Archaeology
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 2:06 am
Green Gibbon goes to Game Souko, Part II! (゚∀゚)
When I went last week, I was with a (hot) friend and didn't want to look too irresponsible, so I just grabbed the original model SG-1000 for 8000 yen. (She still laughed at me and called me an otaku, right before going on to spend like 3000 yen on Kamen Rider toys...) I dashed back alone the first opportunity I had (which would be today) to pick up the more expensive second model for 10,000 yen. Both boxes are a bit faded and the original model is missing the manual, but the consoles themselves are like new. First time I've seen either one in the field.
I already had a Mega Drive, but this one has the original 1988 packaging. The console itself must be a few years younger, though, because there's a flyer inside dated June 1992 with ads for the Mega-CD and Wondermega...
As far as PCE hardware goes, this is at the less common end of the "not really rare" group, but it's the first time I've seen one boxed (no picture). There were only like 7 games released specifically for it and 2 of those are also compatible with plain vanilla PCE's, so people who collect retro consoles to actually play the games and not to hoard them in their closet like me aren't too interested in these. More for me, Precious...
They also had a beautiful boxed Master System (Japanese version) going for a whopping 65,000 yen. I can't begin to imagine what would make it worth so much, they're not rare at all. I gazed over the packaging and found no hints. Even I have to draw the line.
Incidentally, when last I was in Super Potato (about a month ago) they had a boxed Dataship 1200 going for 80,000 yen. Since I'm probably the only person here who knows what a Dataship 1200 is, I will explain it! It's a stand-alone version of the Tsuushin Adapter, an (also very rare) modem for the Famicom used for online banking, stock trading, and other things rich Japanese people with too much money might've wanted to do on their Famicoms in the heyday of the bubble economy. It uses special software cards (not normal Famicom cartridges) that I have only seen in blurry photos. Basically, the Dataship 1200 is, to my knowledge, the single rarest piece of Nintendo hardware ever. The one at Super Potato could well be the last boxed one in existence. I'll be happy to give it a permanent home if anyone will loan me 80,000 yen.
When I went last week, I was with a (hot) friend and didn't want to look too irresponsible, so I just grabbed the original model SG-1000 for 8000 yen. (She still laughed at me and called me an otaku, right before going on to spend like 3000 yen on Kamen Rider toys...) I dashed back alone the first opportunity I had (which would be today) to pick up the more expensive second model for 10,000 yen. Both boxes are a bit faded and the original model is missing the manual, but the consoles themselves are like new. First time I've seen either one in the field.
I already had a Mega Drive, but this one has the original 1988 packaging. The console itself must be a few years younger, though, because there's a flyer inside dated June 1992 with ads for the Mega-CD and Wondermega...
As far as PCE hardware goes, this is at the less common end of the "not really rare" group, but it's the first time I've seen one boxed (no picture). There were only like 7 games released specifically for it and 2 of those are also compatible with plain vanilla PCE's, so people who collect retro consoles to actually play the games and not to hoard them in their closet like me aren't too interested in these. More for me, Precious...
They also had a beautiful boxed Master System (Japanese version) going for a whopping 65,000 yen. I can't begin to imagine what would make it worth so much, they're not rare at all. I gazed over the packaging and found no hints. Even I have to draw the line.
Incidentally, when last I was in Super Potato (about a month ago) they had a boxed Dataship 1200 going for 80,000 yen. Since I'm probably the only person here who knows what a Dataship 1200 is, I will explain it! It's a stand-alone version of the Tsuushin Adapter, an (also very rare) modem for the Famicom used for online banking, stock trading, and other things rich Japanese people with too much money might've wanted to do on their Famicoms in the heyday of the bubble economy. It uses special software cards (not normal Famicom cartridges) that I have only seen in blurry photos. Basically, the Dataship 1200 is, to my knowledge, the single rarest piece of Nintendo hardware ever. The one at Super Potato could well be the last boxed one in existence. I'll be happy to give it a permanent home if anyone will loan me 80,000 yen.