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
@@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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
Such a cool video to stumble upon. Im going to Kyoto, Tokyo, and Osaka next month and looking to have a look at the retro games/consoles so this has been really useful. Thank you.
"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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Not gonna lie, I thoroughly enjoyed these last 3 videos on here. I no longer play pokemon go so i no longer follow your trainer tips channel. But i do believe in your skills as a content creator so i will keep following this channel and hope you keep this channel active.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
I ddn't know you were a Magic the gathering enthusiastic. Please make a video about that with your collection, your favourite format and decks. I'd 100% watch it!
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!)
Yeah in the US it’s so rare to find a store anywhere near as good as the one in this video. I’m in Los Angeles where you can find almost anything generally but the game stores here kinda suck. Very small and limited selection and ridiculous prices.
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!
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.
I bought a Super Famicom Street Fighter junk when I went to japan. Bought for collection purpose, I wasnt even gonna try to use it. But when I cleaned up the connectors, the game functioned fine!
This is amazing. I wish there were Hard Offs in the US. At the very least there are Book Offs. Maybe one day if I visit Japan. I would honestly want to visit them all like you did since who knows when I would come back. Great video, love seeing these side adventures!
You're (part) Filipino??! I did not see that coming. Been watching your videos for months now since I started playing PoGo again and yes, they're great. Keep it up man, mabuhay!
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!
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
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)
Wait you're a Half Filipino? Cool I dunno that coz I just recently followed you bro. Love all of you contents whether it is Pokemon Go content or these kind of videos. ❤ Keep it up.😊
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!
I really wish the US had thrift stores like these. Any in my area are total trash. This feels like LGR Thrifts and I like it. If you wanna do another one of these videos, I'll tune in.
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!
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!
To be real I don’t care if they work or not , as long as they look decent , take it , if it’s goin to ur collection and you let it sit who cares I have a massive 4 room collection due to this and I have one of every console that works so I can play it that I got so far
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.
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.
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.
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.
17:37 i feel like all of the foreigners who are looking for retro stuff overlook Surugaya. the Shinjuku one was an absolute gold mine for me and i barely saw another foreigner in there
The Osaka one closest to Den Den Town was the goldmine for me, found a rather very good condition PSP, which I have nostalgia for Though I hear that more and more shops in Japan are unhappy about foreigners buying them then reselling them
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 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.
I WISH we had stuff like this in America. It would sure beat scouring eBay for a listing of Pokemon Emerald under $150.
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
@@CuteAndFunnyFana lot of the time it’s extremely easy to mod the cartridge or console to make it English
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!
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
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.
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
Well, it's hard times, I think I got to sell my mandolin and sitar collection.
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 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!!
I'm loving these videos so much. Please keep making videos like these.
Such a cool video to stumble upon. Im going to Kyoto, Tokyo, and Osaka next month and looking to have a look at the retro games/consoles so this has been really useful. Thank you.
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.
Fr
Didn't expect to see you here.
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 😂
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!
It hurts seeing him pass on such good deals…
Everything looks so clean and tidy in Japan.
These recent videos I really enjoyed watching. It must be fun finding retro games and consoles. That’s dope getting them cheap
Have absolutely LOVED these last three vids from you!
"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.
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!
I could watch videos like this the whole day, thanks nick for that little peek into this japan journey!
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.
Great travel/gaming genre crossover vlog. Nice work!
nice video bro! very chill editing
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.
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.
Not gonna lie, I thoroughly enjoyed these last 3 videos on here. I no longer play pokemon go so i no longer follow your trainer tips channel. But i do believe in your skills as a content creator so i will keep following this channel and hope you keep this channel active.
Hey man it’s been 10 months please come back
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.
I'm visiting this channels videos from time to time, i'd love to see more! Hope u doing well Nicholas!
You ever thought of buying stuff and shipping it back to your house? You could’ve bought that famicom tv
What a cool trip, now i'm also feeling the urge to mod old GameBoys
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 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!
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.
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
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.
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!
I ddn't know you were a Magic the gathering enthusiastic. Please make a video about that with your collection, your favourite format and decks. I'd 100% watch it!
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
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.
Didn’t know you had a second channel! I’m glad I found it😊
Akihabara has become a tourist trap.
Love your vid man, I just came across your channel.
6 DOLARS FOR A DAMN DS LITE? DUDE JUST BY THE DARN THING…
So dope! Love this type of content. My inner child is so stoked to see all those Game Boy
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!)
I watch your video while working at my office. This kind of video is more entertaining for me. Appreciate your video!
Bro was staying at the oldest hotel and all he could manage is a 1.5 second clip
What a fun trip to watch, nice second channel btw Nick!!
love this video. as a collector and filipiino, hunting for good finds are exciting.
these stores are parallel universe for me, the stocks are amazing, took me back right to the 90s all the way to 2000,
Yeah in the US it’s so rare to find a store anywhere near as good as the one in this video. I’m in Los Angeles where you can find almost anything generally but the game stores here kinda suck. Very small and limited selection and ridiculous prices.
The Gameboy Player you can see under the gameboys at 1:29 I bought on the 18th. Great video Nicholas 🤘🤘
I live near that first Hard/Hobby-Off you visited in Hachioji. Hands downs one of my favorite places to visit on the weekend.
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!
Didn't notice you with the long hair. Welcome back man!
great video, a lot of cool games 🎮 😎, you made an awesome video 😊🎉🎉, I like the gameboy sp 😀, two thumbs up for your video
2:52 realllly wild guess here but that could be the guys from Pyramidos
Wait, you love MtG?!? Please do a video on that. Anything! Your collection, what format you like playing, your MtG story or whatever.
I go to that Hard off quite frequently, it is the Eco town with each "off" in one location
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.
I bought a Super Famicom Street Fighter junk when I went to japan. Bought for collection purpose, I wasnt even gonna try to use it. But when I cleaned up the connectors, the game functioned fine!
Jesus, I had a hard-off watching this.
Now this is a true retro game store not like dkmoldies
UA-cam content of the year, 6:13. “Another day, another Hard Off”. From tshirts to coffee mugs. You heard it here first.
This is amazing. I wish there were Hard Offs in the US. At the very least there are Book Offs. Maybe one day if I visit Japan. I would honestly want to visit them all like you did since who knows when I would come back. Great video, love seeing these side adventures!
You're (part) Filipino??! I did not see that coming. Been watching your videos for months now since I started playing PoGo again and yes, they're great. Keep it up man, mabuhay!
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!
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
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)
Wait you're a Half Filipino? Cool I dunno that coz I just recently followed you bro. Love all of you contents whether it is Pokemon Go content or these kind of videos. ❤
Keep it up.😊
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!
the 2ds flip is so underrated, love it more than my switch by far
I really wish the US had thrift stores like these. Any in my area are total trash.
This feels like LGR Thrifts and I like it. If you wanna do another one of these videos, I'll tune in.
Ey you have a new UA-cam channel?! Congrats!
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!
This video brought such a smile to my face, enjoy the games!
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!
To be real I don’t care if they work or not , as long as they look decent , take it , if it’s goin to ur collection and you let it sit who cares I have a massive 4 room collection due to this and I have one of every console that works so I can play it that I got so far
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
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.
The biggest mistake was thinking that you are the only one doing this crazy search.... Dude took all the GBAs lol
Good video of the search for the GBA, it is very difficult to get an affordable one apparently in the junk area
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 $.10-.50 each in the "junk" section, and often looked brand new.
that 8$ DS is one of those one-hit wonders that make hours of digging through trash at flea markets and thrift stores worth it.
Love this amazing video and it’s amazing quality and production !
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.
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.
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
Two of my favorite things: thrifting and video games! Love your videos!
Great channel, good commentary! Subbed.
awesome video bro i really like the way you put it together a great watch :)
When you want to browse games but your toilets broken.
keep up the great content!!
17:37 i feel like all of the foreigners who are looking for retro stuff overlook Surugaya. the Shinjuku one was an absolute gold mine for me and i barely saw another foreigner in there
The Osaka one closest to Den Den Town was the goldmine for me, found a rather very good condition PSP, which I have nostalgia for
Though I hear that more and more shops in Japan are unhappy about foreigners buying them then reselling them
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.