I Went to Japan's BIGGEST Retro Game Store
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- Опубліковано 25 вер 2023
- I rented a car and drove across Japan to dig through the junk bins of Hard Off, the biggest secondhand store chain in the country. Here's what I found!
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what I learned from my years of travelling to Japan for work and second hand shopping is that if you see something you like , grab it! it will most likely not be there again when you go back for it
This. I went to a Trader store and saw a PS Vita that I really wanted. Went upstairs for 20 minutes to look around. When I came back downstairs the Vita was gone
I saw a original Nintendo DS for 2200 yen (at least 14 dollars) in the junk section at my local Hard-off store, should I have gotten it? :[
@@XDLR nah, NDS are pretty easy to find and super cheap
@@rittis013 Thank you for the response! :D
@@XDLR No problem. However I should mention that even if nds is everywhere but it is indeed challenging to find an overall good healthy one, so if you do find good one then grab it.
Really enjoying the last few videos like this, it's cool seeing other sides of your adventures! Always appreciate the Pokémon content to go with everything.
Never heard of these when I was in Japan, but it looks like gamer heaven. Awesome vid!! 🥳
They also have a few Book-Offs here in the States, in California, Hawaii and New York.
research, research, research...
Wow,i'm speechless.Gamer heaven.
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Didn't expect to see you here.
Nick, it’s great to see you back with a renewed sense of passion! I will be here to consume each and every one of your videos. You are a great story teller and put together great videos! Kudos to you sir.
I was completely immersed through the entirety of this video Nick! You're an extremely talented UA-camr, and somehow make every one of your video's fun and entertaining to watch.
This video is amazing! I really enjoy researching all the different hard-offs, and I’m glad you enjoy it too!!
Crystal for $9 💀💀💀 I'm lucky if I can get it for $120 in "good conditions"
And for most American eBay sellers "good condition" means "scratched to hell but still works" lol
@@almond3066😂😂😂😂
Japanese version are much cheaper than European / American. :D
Japanese version=not english
This video is pure gold content for me! I'm not really into Pokemon Go anymore, so the fact that I still get to enjoy Nick's talent and entertainment in his videography makes me really happy. On top of all that, my favorite content in general right now is about learning the Japanese language, culture, and just generally what it's like to be in Japan... So I'll say it again, this video was pure gold!
pokemon go has had a huge decline folding the covid era everything has its end eventually
Thanks for showing off those shops in such detail. Other bloggers just show off the store and move on and I REALLY wanted to see how it actually looks!
I'm loving these videos so much. Please keep making videos like these.
Have absolutely LOVED these last three vids from you!
These recent videos I really enjoyed watching. It must be fun finding retro games and consoles. That’s dope getting them cheap
Can I just say that your editing for this is spectacular! As a (fairly newer) editor myself, I love your pacing and storytelling. Seriously great stuff, I'm inspired!
Great travel/gaming genre crossover vlog. Nice work!
I could watch videos like this the whole day, thanks nick for that little peek into this japan journey!
This channel is awesome! I Kinda fell off watching Pokemon GO content, but missed your content in general!
Thanks for showing a bit of the camera section too! As a collector of vintage lenses it was interesting to see the prices in Japan.
I'm visiting this channels videos from time to time, i'd love to see more! Hope u doing well Nicholas!
Thinks GBA's are too expensive in the US fly's to Japan and travels the whole country and still doesn't pull the trigger .........
Hahaha frrr
Who cares he got to socialize with people like woman, and he finally get the GBA he’s been dreaming of. He won in the end 😊
@@paulkendrick4153lmao what the fu
@@paulkendrick4153 "with people like woman" man touch grass redditor
@@paulkendrick4153you a gen z huh
Nice video, man!
I've been in Nagoya all summer checking out Game Stores and HARD OFF's. And whats funny is that Surugaya has way better prices than HARD OFF nowadays. Love to see that you came to the same conclusion haha! I still really enjoy hunting in HARD OFF's though. And you can never go wrong with the junk section. Pretty much everything I picked up from there has been working!
Wow! I had no idea about these when I was in Japan in 2019. Now I'm obsessed with going back just to go on a Hard-Off tour xD Thank you so much for sharing the locations!
It’s funny to hear you mention Hachioji cuz I live really close to that area. Only about 20 mins away by train. Hobby and Hard Offs are so fun to check out. They recently opened one in my town (Hashimoto) and I’ve been stopping in every few days to check stuff out.
I watch your video while working at my office. This kind of video is more entertaining for me. Appreciate your video!
I love this video! I also visited quite a few hardoff and bookoff during my 2 week visit last February. Japan is the best for 2nd hand goods!
Love your vids bro awesome quality and fantastic adventures🤩
What a great video! Ive recently started collecting video games so i think this is really cool. I know what ill be doing when i visit japan!
So dope! Love this type of content. My inner child is so stoked to see all those Game Boy
The Hachioji store is pretty close to the Air Force base, and in my experience prices for games are higher in areas with US Military folks nearby 😂
thanks for the references! heading to Japan in 4 months and was anticipating bringing an extra $1,000 for old Pokemon/nintendo products but that seems super overkill now lol.
Love your vid man, I just came across your channel.
nice video bro! very chill editing
I lived and worked in Hachioji for 7 years and used to go to that EcoTown all the time. It really is one of the best places I've ever gone for retro game thrifting.
Didn’t know you had a second channel! I’m glad I found it😊
I recently got into collecting games and starting my own collection of things I find interesting so thank you for sharing I really enjoyed this video
What a fun trip to watch, nice second channel btw Nick!!
This was so great and helpful!!
I bought my N3DS XL in 2022, modded it as soon as I got it. I've been going through a few bad situations recently, so the N3DS XL helps me keep my mind concentrated on something and to have some fun/wind down. Great game selection, tons of emulation options, I love the flip form factor on handhelds - just a fun and feelsgood system!
So fun to see. It's like heaven for memorabilia folks like us who grew up with Pokemon and the introduction of handhelds, consoles, internet and so on.
Awesome video and gives such a great overview of what to expect in Hard Off shops. I think the Book Off chain here in the U.S. is a "sister" company (they also sell used video game equipment but I doubt they sell used PS1's for $2 bucks each and Wii U's for $8 each!)
Thank you for your awesome video! I am currently traveling in Japan and wanted to check off HARDOFF/BOOKOFF for a GBA SP and a PSP. I knew the farther out of Tokyo I go, the better the finds and the deals.
When I lived in Tokyo 2016, it was probably the golden days, I got green, blue, red, silver, gold, boxed with the inserts and posters for 500 each. I would take the train to all the hardoffs outside Tokyo to hunt, it was so much fun, oh and I got my pink advance for 2000. Miss them days, other than that, nice vid.
Two of my favorite things: thrifting and video games! Love your videos!
I was just in Japanese two months ago visiting with my friend’s family and I went to book off multiple times and found really good deals on games, but I didn’t even know hard off was a thing too.
holy crap this place is a dream land to me. My soldring iron and work station are begging to pillage that "junk" section. God i wish i had access to places like that. So many consoles to mod and fix.
Well their slogan is literally "hard off is your dream place" XD
I live near that first Hard/Hobby-Off you visited in Hachioji. Hands downs one of my favorite places to visit on the weekend.
That was some great storytelling, Nick. Do you film inside the stores with your big camera or just use the phone?
It hurts seeing him pass on such good deals…
Great channel, good commentary! Subbed.
keep up the great content!!
Great trip! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Awesome video, it transported me back to my semester abroad in Japan and I spent a few weekends looking for Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness around Osaka. I would eventually find it for 1800 yen and also bought every gen 1 game for 100 yen each.
awesome video bro i really like the way you put it together a great watch :)
I love this video! Thank you
Glad to see you in new adventures, Nick :)
I´ve been a follower since you appeared in LuzuVlogs for Gen2 in PoGo
Keep up the good content, looooove your ABGT Unofficial Movie. (Also, atm Im studying journalism, would be cool to get in touch for a college article)
"When kids who grew up with the DS start turning 30"
That is currently happening. I am that guy. :) I grew up with all of the early Nintendo handhelds starting from the DMG, but the DS was always my favorite handheld. Been collecting them and very much enjoying it. Would LOVE to take a trip to Japan to go through some Hard Off stores to feel like a kid in a candy store.
It’s honestly so important to buy something you want as you see it on these kinds of trips. On my recent trip I was after a Gameboy Printer, Camera, and Super Gameboy 2… I saw all three in Super Potato Osaka but didn’t go for it because of the price despite them not being as expensive as in Tokyo but I never came across any more until I got back to Tokyo but the prices there are prohibitively high.
Sad for you, those are rare.
You ever thought of buying stuff and shipping it back to your house? You could’ve bought that famicom tv
what an game of hunting. Glad it all worked out, when I visit Japan again, I'll have to do a Hard Off hunt as well honestly! Fun video
Really love these types of videos from you. Also saw you at CRSSD this weekend. Hope you had a great time!
loved it! This would be the same thing I would do if I ever get the chance to visit Japan :)
Thanks for the vid!
My guy, welcome to the hunt!!
I did a very simular thing just as the country opened (over 5,000km😅 )and it was crazy! (you might like some of the goods I'm currently unboxing too!)
Nice to see you on my feed in a capacity outside Pokemon Go! and as a fellow traveller / gamer I've loved your content in the past, big love!
Finally, someone made a video about GEN three Pokémon!!! Now I know what stores to look for so I can get a set for my collection, loose games and boxed games. Japan 2024 here I come!
Yooo this video was amazing
I really loved this thanks for sharing
Absolutely incredible video Nick, where is your favorite ramen spot you mentioned in this video?
I have to check this when I visit Japan again. I've been to Super Potato which is really cool, but seeing a bigger version of that with classic electronics sounds like my kind of place!
That Latios/Latias GBA was in that same bin there at the game store at 14:40 when I was in Japan in July! Looks like it was there for at least a couple more months, haha. The prices at almost every store were insane for anything relatively popular but especially the busier areas like Akihabara. I ended up only buying a few memory cards and controllers on my entire trip, all at Hard Offs.. I was only really looking for boxed Pokemon games otherwise though, all were at least 50% above Ebay!
Good video of the search for the GBA, it is very difficult to get an affordable one apparently in the junk area
Saving this video for future reference!
Btw. May I ask where that favorite ramen restaurant of yours is? (talking about 11:22)
Anyone else giggled every time he said "hard off" 😅
That’s probably why they changed the name in US to book off
It doesn’t help that “hard off” is an expression that’s supposed to be emphasized like “well off” but the dude says it like “jack off”.
@@TheKilluminati714no, they have book off in Japan as well.
Yep. I’m 9 inside. Still 😂
Yup
first video I watch from you. Like pokemon and Retro Stuff
but... I need to ask, what kind of animal is living in the terrarium behind you?
love this video. as a collector and filipiino, hunting for good finds are exciting.
I have a question on customs and stuff, I live in the US and wanna go to Japan and buy some japanese consoles there. Are there any hassles taking the consoles you buy back? Do you have to do anything different? Anything with TSA? Thank you so much.
Nice content and amazing videography..love it from PH🇵🇭
The Gameboy Player you can see under the gameboys at 1:29 I bought on the 18th. Great video Nicholas 🤘🤘
Thanks for your adventures! I'm wanting to do the same thing when I head over this year. Did you ever come across the game boy pocket light pickachu pokemon tokyo centre japan edition? Apparently one of the rarest game boys made.
Japan is such a great country for nerd treasure hunting. I went to one of these used stores and got some towels and plastic files for a few bucks Canadian. It's all from these prize that people don't want or got repeats I guess.
There was also a store that put PSP game UMDs in a gachapon machin for 200yen. Was pretty cool and exciting to dig out my PSP once I returned home.
Glad I found your channel
What a cool trip, now i'm also feeling the urge to mod old GameBoys
I hope to visit Japan soon
Nice vid Broeski
I just found out this place has an online store. currently trying to figure out if i can get stuff shipped to America because i'm not about to spend $130 on a refurbished Dsi XL.
I still play my white GBA I bought on release day in July 2001 here in Canada, I remember it vividly!! Still get that old feeling like I'm 16 again when I play it :) She's 23 years old and still going strong!
Idk if youll see this man but keep up the grind and its great your expanding your content and enjoying yourself with these trips and videos im def a fan of this
Awesome video!
Magic Mtg vid sometime? Did you see anything from the convention in Vegas last weekend? Random IHOP 🥞 crossover. Some of my favorite PoGo mons are from various Mtg trips
Im in Japan right now for 3 months, hard off and book off are a vibe for sure, just bought a good ol ds lite with Pokemon platinum, got them feels
I loved going to BookOff and WonderGOO when I was living in Japan. I would go just about every day after school and could spend hours looking through stuff. By the time I came back home, I ended up having to buy an extra suitcase, leave some old clothes like socks and undershirts behind to make room in my original suitcase, and mail some stuff home XD
I ended up being right around 2 pounds under the maximum allowed weight limit for luggage (which was SUPER fun having to get from train stop to train stop going to the airport).
The prices were super amazing, especially compared to more recent months. I bought all the copies of Gen 1-2 Pokemon I could find, and was easily finding them for $1-2, even found a few Black/White/Diamond/Pearl for under $5 each. Music CDs were also a straight up steal over there. CDs that would easily be resold at places like anime conventions back in the US for $10-20+ were as cheap as $.10-.50 each in the "junk" section, and often looked brand new.
On you next trip you should visit the book-offs near Otsu (close to kyoto) they have a great selection for way cheaper prices than the hard offs
The DS Antenna is dope AF, I need that in my life!
I'm about to go to Japan. What are some things you recommend to be on the look for to flip in America on eBay?
Such a nice change from pogo stuff. Huge fan.
Love this amazing video and it’s amazing quality and production !
I stopped by many of these on my trip to see other things throughout Japan. One of the smallest ones had a ton of Nintendo handhelds of pretty good quality. The big one had a ton but were all pretty beat up. The good ones they had were all over $140. Everything felt a good bit picked over. Ended up buying a Pocket from an online retailer in Japan for half the price of the second hand store ones i was finding.
What resources did you use to plan where you were going to stay? Looks like it was an amazing trip!
the 2ds flip is so underrated, love it more than my switch by far
What a great video. Your commentary is very nice to listen to, and the footage is high quality. I also enjoy a bit of the b-roll you included. The short pieces of live footage are interesting as well! Subscribed 👍
I go to that Hard off quite frequently, it is the Eco town with each "off" in one location
Ey you have a new UA-cam channel?! Congrats!
I love Hard-off!! So many cool game stuff, and many more things too!!
actually hunting for nintendo ds lite right now and its almost impossible. i want an sp but i'd also rather have a wide screen for grip. cool stuff man love the videos :)