitely go there in September, when I will visit Tokyo :)
Merci pour cette video !!!
Awesome ! Thanks for this video ! 👍
You are welcome my friend, I’m glad you liked it!
Thank you for sharing, I hope to visit Super Potato sometime
The amount of merchandising is mind boggling.
Pretty cool location and thanks so much for showing us! I wonder why all prices end with an 8.
Thankyou so much for this video. I have always dreamed of seeing the place, and feel I have seen it in some capacity. Really appreciate your efforts.
It's pure magic!
Missing these places in Japan... Nice video!
I love this! Too bad America thinks arcade machines are for toddlers and they have only prize machines for ticket exchanges! This is a REAL Arcade! The kind I remember as a kid! =)
As soon as I heard the Mario Bros. 2 ending music I knew this was going to be legit.
I wish we had this culture in my country
🇸🇪😄
Whoa! Were those PS1 games about $2 USD each? That’s crazyyy
i did go once years ago and thought probably would love working at a old school arcade
These prices are exceptionally tame compared to the US Used game market. It's how much classic games used to cost here. Made collecting fun.
I wish I knew this before I was in Japan nearly 3 years ago
You have a good reason to come back now! 😃😃
@@sugoiijapan damn right I so wanna go back I think about Japan all the time 😎
I’d be glued to that DoDonPachi cabinet 😂
10:55 the xbox dead or alive got me drooling
There is one in Osaka, and it is amazing. I did not know that it was a franchise I went to Akiba but did not have the time to look around as much as I would have liked. Next time for sure.
All those CRT monitors... working perfectly.
Thanks for sharing!
You are welcome my friend! 😃😃
Feels like a Virtual Reality version of one of the Yakuza games. It's like I'm Kiryu in premium adventure exploring the city in real life. 😅😅
I live in Australia the state up the top called NT in Darwin I’ve always had a fascination with Tokyo surely will eventually make a visit to come over it’s my dream but still have a long way to go but will get over there eventually it looks amazing.
Don't get eaten by a croc before you can make it there 😉
I was here may of this year..i already miss this!!! going on the subways to travel aroudn..using my limited japanese to try to understand the cashiers at the konbini ( I said yeah insteand of "hai" and yeah kinda sounds like no in japanese, I didn't correct and lived with my mistake lolol) . The feeling of safety ( unless you are at shinjuku) at night, the cleanliness and all the games i got..i also miss the food..I just wanna go back!! I did stop by all the traders as well as Super Potato and was not disappointed
I returned from my first trip in Japan this week and I’m watching videos from places I visited. It’s 100% the same experience, even myself saying yeah rather than hai
Retro Game / Hardware 爱好者的天堂！
for me megaman is the best in retrogame but pc game is the best game of all time especially Age of Empires 2
6:45 I can hear the snake eater trumpet playing 🎺🐍
I was honestly shocked to see the Jaguar and 3DO of all things in that shop. Amazing video ^^
Edit: Saw all the prices and they are insanely cheap!
Have you ever been to a regular retro shop in Akihabara? Everything at super potato is overpriced...
@@Matias-zh3dp You are not the first one to tell me that. I am in the US though who's used to seeing exorbitant prices and low stock for retro games. Super Potato may be overpriced, but I'd pay those prices for games over the ebay prices I see.
@@physalis17 I mean, as a last resort yes. I meant "overpriced" for the akihabara retro market, you should only buy at super potato if you cant find that product in any other store.
Relative to US Prices for the same stuff, nothing at Super Potato is overpriced lol. I had to do a double-take and make sure the prices weren't per x100 or x1000 yen
@@Matias-zh3dp
What's a copy of Dragonquest 4 for NES / Famicom run? Here in the states it's several hundred dollars.
Or Snow Bros again for NES - what does it cost?
RC Pro-AM 2?
Star Tropics 2?
@@Matias-zh3dp
Best arcade on earth in the best city on earth.
Dude, that snake omg i need a photo with him 🐍
This place is paradise
I can't believe how affordable their inventory is by comparison of the used market in the U.S. I just bought a PS1 original for $75. Meanwhile they have used PS1's starting at 3828 yen (~$27)
And this store because is so well known is kinda pricy compared to other ones.
Love Solid Snake's "gun" 😅
amazing, excellent video, can you tell me what camera you use?
Αmazing wish we had something similar in our Country in Greece
look like heaven.
I been in that store it was awesome if I had more luggage space I would have took loads more back
Love super potato. I still have my shirt
So much product. And where they place it and how it’s organized intrigues me.
Not only do people have swag but they also big gamers.